Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-11-27
Our Course.

We know we'll that it will be charged by our enc
mics that we would have pursued a different course
IN relation to a Constitutional Union, if we had
baen elected State Printer. Persons who make this
charge Judge US by the standard of action which
they have erected for themselves. We would have
maintained our consistency and our views in any
event. We have adopted no new course-we have
struck out in no new direction. We have uniformly
said during the campaign what we say now, that
divided as the Democratic party was in the contest
the mere triumph of the black Republicans at the
halotbox would be no sufficient cause for disSo-
linton of the Union that such a triumph would be
, great calamity, and would render it our duty to
prepare, to be on our guard, to watch the enemy,
and to be ready to maintain rights promptly, if
assaled: but that, while thinking thus and acting
Tins and while determined not to submit to the ad
m,nistration of the government on black Republi-
can principles, it would be our duty to give Mr..
Lincoln trial, and to preserve the government, if
possible, from disruption and destruction. We have
uniformly declared that as the South relies for pro-
lection and Justice on the federal Constitution, it is
the duty of the South to stand by that instrument
and insist upon it until its powers exhausted
There can be no Union without the Constitution
Exhaust the Constitution, and the Union will be no
more.
We have no idea that the Democratic people Of
NorthCarolina are prepared at this time for revo-
luton and disunion. We have no idea that the sup
pOrters of Mr.. Bell in this State prepared for
revolution and dsunion If it shall be said that the
supporters of Mr.. Breckenridge in this State are
committed either by their platform or the antece-
dents or declarations of their candidates to dsunon
then the reply is that the fact if it be fact, has
been made known only since the election. If it be
true, as the fre-eaters declare, that Mr.. Breckin-
ridge was the disunion candidate, then We say that
at least forty thousand of the Democrats Of this
State who voted for him have been deceived Ger
tanly We for one would not have supported him if
we had believed him disunionist But he is not
dsunionist. His Ashland speech proves that he is
not Nor is Gen. Lane disunionist for he
phaticaly declared in one of his campaign speeches
in the Northwest, that if Mr.. Lincoln should be
elected it would be the duty of the people to give him
a trial-that the four years of his administration
would soon pass away, and that the Democrats and
conservatives of the country would rise up in 1864
and hurl the black Republicans from power. So
the 6reeaters of this State in their efforts to dis
solve the Union are not sustained by either of their
Sandard-bearers in the late contest The truth is,
if Mr. Breckenridge had announced in his Ashland
speech the views and sentiments contained in Gov.
Ellis's message he would not have received twenty
thousand votes in North Carolina. If it be true,
therefore, that Gov. Ellis has spoken the sentiments
Of NJ hat of
Constitutional Union Democrats have been deceived;
and if it be true, as understand it is, that Gov.
Ellis uttered no such disunon sentiments in his
campaign as he has uttered in his message, then
We say that he has deceived thousands of Democrats
who voted for him.
But the hounds of power will be set upon US, be-
We have dared to think for ourself and to pro-
test against measures which would precipitate the
State into disunon and civil war. Let them come.
We will receive them with hot shot from this old
Democratic battery, and send them bowling TO their
masters We shall stand like rock against both
disunion and submission. We shall call on the
people to come to the 1t is their cause that
We are advocating. Let them hold meetings prompt
y and say to the reeaters thus far but no farther.
Let them tell their representatives that no consuta
ton with other States is necessary and that no Con-
venton of the people of this State is necessary, if
it be their determination to remain in the Union
and to give Lincoln trial. Let them tell their re-
presentatives to reorganize the militia and to arm
as many volunteers as can be armed, with such
means can be procured in the midst of this fnan
cial crisis; but let them protest against any meas
ures the part of their representatives hich aoiu
set in motion the machinery Of disuniOn. Fellow
citizens, if that machine starts 1t riu neUer stop
until it has carried you out Of the Union. The
leaders know this and hence their anxiety to commit
you by consultation with other States before they
consult you in your primary capacity as to what shall
be done. Be warned in tmel