Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-27

ton STORM, raised by the Northern Know Nothings
in 1854 and 1866. against the South, and against
their own recorded convictions of justice and right
and to-day we find them rallying round Mr.. Fill
more and his Northern supporters, who took part
in the very commencement of this war upon u.s. who
have pro6ted by it as politicians the old
Wing party and sectionalized the country This is
history. And Gov. Morehead, who in 1854, une-
quivocally approved Mr.. Kerrs vote in favor of the
KansasNebraska act has the assurance now to
charge the administration with the responsibility of
the evils, which, as the Convention alleges, have
flowed from that act; and to call on the people to
support man for President who declares that this
same act is the source of all our present dangers,
"leaving scarcely hope" that the country will be
saved
! Old line Wings at Baltimore hold the admnistra
ton responsible for civil war in Kansas SO do the
6tdc6 Republicans. Old line Wings at Baltimore
declare that Mr.. Buchanan is sectional candidate,
and that the Democratic party is a faction" So
do the black Republicans. Old line Wings at Balti-
more evnce the strongest desire to defeat the Dem
ocratic party, and make their arrangements accord
ingly. So do the black Republicans. Old line
Wings at Baltimore pledge their support to Know
Nothing for President. So do tile black Republicans
support Fremont aoho is tile candidate Of the North
ern KnoD Nothings
The sixth resolution passed at Baltimore is as fol.
lows:
Reolred That all who revere the Constitution and love
the Union must take alarm at the attitude assumed
of the great parties the field in the present Presidential
canvass the claiming only to represent sixteen North
ern States OF the Unon the other appealing mainly the
passions and preudices of the Southern States and that
nane which now threatens to wrap dearest interests in
one common ruin"
Mark that language!-" the one claiming only to
represent sixteen Northern States of the Unon the
other appealing mainly to the passions and areiu-
dices Of tile Southern States" All the South asks is
her rights under common Constitution. The North
ern Democrats stand pledged to to her these
rights This is "passion this is prejudice !"
We assert, and show, by extracts from Northern
journals and speeches. filling column after column,
that Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats
hold the same language on the fugitve-slave law
and the Kansas Nebraska act and that, upon the
question Of the Constitutional rights of the South,
they are one and the same. Yet are here told
that national party-whose resolutions were adop-
ted, and whose candidates were nominated in gen.
eral Convention, embracing delegates from every
Congressional District in the United States-aparty
which every where holds the same doctrines, and
among whom divisions are unknown-this party,
told is mere faction" and its success is
much to be deprecated as that of the infamous
black Republicans themselves! This from South
ern men-from Fillmore men-from men who pro-
fess to be DESTROYS Of Democratic cooperation and
of Southern union for the sake of the Union! Read
the resolutions again, old line Whigs and if
have not truly given its substance and meaning.
These old line Baltimore Wings express the opn-
ion that the election of Fillmore will furnish the
BEST if not the only of restoring peace to the
country" If this be so, then is the country gone
But where is Mr.. Filmore's strength? Not in the
South for in the late elections in North Carolina
Texas, and Arkansas, his friends were beaten from
ten to fifteen thousand votes; not in the North
where it is needed to keep down abolitionsm, for in
the late returns from Maine, Iowa, and Vermont
his is not even mentioned. That he has a
large and respectable number of friends, de-
nics but they are every where in all the States in
hopeless minority.
The old line Baltimore Wings say they take Mr.
Fillmore without referring" to or adopting" his
Know Nothing principles. Who ever heard before
of public man separate and apart from his princ.
pies? They may 60 for him personal grounds
or as mere n-worshippers-but they cannot sus-
tain him under any other view, without at the same
time sustaining his principles They take him, then,
without reference to his Know Nothingis ISM But
what of his oaths to obey the National Council p
They take him because, as they say, as a Wing
President he did well. But he is no longer Wing
he is under other and paramount obligations The
National Ineligencer thinks it would not be safe to
calculate that Mr.. Fillmore with his present obliga-
tons and surroundings, would do as well as when
he was Wing. That paper, the organ of the old
line Wings of the country, is evidently not disposed
to trust him.
We repeat what we ntmated in our last, that
we object rather to the temper and manner in
| which Mr. Fillmore has been nominated by old line
Wings, than to the fact of his nomination. We are
entirely satisfied to him remain in the field Lie
may strengthen Mr.. Buchanan in the free States
| that is, if the Fillmore men should run Electoral
tickets in good faith while he cannot subtract from
the Democratic candidate single Electoral vote in
| the South Nor do We believe that his nomination
at Baltimore has added at all to his prospects in the
| South The public mind was made up before that
| Convention met Those who went to Baltimore to
nominate him, would have voted for him in almost
! any event. The most of them Fcderalists, and
their prejudices against Democracy are so strong
that they will act with us and we confess we
are not very sorry account Oft The Democrats,
and the high-minded, independent unprecedented old
line Wings, who are now with us, or who may here
.ftar min us will elect buchanan and Breckenridge.