Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-05
Kenneth Rayner IN correspondence with and
speaking for the AbOlitiOnists, advising North
eru Know NOthiugs to Fuse with Fremont!

Kenneth Rayner correspondence with and
Speaking for the AbOlitiOnists, advising North
ern know Nothiugs to Fuse with Fremont!
The New York Times of the 3lst October rab-
id Fremont abolition paper-contains letter from
Kenneth Rayner, of this State, dated Raleigh, Oct
g. 1856, in which he charges that the Democratic
party of the country, and especially of the South,
responsible for the existing slavery agitation and
in which, after much bitter abuse of many of his
own Southern feow-ctizens, he advises his friends,
the Know Nothings of the free States, to vote the
"SAME TICKET" with the Fremont men, in Or
der, if possible, to defeat Mr.. Buchanan!
We saw it rumored, several days since, in the
New York Herald, that Mr.. Rayner was out for FIRE.
mont but we could not credit it. Some friend sent
US the Herald with the article marked, asking, "can
this be poss6les 1t is even so. The letter itself
the proof-the letter in the Times, leading Or
gan of Fremont; and the letter has been followed
up by Mr. Rayner in person, by speech delivered
in favor of fusion in Philadelphia, on Friday night
last. We have the speech before us, in the Phila-
delphia Times of Saturday last.
We shall not argue with Rayner. We did not
condescend to meet Mr. Hedrck with arguments;
and shall not reflect upon the intelligence of our
readers, upon their devotion to the Constitution
and the vital interests of North Carolina by
ing with any person who would submit to John c.
Fremonts election, or who prefers him to Mr. Bu-
chanan or Mr.. Fillmore, or who is capable of COM
bining with the avowed enemies of his own section
Of the Union in contest involving our honor, our
fortunes, and our very existence as people.
1t is evident from Mr.. Rayners letter, and from
his speech in Philadelphia, that h no hope of
Mr.. Filmore's election by the people. But he de-
sires Mr.. Buchanans defeat, at any and every haz-
ard; and So while protesting to be for Fillmore, he
allies himself with the Fremont men, and urges his
friends North to pursue the same course. What he
advises them to do, of course he would himself do,
ifhe were citizen of free State-tha is he would
vote for Fremont as against Buchanan or he would
vote fusion ticket, half for Fremont and half for
Fillmore in the hope of sending the election to the
House, being at the same time anxious-Mr Fill
more not being really in the contest whether before
the people or before the House-that Fremont
should defeat Buchanan. That is his position.
Mr.. Rayner attributes the slavery agitation main
ly to the South. He has no denunciations for Sew
ard, and Wilson, and Greedy, and Sumner, and Ray
mond, and Burlingame He says the k'saves and
dockheads" of the South-the contemplate party
hucksters" of the South, who "could be bought by
any abolitionst at the North any day in the year,
iof much less than the price of ordinary negro,
are the ones who are to blame for this agtation,-
and he adds, speaking of his section, well as
Of the country generally, that in the "bubbng and
polling OF the waters of strife the very troth and
scum OF the social elements are floating on the sur
face"
In relation to the election of Fremont Mr.. Rayner
says:
reply to your second inquiry whether the Southern
people seriously contemplate dissolution of the Union, in
% fremont should be elected?-I answer No! emphati-
WIZ no! The of the Southern people, whether
and americans Democrats devoted to the Union
E e Will maintain and defend it at the hazard of their
'es and the expenditure of their hearts best blood"
AND so he advises the Northern people not to be
alarmed at the prospect of Fremont's election, and
ses them to unite, "without reference to the diff
ference Of opinion on mere abstract questions" to
ue'eat the Democratic party. He concludes his let
ter as follows:
think i those who are opposed to slavery
elr having brought the country to its present una-
coe country may yet be saved and peace and
ALLOW ON H1 to bsy
and to parayze their energies awful may be the
sequences which they will entail on their country"
ana now let us see the view which Mr.. Fillmore
akes of John G. Fremont and his sectional party.
IN his Albany speech Mr.. Fillmore said:
Ian it be possible that those who are engaged
can have ously reflected upon The
6n must inevitably follow in Of success? u then
5t e 'eadaess the folly to 6eece that oar Southern
tra SSoa submit to be gouened By such Chief MaQis-
scb, w he be required to follow the rule pre-
mant Dy those who elected him, in making his appoints
be not II man living south Of Mason and Dixons line
be TO be President Vice President would it
TO select one from the quarter as one of his
fhn in n Enros~