Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-19

in the South they urge the bill q great
North they urge it msss,'re = vs q freedom and
the curtaing Of slavery For myself 6etese lney are
SECTIONS. Power Office pss the enda. which hey are
aiming and sectional dscor is the means by which they
operate The country Will have peace hrls
party the rebuke people OF nation Tor
penng the foodates slavery 6y their repeal %
the Missouri Copomnise The election of Mr. Buchaan Will
be them the issuing license to persist IN Their course
Settle the Kansas difficulty nowand at the end Of four
years when there is another President to elect we shall
have slavery agitation presented by them in some other
form. Would to God that patriot in the land could
look at this question in its true character The Democratic
marty of the present day the common enemy OF all who
love peace rather than all who love the Union
and are determined sustain it against its enemies wheth-
er open or secret Why cannot all conservative Union
loving men unite in destroying common enemy-whnout
reference to the difference of opinion on mere
tons?
In reply your second inquiry, whether the Southern
people seriously contemplate dissolution OF the onion IN
case Fremont should be eectedi answer No! emphat-
cally No! The of the Southern people, whether
Wings Americans Democrats are devoted to the
lives and the expenditure their hearts best blood The
Democratic leaders of the South with but few
nnbic mind with the idea Of disunio1 Fremont
should be elected And true to their VOCATION they are
ucng slaves and submissonsts all VINO refuse W
unite with them their mad career But even OF those
who take this ground, but few in serious earnest
5onafae dsnnionistswho have been for years maturing
their plans and who would be glad to see Fremont
if they thought it would bring about dsunion This fac,
in numbers and bears about the same
relation numerically to the people Of the South that the
band crazy fanatics at the North who denounee the Con
the people Of the Northern States But great majority
the Democratic leaders in the South, who are mourning
and gascoEading about dsunion, do so for party
Their object is to rghen the tmid and waverng Their
purpose is to drive others to the support OF
through their fears It no care tor the OF slave
lates their belgeren propenses Is because .nes are
alarmed at the prospect Of their loss Of political At
of being driven from the national Ike hun
cry wolves oveaken at their they raise this howl CT
Woud be- all the same fortunately for u.s. thanks to
the Of institutions this Union can be dissolved
except by resorng to the source O. al h
of all parties will be found true to the Union They
will agree overthrow this Government because man.
matter how odous obnoxious TO them ne may Pc mas
been elected he has been fairly elected
in accordance with all the forms of the
laws You may rely it that the masses of the De-
mocratc Party will desert their leaders whenever they at
tempt commit them dsunon because they have been
beaten election 1t is reproach and an insult to the
them people, say that they would destroy this Union
for any such cause and Southern man, hurl back
the charge SANDER and the n, nsp
we'll what this Union costhey know too well what its bes
sings are-hey plainly resee the horrible conse-
and dread disasters which must ense lis ais
am not to be understood intmang that the South
people would submit papable invasion OF their
Constitutional rights, rather than the hazard of dsun-
They regard the Union designed for the protection
OF their rights and liberties, II were perverted
to their destruction instead of their rvation OF course
they would resist And if it SHOULD turn that Ere
elected-ariy eectedif
anything Of the character of the Southern people,
they would wait till he disclosed his policy If he was to
attempt any invasion of constitutional rights and he
should be sustained by the other departments of the Gov
ernment then take for granted he would be resisted
without reckoning the But in he attempted
such of rights, hazard nothing in saving the
Southern people would the past history of the
AnglSaxon racewhose peculiar national trait has ever
been obedience to law long vital surrender to civil
Liberty involved Being no partisan OF Fremont, OF
have advice to give suggestion to make 10
his friends But every friend of Fillmore, would
be not alarmed induced to support Buchanan by these
threats of disunon the part of the Democratic leaders
of South They all vain and idle and regard
ed here And if they the most effective aid
you render to the of the Union is in trying to
overthrow the Democratic party whose con aglta-
ton of slavery will if not arrested and rebuked, sow the
seeds of dissatisfaction throughout the land f,m which
pos,ery must ultimately reap the harvest of disunon
The approaching election involves of the most
character Much, much almost everything
depends upon Pennsylvania If there is harmony and
the Union of Pennsylvania fear not the result If
all those who opposed to Slavery agationwho think
that the party deserve to be ebuked for
their having brought the country to its present unhappy
condition, a0iu unite coriay in the support the SANE
TICKET country be saved and and calm
and sunshine will return to borders But if they allow
differences minor questions to their and to
their energies awful be the consequences which
they will entail on their country.
Yours truly,
K. RAYNER.