Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-10
CONGRATULATIONS.

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Editors N. O. Standard:
The following letter to Mr.. James Gordon Ben.
nett of the n Y Herald, is intendsda AS an answer,
at least to some extent Of that geHSstrictures on
the South and Southern men a5 also upon the
great Democratic party NorthAnd Sohth. You per-
ceive that it is addressed to Mr.. Bennett but De-
lieving that he would refuse to insert it in the Her.
add the writer has sent it to you for pno'cat'oh'
you think it worthy. Yours &C,
SHocco DIsraIcr, WARREN Co., N. c., Avg. ID, 49,
Mr. i G.. Bennett, Editor NJ Y. Herald:
1t has been the everyday remarks of Southern
men for a number of years past that you were, os-
tensibly at least, one of the most uncompromsing
of the Northern friends of the South, and its insti
tutions, and that you were consttutionaly as good
a friend to the South as we had North OF Mason q
Dixon's line We all remember the decided stands
you have taken upon the abolition questions-the tar
if the fugitiveslnve law, and the Kansas Nebraska
b-indeed upon all questions touching the rights OF
the South you have outwardy atleas ever been faith
full and true as far as we know For this, ii sim
cere you have been entitled to the grateful remem-
brance of Southern men ; but as much as you have
said and written, you have never yet convinced the
Southern people of your sincerity and PATRIOTISM
or that your motives were not unse.6sh and now
having your recent acts before us, are satisfied
that the grounds you have hitherto occupied, were
taken for the furthering of your own selfish views
and designs. To prove this upon you without doubt
or cavil the writer has undertaken this letter. ana
if occasionally you are probed rather severely De-
]ieve US it is done against our wish, but like the
physician, we probe to heal, and we trust that IN
like manner you will be made whole Having been
q subscriber to your paper for some years past, we
will not go outside the Herald to sustain our po-
son. as
Perce's nomination for the Presidency you were
among the first to take decided stand for that gen.
tlemans election; and during the whole of the can
vass he had no 6rmer supporter than the N Her
aid. According to that Journal he was the very
man for the place. The story of tainting on the
thing too good to be said of him. But mark the
change that came DER the spirit of your dream at
ter Gen. Perces election and the mission to France
was not given to Mr.. James Gordon Bennett. There
was then nothing too wicked to be said OF him. lie
was weak and imbecle he tainted when ne ought
to have fought he bestowed his favors iujudicous-
" the appointment of Messrs. Soule, Belmont and
others, was descaned upon and declared ruinous to
the country; and indeed, ifpossbe, thousand 9TH
er charges preferred against him; and all tor
what2 Why, Nr. Bennett had been perfecting himself
in French under the best Masters and had failed get
the French Mission. This ali; and hence the host
ity shown to our Minister to France about that time
Wemight on and write much more that was said by
you of Mr. Pierce both before and after his election
to the Presidency, but enough has been said for our
purpose. w e DeNeVe tnaC you Olaile ulHi, WHeh III
fact if any one it was his advisers who prevented
your getting the nomination to that desirable Mis-
sion; but, SIR had you been nominated, and had
your gone before the Senate for the Mission to
France any other important office, is it not well
known that you would have met with the like tate
of your friend Chew Webb? You aoouM haze been
rejected; and we conscientiously believe that you
could not get Southern vote in the Senate. This,
too, being your belief we have the cause of your
vindictiveness to the South and Southern men, And
now all the raving and railing of the N. Y. Herald
can never harm US one iota. Wedont believe with
your Georgia correspondent, "that it is in your
power to do more good to the Democratic party than
any living man." nor are we firm believers
in your powerful aid, nor do we believe with the
same correspondent, "that if you were to support
Mr.. Buchanan for the Presidency; and in the event
of his election no office in his gift would be too
much for your services" nor do you believe such
nonsense for if you did we feel assured that your
selfish ambition would cause you to jump at a bait
so alluring to your mind No, no, Mr.. Bennett,
such fortune can never happen, at least to you;
and don't know for our life which of the two is
the most ridculous-a man that could write such
worthless trash, or man like yourself that could be
so easily blarneyed with it.
We come now to speak of some of your acts,
that are equally inconsistent and illberal. In
commenting upon Gov. Wise's speech at the Buch-
anan and Breckenridge ratification meeting in Rich
mond, through the columns of the N. Y. Herald,
you say in effect that in that speech Mr. Wise pro-
misses to the South that in the event of Mr. Buchan-
ans election to the Presidency that the price OF ne
groes instead of being thousand dollars will be
from four to five thousand dollars, thereby leading
your Northern readers to believe that Mr.. Buchan-
ans election is desired by the South for the purpose
of increasing the value of slave property and as
natural consequence increasing the sale Of slaves.
This you no doubt thought would have u tendency
to njure his election among the masses of the Nor
thern people who are not aboltonists; but many
Of whom have conscientious scrupes in regard to
buying and selling slave property Now, sir, we
take the liberty of saying that we read Gov Wise's
speech above alluded to, as reported by the N. Y.
Herald, and we saw no such idea, or word, or
thought, or sentence. If we recolect Alright, Gov.
Wise aid, in speaking of carrying slave property
into Territories, that if the Kansas and Nebraska
bill, which Mr.. Buchanan approved had been law
previous to the admission Of California into the
Union, Southern men might and would have car
ried there slaves there, and in that case the slave
would have made the business of seeking gold so
profitable to the owner that the price of that prop
erty would have risen from one to four and five
thousand dollars. We write from memory, not hav-
ing seen the speech since the time of its .pubca-
ton; but appeal to all honorable men if this was
not the idea conveyed by Gov Wise in that speech.
To say that you wilfuly perverted that speech for
your OWE selfish purposes would perhaps not be
saying too much; but will leave it with you for
the present.
This is stab No r'ade at the South and the De-
mocratic party with one hand whilst with the 9TH
you are saying, That the institution of slavery
at the South has been the means of socially and
morally eievating the slave beyond any advance
ment of his social or moral condition in any other
country-undcr any other government-or in any
other age of the world" [See Editorial Article
Herald of 3lstJuiy.] In the same article you say
that Mr.. Toombs' OBJECT in stating that the e cleo
ton of Mr.. Fremont will and ought to be the end of
the Unionn ia to Mace himself in tho hiohwav for