Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-10-08
What the Democrats of the North say.


strating, by facts and figures, 20 the people of the
free States the ruin that would come upon them in
the event of Fremonts election, and the consequent
disso uton of the Union. All the Northern Demo
cratic journals that see, from which
extracts in other papers, distinctly declare that the
Southern people will not and ought to submit to
the rule and to the measures of the black Rcpubli
cans.
The Troy (N. W Budget says:
The disunion OF these States is the platform up
OIL which John Z. Fremont has taken his stand. He
can no more move OFT nor come down than the Allie
ghaliies move Oft or come down. He is fastened
there, like island filled with disease in the midst
OF the boiling waves of fana,cisrn. What bad
eminence" is his! Look where he stands. He fears
he and his echoes and organs-to look upon the
past The sacred memories of the revolution ring
like curses in his ears-he will not face them. The
names of Washington Jefferson, Monroe Madison,
Rutledge, Pinckney, Ferguson, Jackson come to him
as if he had been guilty of an attempt to murder
them-as, indeed, he is guilty of trying to murder
Their reputation He looks to the future only. lie
looks forward divided brotherhood of States; to
a scattered family of freemen; to defed national
hearthstOne; to a broken covenant; to a mutilated
constitution; to a dissolved Union and, finally,
once again, to employ the words of Choate, ito an
unHnsecrated aad revolutionary banner from aohich
htteen stars hare been erased or hare taLlen" DIS
UNION HAS NO PAsT!"
We copy the following eloquent and impressive
article from the Providence (R. I) POST
1.-THE UNION Is STRAINING HER FAsTENINGs!"-
Such is the language of the old line Wings of Balti
more, in an address to the people: "The Union is
straining her astenings, and calls upon all patriotic
citizens to come to her rescue"
Truer words, it is our honest belief, were never
spoken. The Union Is straining her fastenngs-
The storm of ianaticism, now wildly raging in Six
teen States threatens to part her fastenngs and
ry her down.
Our readers will bear us out in saying that we are
not aarnist. We have never threatened fire and
sword, nor needed threats of civil war dlsunion
from others. We have had faith in the Union-In
its stablity-and almost in its eternity. We be-
leve, now, that it is destined to stand.
But We do not believe that it could long survive
the triumph of bitter sectionaism in the election Of
John g. Fremo It. We do not believe that any ian,-
lily be prottaby kept together after the menbcrs
of it have illustrated their hatred of each other by
open acts of hostility.
The question of the continuance Of the Union is
now reduced 10 this simple question: Whether the
black Republican party, i'll Its avowed hostility to
the South, actually represents the North, OF ma
jority of the people OF the North? This question
will be decided in November.
If it is decided in the affirmative, then we shall
say unheSltatngiy that the great blow uf dsunion
has been struck. The South will not wait to be
"subjugaed" 1t will never trust itself to the ten
der mcrcieS of a party whose very existence rests
upon hatred OF its people and hostility to its insu-
tons.
Men of Rhode Island you may as we'll look this
fact squarely in the lace! No fieea Suites 9f this
Untom-nor thern, southern, eastern, western
aoW ecer submit to be yOrernei by sixteen Othe.
States, ch"se trtunph hds bee" secured 6y nPpeas 10
frejudiees "yuipst their Institutions a"d by procla
mations OF hostility IL their citizens!
Should JohaSC. Fremont take the presidential
chair to-day the representative ofthe party which
placed him in nomination, and which supports him
would ha 10 sit there without single cabinet Off
Ger from any southern State! No n,ua an tie SOuM,
aoith partcie IF reputation, ecouM dare to dccep
or acouM rant to accept, an "Ppotntment as one ~
hix adcixers'
Could President thus crcumstanccd administer
the government thirty days? Could he command
the respect OF the army or navy thirty hours
Would Congress assemble 10 lcgi>ate for the
country? With thirty senators aud ninety repre-
sentaves voluntarily absent, what would its leSis-
lation be worth? With cabinet and all the i'm
portant officers Of the government appointed from
the North, how long, think you, could tia: govern
ment be sustained?
1t is folly talk at such time this Of the i'm.
portance of the Union to the South. So far as
maintaining slavery is concerned, the South gains
nothing by the Union, if except the occasional
return of fugitive. Slavery would S and on firm
er basis with the Union dissolved than it does to-
day. 1t would only have to expatrate its thousands
of free negroes, and send them North in single
nal disaster. This done, the West, following its
rivers would become its ally; and in less than three
years, NeU England aooutd stand atOne-6dnkrupt
and derenceless
We are told sometimes that it is not the purpose
of Mr. Fremont and his friends to attack the nsti.
tuticns of the South through the machinery Of the
| government. This assurance, sincere or not, is
| worth nothing. The South knows WHAT THE PARTY
is, and WHO ITS LEADERS ARE, and WHAT Is TIE FOOD
| 1T LIVES UPON. And it will never wait-nark our
| aeords 1T WILL NEVER WAIT to test the truth Oi
this declaration. 1t has too much at stake.
We shall not stop here to remark upon the vast
Importance and value of the Union to Rhode Island
1t seems to us that halfblind fanatic must per.
ceive it. As manufacturing and commercial State
what could we do alone? What could we do, even
in coniederacy of all the free States? What could
we do without the South? TO say nothing of poll
tical and national weakness, what should we be as
commercial and manufacturing people thus cut of
| from our best market?
We caution our people again not to be deceived
bY the Syren song of such would have us believe
that the Union cannot be dissolved The necessity
of separation is being forced upon US by the actor
| of the black republican abolition party. All tht
South asks to know is whether that party correctly
represents the North If it does, then it asserts
|, we believe that the breach has become fixed fact
TO cry peace at such time is crime Of which w
will not be guilty. THE UNION IS srRAINING nEl
FAsrENINGs, AND CALLS UPON ALL PATRIOTIC CITIZEN
| TO CONE REsCUE!"
| NEW YORK STATE FAIR.-Watertown, Sept So
The entries at the State Fair to day much large
than those of last year. The display of horses cat
Tie, sheep and swine is Of the most superb descrIp
tiun. The display of engines and machinery OF al
| kinds is very fine. Three printing and liihograpl