Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-03-06


ston to Mr.. Buchanan, and to consolidate ztSeir
forces for the final struggle of 1860. s.aa sss
The distribution question: mere question, at
last, Of dollars and cents is Of moro importance to
the South than the slavery question! Who agrees
with Mr.. McRae in that ?-where is the man who
would subordinate the vital interests of his section,
the preservation of the Constitution, and the integ
rity of the Union to miserable petition to the fed
era G. vernment for few dollars, for any amount
Of dollars? All, but say some of the distribution
iss if the Union is to be broken up let US make ar
rangements noao to secure our share OF the pubic
domain, for if dissolution the Northern States
will take all the lands. That is craftsmanship, is
it?-that is reverence for the Union that shows
keen eye for the main chance, does it not? Asw well
struggle for three cent coin in the hour of death y
as well might Adam have paused to secure his worn
out fg-leaves when Heaven Numbered and the fla
ming sword turned every way to bar him from the
walks of Paradise. Why, suppose the Union should
be broken up, which God forbid land suppose the
North should get all the lands, which is scarcely
possible cotton crop would pour over one hundred
millions of dollars in dry cash into Southern Golfers
and the land money would be thought of only as
idle dream.
DuI MI lCIae uOl only euOS'Zes JuuSe DouShS
and bestows no concentrations on James Buchanan
for the noble stand he has taken against such odds
for Southern rights, but he warns Democrats to
be careful how they read Judge Douglas out of the
party" At fault again. Mr. McRae seems to be
possessed with the idea that every Democratic Ed-
tor has big book in which the names of true men
are recorded, and that whenever they choose, they
go about all the land reading people out of the
party. Judge Douglas has not been read out of the
party, has Mr.. McRae been read out of the par
ty. The Democratic party has no Pope with power
to excommunicate with power to absolve. We
believe Mr.. McRae's present know nothing friends
and supporters had way of swearing people to
do so and so, and not to do SO and so and
not only "read out of the party but they
published as perjured and dishonest men. That
was reading of the party with a vengeance; but
the Democrats do not SO. With them, people are
free to and 60 at their option and leisure.
If they come and stay, we'll: if they 60, well also;
but the fact that they 60 is very apt to be known
and commented on, not to injurc them personally,
but to other parties and all other honest peo-
pie politically against them. Judge Douglas
nounced on the floor of the Senate-deliberatcly an
nounced that he differed with the President fun.
damentally" with reference to the admission Of Kan
sas and of his organs and friends in the free
States have since violently assaled the President
How is this fundamental" difference to be recon
ced? The South with one voice, with the excep-
ton of the representative in the House from the
blood stained City of Baltimore, have declared that
they believe NJ. Buchanan to be right in this mat
tor nd Iudua Olacr he nd frua
men North go with the President, because he is
right, and Judge Douglas goes the other way. The
Union is trembling because a State is about to DC
refused admission account of the institution Of
slavery. The power Of the abolitionists is increas
ing, and the power of the South is diminishing
civil is threatened in Kansas, not by pro slave
ry men, but by abolitionsts and traitors like Jim
Lane President throws himself in the breach
and stakes himself his administration, the peace of
the country, the rights and the equality of the
South, and the very existence of the Union on the
admission of the State with the Lccompton Consti
tution,-Judge Douglas, and John W. Forney, and
Henry A. Wise, and Horace Greeley, and William
II. Seward oppose him, and Mr.. McRae sympathizes
with and eulogizes Douglas and says it is mate.
rial whether the President is sustained not! True,
he says if he were in Congress he would defer" to
the opinion of the South and of course vote to adj
NIT the State with the Lecompton Constitution but
who thanks him for that? Who, under the circum.
stances, would thank him for such a vote? He
"would defer" to the South, he says-the South is
all one way on this vital question True, but the
South would want in work like this no Difference
no reluctance, surrender of opinion; but she
would prefer men who would spring with alacrty to
the great business in hand, and who would give a
cordial heartfelt, and unalter,ng support to James
Buchanan.
Our readers will remember that VIC have hereto
fore inquired of Mr.. McRae whether he would sup
port the nominee of the Charlotte Convention
That question has been answered The Democrat
says:
"Mr. McRae attacked, in adconce, the democrat.
&c State Generation ,chich is to nssen6le in CAar
lotte Don't forget reader, that he protesses to be
democrat still, Notwithstanding his assaults dem.
ocratic measures, men and papers. He said the
Convention would pass platform which could be
construed in way in the East and in another
way in the West. From the gentleman's remarks
on this subject stranger might have supposed him
to be as bitter know nothing wing ever lived
and no doubt would have been startled at hearing
him say that he was a Democrat"
He does not intend, therefore, to support the nom
inee but We suppose he will still claim to be De-
mocrat; and the Editor Of the Register, who was
once Wing, and then Know Nothing expects te
turn Democrat himself in order to support Mr.. Nc
Rae Wing, Know Nothing. and Dcmocrat-al
three at the same time, and very consistent o.
course, all the time! We congratulate our cotem
| porary on his extreme agreea6leness. We Away.
thought him an agreeable gentleman, but he is ia,
more agreeable than We supposed him capable
Of being. He agrees with old-line Whiggery, HI
agrees with Know Nothingism, he agrees withSa De
mocrat on dstribution-for Mr.. McRae says he is
Democrat, ami Mr.. Syme says the same,-he agree