Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-11
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What will be the next Movement of the Oppo-
sitiOn to Democracy

What will be the next Movement of the Oppo-
sitiOn to Democracy
Now that the elections over, and the political
clements have become calm again. it is time to en-
ure and ascertain, if we can, what will be the next
movement of the opposition to Democracy. Distri-
h,on has been defeated for the twentieth time, and
many of its own friends will admit that it is dead.
The people of North Carolina have rejected it by
six,eep thousand majority, though it was advocated
nv many presses and its claims upon their judgment
enforced in an able and impressive manner by the
opposition candidate for Governor.
It has always been favorlte policy of the FEEDER
,ss to render the States dependent on the general
governments and this policy, from the days OF JEFF
ferson to the present. have been cherished and ad-
hered to- Distribution first essayed, or rather
the Distribution doctrine was first formally an
no.nced and advocated in this State in 1928 Gen.
Wetorn of Wilkes, introduced into the Legislature
of that year resolution declaring that Congress
have right to create a fund for internal improve.
ments and education, to be apportioned among the
States in proportion to their federal population, and
to be applied to such particular objects each State
NAV specify" The debate on this resolution took
vide range and was ably conducted, especially BY
the Democratic side, the Hon. Bedford Brown, Of
Caswell, and Gen. Jesse Speight, of Greene, being
prominent in it Gen. Speight, after representing
bis District in Congress- removed to Mississippi and
died some years since, maintaining his Democratic
faith to the last; but Mr.. Brown we still have with
US, in vigorous old age, member once more of
the Legislature of the same State in which he sat
thirty years ago, the determined opponent then as
now of this Federal scheme of Distribution. We
have referred to these facts for the purpose of show
ing, first, the origin of Distribution as Federal
measure and secondly, to point to one of the "Old
Guard" of Democracy, the Hon. Bedford Brown, in
illustration of the truth that Democracy never
changes
But we have somewhat wandered from the enqui-
ry under consideration, what will be the next move
ment of the opposition? We answer, as all the
signs Of the times indicate, Fusion, attempt to
enact the of 1910, and general and sweeping
charges of extravaganza and corruption against the
Democratic party. This will be the programme.
The opposition North and the opposition South, pro-
Tossing to hold different views on the question of
slavery will nevertheless substantially act together
in their vehement assaults the Democratic party.
They are doing this now. As the election for Presi
dent in 1860 approaches, and the prospect of sue
cess opens before them, their efforts will be increased
and their fusion will be more apparent. How i'm.
portant is it, therefore. that the Democracy should
look we'll to their ranks-should lop off the un.
sound branches and prepare for the storm which is
impending.
1t is too soon now to indulge in conjectures as to
the result Of the contest of 1860. Ii will be the
most bitter and the most important contest which has
ever taken place in this country. The power is now
with the free states. We have many tried and true
trends in that region, but confess it would be
difficult just now to determine whether those friends
are diminishing or increasing. We hope for the
best, but We have our fears
The ATLANTIC CABLE-New York and other
Northern Cities have celebrated the completion of
the Atlantic Cable; and Tiffany & Co., and others
nave no doubt sold or now have ready for sale, at
least forty thousand miles of the genuine cable all
cut from the eighty miles that left after landing
inese specimens" are only about one dollar an
men, more or less, and decidedly cheap at half
the price,
Ihe Southern people are said to be mercurial in
'e"PeioAenIo-edohy eAClteu, anu thrown
from their balance into violent demonstrations But
" seems to us that our Northern population is much
more easily set upon its head than the Southern.
VINO ever heard of fanaticism of any kind taking
n0a on the Southern people2 Spirit rappings, free
'0'e'sm, Fourierism, Nothingism, and an in
Vulnerable host of ismss common among the old Pu.
tlan New Englanders are totally unknown in the
o00th 1t really seems to US that all the fools are
In the Northern States.
But what has become of the Cable? It was to be
operation by the first of the present month, and
SINCE that time We have heard nothing from it. A
poeucal friend at our elbow asks:
Is the Atlantic Cable dead,
Or only snoozing in its bed?