Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-03-28
For the Standard.
AFTER ABSENCE March IL 1850

AFTER-AN- ABSENCE March II, 1860.
Mr. Editor:-W have great reason, Demo-
Gratis, to "reioice and be exceeding glad ma
tionality is conceded and under flag the flower
of the old Wing party are enlistng, urged on by
patriotic motives-the love of country, the perpetu
alton of the Union the rights of the South to equd
tn, at least, with the States North of MasonS and
Dixons line-or a dissolution and fight, if nothing
else will do. As the dominant party in North-Caro
lima. our position is strIkingly proud. Ever since
the thorough organization of the party, ever since
the dethroning of Wing rule, whose last expounder
expired upon half term-the principles for which
we have contended, the faith which you espoused
when Just past your teens, have been growing and
expandng-many of the revilerS of the Democratic
party, four, SIX and ten years ago, are now e!sted
in our ranks, and are in the thlckeSt OF the hght
doing battle for the South and the truth, as advanc
ed and advocated by the fathers of our party Sem
sible men, as | have said, have renowned P0pery
CWhigrery and Know NothingiSm,) and embraced
the true faith In our mind we have the talented
Clingman the sagacious Steele, the eloquent Miller
and the ar-seeing Barrnger Osborne, and other pa
triotc recruits, who warm and enthusiastic CO.
operators with us, and all the friends Of JOHN w.
ELLIS our nominee for Governor at the approaching
election With our position party, with the
business of our cause, with the flower of the old
Whig party adding their words of reason Uhy the
Democratic party should be Sustdined would blush
to think that John Pool entertained the shadow OF
a hope of success! The neD 9deG can 90 MIN no
good; the thinking of the State will never con,
sent to chase the niger baby in his cradle around
the Constitution to reach what Pool nOU considers
a very Just and proper thing, but against which he
voted whenever an opportunity offered, while he
(PooD was Senator from Pasquotank! To Mr.. 2.
/ concede talents and shrewdness; but misdirect-
ed Judgment has led him into path-a strange
way-whch will terminate in the meshes of defeat
and confusion. As native son of North Carolina,
will the working men listen to the voice of one
whose interests are identical with their interest
will thew suspend hasty Judgment and form not an
opinion based upon the delusive though beautiful
argument conceived in the two latin words dd "a
l6rm! Fellow citizens, have you minds and reason
ing faculties of your own? Will you be men, or
the slaves of a designing Opposition league whose
only aim is the spoils? This question will be tho
roughly canvassed it is important; and the masses
who are to decide this question should "strip OF
every prejudice, and present the mind rasa td6utG
on which to receive the impressions of truth, and
nothing else Study the subject; hear speeches
for and against" and from the knowledge thus ac-
ouired, form your own opinion. With this impair
tality the friends of the Constitution need have no
fears, the result in the State will not be in doubt,
John W. Ellis will triumph by many thousands, the
Legislature will be largely Democratic, and, with
these results, the irrepressibe conflict will termi-
nate in North Carolina w.