Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-01-20

ADMIT h8CSaS as 3 state unQer the LeC0mptOn COn.
stituton without farther conditions"
We rejoice at this result. The old Commonwealth
announces the true doctrine, and stands firmly by
the President of her choice This action at once SO
prompt and so just, will gladden. and crafty the true
Democracy in all portions of the Union.
The Fayetteville Observer refers to bill intro
duced in the House of Representatives by Mr..
Barksdale of Mississippi, making grant of land to
the States of Louisiana and Mississippi to aid in the
construction of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great
Northern Railroad and adds
"Mr. Barksdale is an influential Democratic mem.
Der of Congress from Mississippi. For many years
he has been Editor of the Aississippian, a paper
which occupies the same relation to Mississippi De-
mocracy that the Raleigh Standard does to North
Carolina Democracy. The Standard and the Mis.
sissippian altogether harmonious both stand to-
gether in the ranks of National Democracy. Yet
this Barksdale is a wholesale land d-grabber, and any
N. G. Democrat who goes in with Barksdale for his
sheer" we'll Barksdales is instantly read out
of the party" .-s 5."
t The Observer is mistaken. Mr. Barksdale's bill
provides for grant of land to the aforementioned
States, not in Wisconsin or Oregon, or elsewhere
but soithin the boundaries of Louisiana and Mssis-
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-
vancing 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 its 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
getting tired of this alternate section system. 1t
may be good system in itself, and it has 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
arrestng the system ITSELF But with what grace
the Observer 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 p
At any rate it entered protest at the time against
the measure, did it censure our Senators for
ting for it or Mr.. Fillmore for approving it.
The Obserrer is mistaken again in supposing that
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. II
any 60 out 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, we have no
arm long enough or strong enough to reach down
and them. Now and then they fall off, some
alone and some in couples, and " COMPOUNDED chaos
roars to receive them but new people, quite good
and useful they were, at take their places
| and the incident is soon forgotten.
KANSAS -Back-republicanism, says the Wash
ington Union is about to be robbed of the food up
on which it has SO 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
ital upon which to operate at home The wounds
of bleeding Kansas are fast being healed, and in
few days. weeks at furthest, the country may, We
think calculate seeing this vexed and dangerou.
question pass forever from the theatre of nationa
politics. Kansas will soon present herself for nd
mission into the Union, and that Congress viii
promptly vote to receive her. there can be no doubt
All the advces from that country concur in stating
that majority even of the free-State men nov
willing that it should be admitted into the Unio,
reasonable to suppose, this being So that their self
constituted champions here-those who have threat
ened opposition upon the pretext that the constitu
ton was not fairly submitted to the people-w
throw further difficulties in the way In fact, furth
er opposition, under the circumstances cannot hav
the show of honesty, and be attributed to n
other cause than desire on the part ofthose making
it to keep up the slavery agitation as means Q
promoting some personal party purpose. If, ther
Judge Douglas and those who have followed him i
his late extraordinary course are honest in wha
they have said and done-if they are really and sir
cerey desirous of carrying out the principles of th
Nebraska-Kansa bill-if they wish, as they profes
to do, to act in concert with the administration an
the dem ocratic party, and with them honestl
desire the difficult and dangerous subject of SLAYER
to be forever removed from the halls of Congress
and peace and quiet once more restored to the cour
try-let them come forward like patriots and demo
, Gratis and welcome Kansas into the Union. An
other course will but serve to show the hollownes
of their professions of devotion to the interests
her people, and to keep alive state of feelin
throughout the country that may end in the mo!
disastrous consequences
The Goldsborough Tribune.
: This journal, will be seen by its Prospectus
our paper to-day, has adopted the cash system. an
} appeals to the Democracy to come up to its supper
for the present year. The Editors have adopted th
proper course in this respect; and we trust tha
: after some experience they will find the cash sy
3 tenn to work as we'll for them as it has for u.s. 1t