Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-27
FOR CONGRESS:
II. OBJ. B RANCH
OF WAKE
Letter from Linn II. Sanders

Letter from Linn B. Sanders, Eu.
We publish to-day, at the request of Mr. S.na.
his circular letter to the people of Johnston c0ns,
on the subjects of Internal Improvement Fra.
frage, State debt, Distribution, &c. Mr., S,ud...,
long acted with the Democratic party. and 70, .'
lang syne, and as matter of simple iust;cs Wv
public man. we felt that We ought 10 give h..
hearing in our columns.
We do not propose to offer any elaborate reD,r ;,
Mr.. Sanders, Lor to discuss the points which h.,
made. We differ with him in his views ~ '
Suffrage and Internal Improvements; and tho hs.
ence between US on Distribution is radical and NJ.
petual. How he can hold the Free Sulraoo mss
ure and its advocates responsible for what he d.,~
wastefnl useless and highly Objectionable System
of internal improvements, is a mystery to Us, ".
can appreciate his opposition to an increase Of III,
State debt and to all appropriations for internal i'm
provements, for the first duty of representative s
his constituents, and their will should be his ,u,,
SEES not involving conscientious scruples or cops;tD
tional objections; in which latter event the onr
course is to resign. Many good Democrats voted =,
the last session Mr.. Sanders did on Questions If
internal improvement, and differed as he did with
the majority of their party friends; yet not one Of
them has proper to assai the party on this sub.
ject as Mr.. Sanders has done-not one of them has
assumed, looking to the whole State, that he was
right and those who voted the other way wrong:
and not one of them, holding his party associates
responsible for what men of all parties have DONE
or united in attempting to do, has like Mr.. Sanders
solemnly warned the people against "Democralc
procviies" in this respect. and thus essayed to in
jure the party which he processes to support 9th
ers have contented themselves with simple and
honest opposition to the Western Extension, and 10
further inducements on account of internal i'm.
provements, in obedience to their pledges TO- or the
will of their constituents; and no Democrat who
differed with them, has, so far as we know, either
questioned their Democracy or censured them in
the slightest degree for their course But Mr. San.
ders, wiser than many others, and uncharitabe just
in proportion to the stock of wisdom which he pos
sesses, takes his party to task for the resolution
adopted on the subject of internal Improvements
when Gov. Bragg was first nominated charges in
substance, as the Know Nothing presses and leaders
have done, that the people were deceived by the
use made of this resolution in different localities,
and then holds his own party up as the main cause
of present Indebtedness and high taxes dating these
latter from the passage of the Central Railroad bill
in 1S4S, for achicA lie admits he goted! Not one
word of warning is uttered against the tendency
the opposition to involve the State in debt mo re-
ference is made to the fact that men of all parties
and from all sections voted together for internal m
provements in 1864 and 1856; but the Democratic
party is solely to blame, says Mr.. S., and Gen.
Dockery, who deliberately broke his pledges to the
Western people in moving that vote ofreconsderation
Gen. Dockery is patriot, and deserves his "grat
itude and the gratitude" of the people Of John.
ston. Gov. Bragg placed upon strange plank"
in the platform-Gov. Bragg led the Democracy in
contests in which the party gave different con-
structions" to plain resolution in different local.
ties-Gov. Bragg and the great mass of the party
the State have ceased to be "old-fashioned Demo.
Gratis, Jackson Democrats, but Linn B. Sanoers,
Esq, has kept the faith-Linn B. Sanders, Esq,
has been uniformly right except when he gave those
votes in lS4s for Free Suffrage and the Central Rail-
road-Linn B. Sanders, Esq, is SO sound and true
upon all these issues that he censures his own form
err political friends, warns the people against Them
and eulogizes Gen. Alfred Dockery as the embod''
ment of craftsmanship, judgment, and patriotism
Mr. Sanders also takes ground for" distribution
of the proceeds of public lands" among the States
and substantially, for the assumption by the genera
government of the State debts. This is heightened
federal doctrine. He also absurdiy assumes tha'
the States would be rendered more dependent o"
the federal centre by loan than gift, for he op
poses deposit" and advocates redistribution"
1t is sufficient to say that Mr.. Sanders differs on
the subject of distribution with Gen. jackson, MI
Calhoun, Mr.. Polk, Mr. Pierce, the Democratic parry
Of the United States as represented in its na'o"''
Conventions, and the Democratic party OF Nor''
Carolina as represented in its State Conventions
That is all Mr.. Sanders must, therefore, be !"
error. He cannot be right, and millions OF Den'0'
Gratis wrong. .
The only issue now made against the Democla"
party is this exploded issue of distribution. Inv
old Wing party had an opportunity in ls4l to GAIT!
it out, but failed to do SO; and the Know Notnns
party did not even condescend to notice 1t IN 10
platforms. Having beaten them on all their ISSUES,
concocted in culverts and in fencecorners az "'.
night they now come forward with this old oS"
button humbug, filched from the ruins OF '0'I''.
party, as their only stock in trade. We say '''.
the election of Mr.. Buchanan has for the pre''''
saved the Union, and given substantial assu'a1.
that Southern rights will be respected and man'a,
ed and that the great and leading object o. Wv
South should now be to, sustain. Mr. Bucna"a -,
They say that they cant money from the JSa":.
government to pay the State debts; and that
more important to have distrbutionsts in Cons' ".
than men who will stand by Mr.. Buchanan anu ~
true principles of the Kansas Nebraska act NV
then, the two parties stand, and this is the ders"
between them; and on the main issue "n'''