Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-07-04

An ef6gy representing Stephen A. Douglas, was
found one four prncipastreets this
Tuesday morning. It had placarded on its back:
"SrEPHNN A. DOUGLAS,
The TRAITOR
South, tho Union, and tho Democratic party"
We also noticed package in one pocket labeled
"Squatter Sovereignty" and in another, Dds
union"
By whom it was suspended is unknown. It re-
manned in this position till late hour in the day,
as no friend of the "Squatter Sovereign" was to be
found to haul it down.-Wilson Star.
We are sorry to read such disgraceful account
of the citizens Of Wilson. 1t must have been some
Know Nothing who has done this A Democrat
surely has more respect for himself and his party
than to commit such an outrage upon man who
has always been true to the South.-FayetteciNe
Carolinian.
After long and animated contest Texas was an
nexed, thereby adding three hundred thousand
square miles Of saveholding Territory to the Union.
Stephen A. Douglas did as much as any other man
to annex Texas After long and animated strug-
gle with the federalists, Congress refunded the
amount Of the fine imposed on Gen. jackson by the
traitor Hall. Stephen A. Douglas did as much as
any other man to pass this act doing justice to
"Old Hickory" After long and animated strug-
GLE the proposition to extend the Missouri line to
the Pacific ocean was defeated. Stephen A. Doug
las did all in his power to extend that line. After
a long and fierce contest the Wllmot Proviso was
defeated. Stephen A. Douglas contributed more
than any other man to its defeat After long and
animated contest the Missouri restriction was re-
pcaed opening all territory north of that line to the
South. Stephen A. Douglas perceving that ma
jority of the Northern people were not disposed to
respect that line, but wanted all the territory South
as we'll as North Of it. brought forward proposition
to repeal it which was passed. But for Douglas
the South would never have had any opportunity
for struggle even to establish slavery in Kansas.
Because Of his course in this respect-because he
thus repealed odlous restriction, and secured for
the people Of the South equality in the territories,
he was burnt in egy in the free States, denounced,
maligned, prosecuted, and his "name cast out as
evil" among the Northern people, In defence Of
the fugitive slave law and the Constitution of the
United States he encountered the fury of a mob of
negroes and white men in Chicago; and though his
life was in peril, and though when he commenced
speaking the mob was against him, he talked them
into obedience to the laws and they adjourned with
three cheers for the fugitive slave law and the fed
eral Constitution. Under the doctrine of nonnter-
venton, established by Douglas in 1854, the South
has absolutely gained eighty thousand square
miles Of siaveholding territory. How? Why, the
territorial government of New Mexico has enacted
slave code full and stringent the slave code
of North Carolina, and slavery is thus protected in
that territory; and of the two hundred and fifty
thousand square miles of that territory eighty three
thousand square miles, embracing the Oldest and
most thckly settled portion, situated north of
the Missouri line
This is the man who is hung in efigy in slave
holding State!-burnt in eigy the non-slavehold-
ing States for his devotion to the Constitutional
rights of the South, and hung in ef6gy in slave
holding State for his supposed hostility to our in
terests
We are not advocating Mr.. Douglass claims to
the Presidency but We insisting justice to q
consistent national Democrat We are striving to
put out the fires of seconalism, which, if permitted
to burn on, will consume the very temple of the
Union We are neither for the South agains:. the
North, for the North against the South, but for
an undecided country and against sectionalisn and
disunion. If every Northern Democrat who agrees
with Douglas is to be put under the ban, hung in
efigy with him, and denounced and maligned as
freesoiler, will look in vain to the North for SYM
patty or aid in the days of trouble which we fear
the future has in store for For our part We will
not cast off the national Democrats of the free States
whether supporters of Douglas or Breckinridge-
| We would be glad to see them unite now if union
be possible; but if this cannot be effected, we will
look with hope and confidence to reunion in
| 1864
| We do not defend--we never have defended the
course of Mr.. Douglas on Lecompton, nor do we ap-
prove his notions on Territorial sovereignty. But
Lecompton is settled, dead issue; and if we are
to take the Washington Constitution, the organ Of
Mr.. Buchanan, and supporter of Mr.. Breckenridge,
as authority, the 'majority platform" adopted by
the new Convention at Baltimore, means in sub.
stance, if not precisely what the resolution of the
old Convention means, offered by Mr. Wicklfe.
The Constitution, speaking of the Breckenridge plat
form, says
1.-THE platform says that it is the duty of the fed
eral government to protect when necessary the
rights of persons and property wherever its const
tutonal authority extends; and the Supreme Court
of the United States declares that as the Constitu
ton recognizes slaves property, it also pledges
the federal government to protect it."
So much for that The resolution of the old Con
vention, offered by Mr.. Wicklfe, declares that the
decisions of the Supreme Court which have been OF
may hereafter be rendered, should be respected by
all good citizens, and enforced with promptness and
fidelity by every branch of the general government
And now where is the difference between the two
according to the organ of Mr.. Buchanan? Judge
Douglas holds that the Supreme Court must be
obeyed that its decisions must be carried OUT that
if the President lacks means to carry out these de-
cisions, Congress should cote him the means; and
that he will cheerfully so vote, if necessary. This