Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-12-23

Carolina. That paper of Wednesday L., WORTH
feeble effort to ridicule the two Senators f,o s!
Carolina in the Congress Of the Union thn. NORTH
to the Primitive Baptists. and to Mr. Bsas re'eu
a member of that Church: ea ee'' WHO'S
And Mr.. Biggs amt afraid to spe,l o..
ing the peculiar views of the "Kehukee R.s N meet
suasion." To be sure, there is not no,r 2tst Per.
never has been, Senator Mason assnr"i ana there
such Office as chaplain to the Senate by. nm any
hukee Baptist persuasion believes tbero 'ne "Es
been much exercised on the subject If ns, and has
Der right, that intelligent body once sent 'enen.
ana indignant remonstrance against pav;ne srons
Tor praying for that ungodly set of sinners aanan
in the Capitol at Washington" COLLECTED
Many If the Primitive Baptists, with otb.,
citizens Of the country, honestly believe H.. eOoa
neither Constitutional nor in accordance r;., Us
genius and character of our government r. @e
chapains in the two Houses Of Congress and !. ~"
Army and Navy. But few days since Mr. q. Tue
W. Jones. a member of the House Of Rsn,s.
tives from Tennessee, read to that body . "''
STRANGE against the practice of employing and n'
ing chaplains, signed by members of the p,iu ray
Baptist Church in some four or five State,- WV
nonstrance respectful in its tone, and cbar,o.,.:
sense And we think it more than probable H..
the kehukee Association in this State-at wb;oh =.
Regsster gets up one of its supercilious sneers-h
heretofore demonstrated on the same subject. ~,
II we are not Mistaken their remonstrance u..
scented by Mr.. Badger to the Senate during his row.,
of service. VIII"
The Primitive Baptists are an honest and -, w..
thy people, and as much entitled to their opirioDs
as the Editor Of the Register is to his: and tbs a.
tempt to slur and underrate them will meet tbe ~,
proval OF no discreet or just person. But the Print.
tive Baptists, or large majority of them are DENIM.
Gratis: and this may account for the tone If tb,t
paper towards them. 1t was once fashionable in
certain circle of politicians 10 sheer at Edpecombe
County as the most ignorant Couney in the State.
and of the leaders in that circle went 50 far in
the campaign OF 1874 as to charge upon her people
deliberate determination to cast thousand fran.
dulent votes for Mr.. Polk but that method of at.
tack upon Edgecombe and the Democracy has been
abandoned, or rather it has subsidized, it seems into
a contemptuous sneer at the Primitive Baptiss
many of whom reside in that portion of the State
We do not step forward to defend the members Of
defence. We merely call attention to the Registers
article. and point to it to show the respect which
that journal entertains for a large and worthy de-.
nomination Of Christians, whose members in their
capacity as citizens, have thought proper to oppose
Federalism and Know Nothingism, and who are
slurred and rdculed more on that account than be.
cause they have demonstrated against the employ.
ment Of chaplains by the two Houses of Congress.
The Christmas Holidays.
In order to give those employed in our office an
opportunity to participate in the Christmas holidays
no Standard will be issued on Saturday next Ou
weekly readers will be served as usual on Wednes
day next and the edition of that day sent to then
will be sent also to our semi-weekly readers
Our readers will lose but little if anything in tht
way of news by this omission, as Congress will mol
be in session and the holidays will be general
We tender to our readers the compliments of the
season. with the wish that each return of this ioy.
GUS anniversary may find our State and country
as prosperous and as happy as they now are compa.
MED with the other nations of the earth.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN New York CIrY-A large
and enthuastc meeting of the Democracy of New
York was held on Thursday evening last, at which
resolutions were unanimously adopted sustaining the
administration of Mr.. Buchanan on the Kansas ques.
ton, and urging the admission of the new State with
the Lecompton Constitution. The following resolu.
ton, among others, was adopted:
Resolred, That while we would have preferred
that the entire Constitution proposed for the State
of Kansas should have been submitted to popular
h ooct hat orr.
tory upon the opportunity now presented to them
Of passing upon the question which has so long dis
turbed their peace and destroyed their material pros
perity and progress that nothing but the wicked
and factious pernacity Of professional agators can
now stand in the way of the early admission of this
new State into the Union, with the unqualified pow
er remaining in her people to alter and amend its
Constitution thenceforth as to them may seem best;
that while we fully and unreservedly concur in this
view of the case, desire to urge upon all Demo-
Gratis the necessity of Cancellation and good ieeng
among brethren, upon this and all similar questons'
that especially upon the floor Of Congress ana IN !,
the newspaper press, no anmosties be engendereo
and no division lines drawn, which may initiate
against our future harmony and success-beleVlns,
as We do, that upon the ascendency OF Democraae
principles mainly depend the safety vnd perpetaly
of. our Union"
Letters were read from Green c. Bronson, john
Van Buren,, Israel T. Hatch, Edwin Croswell, john
G. Wright, ard other distinguished Democrats ap
proving the Presidents Kansas policy, No dlrec
alluson was made in the resolutions or by the speak
ers to Judge Douglas; but the following from 'O
New York Nesos, is significant:
"The attempt of a few ambitious aspirants AMI
uneasy spirits to dissensions in the ranks OF .n
Democracy will prove wholly unavailing, afec,.hs
injuriously those and those only who are unwilling
to bide their time and await the natural course Q
events to place them in positions which they seek
but which very seeking only throws them furlns
from the goal of their ambition.
The Democratic party cannot be forced-t cannT
be lead into error or party entanglements throus
the efforts Of any individual however high, howes
er ambitious. however persevering or popular ~
may be- 1t will 20 far and follow closely any on
whom it's natural instincts and love of principle teae