Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-10-20
The Opposition North and South.

The ultra Know Nothings and old Federalists of
the South and the black Republicans of the North,
differing radically they do the question of
slavery, are still unit in their opposition to the adj
r.inSt,ation of James Buchanan. In section the
charge is that Mr. Buchanan has sold himself body
and SOUL" to the slavehoding States; and in the
other section while the fact that this charge is made
is studiousy withheld the administration is assailed
on different grounds, and every effort is made to
render it unpopular. In proof of this refer our
readers to the opposition papers of the two sections
Read, for example, the bitter and nncharitabe sric-
lures of the Raleigh Register the administration,
and then read the following from the New York
Courier and Enquirer:
"To day comes the verdict of four Southern States.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida
to say whether or not they are satisfied ,th the
service of the Buchanan Administration. Everybody
knows what that finding will be. The days sun
will not more surely set than these States will give
for Buchanan their unqualified appreciation for his
compliance with their demands; and none will be
more emphatic in their approval than the South
Carolina which used to make a regular business OF
threatening and hec,oring. The servihty Of Mr..
Buchanan has been abject enough and officious
enough to satisfy the most extreme arrogance. lie
has sold himself, body and soul, to the work of max
ing Kansas slave State; and, though he has ailed
is other work yet to be undertaken His conduct
will be approved, and every member of Congress
elected, without exception will be the side Of
his Adminstrat ion"
True, the Register and the other ultra Know Moth
ing papers do not, in so many words approve this
view of the subject thus taken by the Courier and
Enquirer: yet they unite with that journal and
other black Republican journals in the effort which
is making to break down the administration. 1t is
nothing to them that Mr.. Buchanan is held up as the
servile instrument of the slaveholding States they
assail him as vehemently and misrepresent him as
unsparingy as if he were an enemy to their section
instead of a friend, as all his acts and as these de
nunciations of those black Republican journals prove
him to be.
Again, what has been the course of the Know
Nothngs of the free States? In all their recent con-
claves they have adopted strong resolves against
the South as the black Republicans have adopted
and general thing, they have coalesced with the
latter and will aid them at the polls VI hat then
If the national Democracy should be defeated il
1860 or if it should lose the next House of Repre-
sentatives, what party will be the victor? Not th'
Know Nothings of the South, for they are in hope
less minority. They have been forced to dssolv
their public connection with the opposition in tn
free States, and they have voice in shaping plat
forms, as they would have none in determining wha
should be the action Of the government in the even
of the triumph of their allies 1t follows, then, tina
the defeat of the Democracy would be the triumph
of sectional party of the black Republicans. VIII
any portion the Southern people contribute to thl
result? cry blow dealt upon the administration
of Mr.. Buchanan by Southern men, from whateve
motive or however intended, is calculated to strength
and does strengthen our implacable enemies, tn
black Republicans.