Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-12-05

"Stand firm, and all will 3e right / do not al
ways agree with you, but have no sympathy with
those who are warning on you now" ysssti.r.
The following extract is from letter from one Of
the Oldest and most influential Democrats in Orange
County. No mans Democracy could be sounder or
better than that of the writer of this letter. Stand
ing on the verge of the grave asking for nothing but
that his country may continue prosperous and hap
py-an honest man and a sincere Christian-he is
incapable Of fattering any one, or Of saying what
he does not believe. lie says: g.. =.
You will find enclosed the money for continu-
ance of the Standard cannot think of dscontin-
uing it now, having taken it from it's beginning un-
der PHILo WHITE up to this date, like it now
better than ever in this very critical condition Of
our national affairs" 1s ....
We shall give extracts from other letters from
time to time. Those here given are from Breckin-
ridge men, from Douglas men, and from Bell men
from patriots of all parties who have no sinister
aims to accomplish, but who love their country, and
wish to save it from the consequences Of present
secession. The roce Of the people is heard IN these
eztraets and not the voice of the designing and the
selfish
We bold that North Carolina belongs to the peo-
pie, and not to the politicians thereof We hold
that the people are sovereign, and can raise up
and put down whom they please. We hold that
the government is theirs, the suffering will
be theirs in the event of their being "precpitated
into disunion and civil war; Our appeal is to them
Their decision shall be law to US. But we protest
against manufactured public opinion The disunion
leaders engaged at this time in this very bust
ness In the language Of the celebrated Proclama-
ton of Gen. jackson, We say to the people that
eloquent appeals to your passions, to your State
pride, to your native courage and to your sense OF
real injury" are being made to prepare you for
the period when the mask which conceals the hide.
Gus features of DlsuNIoN shall be taken off" Al
you value your safety, your Constitutional rights,
your high privileges as members of a common Union,
and as you would avoid commotion and civil war,
give 10 heed to these appeals. Assemble calmly,
deliberate coolly, and vote Understandings. Sup.
port resolves, matter by whom offered or urg,
ed, which will commit you at this time to dsunion.
The federal Constitution, so far from having been
exhausted has not yet been fairly tried 1t is your
Constitution as much as it is the Constitution of the
Northern people Stand by it, uphold it, demand
your rights under it and hold it up as an impcne.
trable shield against the shafts Of your assail.
ants. 1t is glorious Constitution, and the Union
which it established is still a glorious Union
If Convention must be called, let it be Con-
vention of all the States. Let US have no con-
ferenccs or consultations to commit us to dsunion
and no calls on the people afterwards to be Sc
obging to step forward and register the decisions
of the disunion leaders. Let there be no conceal
ments. Let every public man be required to show
his hand If for dissolving the Union, let him say
so; if against dissolving it, let him say so. The
man who now speaks with double tongue, or who
would prccipitate the people against their will into
secession and disunion, is hypocrite and dema
gogue The man who would destroy the federal
government for insufficient cause, and thus extin
guish the light of well-regulated Constitutions
liberty which was first kinded in this hemisphere
by Washington, and Henry, and Sumpter, and
Franklin, and Harnett, and Caswell, is the wors
enemy the people Of this country or the human
race ever had. Hold your meetings, fellow citizens
and speak out against disunion'