Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-11-12


is strong sympathy in all the non.slavcholdinS
States with John Brown and his confedcratcs IN in.
surrection and murder. This sympathy is expressed
in the pulpit on the stump, in the newspapers, by
letters written to Brown and in the talk Of the poo
ple on the highways and in all places Of business
Generally the conduct Of Brown Is condemned, but
nearly generally il It spoken Of ~ rather rash
than criminal This feeling II Is true Il almost en-
tirely confined to the black Republicans and rabd
abolitionists but these. it must be rememhesrd.
constitute large proportion Of the people Of the
non-slaveholding States.
This Is gloomy picture. but il Is the true one.
and feel it to be duty to keep our readers in
formed of the state Of public sentiment Treason.
able sentiments. uttered BY wcndell Phillips and
others in Brooklyn, New York. Philadelphia. Bos.
ton. and elsewhere, appaudcd by excited crowds;
and the speakers with treason. and rebellion, and
murder on their lips and in their hearts permit
ted to pass not only unmo,ested, bat are aattesed
and cheered as champions Of human liberty. Thirty
years ago Arthur Tappan was mobbed in Nov York
City for avowing anti-slavery sentiments. and his
life was saved only after the most strenuous efforts;
now the most noted, the most feted and feastsi in
that quarter are those who sympathixe with insur.
rectionsts and muriercrs and who utter the bitter.
est words against the South. Massachusetts,. New
Jersey, and Wisconsin voted ON Monday. and New
York on Tuesday last The struggle in an these
States was between the Democratic and black Re.
publican parties-the former representing national,
and the latter sectional ideas We shall soon know
the result. We shall soon know whether the Har.
pers Ferry outrage has sobercd the public mind in
these States in our favor or infamed Il still more
against us. But in any event the people Of the
South must depend upon themselves. They hsse,
it is true, hosts Of just and attached friends In the
FREQ Statesmen like Dickinson and Lane. Who
would shoulder their muskets and march to their Dc
fence-but there is no certainty that snch men win
be able to stem and turn back the tide Of aggression
now bearing down upon the South.
If New York, Massachusetts,, New Jesssy, and
Wisconsin have gone for the black Republicans. Il
may be taken for granted that they arc Seward and
Greedy States and that majority Of their people
sympathise IN . greater or les degree With Jshn
Brown and his confederatcs IN murder and treason.
~ Il will not now do % truly observed BY the
Charlotte Democrat, "for opposition papers to pro
claim that northern Democrats arc no better shau
black republicans. Facts and circumstapees viii
not sustain such talk. The democratic Governor d
Pennsylvania, Packer, promptly delivered up th,
abolition conspirators Who 6ed to thst State Tor
fuge. It Is true, he did nothing more than his duty
but We believe it il duty which black Republican
or northern Opposition" Governor would svsds O
openly refuse to perform"
We have seen no Democratic papef printed u u
non-slaveholdng States, which does not point4al,
and severely condemn the Hsrper's Ferry Outrage.
A VALUABLE PREsExf.--The senior, edtsr ~ tn
Elizabeth City State has been pressptsd with bssu
tifll horse by his Wing fiientk q PesqdnalG-
Sdlis6sry Hstekmas. .rs =, +, ssi..sr-s
What kind d horse "a real horss o. nm!
horsei The Editor should remember thss travel