Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-16
The Opposition North and South.

The ultra Know Nothings and old Federalists of
the South and the black Republicans of the North
differing radically as they do on the question of
slavery, are still unit in their opposition to the sd-
mnistration of James Buchanan. In one section the
charge is that Mr.. Buchanan has sold himself BODY
and sou" to the slaveholding States; and in the
other section, while the fact that this charge is made
is studously withheld the administration is assaed
on different grounds, and every effort is made to
render it unpopular. In proof of this we refer our
readers to the opposition papers of the two sections
Read for example, the bitter and unchartable stric-
lures of the Raleigh Register on 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 are
TO say whether or not they are satisfied with 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 regular business OF
threatening and hectoring. The servilIty of Mr..
Buchanan has been AFFECT enough and officious
enough to satisfy the most extreme arrogance. He
has sold himself body and SOUL to the work Of max
yet the spirit of the man is appreciated, and there
is other work yet to be undertaken. His conduct
will De approved, and every member of Congress
elected, without exception, will be the side Of
his Administration"
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
servie instrument of the slaveholdng States they
assa him vehementy and misrepresent him as
unSparingly as if he were enemy to their section
instead Of friend, as all his acts and as these de.
nunc1ations of those black Republican journals prove
him to be.
Again, what has been the course of the Know
Nahngs of the free States? In all their recent con-
Caves hey have adopted strong resolves against
the South as the black Republicans have adopted,
and, general thing, they have coaesced with the
latter and will aid them at the polls. hat then !?
If the national Democracy should be defeated in
$780, OF if it should lose the next House of Repre-
senta;ives what party will be the victor? Not the
Know Nothings of the South, for they in hope
less minority. They have been forced to dissolve
their public connection with the opposition in the
free States, and they have voice in shaping plat
forms, as they would have none in determining what
should be the action Of the government in the event
of the triumph Of their allies 1t fullows then, that
the defeat Of the Democracy would be the triumph
of sectional party, Of the black Republicans. Will
any portion of the Southern people contribute to this
result? E cry blow dealt upon the administration
of Mr.. Buchanan by Southern men, from whatever
motive or however intended is calculated to strength
en- and does strengthen implacable enemies, the
black Republicans.