Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1858-11-24
Speeches of the Speakers.

In our last we were unable to give the speeches
of the two Speakers taking their respective Chairs
MIR. Clark addressed the Senate as follows:
SENATOR'S The fattering vote which has just el-
evated me to this high and honorable position /
,st regard as an evidence of your partality, and
not my merit; and to that partiality must appeal
to aid me in the discharge of its responsible duties
former experience in this Hall, and knowing, too,
that the rules for the regulation of this body
not to emanate from this Chair, but are such only
as you yourselves shall voluntarily adopt. 1t shall
be steady purpose to administer these laws faith
fully and impartially-to ensure the most general
satisfaction by being plain and direct in their inter-
probation, and rigid in their enforcement.
In your representative capacity you charged
with the most important interests of the State-to
develop her resources, to sustain her credit and ad
vance her prosperity; and the obedience of the citi
zens to your Legislation, demands of you in return
full and ample protection of their interests and
rights.
We live in times of great political embarrassment
when not only our rights but the very principles Of
our Government are imperrilled; and while in our
own borders we are endeavoring to reconcile appa-
rently conflicting interests, we are equally bound
to protect rights to fair and equal participa-
ton in all the benefits of this great conederacy of
States.
We have inherited from our ancestors the most
inestimale blessings of liberty, and system of
history of the world. and VIC are bound by every
consideration of duty and patriotism to preserve
these blessings and this government, sound, unim-
paired and without blemish to our posterity.
Permit me, in conclusion to return you my thanks
for the unsolicited bestowal of this honor and to
promise you my best efforts to discharge satsfac-
torily the duties of the station
Mr.. Settle thus addressed the Commons:
Gentlemen Of the House Of Commons:
You have called me to post of honor for
which mark of your confidence and esteem, I return
you my profound thanks. am aware. gentlemen,
that it is not post of honor alone-it is one OF
labor and responsibility, and shall have to claim
much of your indulgence. But, when I see the
gentlemen by whom I am surrounded am sure
that shall have your hearty cooperation in main
tanning the dignity and order of your body.
trust gentlemen that the deliberations of the session
now commencing will-promote the prosperity, hap
pness an general welfare of North Carolina
"UNNEcEssARY ALARM-The political bowels o
the Standard nightly moved by suspicion
that we are in company with Wm Fl. Seward II
affords us infinite pleasure to relieve him by nfor
ming him that not in company" with VIM
H. Seward, nor with Lincoln-whose election owe,
Stephen A. Douglas the Standards man Mr.. Bu
chanan so ardently deSred-nor with any one elSt
who claims equality for the Blacks with the Whites
The circle in which we move is composed Of con
servative men, men who steer clear of Northern ia
ar and its cOnfrereS will again set up the old cry
that Democrat must be elected President, in order
to save the Union. Whenever the SpOils begin t.
slip from the fingers of the Democracy, the Unioi
at once becomes deeply impered For one, w
have too lively recollection of the in 1856
to participate in these patriotic O. fears. Then
Buchanan to be elected to prevent the elcctio,
| of Frecmont, to bring Kansas into the Union as
| slave State and thus to save the Union. Buchanan
was elected, and we should be glad to know wha
| the of the South, or of the Union has gaines
! by the operation and we should like to know hoy
much worse off than now, would hav
been had Fremont been elected instead of Buchar
! an. Will the STANDARD tell us Citizen Holde
| may save himself the trouble of attempting to bo
ster up this wind CALLED and spawned -AdminiStra
ton by shouting Seward, and Abolition. Snc
cries now, instead of frightening Wings into tn
support of the Democracy, only set them to reflect
ing the fact that that party has proved itself III
tcrly incompetent to administer the government fo
the good of the people, and the security OF tn
rights of the South"
The above is from the last Raleigh Register
Comment is almost unnecessary. The editor of tn
Register knows we'll do, that there is no
no Whig party-that the national contest is betwee
the Democratic party, friendly to the South and he
institutions, and the Black Republican party, dcadl
hostile to the South and her institutions Mr.. B,
chanan has stood by the Constitution and the righ
of all sections, and Greely, Seward Hale and II
whole Black Republican pack ycping at h
heels for it. and the Register and other SoutheI
K N. papers joining in the cry That is tt
circle ~ in which the editor of the Register hi
placed himself and he cannot squrm out of it.
CoRRECTIoN.-In our last we gave the name of tt
assistant Doorkeeper in the Senate as Terry
| bava haan TuII of cOunf