Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-01

CHARLOTTE, Sept, 10, 1856.
Mess,s. j. White, and Others:
GENTLEMEN Il had prescribed - myself course
of entire naction in the present political canvass,
from which hoped that no circumstances would
make tiny duty to depart. But, have received
various letters from personal and political friends
besides yours so urgent on the subject that have
felt it my duty to reply to them. The answer which
make to yourselves will suffice for all Others
The condition of our country at this time finds no
parallel in its former history. BY the consent of all
persons it is admitted that danger half SO serious
ever threatened its internal peace or its political in
sttutions For the first time mighty effort is be-
ing made to combine the free States in solid union
against the slave States, and by force of numbers
under the forms of the Constitution to deprive them
of their equal rights to the common property, to
abolish slavery at the capital and in every thing
senal to their dignity and welfare to PROSTATE them
before their oppressors. In this effort the most
powerful motives of action united in Jealous
operation. Eloquence and sagacity, false philan-
thropy, and mistaken piety ambition, hypocrisy and
fraud, aided and stimulated by foreign and domestic
capital, are actively engaged to accomplish ruin
Eminent statesmen from all the great political par
ties have forgotten their ordinary del ences in pur
suing common enmity to the South In the mean
time elections have taken place in three of the
saveholdng States, two of them heretofore distin-
guished not only by tolerance but berality towards
the South In all of them abolition sentiments have
not only triumphed but have swept away all show
of opposition. The danger, therefore, is imminent,
that Mr.. Fremont will carry every free State, and
will come to the Presidency by the votes of the free
States given explicitly in hostility to the institutions
of the South If an enemy We're invading our coun-
try, and threatening desoiation upon fields and
homes, this sensible danger would give harmony to
our feelings, moderation and prudence to coun-
sells, and unity to efforts, until the foe
PEELED and the danger over. The state of things is
like this only in part. The invasion of foreign foe
might bring with it disaster, but it would be
temporary, and our country and its institutions, we
might hope, would survive it. But, we may be on
the eve of revolution which will overthrow
existing government-break up the Union of the
States and involve US in the crime and wretched-
ness of civil war. In this state Of things con-
TESS l have sympathy with the party chickering's,
the elimination and recriminaton, and all the forms
of political warfare which distract our Southern
ciety. The sole question with me has been, how is
the threatening evil to be obviated? In its consid
Grafton have endeavered to regard the subject with
as much calmness as was able, without reference
to my own prepossessions and party attachments.
If had regarded these, should have supported
Mr.. Fillmore cordially as the warmest friend who
now advocates his election. l have fault to find
with the party under whose auspices he has been
nominated. For his personal character l entertain
the highest respect-and believe that he would
give us fair and impartial administration but, the
Union of the South believe absolutely indispensi-
BILE to the defeat of Mr.. Fremont, and that union,
if effected at ALL only be made In the person of
Mr.. Buchanan. Taking things as we find lhem the
prepossessions of large majority Of the southern
people are Democratic, and nineteen-twentieths of
those in the South who are opposed to Mr.. Buchan-
an, agree with the following resolution of the Dem
ocratic platform:
" Resolced, That we recognize the right of the
people Of all the Territories including Kansas and
Nebraska, acting through the fairly expressed will
of majority of actual residents, and whenever the
number of their inhabitants ustifies it, to form
constitution with or without slavery, and be admit.
ted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality
with the other States"
Whatever objections there may be to other doc.
trines avowed in this platform, this resolution enun-
ciates principle which every Southern man feels
to be just and constitutional; and the only one ON
the great subject to which it refers, in which the
Union is SAFE This is. conceive, the great ques-
tion-dstincty presented, in the present canvass
and in comparison with it every other sinks into in.
significance Suppose it to be adopted as a fixed
principle in our politics we imagine any ques
ton which would dissolve endanger the Union?
fit overborne and defeated at this tme is it pro.
bable that any other opportunity can occur by which
it be incorporated into the creed Of great and
national party Then, why cannot those who agree
in this cardinal principle-when it is jeopardzed by
combination-appealing to sectional passions and
sectional power-act together for once-if possible
settle the dificulty-and resume hereafter their
party relations and their preferences? AS Ibefore
remarked-the South is Democratic by large ma
jority; and reason and justice would seem to require
that TO accomplish common end, the minority
should yield to the majority. -
In the non-saveholdng States such is the snna
rior zeal and energy of our adversaries. that the
election il extremely doubtful There as here nm
ion men are divided on issues comparatively imma.
terial and these conflicts, n the face of an ardent
and united opposition, endanger the success Of our