Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-01-16

ouced IN the House. Of Representatives by Mr.. !
Barksdale. of Mississippi making grant Of landto
the States OF Louisana and Mississippi 70 adm the
construction Of the New Orleans, jackson, and Great
Northern Railroad; and adds 5rfl ~, ", |
. Mr.. Barksdale is an influential Democratic mem.
Der of Congress from Mississippi. For many years |
he has been Editor of the Mississlppian, paper
mocracy that the Raleigh Standard does to North
Carolina Democracy. The standard and the ME-
sissippian altogether harmonious both stand to-
gether in the ranks of National Democracy. Yet
this Barksdale is Wholesale land-grabber, and any
N. G. Democrat who goes in with Barksdale for has
sheer we'll as Barksdales, is instantly read out
of the party"
The Observer is mistaken. Mr. Barksdale's bill
provides for grant of land to the aforementioned
States, mot in Wisconsin OF Oregon, or elsewhere,
but soithin the boundaries of Louisiana and Missis
sippi, according to the alternate section principle
Mr. Barksdale is no distributionst, and no "whole.
sale land-grabbcr." All he asks is that Congress
should appropriate portion Of the lands along the
line of the proposed Railroad with the view of ad-
vancng the value Of the residue and he hopes thus
to make the Road, improve the country, and at the
same time enable the government to realize as much
for s lands in that quarter if it had never parted
with any portion of them under the grant referred
to- We should most probably vote, if in Congress-
against Mr. Barksdae's bill: for confess we are
getting tired of this alternate section system. 1t
may be good system in itself, and it has no doubt
added materially to the progress of the country in
population and wealth but it has been abused, and
it may be that the abuse cannot be arrested without
arresng the system ITSELF But with what grace can
the Obserrer complain of "land grabbers?" Did
not both Mr.. Badger and Mr.. Mangum vote for the
grant of alternate sections to the Illinois Railroad
Company did not Mr. Fillmore approve the bill ?
and did not the Observer sustain them in this?-
At any rate it entered protest at the time against
the measure, did it our Senators for vo-
ting for it or Mr.. Fillmore for approving it.
The Observer is mistaken again in supposng that
we read people out of the Democratic party. The
door of the party is always open and gentlemen
can come in and 60 out just when it suits them. 1t
any 20 out we are very apt to know the fact and to
make remarks about it. The Democratic platform
is broad and sound. 1t will hold great many peo-
pie, and hold them comfortably and safely; but if
any of them become restless looking about for good
places and lose their hold and fall off, have
arm long enough or strong enough to reach down
and save them. Now and then they fall of, some
alone and some in couples, and "confounded chaos"
roars to receive them but people, quite good
and useful they were, at take their places
and the incident is soon forgotten.
Observation-Disclosures, says the Wash
ington Union is about to be robbed of the food up
on which it has long existed, and its leaders are
likely soon to be deprived of the means by which
they have been enabled, for the past three four
years, to keep the country in state of trouble and
commotion, and to manufacture Tor themselves cap
tal upon which to operate at home. The wounds
of bleeding Kansas fast being healed, and in a
few days, or weeks at furthest, the country may
think, calculate seeing this vexed and dangerous
question pass forever from the theatre of national
politics. Kansas will present herself for ad-
mission into the Union, and that Congress will
promptly vote to receive her. there be no doubt
All the advices from that country concur in stating
that majority of the free-State men are now
willing that it should be admitted into the Union
with the Lecompton constitution; and it is hardly
reasonable to suppose this being so, that their self
| constituted champions here-those who have threat
ened opposition upon the preext that the constitu
| ton was not fairly submitted to the people-will
throw further difficulties in the way In fact furth-
er opposition under the circumstances cannot have
the show of honesty, and be attributed to no
other cause than desire the part ofthose making
it to keep up the slavery agitation as a means of
promoting some personal party purpose. If then,
Judge Douglas and those who have followed him in
his late extraordinary course honest in what
they have said and done-if they really and SIN
cerey DESTROYS of carrying out the principles of the
Nebraska-Kansas bill-f they wish, as they profess
to do, to act in concert with the administration and
the democratic party, and with them honestly
desire the difficult and dangerous subject of slavery
to be forever removed from the halls of Congress-
and peace and quiet once more restored to the coun
try-let them come forward like patriots and demo
Gratis and welcome Kansas into the Union. Any
other course will but serve to show the hoowness
of their professions of devotion to the interests Of
her people, and to keep alive a state of feeling
throughout the country that may end in the most
disastrous consequences. t'"@
| 1NDIANA.-Some of the opposition presses ara
publishing resolution purporting to have been ad
opted by the recent Democratic State Convention Of
| tration on the Kansas question. The Washington
Union of Tuesday last publishes all the resolutions
adopted, which and explicit in their en-
dorsement of the administration as could he desired
but the Union states that after the passage of these
resolutions, and when q majority Of the members
had left for their homes, some malcontents who
manned got through the resolution referred to, and
ton presses to show that Indiana is not true the
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