Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-07-15

we have observed, taken any other position
But we have bj.cted, and still object to two
things in the action of Gov Walker in Kansas, as
follows:
1st His argument by inference, in his Inaugural
Speech that the climate and soil of Kansas were
unfavorable to slavery; and
2dly His declaration that unless the delegates of
the people Of Kansas in Convention assembled,
should submit the Constitution to the people for
their ratification rejection, he would oppose them
and endeavor to induce Congress to reject their
work, and refuse Kansas admission into the Union
We have carefully examined the resolutions of the
Mississippi and Georgia Democratic Conventions on
the subject; and with the exception Of the request
made in the Georgia resolutions to Mr.. Buchanan to
recall Gov Walker, we can perceive nothing in the
action of the two Conventions to which any nation
al Democrat should feel constrained to object.
The Washington Union, which at first appeared
to favor the idea that the action of the Constitution
al Convention would be final, has recently taken
the ground that the Constitution ought to be SUBJ
mted to the people; and has not only justified Gov.
Walker in his whole course in Kansas, but has I'M
dertaken to lecture and denounce, in no measured
terms, the State Rights Democracy of the South
Now, ifthe Kansas Constitutional Convention should
think proper to submit the Constitution to the peo
pie, the South will certainly not object to the principle
involved, 10 their right to do So There are pre-.
cedents on both sides Constitutions have been
framed and made final in both ways by Conventions
alone, and by Conventions and the subsequent sane
ton of the people. But the Southern people iepre-
cate the further agitation of the slavery question
and many of them fear that, if the Constitution
should be submitted to the people, it will be reject
ed and the question of slavery left unsettled They
wish to end to this business. They do not
deem it unjust wrong to submit the Constitution
to the people, but inexpedent yet in this they may
be mistaken. But they not mistaken in the po-
ston that this was matter solely belonging to the
delegates in Convention of the people of Kansas
themselves, and not to Gov. Walker.
We take the liberty of saying to the Washington
Union that it will not do to characterize the Democ-
racy of Georgia and Mississippi secessioniss,"
or to intimate even that they are not friendly to
James Buchanan Nor will it do to class the so-called
secessonists" of the South with the Boston Liber
ator and the abolitionists as engaged in a common
warfare on Gov. Walker. There has been no i'm
pudcnt intrusion of outside demagogues' so far as
the South is concerned. The people of the South
are not in organized rebellion in Kansas-they have
no Gov. Robinson" and no Topeka Constitution.
They rely upon the provisions of the Kansas-Ne-
braska act and upon the honesty and integrity of
James Buchanan; and no denunciations which the
Union" may direct upon them will shake their
faith in the President for the simple reason that
such denunciations are neither authorized nor ap-
proved by him. If Kansas should come in as free
State. so be it if as slavehoding State, so be it.
But let the people of Kansas decide the question in
their own way, without the dctation, or even the
intima,ion of an opinion for or against slavery by
Gov Walker.
We regret to see the Richmond Enquirer uniting
with the Union in its assaults on portion of the
| State Rights Democracy of the South. That there
| are extremists and impractcabes" in the South,
charged by the Enquirer, who will not be salts
fed with any thing, and who desire dissolution of
the Union, we freely admit; but the great body of
the State Rights Democrats of the South are still
strongly attached to the Union and still friend
ly as they were to Mr.. Buchanan's adminstra.
ton. These State Rights Democrats are not Sc
cessionists," any more than the Enquirer and they
are neither to be nmidated nor silenced by the ap
plication to them of Objectionable names "Selfre-
liant and justly proud of their fifty seven years
broken triumphs" says the Enquirer, the Virginia
Democracy do not usually repair to the banks of the
Mississippi for instruction" The Mississippi and
the Georgia Democracy quite as sound
as those Of Virginia; and we hazard nothing in
saying that they true and sound as
| Gov. Cobb or as Jacob Thompson himself, upon
whose political escutcheon 1--WE mean Mr.. Thompson)
not breath of suspicion dstrust has ever been
cast.
We have the fullest confidence in the President.
We believe he will hold the scales justly, so far as
he cam between the two sections; and that, whatev-
may be the result, censure will be visited on
him by fair-mnded citizens, whether in the North
South. No President, since the days of Jackson,
has been stronger in the respect and confdeoce of
the great body of the American people than James
Buchanan. Let him patiently hear, as he no doubt
is patiently hearing, all portions of the country
this vexed question; and let him do his duty, he
understands it. If Kansas, under the Kansas-Ne-
braska act fairly and justly administered, should
come in as slave State, free State, with
Constitution silent the subject, the country will
sustain him in either event; and then the old ma
tional Democratic party-the only stay and hope of
the Union-w its little strifes and right itself
for the mighty struggle of 1860. May "God de-
fend the right when that struggle comes, and again
save the Constitution and the Union!
| HEAVY RA1Ns.-From various sections of the State,
we hear ofheavy rains amounting in many instances
to freshets. On Saturday night last, a rain unpre-
cidented almost fell in Franklin, portion of Gran
vile, Warren and at Weldon. In Warren, we
learn the destruction to bridges and mills is immense.
The canal at Weldon also suffered very material
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