Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-07-25
THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARDS SATURDAY.,

JUST LOOK AT Ir-With Democratic President
"a Democratic Senate-and in all probability De-
mocratc House of Representatlves-to say nothing
of Democratic Governor of the Territory-Kansas
is net 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, ard not
for the President or Congress, or Gov. Walker.
Slavery depends mainly for its existence, and entire
ly for its progress into reg ions, on climate ana
soil and all that Presidents Congresses, or par
ties can do is to see 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 haze
done-have done, over and in spite of the orposi-
ton of the black Republicans of the North, and of
the Heralers 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 act Of Congress-or Mr.. Fillmore de
precated and opposed the repeal of the Missouri
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 slaveholdng State;
and the Herald and its party did all they could to
keep Kansas free Territory and to "doom" Kan
sas " to be free State" Is not that so? "Just
look at it !"-what do ye think oft, Southern men
The abolition presses of the North and of Kansas
holding the administration and the national De-
mocratc party responsible for introducing slavery
into Kansas Those presses TEEN with the bitterest
and vlest denunciations of President Buchanan and
his party as the President of save-drvers' and as
the "pro-slavery' party; while the Wilmington
Herald and other Southern X. N. papers are 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 so 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 new Southern and Southwestern
Union. Nay, more than this, but for this great
party, at which he sneers, he might now have been
under arms defending his native town against abo
ton 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 at and undertakes it.
To take ground against James Buchanan in this cr
sis, is to take ground against the national Democrat
ic party; and to do that is en- substance to ddrocate
u dissolution of the Union! Strike him down, and
you strike down that party do that, and the Union
of the States will perish. There be doubt of
it. Even now, though the day be distant, conscrv-
alive and right minded men in all sections dislike to
look fo ward to 1860 They turn from it with in
stinctive dread. The Republic mag go through it
in safety-God only knows; but if it should, it will
be because, and only because the national Democra-
tic parry may have triumphed.
The Hsrald says, in another article, that Kansas
is rather disagreeable subject with the Stand
ard" 1t is, and not only so, but it is painful sub
ject and it should be as much so with the Herald
as with the Standard For the sake Of our distract
! ed and mperilled Union let us baniSn party from
| these dscussionsl Will our friend of the Herald
think of these things?