Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-11-12
81 3 From the washington Union.
To the Democratic Party of the United states.


To the. Democratic Party of the United States.
IS NAr1oNAL DEMocRArIc Cosna1rrEE RooMs,
s. IS - November 6, 1856. -
The trust Of conducting the national canvass con-
fded to the Democratic National Resident Commit
tee has been discharged with the fidelity which the
honor and the exgency Of that trust alike demands
ed and the committee has to unite its congratula-
tions with your own in announcing the success Of
the Democratic ticket by decided and gratifying
majority. 49, sSses9
The struggle is over, and the Union is safe. Ours
is, indeed, q new and signal triumph. Heretofore
/ our victories have been achieved over those who,
like ourselves were friends of the Union. This has
been conquest over its enemies. Heretofore our
antagonists have commended with raterna eagerness
for the honor Of promoting the progress OF insu
ring the duration of the republic. Those whom we
have just vanquished sought, under treacherous
adherence to the forms of the constitution to rob it
of all its essence and vitality The principles of the
Democratic party having become the established po-
Icy of the federal government it became necessary
for its enemies to organize some new and desperate
combination to overthrow it, An unnatural alliance
between fanaticism and venality has engendered
monster which the Democratic party has with great
peril sought out and destroyed
That monster was sectionalism.
The circumstances under which the evil origina-
ted were peculiar The land has been couded by a
miasma of error The belief that one part of the
Union had been invaded by the institutions of an
power to promote this injustice, had spread with cpl
demca rapdity. 1t had been infected into the cir
cuaton of popular thought with all the force of
inscriptions press, and was spread broadcast over
the land by the whole power of representative nAu-
ence 1t seemed at one time almost in vain to pur-
with the antdote of truth and reason this ven
omous error as it sped through the channels of pub
lie opinion.
Our enemies had chosen their ground with skill !;
they had recruited their ranks with all the inauen
which could combine an army. They proclaim.
ed the ultimate abolition of slavery as the incentive
to the fanatic-the division of the spoils the
ward Of the mercenary. The pretended invasion of
a sacred right constituted their appeal to those with
patriotic impulses, whilst feigned regard for the
Union to secure the support the neutrality of
all whose material interests were involved in its du-
ration These devices had organized formidable
array. Masses of honest and earnest men were de-
ludcd, by the teachers whom they had trusted, into
the belief that their government had betrayed and
therafeow- citizens had oppressed them. Divnes,
girded with the sword and clothed with the author
ity Of the Gospel, preached bloody resistance to the
laws as the most acceptable service to God. Woman
quilted her peaceful station to animate with her APP
prehehsons those to whom her wishes are
command; and the youth, indoctrinated by willy
managers, responded with enthusiasm to false APP
peas addressed to their innate and generous hatred
of oppression. Politicians specialized philosophical
y upon the capacity of the constitution caring only
would bear the agitation necessary to secure the sue
cess of their nefarious schemes, and still leave
enough of stability to insure their enjoyment
1t was the purpose Of these consprators to secure
possession of the government if it perished-as it
must have perishcd-in their grasp 1t was their
purpose to inaugurate the North as the dominant
section. The rule Of eligibility was to be obedience
to the sway and conformity to the opinions of the
dominant section. The subjugation Of Ireland by
force, division, and bribery to be reproduced
upon this continent, and the southern States were
to be reduced to mere provincial appendage of the
federal government Such was the plan, and dis
union must have followed its accomplishment
Southern would have only differed 10 the hour
and mode of separation. The cement which binds
the fabric of the Union would have lost its cohesion
in the fires of the conflict and the majestic fabric
would have crumbled and fallen in ruins, never again
to be reconstructed
Never was the republic in such peril. Never were
the friends of the Union, from any sufficient exist
ing grievance, less prepared to have apprehcnded a
conspiracy so atrocious. Bnt those to whom you
had committed the safety of the republic were faith
full to their trust The democratic party was, by
common consent acknowledged to be the sole party
of the Union, and was charged with its defence.
Sound and truthful documents adequate to the emer
gency prepared, and circulated to an extent
scarcely inferior to that of the which they
were intended to counteract. Able and eloquent
orators were impressed into the service of the Union.
They responded with an aacrity worthy that with
which their ancestry had repaired the battle field
in the same holy cause. Never was there more har-
mony in the democratic cause. Never did the pa
trots of every party true glory than when
they enrolled themselves in the recent under
the banner of democracy, and marched to fight for
the salvation of the Union.
Ny fellow-ctzens, the contest is, for the present.
over. The democratic party is again in control of
the government. 1t will have ample opportunity to
convince those who have been mislcd that its only
object is the establishment Of equal rights not the
propagation of sectional policy. 1t will show the
world that desires only to promote the political and
commercial progress of this great republic-to ad-
vance the cause of human civilization and liberty,
not to acquire the property Of other nations by force
or fraud 1t will demonstrate that democratic prin-
cpes alone adequate to the effectual administra
ton of the government and that they are, as they
have been, fully competent to insure the Of
that republican empire which our fathers have found
ed and committed to our care.
In closing the performance of the arduous and re.
sponsible duties confided to our hands by the conf
dence Of the democratic party, we nave to return
our thanks to Providence for having permitted in
any sense, howsoever humble, to have been nstru-
mental in preserving beloved country from a
conspiracy so dangerous to its peace and tranquil
Its, and in having contributed result SO conclu-
sive of the established ascendency of democratic
principles, and so suspicious to the permancncy of
the Union.
CHAs. JAS. FAULKNER,
Chairman.
ORANGE County AGRICULTURAL Soc1ErY.--The
Third Annual Fair of this Society held on the
grounds of the Society, near Hilsboro on Thurs.
day and Friday, the 30th and 8 LIST of October.
The Fair was opened by the presentation of a
beautiful Flag to the Society," through Jno. W. Nor
wood, Esq, on behalf of the donor, Paul c. Came
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