Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-10
TIE sELRCT8DN$ TO DAY--THE FACTIONS
% TIE NATI0NAL DEMOCRACY.

TIE sEL&CT3DN$hI TO DAY-THE FACTIONS
- TIE. NATIONAL. DEMOCRACY.
sThs noss iupor,sntel that have been held
aecs 10 kseatEone 1856. oecsrso day. Not only
htsssecibnsbu wy decisive federal ones, are 10
be held. Members Of Congress to be elected for
New York, for New Jersey and Indiana. for Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts-sixty. six
in ail in the choice Of whom will be decided the po
ltical complexion Of the next House OF Rep esenta-
tiyes. Legislatures are also to be chosen which will
"s' We expect for the democracy some Important
gsins but il is useless to disguise the apprehension
which prepares to hear Of very serious disasters
1t can hardly be otherwise in the circumstances
which surround the contest. The same causes which
conspired for our discontinue in Pennsylvania, In
diana and Ohio, are still in operation; detection in
the democratic ranks, fusion, alliance, union among
the various factions of opposition. r -
We know that the organs and ostensibIe leaders
of these factions are not everywhere in apparent.
union and harmony but We know also that the vo-
tiers of their organizations in substantial accord
and that. however the politicians may in some ocai
ties bcker and scatter the great mass Of opposition
voters will poll their votes together to-day in solid
column.
That the two leading factions of the opposition,
the black republicans and the northern Americans,
did not coalesce in 1885, owing to the apprehen.
sion entertained by the latter of great section.
al convulson resulting from the election Of section.
al candidate by sectional vote That conservative,
we might say patriotic, apprehension no longer ex
lists in the bosoms of the American party of the
North Since the presidential election of 1856 they
have seen leading southern senators and representa-
tives voting systematically even angry Sec
tional question, with the sectional ag,aors of the
North. They have seen leading southern congress-
men and their organs and partsans at the South
urging open coalition aud alliance between south
oppositionists and the sectonasts of the North
for the purpose of overthrowing the national party
which they supposed the South would support to
man. Nay, they have seen a similar phenomenon
in southern democratic conduct. They have seen
great national leader Of the North after aposatzng
from the national fath after voting a whole winter
with the sectional agitators Of his section and after
going home and denouncng the action of the nation
al party as fraudulent and shutting off the decision
of the Supreme Court on the slavery question, de-
Tended, supported, commended in all this conduct
by some of the very southern men who were most
noisy in threatening dissolution and secession in
1856.
is but natural that the opposition voters at the
North, who previously hesitated, should now in view
of this most inexplicaSle conduct on the part of
southern men, dismiss all serious fears of injury to
the Union from fusing with strictly sectional par
ty in voting strictly sectional votes for strictly
tonal candidates. Accordingly, the fusion of the
factions at the North is complete and perfect. 1T
has been urged upon them by leading southern poll
ticians and Journals for sic months past. The ex-
ample has been set them by leading congressman Of
the South, in voting, during whole session of Con-
gress, habi,ualIy with the black republican party
Encouragement has been given them by southern
democratic leaders and organs in sympathizng with
and commencing the course of Senator Douglas, in
his voting and conspir;ng whole winter with the
black republicans, causing large detection from the
democratic ranks in Pennsylvania and the northwest,
and bringing about fusion of these malcontents
with the sectional party.
The common sentiment of all these factions who
will vote together so cordially day is hostility to
the demOcratic The which
ally actuate them against this party various, but
| their hostility is the The common object
| which all are united to accomplish is announced by
| their leader, Mr. Seward. 1.-THE democratic party,
or-to speak more accurately-the party which
wears that attractive name. is in possession Of the
| federal government. The republicans propose to
| dislodge that party and dismiss it from its high
trust" The republican leader goes to state the
! great subsisting issue between seconasn and that
party falsely is true far his ascrption of prin
cples and purpose to the national democracy is
cerned; but truthfully so far he sets forth the
spirit and purposes of the sectional party which he
leads and under whose banner ali the factions have
combined to-day.
The war he has organized is no longer to embrace
the Territories as its object but is to include the
States-is to be of social systems and of domes
tic institutions The secret fight of fugitives from
| their masters in the South is to be augmented by
discussions in Congress of slavery in the States and
signalized by burning dwellings and murdered fami.
lies The upon slavery is not to be referred to
| the confines of the Union but is to be brought
| home to the hearthstones of the planters.
The platform of the party with which Mr.. Critten-
den, Mr.. Marshall, Mr.. Gmer. Mr.. Ricaud, and Mr..
Bell vote in Congress. Of the party with which the
Richmond Wing and the Louisville Journal are will
ing to coalesce against the democracy, of the party
of which the Press is cherished organ, and the
Douglas democracy of the North. from Pennsylvania
to California the allies, has been thus put forth
by its leader at Rochester, just one week before the
| decisive elections which are to come off to-day:
"The United States constitute only nation
Increase Of population, which is filling the States out
| to their very borders, together with and
tended et-work of railroads and other avenues, and
an internal commerce which daily becomes more in.
innate, is rapidly bringing the States into higher
| and more perfect social unity or consolidation
Thus these antagoniStic systems of labor contn-
| ually coming into closer contact, and collision re-
| Suits
Shall tell You what this collision means? They
who think that it is accidental. unnecessary the
work of interested fanatical agitators and there
fore ephemeral. mistake the case altogether 1t is
an irrepressble conflict between opposing and endur
ing forces and it that the United States must
| and will, sooner or later, become either entirely .
slavehoding nation. or entirely freelabor nation
Either the cotton and rice fields Of South Carolina
and the sugar plantations Of Louisiana, will ultimate
" be titled BY free labor, and Charleston and New
| Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise
alone or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Mas
sachusetts and New York must again be surrender
ed BY their farmers to slave culture and to the pro-
duction Of slaves, and Boston and New York become
once markets for trade in the bodies and souls
| of men,"
That two systems of labor cannot exist in the
conederacy is the theory of the sectional party
of factions which has to day arrayed itself against
the democratic party; and their purpose is at every
hazard and cost to abolish Involuntary labor in all
the States. How shall the work begin? Mr. Sew.
ard answers for his party, and all its alliesfor Mr.
Crittenden, for Mr.. Bell for Mr.. Winter Davis, for