Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-08
Where Douglas must be looked for i'm 1860.

the fOSt OuCc /TU" oS wen d oue W,
.h.r desire the change to be made.
Where Douglas must be looked for in 1860.
To rs it is apparent that there is nothing wanting
70 effect complete concentration of the Democratic
n.rv and of that outside influence which justly
belongs to the old line Wing and conservative
strength, than prompt answer to two questions on
the part of Judge Douglas: L. If elected Senator
bv the members OF the Legislature to be chosen
uext November, will he thereafter continue to act
with the Democratic party? and, Q. Will he abide
Nv and support The nominees of the Democratic par
~ to be made at Charleston, in 1860, for President
and Vice President of the United States?
We need not state sohy it has become necessary
that such questions should be propounded, but We
will say that there are many men in his own State
sufficient number to control the election-who
anxious that they should be answered, and answer
ed in the affirmative, so that they may give to him
an e,ruest and effective support now and hereaf-
ter-&. luis Republican (democratic)
The chicago Times, the leading Douglas paper in
Illinois, commenting on this subject, says:
without ha. ing any direct authority to answer
the questions of the Republican, we know that we
can safely say that Judge Douglas whether elect
ed Senator or not, will all the time act within the
Democratic organization, and within any
other; and we further say, that the
Charleston Convention shall be the National Demo-
cratic Nominating Convention of 1860, sure will
Judge Douglas and the Democracy of Illinois be
found supporting its nominees"
The fact can neither be denied nor disguised that
Judge Douglas set up for himself during the last
Congress on the Kansas question; and differed, as
he himself stated and insisted, fundamentally"
with President Buchanan. The declaration by Judge
Douglas that no Constitution could be valid,
should be accepted by Congress which had not been
submitted to the people for approval or rejection,
new to US; and we venture to affirm that his
speeches for the last FIVE years will be searched in
vain for any specific we'll. defined opinion of this
sort. We have always understood that Constitu-
ton was valid, whether made by the people in Con-
vention once, or made twice. that is, once in Con-
vention and then at the ballot-box; but still we
would be the last to object, under proper circum-
Stances to referring Constitution to the people for
their approval rejection But in the case of Kan
sas The people had spoken for themselves They
had determined to vote on their Constitution at
the polls, but only to the slavery clause; and it
was not for Congress to say after they had thus
spoken, that their Constitution had not been proper.
ly made, and must be made in some other way.
Judge Douglas differed on this question with the
President and nineteen twentieths of the Democratic
party. This difference, We repeat, he himself de-
cared Fundamental" If he has been injured by
this, he has no one to blame but himself We re-
GREETED and still regret this difference between the
author of the Kansas Nebraska act and the national
Democrat party; and will 60 as far as any good
Democrat can 60 to reconcile and settle it. But is
Judge Douglas really anxious to heal this breach
We learn that he appeared to be at the close of
the last session of Congress; but how does this
agree with the fact that from the commencement of
bis campaign in illinois up to the present time he
has denounced the Lecompton Constitution as a
"monstrous fraud" and labored to show that he
has been right in this matter and the President and
nneteen-twentieths Of Congress wrong? No recon-
citation can be hoped for on basis of this kind
The national Democratic party will do what it be-
leves to be rght-will maintain its principles and
Its organization, no matter who may oppose Of
fend and If the result should be the triumph of the
common black Republican foe in 1860, the condem-
uanon in this and future ages will fall, not upon it..
but upon those who have disturbed its peace and
affected to be wiser than it has been in the nerpre-
tatlon of its own doctrine.
The following article from the last Washing
ton Union exhibits course of conduct on
the part of Judge Douglass friends in the free
States which is totally incompatible with the suppo.
sltion that they desire intend to act in harmony
with the national Democratic party. The Union,
under the head" Rule or Ruin. the policy Of the
douglas faction "-says:
The last political news from California is decs-
I've on one important question upon which portion
oflhe democratic party this side of the continent
sui affect to entertain some doubt. 1t throws a
hood of light upon the intentions, past and prospec-
i've of the disaected wing of the democratic party
who designate themselves as douglas democratic u
In the democratic conventions that have been held
throughout the northern States this side of the
continent, it may be stated as general fact that
wherever this faction have failed to the nom-
nations and the control of those bodies, they have
DOTTED the party, and formed a secret open coai.
uon with the opposition. This same policy has been
pursued in California, in a manner that proves the
movement to have been concerted and settled upon
oeore the adjournment OF Congress.
ihey commenced this movement in Congress last
WINTER and voted on all questions whether relating
~ ~ the Kansas issue or not, with the opposition
lucy have followed this policy up in the primary
meetings and local conventions Of all the notherr
states and in California. -'ss
The Douglas wing have bolted from the regular
o'gah'zaton in Minnesota, and made common cause
VIII. WIN the opposition. They have done the same
fmag In every congressional distrct in Indiana ani
douglas democrats are the most efficient leaders O
n me opposition in that State They have done so il
pennsylvania in every district where they could mo-
RUE; one Of the districts which they carried presen
nng the remarkable instance Of Douglas democrat
shontgomery,) after succeeding in securing tn,
nomination @ of the democratic convention, actually
uhering himself candidate for the nomination o
rue black republican convention in the same district
IL New Jersey, also, the Douglas democrats bolt o
.e'use to support the democratic oganzation, wher
usyare unable to control it. and in the few district