Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-03-20

There is no apparent excitement .,ioie Southern
sepstors aud Repsealptel nor among our people
At home. no meofings nth tnHammatofy speeches
ana threatening resealliona The caimnses Of the 4
South msundeystood ThereAne sentir.ents uttered
every day in Congress-, which, in times past would
bave been received With cries Of indignation; We
now listen 70 them With goodness which IS mista-
ken Tor ndi6erepce. Il Is this very calmness that
u It were understood, would most alarm ,hose of
our Northern brethren who really love the Union;it
10 the repose of fixed resolve the silence of stern
purpose, infinitely more dangerous than the most
oo'sterous declarations You will hear no more
from the Sonth OF menace expostulation."
We give Mr.. Browns letter in full It is an able
and concus We vindication of the policy of the Ad
minisration in regard TO Kansas ~ sg.s--7ssFs +
LETTER FROM MR.. POSTMASTER GENERAL BROWN.
WAsHNGToN City, March l, 1858. H
Your invitation to be present at your Tammany
meeting on. the 18th instant has been received
Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to be
mere, out incessant engagements in my department
altogether forbid it. The main object Of your meet
ing seems to be to express your concurrence in the
opinion OF the President, that Kansas ought to be
admitted into the Union at the present session of
congress, under the Lecompton constitution now
before that body. And.why should she not be p
iake al OF the objections one by one, put them
or WALKER or Wise, or anybody else, and then ask
the question who created the difficulty whatever it
may Der Truth, honor. history, can give but
answer, and that is, that the black republicans in
Kansas headed by Lane and Robinson were the sole
cause of it. Why. for instance, was there not more
full and complete register of the lawful voters of
the Territory? The Legislature of the Territory
wanted full register Of every lawful voter so that
in the heat and confusion Of voting, no illegal votes
should be struggled into the ballot box. But Lane
and his followers would not register-nothing could
induce them to do so-they stood out in open def
ance of the law. Again, why we're not more votes
cast in the election of delegates to the Convention?
Simply because the same party, under the same lead
ers, scouM not vote, but from beginning to end de-
clared that they would submit to any consti-
tuition but to that of Topeka. When the constitu.
ton was framed and the slavery clause sub
mitted to the people. why did not the alleged ma.
jority vote against 1t? Simply because they soouM
not. The Convention asked them to send word to
Congress by their votes, on the 3lst Dec, whether
they were for or against slavery; but they soould
not do They staid away obstnatey, and by not
voting concealed from Congress what their wishes
were on the subject. The President was so deter
mined that they should have free and fair chance
to vote their real sentiments that he had his army
there, commanded by of his best Generals in or
der prevent frauds and violence to the full extent
of his powers under the constitution. What more
could he do? What more could the Democracy
do to give the people of Kansas fair chance
to come into the Union equal terms with the 9TH
er States? If it be said as it has often BEEN that
constitution to the people, the answer is that the
President had no power to order the convention to
do so-that Congress had no power to order it,
if it were sent back to be done over again. What
public man will hazard his reputation by denying
that the Convention the sole Judge whether the
whole only part should should not be sub
mitted to the people? 1t is useless here 10 put
down in detail all the points of objection to the ad.
mission of Kansas whatever they are, they all
spring out Of that spirit of rebellion, which has
:oriously existed in the abolition or black republ-
can party within the Territory, added and abetted
by that party out of the Territory In the light of
these facts open palpable and undeniable, l have
been amazed that any portion of the democrats
sholld have been so precipitate and unguarded as
to commit themselves against the obvious and just
policy of the President which is to look only to two
great facts the question of her admission.
L. As to the identity of the constitution present.
ed is it verify and truly the instrument which the
Convention ordained as the constitution framed for
Kansas, and not fictitious one, fraudulently pre-
sented to Congress?
O. Is that instrument republican in its provisions,
required by the constitution Of the United States
Gratis should, reflection, rally around the Presi-
dent on these two principles. When say all good
democrats, l do not mean to prescribe those who
had so far objected to the policy of the President
Let me in all candor speak out without disguise
unchartableness on this precise point. Suppose
vocated as he thought proper the submission of the
whole constitution to the people, had returned to
Washington, saying in his communication to the
government and his addresses to the people. have
gotten everything done exactly preferred it.
but have succeeded in getting the real matter in
dispute submitted to the people. / have accom-
plished the substance, and, therefore, l recommend
the admission of Kansas, under all the crcumstan-
the best thing that can be done, under the
bellious and obstinate resistance of Lane and his
abolition followers. If he had done this, he would
have been hailed a great pac6cator between con-
tending factions and democrat of pure and un-
suspected nationality. So would say of Others
without calling their names, whom have long hon.
ored In the midst of rumored frauds and confused
and inconsistent Geographic dispatches, they have
been preciptated on conclusions which were at war
with their sound and orthodox principles of demo-
cracy and which their final vote on the measure
they ought to be proud to repudiate The slow,
deliberate and cautious statesman rarely blunders in
his conclusions, whilst others more impulsve
often compelled to correct their mistakes and to rely
on the briancy of their alteration as an atonement
for the preciptancy of their judgment. know Of
no higher moral or political spectacle than to
public man, when he is convinced of an error in.
stantly and frankly to acknowledge it, and finally to
give his adhesion to the cause and principle which
he has ardently sustained throughout his life
will not abandon the hope that during the present
and coming week, whilst this great subject is being
acted on by the two houses of Congress, the demo-
cracy will be filled with joy at the return of many
who have been supposed to have finally gone over to
the ranks of the enemy. Let no man who is willing
vet ito live and die in the faith of his fathers find
any excuse difficulty in the alleged frauds of the
election of the 18th of January. That election had
nothing to do with the formation of the constitution,
nor with she vote on it Of Dec 81. It took place
after that subject closed and ended 1t related
altogether to different matter. 1t was not literally
State election but it was quasi State election
conditional one, dependent on the subsequent ad.
mission of the State. If admitted it was to be
deemed and taken as State election-its delegates
to be admitted into Congress, and the State govern
ment put in operation accordingly. 1t must, there
FORE to all intents and purposes, be considered