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

A very large PR 0rton OF the Democratic papers
of the South do not agree wholly with Governor
Walkers course in Kansas. What they dislike they
openly condemn. In doing SO they right In
doing otherwise they would be wrong. An attempt
at censuring, prescribing or gagging such papers,
would be ridiculous failure They the true re-
representatives. of the Southern Democratic feeling, be-
cause they are the independent opponents of Demo
cratic principle They give to Democratic Admin.
istration its best and most efficient support because
unbought and free; and because given, not merely
Of course, but in testimony of genuine, living ap-
proval, and known to be so given.
The day of mere hacks is over, we trust-the day
of this mans organ or that mans organ has closed
or nearly so. The day in which Editors worthy of
their vocation, would consent to have their course
controlled by this or that influence, or swerved to
conform to the alterations Of men in or out of pow
er, we bope never more to see. Any attempt at Or
ganlc denunciation or prescription of Democratic
paers because of the expression of true Democratic
sentiments, must result in ridiculous failure and
will be tried only by the weak-mnded inconsid
crate
The independent Democratic papers of the South
give cordial and hearty support to Mr.. Buchanans
Administration, because they believe it to be right
IN the main. They would be unfahfu to their trust
if they followed it step farther than they believe
it SO to be- We are sorry to some of our Demo-
cratic contemporaries delivering thcmsevs of dia-
tribes against the Georgia Democracy because they
cannot agree with the right of Gov. Walker to con-
St1tute himself paTtIZau VI Free OoH ny arguing
the question of the institutions of Kansas and decid
ing against the South far his official judgment
goes. The Georgians right in disappearing of Mr..
Walkers course Whether the mode and manner
in which their disapproval is expressed be the best
or not, is matter do not care to discuss. No
good is to be done by finding fault with the majority
of the Democracy of the South by whom Walkers
course is condemned.
The Washington Union of yesterday, has quite
lengthy article on this subject. It acknowledges
that nearly the whole Southern press is opposed to
certain features in Mr. Walkers Inaugural address,
Does this mean'nothng? Are those presses and their
conductors factionsts, they not-with some
exceptions, admit-among the truest and most
conservative papers in the Union viii do to class
Mississippi and Georgia factionists and throw
back in their teeth the charge of Disqualification
Not quite. we think. If the Southern Democratic
presses and conventions mistaken in .heir views
they open to conviction, but cannot be moved
by denunciaton. They all give and still give to the
administration a cordial support-they would not
willingly differ from denounce any of the acts of
that administration, Of any of its agents They
are the creators the creatures of the adminisra
ton. They placed it in power, and by doing so
pledged themselves to sustain it in every fair and
proper manner They worked for it as the nearest
representative of their views-as the best agency
through which to secure>and perpetuate the rights
Of ALL They did not establish it a dictator, aud
we have no sort of idea that Mr.. Buchanan ever
dreamed of sustaining any such relation occupy.
ing any such position as some weak and indiscreet
followers would wish to place him in. 1t is those who
attempt to place him in this false position whose
course really tends to disturb the harmony of the
Democratic party, and excite spirit of hostility be-
tween its different portions
Wilmington Journal