Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-09-15
q. N0RTHCARQIlNA.~ WED NESDAY. SEPTEMBER 15 1853

legislative, executive, or judicial has right to draw
such distinction, deny to it the benefit Of the
provisions and guarantees which have been provided
Tor the protection of private property against the
croachments of the government.
The foregoing is from the Washington Union.-
So far as We know, this is the first time Judge
Douglas has announced these views. He may have
announced them on the stump in Illinois, but they
do not appear in his speeches, as reported in Con.
gress.
The Democratic doctrine has been, and is, that a
Shareholder has right, and good a right, under
the Constitution to carry his slaves to the common
territory, as free State has to carry his horses
or any other species of property. No power, less
than sovereign, can create or destroy property.
Congress cannot do it, and therefore cannot impart
the right to do it to the Territorial Legisatures for
Congress cannot give power to any other body TO 90
what it cannot do itself When the people of Ter
ritory assume sovereignty, or assemble in Conven-
ton to frame Constitution, they can do as they
please-and can either reject or recognize slavery;
but before that time they cannot abolish slavery
which exists by force of the federal constitution.
This is the doctrine of Gen. Casss Nicholson letter.
They can regulate the institution, but neither toler-
ale prohibit it. 1t is there by virtue of the Con-
stution, and is protected by that instrument. The
bred Scott decision protects a 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 Dred Scott de-
cision
No white man, of ordinary self respect. will
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 Legsla-
ture if he is correctly reported in the abstract of his
speech which we have given from the Chicago 7ri-
6une. And why this changer Is it not to pander
to the antslavery feeling of his State in order to
secure his reelection to the q. 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 eyes to what is palpa-
BILE. The South is in a minority-it is weak-it has
"compromised" and sacrificed until the ntislavery
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 the champion of Democracy. as the
defender of the Constitution in 1860, and as the
Presidency. He has fallen-swept away by the
strong current Of anti slavery anti. Southern and
anti Constitutional fanatcism If friend now, he
is unreliable one II foe, he is secret one
For part prefer open enemy to a 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
cannot paate his offense. He was 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.
crats," they termed, coalescing erywhere
with the Black Republicans. The migrate Forney
recently made speech in Black Republican con-
vention in New York, in which he used the follow.
ins language:
but it seems to me that when the Presidency is
conferred upon u poor mortal, 1t transforms him in
to a god, in his estimation into q lunatic.
Laughter and continued applause Nobody is per.
United appI oach power and tell tine truth. Power
never hears the laundering voice Of the people, sit
ting as it does, in it's easy chairs and between its
marble walls An independent man, with a voice
loud and bold who gels up To tell the truth is waved
off from the Presidential presence rude intruder
AS said before, repeated efforts were made in vain
The coferrng .! the Presidential patronage with its
vast millions, than the great monarch Of Great
Britain herself enjoys, and Learly as much as the
French Monarch welds, made Mr.. BuchaIan 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 he black one. And wher
! our children, and children'S children come to
read they will not believe that an American citizen
elevated the Presidential CHAIR in the face of such
a people, covered with 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 &
gallant band Of men for standing honestly by tht
plain Gods truth. lCheers and applause] Iwoule
that when that historian comes to write that chapter
in the history of this country and government. h'
should not feel compelled to write that that Presi
dent was born in Pennsylvania No, gentlemen
there has not been an element, single crcupstance
lacking to relieve this unredeemed infamy; no, no
one They have gone on, step by step, with the re
morseless tread of fate and destiny trying to crus
out the breath of the gallant spirits who have stoo
FORTH asking nothing but to be permitted to do right
Look at the spectacle in Illinois at this moment
Democrats, if there any here and I trust ther
are many, you who take the regular organizations
you who swallow this miserable dose OF Lecompson
ism. because the regular organization OF the Stat
supports it. because the party indorses it, look a
Illinois, and blush with very shame at the spectacl
there exhibited to the world. There is regular OF
ganization for you and how does the Administra
ton treat it? They treat it with contempt an
scorn.-the gallant Douglas standing at the head {
the column If you open the pages Of the Washing
ton Union of to-day, read what it says Of Stephe
A. Douglas You would suppose from what 20
would read there, that he was sewing pestiIence an
death throughout the Northwest. Aye, and ne II
too-to false doctrines and false men. [Appaus
and cheersr
Here we have Forney defending Douglas and n