Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-06-16
For the Standard.

For the Standard.
MR EDroR:-At this juncture IN political affairs
you may have no objection to hear word from
Harnett county. The Democratic party in this
county is completely organized and awaiting anxi-
ously the first Thursday in August, at which time
we intend to give John w. Ellis larger vote than
any other candidate for gubernatoriaI honors has
ever yet received in this county We are troubled
with no Opposition party here. There are few
persons among us who win vote for Pool because
Ellis is q Democrat but the number is so small that
we have no Opposition meetings" no Opposition
sub-eectors; and although the Oppositionists in
some parts of the county shake that BELL" Of
Tennessee monstrously, yet we scarcely ever hear
any of its resoundings.
The conservative feeling manifested by the dele
cation from North Carolina in the late Charleston
convention is warmly approved We all know that
the defeat Of the Democratic party in the approach
ing Presidential election will pllce sectional party
in power; and the South has said that the happen
ing of such contingency would be Just cause for
the dissolution of the Union. With these things
perfectly apparent none but disunionists at heart
could take any part in disorganzing and sectional
izng the Democratic party. hope, for the well
fare of the country and the success of the party,
there will be no disunionsts at Baltimore. The
safety of the country, and the perpetuation Of
liberties, and the preservation of institutions de-
mand tho success of the Democratic party. The
present is not the time to quarrel over an abstrac-
ton, and ALLEVIATE ourselves from our Northern
brethren because they occupy the same position
that they have always occupied. "Non-interven-
ton with slavery in State or Territory" is the doc
trne of the Cincinnati PLATFORM and it seems to me
that it is the doctrine that the whole country should
endorse. 1t is peculiarly the position that the
South should occupy at this time. The black Re-
publicans claim Intervention by Congress to prohib
it slavery in the Territories. The South, together
with the Northern Democrats, denies this power Of
Congress as claimed by the Republicans and jim or
der to give this denial the greatest possible force
and to show that we perfectly honest in our op-
position to Congressional intervention to prohibit
we necessarily compelled to proclaim non-nter-
ventien to protect slavery
was gratified to learn from the proceedings of
the Wake county Democratic convention that res
olution adopted requesting the delegates from
North Carolina to the Baltimore convention to vote
for Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, for the Presi-
dency. He is eminently the man for the times and
had he not differed with Mr.. Buchanan in the Le-
compton controversy believe he would have been
nominated by the Charleston convention on the first
ballot. He has been popular in the South, and he
earned that popularity by his devotion to the con-
stitutional rights of the South He has done more
to defeat the black Republicans than any other man
in America. He has always been battling with diff
ffculties, and his successes have been brilliant and
imposing. He commenced his political life by es-
pousng the cause of Gen. jackson, and since that
time wherever the against the Democratic par
ty has been fiercest Douglas has been found in the
breach" repelling the attack with giants power.
He has encountered the fury of two abolition armed
mobs in defence Of the constitutional rights of the
South; he has always carried the State Of Illinois
| in the Presidential elections for the Democratic
nominees; he defended the fugitive slave act he
defended the Mexican war and the policy of Presi-
dent Folks administration upon all questions ars-
ing out Of that war he ably and successfully sup
ported the annexation of Texas, by which were ad-
ded to the Union three hundred thousand square
miles Of slaveholding territory. And will the South
now crush him for a mere abstraction? Would it
not be the basest ingratitude to repudate and de-
nounce him at this time because Of his views of the
| capacity Of a Territorial Legislature? l believe
that he has strong hold upon the affections of the
American people, and believe that declare the
sentiment of majority of the people of the South
when say that Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, is
my first choice for the Presidency of these United
| States.
UNUS POPULL