Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-01-25
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. 30. 1860.

Gu assure me that there is beginning to be mani
eSeu an alarm and distrust which threatens as Sc
rlouS financial cnbarrasments as those we have 50
recently emerged from. Their banks are becoming
cautious and disinclned to accommodate to any eX-
tent their customers and the fear BETRAYED by these
INSTITUTIONS Is affecting every department OF trade.
The merchants who rely mainly upon Southern
traue Tor their support are in view of the present
aroused feeling and independent spirit exhibited by
the South at loss to determine whether or not the
supplies received from that source are to continue
or be diverted to other points; consequently their
purchases are meagre, and this in turn strikes a
blow at the prosperity of the manufacturers who,
depending upon these wholesale merchants Tor sales
OF their wares, find falling off in the demand, and
are forced TO crcumscribe their operations and dis
charge large numbers of their operatives 30 lar as
Immediate dangers and financial disasters, growing
out of the practical workings OF rcpu0llcansm are
concerned the North is seriously threatened, while
the South has less to apprehend than at any prev-
Gus period in her history. NoTthernla6 and cap
ital under the most favorable auspices are antagon
iStic and ever at war, while that OF the South Is
thoroughly consolidated and harmonious and unaf
fctcd 6y the shocks and vicssitudes characterzing
ts1e former. If the storm which now threatens to
burst upon us docs come with wreck and ruin in its
NsEeehe South will be ffoitSsll Il ,assssEed 10
meet its fury. The closing of Southern purses and
diversion of trade in favor of dealers in their own
section of the country is telling its own tale among
and revolutionary policy, which sanctions murder
arson, theft and beStia outrages and is strengthen
ing the hearts and hands of our own people. The
raid Of John Brown at IIarper's Ferry and the
threatened aggrcSsonS of abolitiondom have aroused
the Southern people to quckcncd sense of the
wrongs already endured and those by which they
are NOW menaced, and they occupy the position of a
who has been fundamentally assailed and retreat
ing as far as honor regard for the safety of his
life would permit, now stands reSOuely battling for
the security Of both 1t is amusing to witness the
writings of these vile Helper endorsing ncendiarics
when gOaded by such truthful declarations as that
made few days since by Mr.. Houston, of Alabama
that the election of an cndorser of Helpers book
would be shame, curse, and blighting disgrace
to the country" They grOan under such pointed
denunciations, and the truthfulness of them but
adds to the severity of the telling home-thrust.--
Can any casuist demonstrate the difference between
the guiltineSS of man who steals horse and one
who steals negro? Can any sophistry gloss over
the crime of melting, arminS and aiding the negro
in the South TO butcher his unsuSpecting and sleep
ing MASTER to make it less heInous than being
accessory to the assassination of 4 white in the
North? Is that man aft to lie Speaker" or deserv-
ing the recOgniti IN and countenance of honorable
men, who openly avOwS his purpose to eXtIrpate
slavery by any means; who approves and furthers
designs which surely lead to the indiScriminatc mas
sacre of Slavc-owners-to the outraging and butche
ry Of helpless wives and daughtcrS-tO the slaugh-
ter of innocent children, and the total destruction of
property? Should not man turn from these Hell
feriteS with the sickcnng oathing he would feel by
personal association with the midnight assassin or
the convicted e,on? Where is the difference other
than that the has pcrpctrated the revolving deed
and the other only bides opportunity to act SINH
larly?
The designs and purposes Of this republican par
ty have not yet been fully announced. Faint, in
tangible forcshadowngs of their policy. are given
occasionally in the rabid leaders of the 1ribnne );
and the doctrine of the "irrepreSSlble conflict and
vague hints dropped by republican members of
Congress give us glimmering of what is to come.
go Gar, they have only sought to satisfy the morbid
cravings of their feOw-fanatics of less ambitious
- earnings with meaningless generatieS and clap
trap phrases about "slaye Oligarchy" and the "ag-
gresSve CD spirit of the slave power" All this is
for effect and deeper and more daring purpose I'M
derlies this gllttcring surface. Sir Oracle Greedy
tells us that "our government cannot long be pre-
served under the limitation OF political power, and
he and his party openly defy and trampe undor foot
the decisions of the Supreme Court, utterly denying
its authority and power TO decide constitutional
questions; further STILL where they have the power,
they have passed in their State legislatures personal
liberty bills rendering the fugitive slave law noper
alive, and bidding defiance TO federal authority
The cncrOachmentS and daring usurpatiOn of these
fanatics have grown to that extent that they now seek
by gradual notifications to revolutionize our pres
>
mcnt as a substitute for our present one based upon
the States-rghts federation principle. Time alone
show whether not these anatical eNpcrlmenterS
will be permitted to consummatc their purposes.
\ word as to the efforts made to organize the
House 1t has been indisputably shown that the
democrats alone can do nothing. None but the
most captious cavler can find in the course of the
democratic party cause for cenSure. They have
done all they could in order to compromise and select
some candidate outside of their own organization,
but up to this time their ovcrturcs and attempts
have been fruitlcSs. The South Americans would
not sustain Bocock, Millson Hamilton; and when
the democratic party earnestly DESTROYS of completing
the organization of the House, dropped their own
nominee and magnanimouSly took up South
American Mr. Maynard of Tenn. his own party
failed to give him the support he had right to en-
pect from them Does this SAVIOR of factiouSneSs on
the part of the Democracy of the House? They
have done and still doing their duty in andable
efforts to end this diScredable struggle, and the
nfamy and shame which should attach to those who
have brought about this state Of affairs belongs
mainly to the republicans. They are the obStruc-
tionists and nStigators of this as yet, bloodleSs
revolution in which we are really plunged They
can at once elect Corwin, of Ohio, OF Pennington,
of New Jersey, but these gentlemen have slight
odor of conservatism about them which renders
them obnoxious to the intensely abolition Helfertes
John Sherman no one Is their fixed resolve; they
have chosen an endorser of the Heller book, and
they dare not recede if they wished from the posi-
ton they have taken. There is scarcely poSSibii
ty that they will ever abandon him. hoping in the end
to secure the votes of the nomadc anti Lecomptontes
else upon the House the plurality rule. This
latter scheme will meet the success desired by
its advocates. There arc now quite number OF
Southern members who have signed a written pledge
that they will remain here till March, 1861 rather
than submit to the adoption of this unconstituton-
al rule which will lead to the elevation to the Speak
ership of man approving the damnable doctrines
enuncated by Heller. There are also others who
have not signed this paper, fully determined to Pur-
sue the same course, meeting these revolutlonlzlng
fanatics with determined front. They hope to
weary out Southern men, and accomplish by strate-
gy what they have hitherto failed to do; but they
"reckon without their host" for this is game
which will be played by able experts in parlia-
mentary tactics the democratic side as the repu6.
licans produce. And here | will remark that II
few of our democratic friends in the House would
eynce less eagerness to be foremost in the conduct
of the present contest II would be better for the In