Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-12-05

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y tbs last Register eontains The f6lFo*hs, sA
presepGs more mistakes and misrepresentation than
We remember ever to have seen in the same num-
Der OF lines:
"THE SrANDxRD DobAiss. The Raleigh Standard
seems to try its best come up tbthe model OF the
J" Artful Dodger."t We have been induced byar-
tices OF its own, to put question after question TO H.
without elicting . response. Among ether inter-
rogaories we have asked it to tell US why IA that
its party now in the enjoymen of full power, have
not fulfilled the promise which it admits they mace,
viz: That under the Kansas Nebraska act slavery
might 60 into Kansas that there was chance ior
it to do So" The Standard cannot, and dare not,
answer this Question With all its faculty OF SPECIAL
pleading il cannot gat around this question, and,
therefore, passes it sub silento. 1t can pronounce
ec cathedra, tho are, and who are not, Democrats;
it can hector and threaten expulsion and utter repu
diation to any man who dares to advocate Dstribu-
ton-a measure advocated by James Buchanan,
Democratic President but it has neither time nor IN.
cinaton to explain the cause Of the notorious short
comings OF its own party" ..s.a..
The Democratic party did promise that "slavery
might 60 into Kansas-that there was q chance for
it to do 60" They did more than ths,-they opened
the way for it. by repeating the Missouri restriction,
which repeal the Editor the Register and his party
opposed. Slaves were carried into Kansas, and are
there now, and the right to hold them property
has been secured by the Lecompton Constitution
If the Editor Of the Register and his party had had
their way. no african slaoe soouM eper haoe been
carried iato Kansas $50
But the Democratic party made no promise to es
tablish slavery in Kansas Congress has no power
either to establish or abolish slavery in the Terri
tories All it do is to leave the Territories open
mr. find IF CHI IN ham, To
~, and then let the institution be established in
terdicted as the people themselves may decide.
Is not the Register answered. If so-and We
think it is-all have to say il that bad al
ready answered it as above at least half dozen
times.
And now, will that paper answer US just one ques-
ton? Is for against the action Of the late Con-
stutional Convention of Kansas2 Does it, in other
words, hold that Kansas ought to be admitted into
the Union by the next Congress, or remanded to q
Territorial condition?
The Register says We "hector and threaten ex.
puls,on and utter reputation to any man who dares
to advocate distributions measure advocated by
James Buchanan, Democratic President" Now
deny that have ever thus "hectored" or
threatened" Whenever any one protesting to be
q az eSheS S'ouiiu puoHCIy
protective tariff or national Bank. or any
other federal measure, he himself off from the
Democratic party,-he steps OF the platform and
falls. and set of men in the party could
put forth arm long enough or strong enough,
even if they were so disposed, to reach him and
bring him back. I've have power to expel any
man from the Democratic party; and we are not in
the habit of " hectorng" or Threatening" But
do profess to be able to understand plain English
and therefore tell when Democrat is not
acting in accordance with the principles of the Dem.
ocratic party, and when he is opposing its principles
and its organization. In such cases it is our duty
to speak out and put the Democratic people their
guard and this is what the Register calls "hector.
ing" and threatening"
But the Register asserts that distribution is ga
measure advocated by James Buchanan, a Democrat
&c President" Can it be possible that that pape,
would make the impression the minds of its
readers that President Buchanan is in favor of dis
tribution?