Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-09-15

OF Douglas at MT uicks oenesL4 ~ Mouu looht
strange for n-fwentieths Of the Democratic
voters in North. Carolina to give up Breckenridge
because one twentieth prefer Mr.. Douglas II looks
strange that vast majority should yield to petty
minority. This is part Of the creed preached ny
Robert P. Dick, but it is not the creed OF Demo-
cracy. "a
The Douglas men have appropriated the old Wing
cry of dsunion. Disunior is the beginning and end
of all their arguments This cry Of "wolt, VOL
has become so trite well known and appreciated oy
the masses that il is little strange the Democra
cy should lose votes by it. Gov Reid knew iahsey
| seventeen years ago and he was as much Oh ais
unionist then as he is now. The Douglas men knew
all about Mr. Yancey four years ago when that gen.
tleman was as busy in supporting Mr.. Buchanan as
he now is in advocating the election oil Mr. breck-
| inridge. Why did they not quit the Democratic
party then! Why did they not shout disunion'
and leave us when John G. Calhoun r. Barnwell
Rhett w. l. Yancey and other prominent tire-eaters
were supporting the Democracy in the Southf Out
upon the cry Of dsunion! It is but tiimsy pre-
text to divert the popular mind from their own de-
| lection and designs
The Douglas men call the regular Democracy, the
"Boltersi" Boilers forsooth and who have they
selected as one of their ambassadors to tell us who
have never lodged regular nomination that we are
"bolters I" Duncan X. McRae, the Wing and
and Know Nothing candidate for Governor Of this
State in 1853 against John w. Ellis the regular
Democratic nominee Having bolted from the De-
cracy to Know Nothngism, and then bolted from
Know Nothingism to Douglasism, he is presumed
to know something about the operation, and there
fore he is commissioned to inform us that we are
"bolters!"
Gov Reid took his seat with Stephen A. Douglas
in the House of Representatives in 1S43. He was
in the Senate when the Lecompton Bill was passed.
Up to that time Mr. Douglas had stood by the Demo
cratic party and defended its principles, but upon
that Democratic measure he ''bolted" and ever
11aoy 10 i'm tha
ocratic party.
Douglas made speech some months ago, in the
Senate Of the United States which took him two
entire days to deliver and in which he endeavored
to prove that he stood by the Cincinnati platform
Perhaps he does but he only stands by 1t as it is
interpreted by himself and his Interpretation is not
only antagonstic to the interests Of the South but
is totally different from the construction put upon
it by its trainers. Mr.. Douglas has therefore "bot
ed" the Cincinnati platform as it is legitmatey con-
Strued and repudiates the Constitution and the
opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States
The Douglas men have "bolted' the Democratic
party for since the time of their leaders detection
there has not an election taken place in any State
where Douglas party existed but what the latter
has aided in crushing the Democracy.
There is a great principle involved in the coming
election and it is principle that must be sustain
! ed 1t is the South that elects Democratic Presi-
dents if is ever elected at all and it is the South
elect now. Never be bothered by attempts to
put off the track by striving to prove OF disprove
Judge Douglas consistency. The Constitution Of
the United States by which we stand is better
platform than any of Judge Douglas Gov. Reid
| said he did not mean the Constitution it had
been taken by the friends of Mr.. Bell, without in
depreciation, and leaving il open for any construc
ton that contending factions may choose to put up
on it but the Constitution it had been expounded
by the great statesmen of the past and present,
whose Interpretation has been acknowledged as
correct by the Democratic party.
The Bell men know very we'll that their candidate
stands chance for and their only hope is
to divide and distract the Democracy It is for this
reason they are now cheering Mr. Douglas and
abusing Mr.. Breckenridge. 1t is for this reason
their presses TEEN with articles indicating Mr..
Douglas and heaping upon our own candidate all
that is vile II is for this their leaders are
now hand in glove with the Douglas leaders. But
let it be remembered that this division is not for a
Democrat but for an opponent The Bell men are
now sowing that they may reap successful harvest
for themselves. They are the ones who hope to
gain the benefit not the friends of Mr.. Douglas If
Mr.. Douglas could by any manner or means be made
the candidate of the Democratic party tomorrow,
there would be at once a wondrous change in the
tone of the Opposition. Their batteries would be
directed against Mr. Douglas with ten times the
vigor they are now directed rgainst Mr.. Breckin-
ridge, and why? because the record Of the former
is not pure and they wonld have solid grounds upon
which TO base their charges and assaults. Mr.
Breckenridge is the nominee, however.
But to return to the Douglas men, All! what a
great blunder the Democratic party committed in
not nominating the same John c. Breckenridge they
nominated four years ago. If it had only nominated
the same Breckenridge we would have had the
Presidency nicely Well, he is the same man. and
those very men who now denounce him as disun-
ionist who abusee him worse than ever the Van
Burens, the Pierces or the Buchanans were abused
and who have set up Stephen Arnold Douglas in
their political temple their political god-these
very men were going about four years ago and begg-
ing you to vote for him. They now say we 90
for party blindly it is untrue, we go for prin-
ciple
All the talk about the secessionists of the South
is sheer humbug. James Buchanan beat Fremont
in 1885, and it was by the kicking up of the fire.
eaters in the South 1t was only necessary to allude
to the great State of Pennsylvania in support of the
assertion The State election had taken place a
month or prior to the Presidential election and
gave majority Of but few hundred for the Demo-
cratic ticket. The people at saw that by de-
termned effort the State could be carried for Bu-
chanan. The merchants at Philadelphia became
alarmed at the movements in the South they saw
their trade in imminent DANGER and there is no ar
gument that will convince Northern man so quick
ly as the one which touches his pocket So the
merchants and large manufacturers either voted the
DeocTatic ucket OF permitted the election to by
default and the result was that Buchanan became
the President
Gov. Reid beseeched all the true Southern men
to be careful how they avowed sentiments whose
tendencies were to impugn the courage of the
South and degrade her in the eyes Of the North
The abolition leaders taking their cue from the
Opposition press of the South say to their tools
go ahead, the South is not going to dissolve
: Union" Ali the North IS not nation Of fools:
they consult their own interests; each man looks
out for number one, and if they can only be i'm
pressed with the idea that the South will secede if
trampied upon and her rights ignored they will
yield to our just demands.
The Douglas men probably forget that they assist
ed in the adoption of the State platform in which it
unanimously declared that neither Congress nor a
Ionre hnd -