Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-11

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territory, 8 slfse slate aan ~ q ysses;
Of any oshsr species d properly - xe1l llsss
than sovereign, can create or destroy properly.
Congress cannot do il. and therefore caanotimpaEk
the right 70 as It 70 tie Territorial for
Congress cannot give power to any other body 90
what It cannot do itself When the people Of Ter
ritory assume sovereignty, or assemble in eonven.
ton to frame q Constitution, they can do rs they
please can either reject or recognize slavery;
bat before that time they cannot abolish slavery
which exists by force of the federal constitution.
This is tbs doctrine of Gen. Casss Nicholson letter.
They regulate the institution but neither toer
ale prohibit it. It is there by virtue of the Con-
stituton, and is protected by that instrument. The
bred Scott decision protects STAKEHOLDER in the
Territories if the Territorial Legislature attempts to
abolish interfere with slavery. Therefore if the
foregoing report Of Judge Douglass speech be cor
rect, Judge Douglas is against the bred Scott de-
cision.
No white man, of ordinary selfrespect will con-
slider Judge Douglas as having done any very great
thing in opposing negro equality. The natural feel
ings of every gentleman, whether in free or
slave State. revolt against the doctrine Of negro
equality. Judge Douglas has certainly changed his
position as to the powers of Territorial Legisla-
ture if he is correctly reported in the abstract of his
speech which we have given from the Chicago 7Ti-
bune. And why this change? Is it not to pander
to the antslavery feeling of his State in order to
secure his reelection to the U. S. Senate! And
what is the meaning of all this? What lesson does
it read to the South? The reflection is q painful
one but we cannot shut our eyes to what is papa-
BILE. The South is in a minority-it is weak-it has
compromised" and sacrificed until the anti-slavery
feeling seems to think there are no bounds to its
concessions. Once, and not long ago, we yielded TO
no one in our admiration of Judge Douglas We
looked to him as the champion of Democracy, the
defender of the Constitution in 1860, and the
candidate of the only great national party for the
Presidency. He has fallen-swept away by the
strong current of anti slavery. anti-Southern and
anti Constitutional fanaticsm. If friend now, he
is an unreliable one. II foe, he is a secret one.
For our part We prefer an open enemy to secret
one-aye, we prefer him to a pretended friend in
whom all confidence is lost
In our opinion Judge Douglas has put himself be-
yond the pale of the Democratic party and sold him.
self to its opponents We regret his course, but We
cannot palliate his ofense. He was a strong man in
the party, but if it cannot survive his treason, let it
20 down, buried in honor beneath the ruins of the
Constitution. He has sunk because he could not
command. The same feeling dethroned the first
angel in Heaven, and turned him into Devil.
But this is not all. We find douglas Demo-
crafts" as they are termed coalescng everywhere
with the Black Republicans. The migrate Forney
recently made speech in Black Republican con-
;p Va So, bo Coll
ing language:
"But it seems to me that when the Presidency is
conferred upon poor mortal, it transforms him in
to god, in his own estimation, into lunatic.
daughter and continued applause.] Nobody is per.
mited to approach power and tell the truth. Power
never hears the laundering voice of the people, sit
ting it does, in its easy chairs and between its
marble walls. An independent man, with a voice
loud and bold who gets up to tell the truth is waved
off from the Presidential presence a rude intruder.
AS said before, repeated efforts made in vain.
The coferring O. the Presidential patronage with its
vast millions, more than the great monarch Of Great
Britain herself enjoys, and nearly as much as the
French Monarch wields made Mr.. Buchanan believe
that he would make this test successful. How was
it made? Oh, gentlemen, the chapter which shall
tell the manner in which this Administration has
used its patronage will be black one. And when
our children, and children's children come to
read they will not believe that an American citizen,
people, covered with an armor Of pledges, should
have gone into that chair should have used his army
and the Treasury, your money and mine, your Off
GERS and mine, for the purpose of putting down a
gallant band Of men for standing honestly by the
plain Gods truth. Cheers and appiause] would
that when that historian write that chapter
in the history of this country and government he
should not feel compelled TO write that that Presi-
dent was born in Pennsylvania. No, Gentlemen,
there has not been an element, single circumstance,
lacking to relieve this unredeenled infamy no, not
one. They have gone on, step by step, with the re-
morseess tread of fate and destiny trying to crush
out the breath of the gallant spirits who have stood
FORTH asking nothing but be permitted to do right
Look at the spectacle in Illinois at this moment
Democrats if there are any here, and trust there
are many, you who take the regular organizations,
you who swallow this miserable dose of Lecompton-
ism, because the regular organization of the State
supports it, because the party indorses it. look at
Illinois, and blush with very shame at the spectacle
there exhibited to the world. There is regular
ganzaton for you, and how does the Administra-
ton treat it9 They treat it with contempt and
scorn,-the gallant Douglas standing at the head of
the column. If you open the pages Of the Washing
ton Union of to-day, read what it says of Stephen
A. Douglas. You would suppose from what you
would read there that he sewing pestilence and
death throughout the Northwest. Aye, and he is,
TOTO false doctrines and false men. Applause
and cheers y
here we nave forney deIenong Douglas ana re-
ceiving the cheers of Black Republicans. Is not
this enough for Southern gentlemen? What more
will they require? What other evidence will they
demand? Mr.. Buchanan had the honesty and the
6rmness to stand by the Constitution, which guar
antics the rights Of all sections. Douglas and For
ney strove to swerve him, but in vain; and then
they turned against him. made common cause with
the enemy, and denounced him, and are now en-
deavoring to draw off all they from his support.
Let the South look to its interests 1t is time it
should do so seriously. The signs are ominous As