Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-06-26
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sREcOESTRUo4iOSi or tPAH'fIE5.

The Reconstruction Of Res1seS seems 1lss MgMs ~
over the Union In the North the little end Of 3e
Know Noibings are endeay otiDg 10 nske terms
the predominant party in sbats section, while HE
Black Republicans ore equally willing 70 Z. fall
peg upon the foreign qneseion lAe nlimo,itss
desire to unite all the elements pf islavery upon
i some common platform. The New York Tribune
promptly meets the overture, ss,d proposes sbate
ment Of the late republican devotion 20 the rights
Of foreigners Speaking directly of the American
| party the Tribune Says go 4
There are two points on which we think CONFESSIONS
should be made to the distinctive American sentiment
The first is that Of guarding most effectively the parity Of
the ballot box It is that fie WORD of any
male bped in human form at the utmost his oah often
tizanshp should be allowed neutraize the vote Of well
known citizen The right to vote is too sacred too pre-
this It is markedly Just i is urgently necessary that the
right Of every claiming to BE legal voter should be
Ate and ~ concur
| While the Boston At1ns mid Bee, endorsing the
| above sentiments of the Tribune as "liberal and
catholic" corgratulates itself upon the prospects of
party that will "soon grasp the power of this ma
These, then are to be the elements of union be-
tween the Know Nothings and the Republicans
the hopes Of plumber and power will form plat.
form which is to abolish all "Third Degree Know
Nothingism, and dsstgsysl sympathy between the
Republicans and the foreign element of our popua-
ton. This platform may gain the Know Nothing
element Of the North but it loses the same element
at the South while It destroys the strongest feature
| Of Republican 'strength-the foreign cote.
But no sooner the terms of the compact agreed
upon than the friends Of Seward step forward and
claim for him the use of the new party. Says the
| Courier:
The Republican Party cannot fail to nominate Repre-
sentatiUs for their candidate in 1866 and Of course
Seward is the And what more if our party should
again Look chiefly to epsdieney in selecting their nominee
their Selection fail to fall upon one Who by gen
erat tdnsn is admitted to be abest Statesman and
who to be as conservative he is fearless
tis little they like his ndomtabe energy in oppos NO
slavery extension"
Here goes, at one fell swoop, all other asprants.
Crittenden. but few weeks ago the lido! of the OPP
position is ruthessy laid aside his clsims not even
politely considered while Banks Chase, Mclean,
Fremont, &C., are told to stand back for the " Rep
resentetive" man. SeEards "erpediency" is one
of the chief reasons for his iomination-his life.
long ant-slavery opinions render him the real "rep-
resentatlve nan OF Nortnern and the newly
adopted aptforeignism of the Tribune, if it hold
out prospect Of success, will doubtessiy be made
part of his Representative charactar. His "con-
se'ratssza ;" is intended joke-especially since
his late speech marking out the destines of free Ia
bor With the unkindness of this treatment to the
| other prominent leaders of Know Nothing ism and
! Repubcanism, of course have nothing to do,
and only notice it another evidence of the ngrati
| tude of republics
But what will our Southern American papers and
men say to this late arrangement Of their friends at
| the North? In the work Of "re- construction" our
| Southern contemporaries do not seem to have been
guided by the instincts of party success as are their
late associates at the North There unity of senti-
ment is sought to be made the basis Of platform of
principles upon which all anti-slavery men can unite
While at the South, division and aBcord seem like.
" to exist not only between the Americans and the
Democracy, but to some '.xtent between the friends
of the different leaders Of the Democracy And the
late discussion at Montgomery is certain if adopted
by any portion of the South to ALLEVIATE every North
| ern Democrat and unite the whole North upon an
anti-savery platform. This Northern amalgam OF
anti foreignism and antislavery only be effec-
tually checked by union of all parties at the South
upon platform upon which all the conservative
men of the North can stand.
This can meyer. be daees and friends. Continued
discussion and agitation of that subject can only
produce discord and division at the South, and solid
unity Of all men of every shade of political opinion
at the North, upon an anti-slavery platform; thus
certainly and hopelessly severng the last link that
binds together the North and the South.
| The Reconstruction at the North is to be upon
antislauesy principles, while the IRE construction
at the South is to be upon Sldre Trade" schedule
that must certainly detach Maryland Virginia and
Kentucky, perhaps North Carolina and Tennessee
from the other Southern States. This statement oil
the question shows the perfect absurdity of any such
Reconstruction"
But what reconstruction does the South want
Can any party be formed that will more certainly
recognize the rights Of the South than done by
the Democracy at Cincinnati? Certainly not. The
attempt was made in 1855, but that ere construc-
ton soon disguised its most devoted advocates
and the party sunk under defeat the most signal
and fatal sustained by any party. Wise was
triumphantly elected and left scarcely fragment OF
that reconstructed" party to tell the tale of its
woes Let us have no reconstruction of par.
ties-let us preserve the National Democratic or.
ganization, which, with all its and faults p
| nd wha hn- inc init hao ifc nd
it's faults ?-is the last link that binds the Union
for thut let US preserve the organization. You car
"re-construct" none better and long the
Union lasts let the South stand by the National De
mocracy.-Richnond Enquirer.
BULwER AND DIsRAELI.-It is just thirty years
since double sensation was created in the literary
world by the nearly simultaneous appearance of two
brilliant works Of felton, which, though published
anonymously, hailed as the first fruits of two