Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-06-15
The Presidents Visit.

We concur with the Constitution that Mr. Bu-
chanan, the President of the United States, has a
strong hold everywhere upon the affections of the
people So far as North Carolina is concerned, we
can emphatically bear testimony to the fact We
speak not of party, but of the people. Mr.. Bu-
chanan came 10 the State on visit to mingle with
our people, and to be present at the annual COM
mencement of our first literary institution. All re-
spect was shown to the President by all the people;
and every one who him, or met HIM, or heard
him, appeared to warm towards him personally,
and to mingle with their respect for the office which
he holds their regards for him as citizen and
man. Whatever party may say, the people aciH
honor faithful public servants. Confidence between
the people and those who serve them whether in
an executive judicial representative capacity, is
one of the strongest guarantees of our republican
institutions and so long as this confidence is mu-
tual, and exists in its best sense the Republic
will be safe. The Washington Constitution, speak
ing of the visit of the President to this State says
"We have never doubted that among the people
of the United States President Buchanan is held in
as high esteem and respect as he was when the be-
slowed upon him their free and disinterested suf:
frages for the highest office in the world If any
one has been so far mised by the clamors and disaf
fectons of partsans as to entertain apprehension
to the contrary, it must be removed by the simple
and unexaggerated accounts which wehave publish
ed of his progress to the University of North-Caro
lima, and of the enthusiastic receptions which he
has met with everywhere in the course of his Jour-
ney. No President-not even Gen. Jackson him
SELF in the height of his popularity-was ever more
cordially welcomed or ever received stronger proofs
of grateful attachment and aectionate respect than
have been spontaneously manifested towards Mr.
Buchanan by those who constitute the ornament
and guard, as well as the strength and glory, of a
State and nation at every stage of his tour. 1t is
at once the consolation and the highest reward Of
the unselfsh statesman and answering patriot
: that, however ambitious and raging partisans may
assail his course, his motives, and his principles,
the people will be true to him and to themselves
Among the people, at last their Chief Magistrate
his measures, the faith he has kept religously with
his promises his personal purity and public honor,
and immaculate fidelity to the Constitution-will
all receive their true names fair consideration
of their merits.
The American people do not allow their notions
of personal and political desert to be confounded-
as are those of mere party poticians-by indis-
crimnate praise of persons who happen to be- for
the time, on the side of this that faction by
intolerant abuse. Every political struggle touches
the sources of many passions; and is carried on
more or less by faulty characters from mixed mo-
tives-good and evil. But the masses Of the people
are in the main, honest, just, and true; and rise
quite above the standard of character in every re-
spect which is attributed to them by demagogues,
who judge them from their own conscious infirmi-
ties.
Of no portion of the people of the United States
may these high attributes be affirmed more justly
or emphatically than of the people of North Caro-
l;no Thev have alvavS been reparded bV those
who have known them longest and best as singu-
larly pure, honest, sincere sober-minded communi-
ty. The marks of hearty goodwill and respect
which they have so earnestly and warmly bestowed
on President Buchanan, we doubt not are only the
initiative and the assurance of what he would be
sure to receive from the people in every quarter of
the Union should he appear among them
What a lesson is herein given to noisy, factlous,
temporizing adventurers in politics! Amidst the
storms of actions and the tempests got up by con
tending competitors he has held on his course with
an undvcrted purpose for the advancement Of his
country in everything great and good, and the pe0-
pleapprove him."