Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-13

THANKSGIVING DISTINGUISHING will be OBJ
served in the following States, by the appointment
of their several Executives, as follows: New York,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania on the 18th Novem-
Der; and in North Carolina, Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island Connecticut Maryland
Illinois, Iowa, Alabama, Mississippi, Michigan, Mis-
souri,, Wisconsin, Vermont and Indiana on the 18th
November
WHAT CHANGE! The Washington Union has
for months past been denouncing Judge Douglas as
traitor to the democratic party. Since his triumph
in Illinois, the Union is discussing the propriety of
yielding to Judge Douglas on the only two points
as to which, according to the Union, he differs from
the democracy, and of ''allowing to him high po-
sition in the party !"
Success converts a rebellion into revolution but
never before saw it confessed that success con-
verified traitor to democracy into democrat The
party finds that it can't afford to lose Douglas
Fayetteville Observer.
Our contemporary of the Observer is mistaken as
the following article from the Union of the 9Th in
slant will show:
1--WE have published pretty full reports of the
elections of Tuesday last. Our readers will have
learned from them the general fact that the demo-
cratic party has sustained important losses in all the
States where the elections have been held, except
only in the State in which its leaders have denoun-
ced it's action as fraudulent and in violation of its
faith and its principles. With few exceptions the
party has been beaten wherever in these States it's
candidates did not endorse the action of the black
republican party in Congress last winter and con-
body.
If the democratic party has triumphed in Illinois,
it has been at its expense in consideration of
joining in the black republican clamor against the
"Lecompton fraud and swindle" 1t is triumph
barren and ignominious it is triumph over which
tho h1ootx houo To 10
exult more than the good and true democracy. The
platform of the party in Illinois the great slavery
question, in the canvass just ended differs but little
from the Buffalo platform of 1848. 1t was the lead
ing tenet of the Buffalo platform that Congress might
prohibit slavery in the Territories and debar from
these common possessions of all the States the citi
zens of half the Union. 1t is the leading tenet of
the Illinois platform that the subordinate agent of
Congress, the territorial legislature, may do this
thing-n the manner most becoming underling
and tool, by indirection, bad faith and perjury.
We repeat that victory, won upon charge of
fraud and delinquency of principle, against the de-
mocracy-a victory won upon platform of doc
trines differing but shade from the odious platform
of Buffalo, is not victory over which we can
joice or from which we can expect any advantage
or honor to the great party in whose service we
labor
1t is notorious in Illinois that an anti-Lncon ma
jority in the Legislature just elected is not per
Douglas majority. In d letter from . correspond
ent who had just ayersed the whole State, written
on the LIST instant the day before the election he
sets forth the true state of the case: have just
returned from trip through the State I find that
there are hosts Of good democrats who will vote for
Douglas candidates to beat Lincoln, although they
have no confidence in the Little Giant The cleo
ton returns will not therefore give very good in
dication of his strength. II was the impression
among leading democrats at Springfield that Douglas
will not under any circumstances, be returned,
even though his friends be In apparent majority IN
the Legislature. They believe that among the
will be found sufficient number Of members eief4
ed to- beat lincoln wowiH refuse to vote for Dou-
glass and husprevent the election Of either"