Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-05-04

lHE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS pR1vr,p, "a
Inns great old party is as ancient as the const;tu
tlon and 1t must survive while that shall endnr. -
1t has ever been, and ever will be. the watcbf,l
guaraian and protector of this sacred bound Of onr
Union. 1t IS now in sounder and stronger condi-
tion than it has been for years. Like the tabled Giant
OF ola, at the moment when its enemies, in their
herce and persistent struggle against on the .aya
~ question, vainly believed they had brought il 70
the ground, it has rebounded with fresh yieor and
power. Every where-North. South. East and
nest-the reaction is astounding its enemies. The
traitors to Its principles are everywhere leaving its
Organization, and will socn DO clean over to tho
black-repubcan party. The true men are fast co-
sing the ranks, and preparing for stern and tri
umphant conflict with the enemies of the Constitu
ton and the Union. There is no longer any iptes-
tine dissension of the least Importance in the demo-
cratic party on the slavery question The prnciples
emolazoned on its banner are non-interceatica' bu
Congress or By Territorial Legislatures, either 10
establish or prohibit slarery sithin the Terrtor;e,
and the protection Of sure property therein as ang
as the Territorial condition shall remain, ly t1s
2udae'ary under The Constitution of the TH;f,1
Ssotes when the people CT any such Territory
s tue frcsldent stated in his Silman letter of Al
gust 10, 1867, to the Connecticut clergymen) nro.
coed to frame State constitution, then it is the,
right to decide the important question for thcmsel
YES, whether they will continue modify, or abolish
slavery. In the mean time, what the constitution
has recognised to be property, the constitution can
protect as property through the instrumentaty of
the judiciary. The bred Scott decision, recognising
the right Of the people of any State to take their
slaves into the territories Of the United States will
stand as landmark whilst the Union shall en'nr.
The waves of black repahlicanism may beat ssains.
1T in vain How this principle could ever have been
seriously doubted is mystery. As the President
observes in the same letter. 'If confederation of
sovereign States acquire new Territory at the es-
pense OF their common blood and treasure surely
one set OF the partners have no right to exclude
eae other from its enjoyment by prohibiting them
rom taxing into it whatsoever is recognized to be
property by the common Constitution,
we shall hear but little more within the ranks Of
the democratic party of antagonistc or unfriendly
legislation in the Territories against slavery the
Constitution, and the bred Scott decision. It does
not seem to be generally known that even The Kan
sas legislature at their last session. after severe
struggle repudiated this doctrine and refused to
ADOPT unrlendly legislation against slavery within
the Territory. The advocates of the mower in a
territorial legislature either directly or ndirecv to
nudity decision of the Supreme Court of the Uni
Icd states, must eventually join Seward and Hick
man IN asserting the incompatibility of slave and
ree States to live together in the same confederacy
md this is nothing nor less than rank disunon
.Washington Union. '' A'< N''''