Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-04-27

Federal Whigism Revivfng.
In 1874, in 1913, and in 1852 We had Whigism in
is State; and besides this Whg>m-old federal
hi.iSnl-and Democracy, there was nothing else.
WAS all Whigism or all Democracy.l Wings in
Sc days were proud of their name snd their prin-
ples 4 Whig in New England was the same in
81 as Wing in North Carolina. The Wings
ere then national, and not sectional. They advo-
ted national Bank a high Tariff, bankrupt laws,
tternal improvements by the general government,
nj the greatest good of the favored few at the en-
nsc of the neglected many and true to their fed
"a! instincts, derived from Hamilton and the elder
lamS, they opposed the progress of American laws
III institutions over new territories They Geelar-
that as they were Wings then they would lie
IhieS always that it was more honorable to be de-
lated in a good cause than it was to triumph with
al one; that it made no difference, so far as the in
e.rity of their principles was concerned, whether
hey were successful or unsuccessful in political con-
e.ts; and that, 50 holding and so believing, they
Erid always maantain their organization and their
tn@iples {But Henry Clay died; and the question
slavery, with the unsoundncSS of their Northern
ng on that subject, pressed sorcly upon them In
Hilton to this, they became wearied with defeats,
nd they began to long for the spoils of Office In
IN evil hour for them and for the morals of the
ountry Sam suddenly appeared upon the stage,
cring them the fruits of victory over the rights of
Catholics and naturazed citizens. The proud old
fShig party was tempted, and it fell Thousands
al tens of thousands Of the men whom Henry Clay
Nl rallied to the charge, and who declared time
md again they would never desert the old Wing
tnner, renegaded from their allegiance with the
declaration of fidelity almost warm on their lips;
And in 1888, 1854, 1866, 1856, 1857, and 1853, we
bad Sam" with his test oaths his midnight meet
ass, and his dark lantern instead of the proud,
erect, defiant and principltd old Wing party. But
tbs resort failed also; and now we find these same
politicians renega1ing back to the old Wing fold.
They are returning with tattered garments and al
cred aspects; with deeper hatred of Democracy
.lan they ever induged before and with less of
their respect and less Of the respect of oth'rs,
than they formerly enjoyed. In this condition. with
tie odor of defeat and of faithessncss to their own
drSt principles all about them, they ask the people
ent, straightforward unfatering nationel party for
heir benefit But this is not all: They are national
as a party in TO sense for at the North, old Whig-
! >n, which became Know Nothngisl is now black
[epublieanism; and this black Republicanism, uni
I'D with Know Nothingisrn South, constitutes what
nom known as the opposition 1t is this oppo-
stion, then, which is contending for ascendency
and should it succeed the country will be substan-
italy under black Republican rule
We have been led to these remarks by the pro-
reedings of "Whig Meeting in Anson County,"
which we find in the last Register. The leading
.ctors in this meeting were such men as Gen. Dock
sy and Col. John W. Cameron-men who were
@rmerly Wings, then Know Nothings and who are
now trying to be Wings again. We give below
sme of their resolutions:
Resolred That we are tired and sick of the use
ess agitation of the slavery question. which we hope,
however, has at last satisfied the Southern people
that there is some difference between Democratic
Promises and Democratic performance"
Very well, so arc we all tired of this agitation.
BIT how is it to be arrested? By yielding to free
soil demands? What did the old Wing party or the
Know Nothing faction ever do to arrest this agita-
Ton, to give to the South peace, and at the same
TING her rights? Why, nothing. One Of the main
Causes of the dissolution of the old Whig party was
Inc rottenness of its Northern wing on this same
question of slavery; and we all know that the Know
Nothing platform ignored Southern rights out and
out The Democrats have made no promises on
as subject which they have not kept They passed
Ae fngitiveslave law, and Democratic Presidents
nave enforced the law at the point of the bayonet.
ihey defeated and put to rest the Wimot Proviso
o'ey abrogated the Missouri line which was an un-
just and odious discrimination against the South
''a they have never elected President who was
4'' as Sound the question of the Constitutional
rights of the South as the Southern people them
Selves.
lhe Anson Wings, alias Know Nothings, also
Resolred That the defeat of the Democratic
piIy Is, in opinion, indispensable to the welfare
wiz continuance of the Union, and is, therefore, a
s'eal national necessity.
l'eso red, That we deem it the duty Of every con.
,sa'a,ve man in the Union, with whatever party he
I hay nave acted in the past, now to use and exert
ts s 'ihltnce to the uttermost to defeat this sec
sas in ana slavery agitating party and to unite him,
Earty.n ''' p"' "e 1'"''' " "'s
NOW, the Union has existed, and the affairs of the
e',erhment have been successfully administered,
,,s, because the Democratic party has existed and
WI sway Everybody knows that, and the whole