Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-07-20
John A. Gilmer.

We reproduce and commend to the considera-
ton of the Southern rights voters of the Fifth Dis
trict. some remarks in relation to Mr.. Gimer, which
appeared in the Standard of July 2sth 1858.
They well deserve thoughtful attention. They are
from the pen of friend writing from Chatham.
He is speaking of Mr.. Gilmer as Southern repre-
tentative voting against the admission Of a slave
State into the Union. and says:
srhs Mr. Gilmer did, and by so doing incurred
an accountability to the people of the Fifth District
which, from the signs Of the times, will be more
strict than pleasant and although in one OF his re-
plies to Mr.. Shaw he begs to be Judged by his
spceches, he will find that both his rotes and acts
will have much to do with the verdict to be render
ed in his case next summer. lie Will possibly find
it more difficult to covince southern constituency
of the soundness of his Kansas votes than it was
to convince his congratulatory Black Republican
friends The time is soon at hand when those votes
will undergo a thorough sitting. No doubt Mr..
Cmer has felt this already, or he never would have
been so active in spreading antiLecompton speeches
in abundance the District; and to help out the
natter in his zeal, imprudence, or by design, he
has sent some real abolition sentiments to modify
influence and mould public sentiment in this coun-
ty at least. will quote passage 1t has very
srong abolition ring about it; southern mineral
don't enter into its composition 1t is from the
Black Republican delegate from Kansas, Mr.. Par
rott Read it thoughtfully, fellow citizens, and say
if YOU could not have Judged "our own Gilmer"
and his votes without having the District flooded
with such speeches from such men, Mr.. PARROT
and our own Gilmer" stood side BY side against
the admission of Kansas applying to Congress to
become State under constitution with slavery
but each and both said NO. Mr.. ParrOtt utterS vile
sentiments against the South, and Mr. Gmer
spreads them over his own District to be read if not
approved The following was sent to one who hith-
erto. has voted for him, but probably never will
again. But delay you Here it is: "Better, far
better would it be that the sunny slopes of our
magnificent Mediterranean Territory should be
stricken with the waste of the desert or smoke with
the blood of our people, than that they should bios
son. ructfy and yield their increase to the hand OF
servile labor, whether white or black"
Voters of Chatham, do you like so elegantly q
clothed Black Republican sentiment? Can Seward
or Hale or Gddings surpass it? Could you like
the man who uttered it? Can you again vote fol
the mar who so far approves it as to circulate it in
bis District? Could you vote for its author? Car
YOU vote again for the who thus approved it
Is its author fit man to represent southern con
sttuency? Is he who circulates such speeches
and casts votes requiring such speeches to justify
them, safe man to represent you? 1t is no par
of mine to pronounce Mr.. Gilmer unsound on tn
great question OF southern interest. LOU Gail
of his votes and his acts as your representative
his votes against the admission of slave State ant
his acts in sending speeches into the District freight
ed with abolition sentiments"
The comments of our friend from Chatham ar
appropriate and forcibe. His questions are full o
suggestive warning to the slaveholding interest Q
the Fifth District. Will Mr. Gilmer deny the cir
culation of Mr.. PARROTS speech in Chatham? Il
wiU not, for he cannot