Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-03-24
NoRTH-oARoIINA WE'D NEsDAY. MARCH a. 1886.

often compelled to correct their mistakes and to rely
on the briiancy Of their alteration atonement
for the precipitancy Of their judgment know Of
no higher moral or political spectacle than to sec
public man, when he ia convinced Of an error, in
santly and frankly to acknowledge it, and finally to
give his adhesion to the cause and principle which
he has ardently sustained throughout his life. I
win not abandon the hope that during the present
and coming week. whilst this great subject is being
acted on by the two houses Of Congress, the demo-
cracy will be filled with Joy at the return of many
who have been supposed to have finally gone over 10
the anks of the enemy. Let no nan who is willing
yet to live and die in the faith of his fathers find
any excuse or difficulty in the alleged frauds rof the
election of the 4th Of January. That election had
nothing to do with the formation Of the constitution,
nor with she vote on it of Dec. 81. 1t took place
after that subject closed and ended. 1t related
altogether to different matter. 1t was not literally
conditional one, dependent on the subsequent ad-
mission of the State. II admitted, it was to be
deemed and taken State election-its delegates
to be admitted into Congress. and the State govern
ment put in operation accordingly. 1t must, there
fore, to all ntents and purposes, be considered q
State election. But how any irregularity or
fraud in State election in any manner affect q
State constitutionf They altogether separate
and distinct things. There was a time when all New
Jersey was convulsed, from her centre to her cir
conference, about frauds in her election yet the
storm ragged and the broad seal of that gallant State
tossed to and fro without in the slightest degree
affecting her observation-disclosures can have moth
ing to do with that election-she know nothing
officially about it. Whether party or the other
| in the Legislature will have majority, or whether
free State democratic Senators will be likely to
| be returned under it it becomes not Congress-,
any Of the great statesmen who adorn that body
to inquire / dash these statements hastily pa
per, because consider the occasion does not Justify
| any methodical argument on Kansas affairs. can
not however consent to give up the subject without
| asking every true democrat in this country If he
will not sustain the President of his choice on this
subject, whom is he willing to sustain? If not Jas.
Buchanan, is he willing to sustain James Lane
They antpodes to each other; Buchanan is for
the Lecompton Lane is for the Topeka Constitution.
| The was made under all the sanctions of Law
passed by Congress and the Territorial Legislature
the other was set up without law and against law,
the vile production of revolution and rebellion.
Kansas after passing through many tribulations and
trials, beset by enemies to all social order, has al
last reached the doors Of Congress with q consttu
ton better securing the great rights of civil and
ligious liberty than do half the constitutions of the
other States Of the Union. Mr.. Buchanan recon-
mends her admission Lane recommends her re
lection. Will you send her back into the wilderness:
and require her to take start in her efforts Il
form constitution preparatory to a more acceptable
admission? What assurance have we that she vii
ever come again with good constitution as sb
now presents? We know she never will, If Lam
and his followers now having the majority, as the,
aege, possibly prevent it. No constitution pro
tecting the small amount of slave property that i
there now, protected though it be by the sacre
Egis Of the constitution, will be presented
No constitution allowing the surrender of fugitv
saves-none allowing the right Of mere passage {
them when in the personal custody of their lawfr
owner, need ever be expected No. never. If Kar
sas is not admitted now. she will never return bu
under the guidance of Lane and his followers, wit
a constitution utterly inconsistent with the fede'
al constitution and the rights of the State under j
that cannot be admitted but at the expense of
precious and glorious Union. Lane and his follow
ers whether in out Of Congress, do not ask fo
rejection for any purpose of getting better COZ
stitution They know that they can have that
any time after admission just they desire it br
they are aiming, in my humble judgment, at nott
ing short of the destruction Of the democratic party
and with it the destruction of the Union.
All other parties have now faded away and b'
come almost ext net, but the democratic ard blac
republican. The fate of this glorious Union
{ staked on the pending issue between them. III
conflicts of ordinary parties never disturb tf
solid fabric Of this government, but here is one th'
1 all wise and good men know NAV uphcave its yer
I foundations. The Presiden. has labored night an
day to turn aside such an issue; the democrat
North and South in all their conventions have eI
E dearored to avert it; the Father of his country
his last dying legacy has warned against it.; b
: the self constituted General, James Lane and b
t fanatic followers in Kansas and their abolition C
e workers in Congress. have fatally and wickedy d
creed that this issue must come. We have no pr
phets rs Of old to inform how this issue is to
: decided but end it may, l am determined
t stand by the President-to stand by him becau
throughout this Kansas affair he has stood by Il
9 constitution, and in doing he has stood by al
o sustained the Union. close with assurances
n profound respect
t AARON v. BROWN.