Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-03-03
Special Notice.
Mr.. McRae.


Mr. McRae returned from Paris some six or e;,h.
months ago, and soon after his return We had rumo..
that he was disposed to revive the distribution ;ssn
and d'sorganize his party Absence and off;co ;.
seems, had only whetted his purpose of revenge ~
MS former associates-had increased and No, d;m;.
'shed the fires of his ambition Whether be des;rea
to remain longer in Paris, or whether he had sou,h.
some other and higher post at the hands Of II, D.,
cnanan, ana been refused, We do not certainly know
out we do know that he returned with no friendly feel
ings towards the administration and with no dspos
ton to fraternze and cooperate with his old n.rr
associates.
His letter to Mr.. Dancy on estate Debt and NJ,
tribution was written in October, and published
in November, 1857. In that letter. in order to NAL.
his distribution notions more acceptable, he under.
rated the prosperity and resources of the State and
drew picture Of our condition as people which
he said was we'll calculated to inspire "apprebens;on
and alarm" He proposed, not to divide the land
proceeds, but the lands themselves and thus taxa
from the general government perpetual source If
revenue, and one of the pledges which exists for the
redemption Of its public debt, and distribute tbese
lands among thirty odd sovereignties- result If
which would be an immense depreciation in valne n
the lands-confiicts, and perhaps bloody conflicts
between State authorities in regard to them, and
system of squandering and corruption such as this
country has never witnessed. He proposed also to
subordinate the vital issue of the Constitutional
rights of the South as involved in African slavery
to the mere consideration of dollars and cents and
he concluded by inviting dscord and disorganzaton
into the Democratic ranks. He not only sought to
revive issue repeatedly discarded and denounced
by the Democratic party in State and National Con.
ventons but he aimed deliberate blow at the party
which had honored him, and through whose favor
he had obtained Office and consideration among his
countrymen. He took the field against Mr.. Ashe in
1853 on the distribution hobby; and after having
been put in Office by an undue stretch of charity
and Kindness he abandoned the contest, leaving his
Wing friends to whistle for leader-went abroad,
pocketed his twenty thousand dollars, and returned
to renew the strife and discord which he com.
menced in 1893. 1t would have been better for
the party, and better for Mr.. McRae himself if he
had been left to his own course in that Campaign
if he had gone down finally, as he would certainly
have done, before the aroused indignation of the
Democracy of the Wilmington District.
Mr.. AcRae is now engaged in opposing the Demo.
cratic party of the State, in attempts to unsee its
usages and to impair its prospects in the ensuing
campaign; and in this employment he is seconded
and sustained, not by Democrats, but by the odds
and ends of old Federalism. Know Nothingism, and
all the elements which have united against the ad.
ministration of James Buchanan. Whenever and
wherever he speaks the great body of his hearers
are Know Nothings and Federalists, who applaud
him to the echo and secretly rejoice a: the prospect
which they think they that the Democratic party
will be defeated, and themselves let in through Nj.
McRae's success to the Offices and honors of the
State, which they SO much covet.
But Mr.. McRae processes to be doing all this "in
his own defence" He declares that he has been as.
sailed and misrepresented, and his appeals to the
people to come to his relief" are said to be touch
ing Mr.. McRae is an adroit tactician, and he does
this to excite sympathy and strengthen his position.
He and is the assailant. He began the contest
and now endeavors to cast the burden of it on the
Democratic press. He sought an occasion to get
before the public, and of his first acts after bis
return from France to assail the organization
his party and one of its cardinal principles. The
way was open to him to renew his allegiance to bis
party and its principles and to act with his former
friends but be did not choose to walk in that way,
and the consequences must, therefore, fall on bis
own head as the result of his own action.
And is this time, if there ever could be time IN
which Democrats should relax their organization
The administration of Mr.. Buchanan, having staked
60, sUhk 80
in an arduous and doubtful struggle. The peace Oh
the country and the integrity Of the Union are threat
ened. The power of our abolition ASSISTANTS is ID
creasing. and our power as slaveholding people
diminishing. Mr.. Buchanan leans upon true men
everywhere and especially upon the Southern States
for support-not because he is sectional in his feel
ings-not because his position is sectional one oo'
because the Constitution is with the South in tbs
contest He that is not for James Buchanan now
against him. We care not what his past sssoe'',
tons may have BEEHIVE care not whether ne p''
been Democrat, . Know Nothing, or an oId''"'
Whig that Southern man who is not now for JsD''
Buchanan, and with James Buchanan, is aga'D''
him. Where is Mr.. AcRaef How does he stano "
this respect Is he for against Lecompton! DOs'
he or does he not sympathize with Judge Doug'sS"
his opposition to the administration? And where
he in relation to the nominee ofthe Charlotte Con'sp
tioni Will be support that nominee, or will be opp
himi Will he retire like Achilles to bis tent, or WIFI.
buckle on his armor and contend for the ncm'p''
Charlottef That will be the test Of Democracy !" ~
approaching contest. - Will he be true ACCORDING
this test or will he persevere in his disorgsns.s
course? Let him answer these questions or let ~.
refuse to answer them, just As be may choose I'd
he comes to address the people Of Edgecomoe ~
sINs Szace Trade in Full Blast. -
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