Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-25

ing against the administration and against the Dem
ocratc 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 case all things not
even. Judge Douglas voted and aeled with the
black Republicans during the last sion 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
made issue with the administration, not only on 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,
denouncng the friends of the administration in that
State and he is seconded in this work of denuncia-
ton in other States by such Broderick and
Forney; and indeed, his whole course, both during
and since the adjournment of Congress- has been
unfrendly towards the administration, and calcula
ted, whether intended not to injure the Demo-
cratic party. At the adjournment of Congress the
impression was that he anxious to cultivate
icable relations with the party, and strong hopes
were INDUCED 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
"Gentlemen, we have had excited but fair
test and have been voted down. I do not make
my own opinions paramount to those of my party
We all aiming TO 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 US
be friends hereafter in the past If he had said
that, and acted accordingly hundreds of thousands
sc i
he would have been now the Douglas he was in
1854. But he determined otherwise, and now sets
up his judgment against that of his former friends
His followers fomenting dscord in the party and
seem determined to rule or ruin it. Great he is
he is not great that the Democratic party cannot
humble him in the dust; and should he persist in
his opposition to the administration, they oiU do it,
though in the struggle the very pillars of the temple
should fall We mean what we say, and we say
this looking to 1860. If the Democratic party
not carry the country in 1860 fairly and sqnarely,
upon the Cincinnati platform as construed and in
terpreted by James Buchanan and nineteen twenti-
eths Of the Democracy in Congress, and without the
aid of macontent leaders macontent States, then
let defeat overake it. If the country should survive
that defeat-if the Union should remain unbroken,
ensure Democratic triumph. and would place the
party on secure foundations. In the meantime mall
contents and conspirators against that old national
party would cease to disturb us. Their 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 one in the
free States elsewhere for opposing negro equality;
and if Democracy in the free States IS to consist,
far slavery is concerned, as Judge Douglas would
have it, only in securing to the South the mockery
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 on the bred
Scott decision; and this ground will be maintained
at Charleston in 1861 whether the prospects of the
party at that time shall be brilliant gloomy iii.
nois contains better Democrats than Douglas-Dem-
ocrats who would represent her quite 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
mind of all political depravity and infamy. If
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 1860 and thus precpitate the very state
of affairs-back Republican control in the govern
mrnt-which all seriously deprecate. We
look to the masses of the people, and not to a
man. We look to the Democracy of Illinois, and
not to any sefconstituted champion, to defeat the
black Republicans and to give to the Union true
man in the Senate from that State
The Statesville Celebration.