Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-07-27
Fourth Congressional District.


One week from tomorrow the Congressional cleo
tion will he held. The discussions in the various
Districts are nearly over; the tacts-with many
Misrepresentation on the part of our opponents
have been laid before the people; ard the people
generally have formed their own opinions for them
selves In this District the Democracy have a large
majority but this majority will not be realized il
the voters do not turn out in their strength. 1.-The
opposition" led by Mr.. Sanders, who processes to
be Democrat are already boasting of what they
expect to do Forewarned, forearmed. Our oppo-
nents do not hope to succeed, but they count with
confidence on reducing our majority. Let us dsap-
point them Mr.. Branch is the nominee of the par
tv. He bears the standard of Democracy, around
which we are all so proud to rally. As the nominee,
as the bearer of that flag, placed in his hands by
reclamation, he is entitled to our united support
Let us give it to him. We appeal to the Democra
CIV of the District to turn out aud cote Tor the NOM
inte.
All the talk VIC have heard from 'the opposition
about the thirty million dill, about federal eXtrava
gance and about "the failure" of the administra-
ton of Mr. Buchanan, is intended for effect As
soon as the election is over this talk will cease Mr.
Sanders will be almost forgotten by his present
Know Nothing friends, and 1.-THE opposition" will
boast of what they might have done in this DIS
trict and elsewhere, under different auspices. They
know, as we all know, that if Mr.. Fillmore had re-
commended the thirty million bill it would all have
been right; if his administration had expended six
" or seventy millions of dollars per annum, the
pendure would have been proper and economical
if his administration had been crowned with pros
perv in all directions and in every instance Mr..
Buchanan's has been. it would have been model
administration although Mr.. Fillmore nigh thave
differed and would have differed with them on sew
eral immaterial points. On several immaterial
POINTS did we say? Why, Mr.. Fillmore is Will
mot Provsost-he held while President, and still
holds that Congress has the right to prohibit, and
ought to prohibit domestic slavery in the Terrific
res. Mr.. Fillmore would not concede to the South
the poor privilege even of squatter sovereignty !;
and yet Mr.. Fillmore is sound while Mr.. Buchanan
whose words and whose acts have been as just to
the South as Mr.. Calhoun's would have been if he
had been President is denounced unsafe and his
administration is pronounced "a failure" Look
at these facts citizens and then estimate the
sincerity of our opponents. But we look beyond
this at the position of "the opposition" generally.
The "two brigades described by Mr.. Rayncr in
his fusion speeches in the free States in 1885, still
exist There is Northern brigade and there is a
Southern brigade. The po~er to command is in the
North overwhelmingly in the North. Our oppo-
nents, the supporters of Mr.. Sanders, must either
be commanded by our enemies, or, refusing to be
thus commanded, must be powerless. In either
event they would have no right to expect the sup
port of any Democrat in this District.
We think it more than probable that the Know
Nothing Order, with its secrets, its signs its means
of organization and of concentrated action, still e.
ISIS in this State. The Editor of the Register re-
Gently claimed four of the Congressional Districts
and boosted of the "minute" information which he
was receiving from all parts of the State. The fact
that so many Know Nothings are supporting Mr.
Sanders, who declares that he is better Democrat
than Mr.. Branch could seem to indicate that som.
secret understanding erists that tue signs hare been
giren, and that the machinery Of tile Order has been
PIT in operation to deteat tile Democratic nominee
We judge the tree by its fruit, and this fruit has
the taste of "Sam."
But all the clamor Of our opponents against the
administration and the thirty million BILL and al
their secret combinations will come to nothing il
the Democrats of the District will but do their duty
They have only to exert themselves as heretofore
hold the District by two thousand five hundred tt
three thousand majority. Let them do it. Lei
them reflect that the vote on this occasion may in
huence the vote next summer; that if we gain now
we will gain then,-whereas if we lose now W.
may lose more seriously in some Counties in 1860
where every vote will be needed. Turn out, then
brother Democrats, and cote for the nominee. TURF
out and stand by the flag and by the man wht
bears it. Turn out and do your duty, and all viii
be we'll