Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-09

that he is to pass through the same trying ordeal
which has tested every Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, since the days of Thomas Jefferson
Our readers remember the infamous war made upon
Andrew Jackson. He was carricatured in coffin
hand.bills, stigmatised as gambler, tyrant,
usurper, and accused of stealing another mans wife.
Even the pure and spotless Polk could not escape
the traduction Of these same ghouls, who dug from
the grave the eshess bones of his grandfather and
the cry went through the land "Zeke Polk was
tory" When Pierce was nominated the same pack
commenced their usual work of defamation, " Pierce
is drunkard!' "Perce is coward!" "Pierce
faintcd, were the stereotyped expressions of these
lying orators and drunken speakers. But these
great men survived the storm of calumny and oblo-
quy and the tongues which have so often been bis
tered in slandering them frothy with the
same poisonous saliva which is now being spit upon
James Buchanan with all the venom of vipers. But
he, like his predecessors will outlive their derac
ton. The brightness of his fame cannot be dimmed
by the wholesale abuse and falsehood Of vulgar and
besotted calumnators But it will live in the hearts
of the American people after his enemies are dead
and in pity forgot Mr.. Buchanan can neither be
damaged by defamation nor advanced in public es-
teen by praise. His country regards him states
man whose fame is nations property, and whose
long life of public usefulness is unstained by act
unworthy of the patriot and the man. The Dem
ocracy remember that President Monroe thirty years
ago offered him foreign mission when he had been
in Congress but session. "Thev remember
also tnaC at the call OF andrew JACKSON he was
transferred from private life to the position of Amer
lean minister at St. Petersburg, to be sent to the
Senate Of the United States his return from Rus
STA by the voice of the Democracy of Pennsylvania.
They remember that he was called upon to leave
that elevated position by the lamented Mr.. Polk,
(acting under the earnest suggestion of Andrew
Jackson) to assume the difficult and harassing
sponsibtes of the State Department. at time
when troubles between this country and other ma
tons. and the unsettled condition of European gov
ernments generally, rendered it important to have
that department in the hands not only of ripe
scholar and profound statesman, but cool, sa-
gacious and patriotic American"
He has also been minister to England during the
last four years, and how he has met the public
pectation the world bears witness. Mr.. Buchanan
can proudly point to his long and brilliant course of
public usefulness as the surest guaranty against
such assaults. "The Democracy will rally the more
closely around their standard bearers when they
them unustly assailed whilst the coarseness and
baseness of the attacks will disgust honest Wings
and cause them to regret that they are tied on to
such political associates. The man who has reached
nearly three and ten years, enjoying the
fdence of his country in various responsible stations;
who has won the admiration of his countrymen by
the purity of his morals, the genteness and frmness
of his conduct the brancy of his talents, the value
and extent Of his public services, never be in
jured in public estimation by the puny assaults of
low retailer of bingsgate."
Sunny South.