Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-07-29

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"a Democratic Senate-and in all probability De- |
mocratic House of Representatives-to say nothing |
of Democratic Governor of the Territory-Kansas
is get doomed to be a free State!
Ten thousand cheers for the great national Demo-
cratic party that was to do much for the South!
Wilmington Herald.
If "Kansas is yet doomed to be free State, the
result will proceed from the action of her own peo
pie. 1t is for them to determine the matter, and not
for the President, or Congress, or Gov. Walker.
Slavery depends mainly for its existence and entire
ly for its progress into regions, climate and
soil and all that Presidents, Congresses, or par
ties do, is to to it that the institution has
chance thus TO expand without regard to arbitrary
lines. This Democratic President, Democratic
Congress, and the national Democratic party hare
dOne-have done, over and in spite of the opposi-
ton of the black Republicans of the North, and Of
the HeralTs party in the South. IF Mr.. Fillmore,
for whom the Editor of the Herald voted had had
his way, Kansas would have been doomed to be
free State by Of Congress-for Mr.. Fillmore de-
precated and opposed the repeal of the Missouri re-
stricton, by which repeal the territory was thrown
open to the South. The great national Democratic
party has done, therefore, all it could do, and all it
ought to do, to make Kansas slaveholding State;
and the Herald and its party did all they could to
keep Kansas free Territory and to "doom" Kan
sas I" to be free State" Is not that so? "Just
look at it !"-what do We think oft, Southern men?
The abolition presses of the North and of Kansas
are holding the administration and the national De-
mocratc party responsible for introducing slavery
into Kansas Those presses teem with the bitterest
aud viest denunciations of President buchanan and
his party, the President of "slave-drvers" and as
the "pro-savery" party; while the Wilmington
Herald and other Southern X N. papers censu.
ring them for making Kansas, they say, free
| State. How is this? Why this concord of assault
amid this discord Of sections? Can it be possible
that the Herald and its coadutors are looking, in
matter momentous, more to party advantage than
to the best interests of the country?
The Herald sneers at the national Democratic
party But for that party the Union would have been
dissolved ere this and the Editor of the Herald would
have been engaged with other public men, in erect.
| ing the fabric of Southern and Southwestern
| Union. Nay, more than this, but for this great
party, at which he sneers, he might now have been
under defending his native town against abo-
! tion armies We speak sober truth. The national
Democratic party has given him present peace and
| present security and has kept the battle from his
very doors; and yet he sneers at and undertakes it.
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sis, is to take ground against the national Democrat
ic party and do that IS In substance to adcocae
a dissolution of the Union Strike him down, and
you strike down that party; do that and the Union
of the States will perish There can be doubt of
it. Even now, though the day be distant, conserv-
ave and right minded men in all sections, dislike to
look forward to 1860 They turn from it with in
stinctive dread. The Republic may go through it
in safety-God only knows; but if it should it will
be because, and only because the national Democra-
tic party may have trumphed.
The Herald says, in another article, that Kansas
is {" rather disagrceable subject with the Stand.
ard' 1t is, and not only so, but it is painful sub
ject; and it should be as much with the Herald
as with the Standard For the sake of our distract
ed and imperilled Union let us banisn party from
these discussions! Will friend of the Herald
think of these things?