Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-04-16

Ii the New York Sun, Of . late date, we find the
following sketch: g :,
Soon after General Pierce's Inauguration, was
seated before Weirs grand picture Of the EmbarkG-a
ton, in the rotunda of the Capitol, when clear
and decided voice behind me, said in an excited
tone:
81 believe in the right of every State, and of the
people thereof to regulate their own domestic af-
fairs" - ~ - f-
Hooked around and saw two men, both rather
low of stature, one fair and slender, and the other
stouter, black haired and with large on.lke head
of which the face was partly turned from me. They
were engaged in animated conversation. l lost the
first part of the fair mans reply, but caught the
words:
esprit of the Federal compact -" don't apply
to Territories"
Eyes, to Territories" "Terrtories are but States
under age" said he, with the large head, throwing
back his dark locks, lion losses back his name
when he stops to gaze on his foe.
Estates under age? Exactly, and therefore to
be governed by their lawful guardian Uncle SAM"
said the fairer man, with low pleasant laugh, as
the short turn in their walk brought them in full
face.
but a guardian must not impair or trammel the
future rights of his wards, and"
1 lost the rest of the lion-heads words and most
of the reply Of the other, but their walk brought
them back within earshot, caught something about
non-intIrvention,"
There was another defiant toss of the black locks
and then this sentence, of which every word and
tone will live forever in my memory.
"NON-lNTERvENTIoN THE ONLY LAW OF SALIVA
TON FOR THE UNIoN-it is the only platform
ohch all the States can stand together and Eeep the
peace"
land this rule you would apply to all the Terri
tories present and future?" asked his companion in
a thoughtful tone.
'To all the Territories now and forever" was the
emphatic reply, as he stopped short and abruptly
faced the other.
"And to the District of Columbia also?n
"To the District of Columbia also"
They looked steadily at each other for moment,
and then each, with an expressive movement of the
head that told beyond the power Of words of fixed
and radical difference Of sentiment, bowed an adieu,
and disappeared in different directions.
Two ladies passed by them rs they were leaving,
and came towards the picture was pretending to
examine in order to cover the interest which had
invountary forced me into listening to this CONVEX
sation.
"Who are those gentlemen ?" inquired one of the
ladies of the other.
IL think the one who bowed and made way for
us is Senator Seward, of New York" was the reply.
Indeed! can that abominable abolitonist have
such an intellectual face and such air of refine.
ment and high breeding 2" exclaimed the questioner,
in a tone of unqualified establishment.
And is the other a disunonist aboltionist, too?"
continued the dark-eyed maid of the South.
He disunonist? No. indeed; that is Douglas,
of Illinois,"
douglas of Illinois. is it? Well, he looks more
like a man to give anti eat good dinners than one
to make that speech on the Monroe Doctrine that
your father and mine thought wonderfully wise
and lion hearted"
The young lady's expression, "lion-hearted,"
chimed in with my fancy that he had most lion
like head, and it aided to stereotype the incident
my memory.
did not see Washington nor Douglas again for
more than year. My next visit to the Capitol was
in the midst Of the debates on the Kansas-Nebraska
BILL As chairman of the Senate Committee on Ter
ritorics, Douglas had embodied the daring thought
which had been struggling for years in his breast
but which, simple as it now begins to Seem, few un.
derstood then, and still fewer considered it possible
to establish the principle Of Neutrality-suspicious. as
it is now Defined of citizen soveregnty-as meas
ure of national pacifcation.
The Kansas-Nebraska bill had already passed the
Senate and the House was graphing with it in a
storm of wild commotion. The chiefs of the old
parties had rescntfu though vague intuition that
this issue would bring dislnay and ruin upon all
their decrepid organizations. and they closed in with
it in struggle for life and death.
In one of those hurricane DAYS saw Douglas
standing on the floor of the House, by the side Of
his dauntless battle companion, Richardson of Hi.
nols. lie was leaning lightly by hand on the
desk in an easy and unconstraincd, but singularly
defiant attitude. His face steadily turned with a
firm, unrelaxng gaze on the successive speakers as
they rose on both sides. The gallery was dense
mass OF eager faces, the floor a surgng mass of ex
cited members. The Speakers hammer ratified down
its incessant rebukes but Douglas looked impassive
ly on the hurricane he had aroused and finally, with
one last sweeping glance over the arena, he threw
up his lion head, and with strange expression of
unblcnching resolution, he slowly withdrew.
At last, when arguments and invectives we're ex-
hausted, the conflict became mere trial of physical
endurance. The daily sttings were protractcd deep
into the night, and continued day after day, until
the vote was taken and the organization of Kansas
and Nebraska on the avowcd basis of the principle
OF popular sovereignty became q law of the land.
The border difficulties that have followed grew
out of the abuse and violation of the principle of
non-intervention, and the principle is no more an
swcrable for the ourages perpetrated in its name,
than the pure religion of the Prince Of Peace is
swerable for the prosecutions and butcheries with
which bgots have bathed the earth in the name of
Jesus of Nazareth"
IMPORTANT TO THE FARMERs.-We learn that the
agents of the Peruvian government aided by British
agents. arc making every exertion at Washington to
throw impcdiments in the way of the movements
made by American discoveries of Guano islands to
furnish Guano to American farmers at q reduced
rate. We have already explained how the trade in
Peruvian Guano is kept up as monstrous monopo-
ly, in consequence of British bond holders having
mortgage on the Peruvian Guano islands, for very
large debt due them by the Peruvian government.
1t is the direct interest," therefore, of both Peru and
Great Britain, that every feasible scheme of COM
peting with the sale of Peruvian guano should be
crushed Hence the combined opposition to the Of
fetal recognition of the rights of American citizens,
who have discovered and taken possession of two
islands in the Pacific rich in the great fertilizng
agents. to which have before referred in noticing
at length the operations of the American Guano
Company. A memorial, we learn, has been present.
ed to Congress- asking that the official protection of
our government may be thrown around all Ameri-