Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-06-13

sesuHN he Who slseps o. ,trifles D WON know.
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discns abst,uotionaf Wrangling about the princi.
pies Of civil lioerty-the making out plattosms o.
political ethics then ended, and they closed with
their enemies hand to hand in the deadly conflict
It is too late ROW for US to quarrel about the prin-
cples to be applied to territories thodsandsof miles
off! The assaults Of our enemy are made at our
very doors He has challenged ns to the irrepressi.
BILE conflict We cannot evade it il we would. 1t
must be met Black Republicanism must be defeat
ed-driven back-put down, or there is no safety
for .us. or peace to the country & u a,si-a
Am mistaken in all this! Would to God that
Iwere! But look TO the openly avowed opinions
Of Lincoln the black Republican nominee. He bold
" proclams the negro race to be equal to the white
race-that the negro in this country should be plac-
ed on an equality, socially and politically with the
white man-that slavery should be exterminated-
that to this end never ceasing warfare should ne
kept up against it Hear his own language In
his Springfield, Qll,) speech of June 18th, 1858,
he says: .. s,..,i tl, ..,t f:zt ,4E3 .z..ei
I'm nov opinion it (the slavery agitation) will not
cease until a crisis shall have been reached and
passed. "A house divided against itself cannot
stand believe this government cannot endure
permanently half slave and half free. do not ex-
pect the Union to be dissolved do not expect the
house to fall but do expect it will cease to be d.
vded 1t will become all one thing all the other.
Either the opponents Of slavery will arrest tho fur
Their spread Of 1t and place it where the public mind
shall rest the belief that it is in the course of ult
mate extinction or its advocates will push forward
until it shall become alike lawful in all the States"
Here is the "irrenressible conflict" in all its
force! He kns,o the States could nerer become "all
Stare" He was conscious that he was proclaiming
the doctrine Of his party that they should become
"an free" That is its mission. they declare, and.
think you. the warfare will cease! Do you not
know that it will increase in bitternesss And yet
here are we quarrellng about what is the best "ab
straction" to apply to the government of territories
which have no existence!
In that conflict, thus presented. either the black
Republican party, or our glorious Constitution one
must perish! In such conflict, am not afraid to
trust our banner to the hands Of Stephen A. Doug
las and to fight under his lead. No man living has
higher qualifications for leader. Ready fertile in
resources-cool and collected in the face Of every
storm--of indomitable energy-with q zeal that
never sleeps and courage that never quacd-bold
fearless and able as statesman-he Is the man for
the crisis and If those of his own party. who are
now opposing him, act in the event Of his nomina-
would that others should do to you," he will carry
the friends of the Constitution to certain and signal
victory
It was he who combatted the infamous doctrines
Of Lincoln during the CAMPAIGN Of 1883 in illinois,
with a zeal and ability seldom equalled and never
surpassed For more than twelve years he has been
fighting the battles of the South with degree of
daring devotion that made him all occasions the
Cheralier Bayard of those who opposed the hosts
Of aholitionism. And how nobly do the sentiments
expressed by him in his great speech at Blooming
ton, Oli.) on the 18th July. 1853, contrast with
those Of his competitor, Lincoln, to which have
referred:
II recognize (said he, all the people Of these
States North and South, East and West old or new.
Atlantic or Pacific. As our brethren flesh of our
flesh, and would do no act unto them that would
not be willing they should do unto us. would
apply the same Christian rule to the States Of this
Union that We are taught to apply to individuals.
This would secure peace. Why should this slavery
agitation be kept up. Does It benefit either the
white man or the slave! Who does it benefit ex.
cept the Republican politicians who use it as their
hobby to ride into Office? Why. I repeat, should
it be continued! Why cannot we be content to
administer this government rs it was made-a con.
federacy Of sovereign and Independent Statess Let
US recognize the sovereignty and independence Of
each State-refran from interfering with the do
nestle institutions and regulations of other States
permit the territories and States to decide their
institutions for themselves as we did when we were
in their condition. blot out these lines Of North and
South and resort back to these lines of State boun
daries, which the Constitution has marked out and
engraved upon the face of the country-have nc
other dividing lines but these, and we will be one
united, harmonious people. with fraternal feeling
and no discord and dssention This Union can be
preserved orly by maintaining fiaternal feeling be-
| tween the North and the South, the East and the
| West If that good feeling can be preserved the
Union will be as perpetual as the fame Of its grea
| founders!' -..s-
| This is the man who IL to be denounced villfieG
and prescribed by men, the horizon of whose patri
otism is not larger than an oyster shell
But sir in connection with this subject there i.
one significant fact. In the recent contest fol
Speaker Of the House Of Representatives nearly tn,
entire Democratic party in that body. as well as
majority Of the Southern oppositionists voted fol
McClernand, popular sorereignty- Douglas Demo
erat to defeat Sherman, the black Republican candi
date. When the opposition convention met thiscity
recently, they adopted resolution almost unanimous
ly approving the votes Of Messrs Smith, Vanc
and Leach for McClernand; yet the very men VIII
approved that vote will turn up their eyes in affect
ed holy horror at the idea Of any man voting 70
Douglas. even ON the same principle, for Presiden
Of the United States. II it was right in Southern
Democrats and Oppostionists to vote for McCler
nand to defeat Sherman, where is the inconsistency
where the crime in Southern man voting for Doug
las to defeat Lincoln and his clan? .f..i. :
In what have thus said, have not sought ;
depreciate the claims to the nomination for tn
Presidency Of any of the other distinguished states
men whose names have been mentioned in Gomez
ton with it. / shall support cheerfully whoeve
is nominated by the national Democratic party. N
power on earth shall induce me, for any causes no,
existing to follow the lead of the ultra men Of an
section into the black gulf of secession. civil wal
fraternal bloodshedl I shall do what believe
berght-right regardless Of personal consequences
and trust that the Convention when it reassemble
on the 18th Of June, may be governed by natior
al conservative spirit and that its final action ma
result in the good Of our common country, and tn
triumph of the Constitution over the mad scheme
Of fanaticism that threaten its overthrow - .s
JUICE SHEPHERD. This gentleman having con
pleted his Spring Circuit retires from the Benc
and returns TO the Bar. During his short servit
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