Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-03-13

his remarks recently delivered in the Senate in rep'J
to Senator Bell who manifests disposition delibs'.
atey to disregard the instructions Of the Legislature
OF Tennessee on the Kansas question, uttered TIE
following and sensible observations The itsi.
les in the extract are our own:
"We see, in this instance, and there may be 9TH
ers honorable Senators and members Of Legislatures
setting themselves up, and bidding defiance to pop
Vi sentiment. Would to God the coice OF the peo-
die could be heard and felt more than 1t is through
out the land. If it could, we should be relieved
travagant legislation; and large portion Of it is
fixed upon them in violation of their will knon
there are naany nho arc brought up, raised in a
sphere far rensored from the mass Of the peopte-'nen
who hace no confidence in the great naiss. think
! know their prejudces; think know their points
of honor; l think I know the leading principles
that control the great mass of the people; aud they
are far higher, far more honorable, than those that
acuate the leaders and rulers. do not say it out
of Disagreement or dsrespect; speak OF it as
fact 1t is the interest of the of the people to
do right in all governmental affairs aud they are
more to be relied upon than those whose interest it
is to violate great principles, This being So they
can be trusted and relied upon. Hence, AS far as
am concerned always feel anxious to see popular
sentiments, when fairly and fully expressed, obeyed
and complied with"
These are words of truth and wisdom. They are
the words of man Of the people, who has been
tried in the fire and who has come out pure metal
There is class in this country who have no CONT
nence in the masses of the people; who look upon
mechanics and working men 18th contempt, or as
merely intended to subssrve their purposes and ex'
ecute their will and who would establish If they
could, first, an aristocracy, and then a monarchy
on the ruins of our free institutions 1t is the same
spirit which characterized the old Federalist Of the
days OF the elder Adams, who said a mechanic had
no right to assume to make laws-to put his huge
paws upon the statute book'-no more right and no
more fitness than BLACKSMITH had to mend a
watch" 1t is the same spirit which pervaded the
first message to Congress of the younger Adams,
who declared that the faction of the representative
should not be pasied by the will of his constituents"
Senator Bell, it seems, holds the doctrine, and
will vote against Lecompton in defiance of the wishes
and the WILL authoritatvely expressed, Of the PEG
pie of Tennessee.
The recent detection and treason of prominent
public men should admonsh the people to keep a
constant eye upon their servants. An honest man
statesman politician who means TO do right and
who strives to Go right, will not shrink from obser
vation or scrutiny. On the contrary, conscious Of
his integrity, he will rather seek than avoid it;
but selfish or corrupt man, or one who is even
suspected good grounds, cannot be too strictly
too constantly watched.
What Democrat would have thought, for example,
twelve months ago, that Stephen A. Douglas would
desert James Buchanan, ally himself with the black
Republicans, misconstrue and misapply the prnci-
pies of the Kansas-Nebraska act, and sit silent in
the Senate under compliments bestowed upon him
hv
Wise, and Robt j. Walker, and at lesser light in
our own State-all, all either in open covert
ray against James Buchanan, and bent, We fear,
more on their own aggrandizement or on purposes
of vengeance, than the substantial prosperity
and welfare Of the people.
External vigilance is the price of liberty" Watch
your public servants, fellow citizens and try them
without fear, favor, or affection, by the touchstone
of principle. They are your servants. Remember
that You are the masters, and not the unthinkng
masses which old Federalism would have you be,
bound to follow the lead of Others When you find
a true man-one who regards your interests and
your wishes more than he does his own-grapple
him to your hearts and hold him there; but let the
course of those public men have just referred
to-not to recur to other men and other times-be
warning to you to "try all the Spirits" and see
whether you can depend upon them at all times and
under all circumstances.
"a renegade is worse than ten Turks. Reg
lister:
We repeat what we said in our last,-the Register
has peculiar way Of promoting harmony among its
own friends. 1t not only assails those members of
| its State Executive Committee who desire Conven.
ton to nominate candidate for Governor, but it has
begun to denounce renegades, while at the same
time its favore candidate for Governor is himself
renegade. Such denunciation, though meant for
others, is not kind towards Mr.. McRae The Edit.
or, it seems to us. ought to explain. We think he
owes it to his candidate explicitly to declare that he
did not mean, even by implication, to call him a
| renegade.
But the Editor who thus dcnounces /" renegade
| as worse than ten Turks" is himself a renegade
He renegadcd from the old Wing party into the
Know Nothing faction and now he seeks to rene
gade himself and his adherents into the support of
a self: styled Democrat for Governor. Aud yet he
talks about renegades!
| Alamance County.
At Convention of the Democracy of Alamance,
held in Graham on Thursday last, Judge Thomas
Ruffin and Col. B. F. Roney were nominated for the
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