Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-30


We are surprised AT the course of the Richmond
aqui,vr in relation to the administration and Judge
Douglas 4
Judge Douglas made an Issue Of his own accord.
during the recent session of Congress, between him
self and the administration He opposed the admis-
sion Of Kansas with the Lecompton Constitution,
giving AS reason for this opposition the fact that
the Constitution had not been submitted to the peo-
pie for approval rejection. Not content with this
he proclaimed a I" fundamental difference between
himself and the President who had staked himself
and his administration for the rights of the South
During this Kansas struggle he frequently voted
with the black Republicans; and Of his reports
on the subject, as member of the Committee
Territories. was copied by a correspondent of the
New York Tribune as rapidly as it was written by
Judge Douglas, and appeared in that paper nearly
If not quite as soon it read in the Senate
In this report he reflected the President and still
further wdened the breach between himself and the
national Democratic party.
In the absence of national Convention to con-
strue Platforms We must look to the President and
to majority Of the Democratic party in Congress.
The President and ninetenths of the Democratic
members of both houses of Congress, were in favor
of admitting Kansas without submission of her
Constitution to the people; Judge Douglas with
three protested Democratic Senators, and some
twelve protested Democrats in the House of Rep
resentatives, opposed the admission Of the State
took ground against the President and this vast
jority in Congress. These being the facts, who
must make concessions and submit? Must the
President and this vast majority of the party defer
to Judge Douglas and his corporars guard, and seek
terms with him? Surely not. 1t is for him to sub
NIT and to show by his works the sincerity of his
submission.
The Enquirer is " aoarmly solicitous " for Judge
Douglass reelection to the Senate; and it threatens
the administration with fearful responsibility
if it does not exert itself to harmonic the Demo.
cratic party in Illinois; and that too when Judge
Douglas is making war upon the friends of the ad
ministraton in that State. We learn also from the
Enquirer of the 22d instant that two of the Editors
of that paper-Messrs. Tyler and Wse-are "anti-
Lecompton Democrats, and heartily endorse every
vote of Senator Douglas the Lecompton question"
The Enquirer of the same date contains the fol-
lowing in relation to the Lecompton question in
North, Carolina:
"The issue of one experiment of this sort is now
pending in North Carolina. tbs already boosted
that the LecomptOn clause OF the platform has driven
off the anti Lecompton Democracy to the support of
the independent candidate for Governor. Whether
this be not it is sufficient to demonstrate the
folly of multiplying chances against the Democratic
ticket by raising unnecessary issues IT, then, it is
not only useless, but dangerous, to make Lecompton
ism Democratic test, it must certainly be deemed
advisable to abstain from recrimination and abuse
which can serve purpose, but to keep alive pot.
cal rancor and personal animosities"
We beg leave to assure the Enquirer that we
know of such thing anti-Lecompton Demo-
cracy in North Carolina. Our platform adopt
ed, and adopted unanimously by five hundred dele
gates in Convention at Charlotte; and it embodies
the views on Lecompton of ninety mine -hundredths
of the North-Carolina Democracy. We know no
division here this vital question. The indepen-
dent candidate referred to is no Democrat but a
disorganizer. 1t is true he is anti Lecompton
man, and sympathizes, as the Enquirer does, with
Judge Douglas; but ask that paper to listen for
the thundertones with which the Democracy of this
State will endorse Lecompton and the administration
of James Buchanan on the first Thursday in August
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