Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1857-09-09

candidate; but we must bear in mind that in the
next campaingn it will be met by united opposs-
tson, scsth one candidate, sustained and urged 10y
men who would sink every thing to defeat and de-
stroy It, and to clutch more the spos Of office
But the Register endeavors to Offset Edward STAN
ly's treason by imputing to President Buchanan
disposition and consequent use Of the means to
make Kansas free State That paper says:
SIN its haste to impute to US too moderate CEN
sure of Mr. Stanly's course the Standard seems en-
tirey to have forgotten how very amenabe it is to
similar, aye, much heavier rebuke, for its own
course in the matter of Buchanan Walker and Kan
sas. The Standard belongs to the Order-of Cham |
pions par excellence Of Southern Rights This time
one year ago, the Standard proclaimed from the |
house tops that the salvation Of the South depended
npon Kansas coming into the Union as slave State,
and that the election of Mr.. Buchanan was indspen-
saple to that result Mr.. Buchanan was elected and
so far from accomplishing the main object of his
southern supporters has set deliberately to work,
through his agent, Walker, to Illustrate it, by bring
ing in Kansas as a free State. This is notoriousy
true, and where ask have slept the thunders of
the Raleigh Standard" ...
Nothing could be more unfounded than the above
We have never said that the salvation of the South
depended upon Kansas coming into the Union as a
slave State" We have maintained and still main
tain, that the Missouri restriction was unconstitu-
tonal, and ought to have been repealed, leaving
slavery to spread itself under the laws of nature
that is of climate and soi unbarred by arbitrary
lines; that the people of Kansas, in Convention as
sembled, alone have the right to determine whether
they will have slavery not; and that their decs
ion, when fairly arrived at and made known ought
to settle the question, not only in Congress and in
Kansas ITSELF but in all sections of the Union. The
election of Mr.. Buchanan "scas indispensable" :" to
secure to the people of Kansas this great right of
self government ) but Mr.. Buchanan was elected
neither as a pro-slavery nor anti-slavery man.
The national Democratic party have undertaken
neither to propagate nor to restrict slavery, but to
protect it where the Constitution protects it. and to
leave it to its own course, alike unhindered and un-
favored by Congressional intervention in the COM
mon territories. Mr. Buchanan was elected to con-
tnue the work commenced by Mr. Douglas, Mr..
Cass, Mr.. Badger and the nal'Democratic par
ty, of keeping the question Of slarery out Of the
halls Of Congress- and of referring it for solution
and decision to the people of the territories and
most faithfully thus far has Mr. Buchanan met the
expectations of the great body of those who elected
him. The Register will convince no one in North.
| Carolina that Mr.. Buchanan is freesoer, or that
he has gone deliberately to work, through his
it has asserted the fact just as the black Republicans
Of California and of the North are charging that Mr.
Buchanan is seeking to make Kansas slave State
And herein exemplifed the tactics of the
common opposition to the national Democracy just
referred to. The Register and other Southern K N
journals affirm that the administration, and that
Gov. Walker as its agent are doing all they can to
put down slavery in Kansas whereas, the New
feesoil journals of the North, with Lane and Robin
| son and their followers in Kansas, are quite as
severe in their denuncations of President Buchanan
and Gov. Walker for their efforts as they say, to
make Kansas slavehoding State. We might fill
column after column with these denunciations -
Wilmot, for example, of Pennsylvania, who is sup
ported for Governor by the "Americans' ~ and black
Republicans combined, in a recent speech in Greens
burgh, in that State, attacked the Supreme Court
for their decision in the Dred Scott case -" assailed
Mr. buchanan as the tool Of the South, and raced
about the aorongs Of Kansas" The very sectional
ism which is now prominent feature of the oppo
stion to the national Democracy, is so used as to
infict more injury upon the country and upon De-
mocracy than if that opposition occupied nationa
platform and agreed in all its views. At the NORTH
it is ultra Northern, and at the South it is ultrs
Southern; one section accusing the Democrats will
purpose to spread slavery over all the territories
and even into the Northern States themselves, ant
the other section holding the President up free
soier and as bent upon limiting and destroying
slavery. "Opposition to Democracy" is the watch
word, uttered by the traitor Stanly in California
and taken up and ecEoed in all the Atlantic States,-
+ Opposition to Democracy" whatever the resul
NAV he now or hereafter.
The Register says the "acquisiton of Kansas as
free State would be an abolition triumph and a.
eternal bar against the extension of slavery" W
do not admit this; but admitting it to be true 70
arguments sake, how does it affect the Editor of tn
Register and those who act with him? He think
the country ought to have adhered to the Nilsson,
0 restriction By ohich Kansas aoouM hare been boun
hand and foot to the d6olitionists., lie vooud hau
givsn the South Glance IN Kansas but aoouM has
barred them out foreuer by Congressional iateruer
. tion. Nay, more than this,-the old Wing part
with which he acted until Sam seduced him froI
4 his party fealty, and the X. N party with which
O | now acts with Mr.. Fillmore at its head, would ne
. only have maintained this odous restriction, but b
the Wilmot proviso would have placed " etern,
bar against the extension of slavery" into any an
all the territories IF the Union. Does our neghbc
il deny this? Can he have the to insist ths
he had any agency, or that the X. N. party had an
8 | agency in opening Kansas to Southern men :?