Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-11-23
For The Standard.

next House of Representatives stands thus: Black
Republicans 113, Democrats 80, Anti-Lecompton
Democrats 9, Southern opposition g. In the or
ganizaton of the House. necessary to choice, 1l9.
Does any sane member of the opposition expect to
secure the election of any one of its officers from
the Speaker down to the door keeper? Then the
officers of the House must be black Republicans or
Democrats. The balance of power in this impor
tant matter is in the hands of the opposition. How
will they dispose of it? In the last opposition con-
vention of Virginia. that bufoon and political gam
ble John Minor Bolts declared that the black Re-
publican was infinitely better than the Democratic
party and It's aid less Objectionable That false de-
claraton endorsed by the convention 1t elicit
ed their clapping and other demonstrations of their
applause. Then such conduct deserved the
tempt of all true-hearted Southern men, it will
receive the utter deestaton and adherence of every
friend of the UniOn the Constitution and the rights
of the South.
The Richmond Wing has invited, courted the CO.
operation of this sectional and unprincpled party
The Raleigh Register has expressed the opinion that
there is difference between 1t and the Democratic
party. We dismiss the old commodore of this
press and his rotten eggs to the compacency of his
own deluded party. Subsequent to these overtures
to this antSouthern party, the Harpers Ferry out
rage has been developed. Who concocted this in
fernal outbreak? who instigated it? who backed
it with money and implements of destruction!
who are charged with completely in this hel-born
crusade against the South, its rights, institutions
property and safety? The evidence before the
country establishes the fact, beyond all controversy
that the design of John Brown and associates on
Harpers Ferry was known nearly two years to
Senators Seward Sumner and Hale, to Gov. Chase
of Ohio, Joshua R. Giddngs Gerrit Smith and 9th
ers. 10 what party do these miScreants belong !?
John Brown and those with him at Harpers Ferry,
now under sentence of death, without the hope of
pardon communication of punishment, were only
instruments in the hands of these demons incarnate
to execute their projected work of death and de-
struction
Has any Democrat North or South been implicat-
ed in this horrible outrage? Will any man South
now contemplate the cooperation of this Union dis
solving, boo9stained party, in the overthrow of the
Democracy of the country ?-let him be anathema
marantha. Then let the curses of all good men
and true rest upon the heads of the Editors of the
Salem Press and Greensboro Patriot for charging
Mr.. Buchanan and his Cabinet of being " in point
of morality, second in guilt only to the wretchcs
who struck the murderous blow" This libel on
the President and his Cabinet goes bow-shot be-
yond northern sentiment in regard to this whole
affair. In all the demonstrations in favor of john
Brown and his miserable cut-throats from that lati
tude not word of denunciation is heard against
the administration. 1t has been said in Boston, that
the execution of Brown would make the gallows
more glorious than the cross; and yet it has been
reserved to a southern Editor, in rejecting upon
the atrocity of his crime, not being struck with its
horror to pass it over, snb-silentio, and publish
vile Islander against the federal executive represen
tatives of the Democratic party, whose shoeatchets
he is unworthy to loose.
Some of the opposition presses South are holding
out the idea that the black Republican party should
now he disbanded. Why? Because they have &C
complished the object of their organization
prohibition of slavery in the territories They are
lo&,, H.
abolitionists and this white negro party; the one
having for its object the abolition of slavery in the
States as it now exists and the other prohibition o.
it in the territories All! to which of these parties
does VIM. H. Seward, the author of the irrepressi
BILE conflict belong? Look at its recent triumphs in
the North and Northwestern States, and then say
gentlemen of the opposition, whether you think il
we'll probably be disbanded in your favor. This
party has been organized in view of many atrOcl
ties particularly the control of the next presiden
tial election The next President must come from
this or the Democratic party. l ask the Southern
opposition with the lights now before then, which
they we'll prefer?
The Southern man who cooperates directly or in
directly in the election of black Republican Presi
dent will Justly deserve and receive the fate o
Aaron Burr and Harrison Gray Otis, eternal infamy
In the organization of the next House of Repre-
sentatves, unless Congress shall break up in row
of which am fearfully apprehensive we shall b.
able to see little beyond the political horizon
which now limits our vision. We shall then SCI
what position the Southern opposition will occupy
We shall then know whether they consider tn
black Republican infinitely better than the Demo
cratic party, and its aid less Objectionable. Gentle
men of the opposition. beware; you are now stand
ing over volcano, the eruption of which is a
hand and will inevitably engulph you in its vorte
of political nonentity. If you can avoid, in thi
hazardous voyage, without compass or chart tn
Scyla of opposition, steer clear Of the Charybdis
Republicanism.
The issue in the next Presidential election vii
be sectional one, contest between the North an
the South. In the conflict where will you be found
Against your own sunny Souths Heaven forbid
Oppose the democracy as much as you please, W
disregard your opposition; but in your puny an
hopeless effort do not be found with the enemies
the South, the Constitution and the Union.