Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-09-29
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oeen avor'te with the Democracy of the State and
possessed until recently strong hold upon their aec
tons. Would that he had remained the Democrat
he was in ls4s, when his powerful voice so reused
and cheered our Democracy in their State Conven-
ton. or the Democrat he was in 1854 when almost |
single handed he lashed the black Republican blood
hounds OF the Senate to their dens We regret and |
oepore his course, but We could not depart one |
hairs sbreadth from the old Democratic path if |
thousand Douglases in the field inviting to dis
organization and dsloyalty. We have already
thanked him for the numerous and formidable blows
which he has struck for the South and for the able
and vehement manner in which he exposed Know
Nothing'sm; but when he takes ground, from what.
ever motive under the influence Of whatever feel
ing, against the administration and against the Dem
ocratic party he forces US to take ground against
him. All things beings even, in any contest be-
tween James Buchanan, the acknowledged head of
the party, and any other Democrat, would stand
by the former; but in this all things are not
even. Judge Douglas voted and acted with the
black Republicans during the last session of Con-
gress-he denounced the President as the approver
of "monstrous fraud" and attempted to dictate to
him and to the Democratic party of the country he
made issue with the administration, not only Le-
compton, but on its appointments to Office, voting
almost invariably with the opposition-he returned
to Illinois and opened his campaign for the Senate,
denouncing the friends of the administration in that
State. and he is seconded in this work of denunca
ton in other States by such men Broderick and
Forney; and indeed, his whole course, both during
and since the adjournment of Congress. has been
unfriendly towards the administration and calcua-
ted, whether intended or not, to injure the Demo-
cratic party. At the adjournment of Congress the
impression was that he anxious to cultivate am
icabe relations with the party, and strong hopes
inGulged that his return to Illinois, he would
cooperate with the administration. Beaten on Le-
compton by his own friends he might easily and
gracefully have yielded. He might have said,
"Gentemen, We have had an excited but fair con.
test, and have been voted down. do not make
my own opinions paramount to those of my party.
We are all aiming 70 settle this vexed question of
slavery by carrying out in good faith the principles
of the Kansas Nebraska act and differ only as to
the means of carrying out those principles. Let
be friends hereafter in the past" If he had said
that, and acted accordingly, hundreds of thousands
of Democratic hearts would have leaped to him, and
he would have been now the Douglas he in
1854. But he determined otherwise and sets
up his judgment against that of his former friends
His followers fomenng discord in the party and
seem determined to rule ruin it. Great as he is,
he is not so great that the Democratic party cannot
humble him in the dust; and should he persist in
his opposition to the administration, they aoiU do IL,
though in the struggle the very pillars of the temple
should fall. We wha, we say, and we say
this looking to 1860 If the Democratic party can
not carry the country in 1860 fairly and sqnarely,
upon the Cincinnati platform construed and in
terpreted by James Buchanan and nineteen -twenti.
eths Of the Democracy in Congress, and without the
aid Of malcontent leaders malcontent Staes then
let defeat overtake it. If the country should survive
that defeat-if the Union should remain unbroken,
the rally Of all conservative in 1864 would again
ensure Democratic triumph, and would place the
party on secure foundations. In the meantime NAL
contents and conspi,ators against that old national
party would cease to disturb us. Their career would
come to an end, and they would be remembered
only as the old jackson men remember such desert
| ers as Rves and Tallmadge.
| We do not accept the issue between Douglas and
| Lincoln. We under obligations to no one in the
free States elsewhere for opposing negro equality;
and If Democracy in the free States to consist, SO
far as slavery is concerned. Judge Douglas would
|
of establishing slavery by Territorial enactment, or
of being excluded by unfriendly legislation by
the people of the Territories before they assume
sovereignty, we will have none of it. We stand
with the national Democracy on the true interpre.
tation of the Kansas Nebraska act, and the Dred
Scott decision and this ground will be maintained
at Charleston in 1860, whether the prospects of the
party at that time shall be brilliant or gloomy Iii.
han -norn.
ocrats who would represent her quite as faithfully
as he has in the United States Senate. The issue
is between the Democratic party Of Illinois and the
black Republicans and not between Douglas and
| Lincoln. The latter is the embodiment to South
ern mind of all political depravity and infamy. II
such men as he is controlled the government. the
South would resist and if Judge Douglas should
persist in his course and should be returned to the
Senate he might be able to defeat the national De-
mocracy in 1s6O and thus precpitate the very state
of affajrs-back Republican control in the govern
ment-which we all so seriously deprecate. W.
look to the masses of the people, and not to mere
man. We look to the Democracy of Illinois, ane
not to any sefconstituted champion, to defeat thu
black Republicans and to give to the Union a tru
man in the Senate from that State
COMET OF 1s5s.-Ths remarkable comet (say
the Albany Argus) is now visible to the naked eye
as predicted by Dr. Gould some weeks ago. 1t i
now only one hundred and forty millions of mile
distant and is very rapidly approaching the earth
and already shows through common opera glass
we'll defined tall We are told that during the frs
week in October the comet will be of the most strk
ing brightness possibly the largest OF the century
and at that time will be Arcturus, perhap
ovon cnrnosSipo that brilliant star in sDendOr.