Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-11-30

ter of dsunion, as long there exists one ray of
hope that such disaster may be averted without dis
submission to wrong and injury. =.
The more and more We reflect on the subject, the
more and more are we impressed with the belief
that the Democratic party with all its old and worm
eaten platforms its corruptions and extravagance,
its ultraisns in both sections of the Union, and its
utter demolition in the Northern land at the polls
stronger section is utterly incapable Of saving this
Union 1t has had the control Of the government
for Mirty-one years with the exception of four, du
ring which last period every thing went on smooth
er more safely and satisfactorily than at any time
since 1928. and yet we see now the pass to which
the country has been brought-and yet we hear the
cry that the Democratic party must retain power in
order to save the rights Of the Southland yet we
hear this when it is demonstrable that If it runs
candidate of its own with all its dapidated and de-
spised platforms he must be beaten, Black Repub-
lican elected and the Union dissolved The question
then will painfully occur, aeiU the Democracy of
the South choose a dissolution Of the Union rather
than the election to the Presidency Of q man upon
uhom erery constitutional Union Oring citizen.
may mite upon the single principle Of saring the
Constitution and the Union nou, and leacing mat
ters Of comparatively miner importance to Ie ssttled
hereafter" q
Our neighbor wants man for the crisis-he in
vites the Democrats to unite with him in electing
that man-and yet he does not name his man! He
declares that no such man can be found! There is
no Henry Clay, he says, to save the Union. Has
our neighbor forgotten that Mr.. Clay was an eman-
cipationist in Kentucky, and that he was unatera-
bly, opposed to the extension of slavery? Does not
our contemporary Amow that James Buchanan is
sound on the question of slavery as Mr.. Clay was?
And what of Dickinson, Lane, Hunter, Seymour,
and Breckenridge? Are they, too, Of the race Of
"jobbing, juggling, mercenary" public men? Is
old 10 Lane, who was born in North Carolina, who
has always been true to our Constitutional rights,
who has barred his breast to the enemies Of his
country the field of battle, and whose sentiments
the question of slavery, announced in the last
Congress- are as sound and as true as those Of the
Register or our owns he not TO be trusted? Is
Dickinson, denouncng our enemies to their faces in
New York. and defending us when we are reviled
and maligned-is he unfit to grasp the helm and
save the ship? Would there be no ground for hope,
if the national Democracy, aided by the conservative
opposition to which neighbor claims to belong,
were to rally around Hunter, the Shareholder of
Virginia OF Breckenridge, the STAKEHOLDER of Ken
say or do, propose, that will meet the approval
of our negh5or? He talks about Democratic 'cor-
ruption, extravaganza. and its ultraisms in both
sections of the Union" Suppose We were to retort
and hold "Sam," and Plug Uglyism, and the cor
ruptions of those politicians North who were once
old line Wings, then Know Nothings, and then
! black Republicans, up before him. But we will not
do it We repel his unjust attacks on the Demo-
cratic party, but We have no wish to create ilfeel
ing in the bosoms of those Southern men for whom
he assumes to speak, by reminding them of their
past errors or mistakes. If our cighbor can re-
conce it to himself at this time, or at any time in
the future while sectional and final contest for the
preservation of the Union may impend, to denounce
decry, and misrepresent the only national party in
the country-the party which is even now keeping
the battle from our doors-let him do it. We do
not envy him his course in this respect. The peo-
pie will Judge between him and the party which he
thus assails; and his own party friends will condemn
him. t
We tell our neighbor that the national Democratic
party cannot disband. 1t will maintain its organ
zation nominate its candidate and do all in its pow
er to elect him. If it shoulG fail, and if dissou
ton of the Union should be the consequence, the
fault will not rest on its head. The mountain can
not go to the molchill,-a great party, now in pos
session of the federal government in possession o.
the governments of all the Southern States and or
ganized nationally as well as in all the several
States, cannot think for moment of merging its
existence in the so-called "Opposition party" ON
neiyhJor must come to us on this paramount issue
If he refuses the consequences be on his own head
The whole living civilized world, and all impartial
history will hold his party responsible if the Union
shall be dissolved the result Of this contest and
it shall be apparent afterwards that his party here
and in the free States could have prevented the ca
tastrophe. .