Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-12-13
REPLY OF MIR. BROWN. OF cAsWELL,
TO MIR. AVERY, or BURKE,

3 ,,orf;on NJ he citissns Of McDoeeu county,
asfing action In relation to Federal AFFAIRS, and
for other purposes therein named
Mr. Brown said, in rising to reply to the Senator.
from Burke he must again set the Senator right,
by explicitly denying aud disclaiming the denunca-
tory language which he persistentiy lmputes 10
him, notwithstanding his entire disclaimer OF any
such purpose in his opening remarks. he ~ouid
not do what might be injustice to the Senator, by
imputing to him any such purpose as wish to
inilaine public sentiment By such appeals he nad
distinctly said that in addressing the Senate on that
OCCASION il was not so much for the purpose oil op-
posing the views and opinions expressed BY the
emorialists-with some of which he ,colncioed,
and with others he differed-as to embrace an early
opportunity of giving again expression to his senti-
ents the present situation of public AFFAIRS and
especially after the extraordinary scenes which had
transpired in the other wing of the Capitol last
night at meeting, over which the Senator had
presided and which was called for the purpose, as
he understood, Of hearing addresses from portion
of the Electors of the State who had just cast their
votes for Mr. Breckenridge and General Lane
He had not charged the Senator's constituents with
being disunionists; on the contrary, he had IN his
remarks attributed to them none other than patriotic
motives. He had alleged disunion purposes against
those who had at the meeting referred to- declared
disunion sentiments, for existing causes at which
the Senator conspicuous actor. The Senator
electoral vote for President and Vice-President Of
the United States which would be cast in that Cap
itol; holding up before the assembled audience
Scarlet Cockade, and advocating at the same time
diSunion.
He, Mr.. Brown, was compelled to take the decara-
tionS of gentlemen themselves, as the highest and
best evidence of their intentions. Whatever guilt
attached if guilt there was arose not from any
impeachment of his, but from their own open and
public avowels.
The Senator was indignant, that he (Mr. B. had
made ausion to his holding up to the assembled
audience while urging disunion, similar Cockade
to that which he says was worn by his grandfather,
when the citizens Of Mecklenburg determined en-
Independence and resistance to George the Ill
No one admired the intrepid patriots of that day
more than himself He regretted that the Senator
had not initiated the example of his patriotic ances
tor, and instead OF So using relic so honored by
revolutionary associations should have connected it
with disunion. The gallant men of that day wore
it as emblem Of devotion to the very principle
OF the government which we now live under and
which they fought to establish. The Senator now
uses il rs an invocation to uproot and pull down
that government. They fought to establish the
independence of the United States, which the
Senator seeks to dissolve. They fought to over
throw British rule The Senator seeks to accomplish
the object most coveted by England, the overthrow
Of the onion. He recommended him TO pause,
before departing from the lessons bequeathed him
By his ancestor, and before destroying that noble
structure of government won by the valor Of the
men of the Revolution, to exhaust all constitutional
means for redress in the Union and when they fail
resistance then will find an approving voice
throughout the civilized world
He (Ir Brown, had repeatedly declared during
the canvass, that wronged, grievously as We had
been by the Northern States, that the election of
q President of the United States formed no suffi-
r. a.
il again and again, and was most happy to perceive
in the Lexington Statesman, that the gallant and
distinguished Statesman Of Kentucky, Mr.. Breckin-
ridge SO eulogised by Democrats, entertained the
same views as the following article which he would
read was known to express his views. 1t is in
these words:
There is as yet no just cause for revolution or
dissolution. The Union commands our cordial
allegiance 10 it we shall be loyal until its basis the
consultation. has been actually destroyed. Ken
lucky will not surrender the Union. Our people
gallant and spirited defenders of their rights
and as little disposed to submit to wrong and dis
honor as any men who tread the soil Of America.
They will not permit themselves to be degraded nor
their rights invaded but they do not believe the
time has for revolution, and will yet cling to
the Union with the devotion of the true sons of re
To our Southern friends would earnestly appeal
to await the full development of Lincon's policy be-
fore striking the fatal blow to the Union Kentucky
is border State and, as SUCH the first and great
est sufferer by abolition ascendancy Our State is
barrier of protection to the cotton States against
anti-slavery aggressions Our friends in the South
certainly bear the administration of Lincoln as
long we can Then let them heed the voice of
Kentucky. stand true to the Union and not exhaust
all hope of yet maintaining the constitution The
democracy of Kentucky-those men who, in the
support Of Mr. Breckenridge, have given earnest of
their fidelity to the rights of the South-will appeal
to the South to give up whatever movements are
in contemplation, and like patriots, uphold the
constitution and the Union. Do this, and all may
yet be we'll"
The doctrines of States rights were almost an in
heritance Of Mr. Breckenridge. His grand father in
PRODUCED in the Legislature of that State the cele
bratcd Kentucky resolutions of '9S and 80, affirm
ing the great right of State nterposition to arrest
the usnrpationS of the federal government Was it
right now on the part of those who had, when sup
porting our gallant leader, so strenuouSly denied
that they considered the election of Lincoln suf-
cient justification for dissoving the Union now in
so short an interval to faceabout and seek to ac-
complsh that which they had so directly dlsavowed?
Was it acting in good faith to the gallant Democra
cy Of our State who had so nobly rallied to our ban
under these declarations. by such n sudden evo-
luton to change position this question Was it
just to the distinguished Breckenridge, with more or
less of Identification which a candidate has with his
friends thus to aid in making good tne charge so
repeatedly made by his political enemies and so Of
ten dened-by his friends that large portion of the
latter aiming at that result Was it just to
the more than million of true hearted men in the
North who had stood by us in the late eectione
The Senator says that while he admitted that he
(Mr. B. had declared in his public addresses made
in support of Mr. Breckenridge, that the election of
Lincoln an insufficient cause for disunion that
he had said at the same time, if Lincoln elected
that dissolution of the Union was inevitable. The
Senator had Inexperienced him. He had uttered
no such expression any where or at any time He
had always believed that Lincoln would either break
himself down. or the inevitable divisions of his par
ty would break him down. What he had said dur
ing the canvass was that while his mere election was
not for resistance, that any aggression of his
would undoubtedly break up the Union. The Sem
ator therefore, misrepresents him, (Mr. b. and