Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-08-22
For The Standard.

For the Standard.
Mr. EDITOR: Once again has hard political bat
tie been fought in the State, and the Democratic
marty is sustained its principles indicated and its
mast administration of the State government upheld
and approved by the verdict of an intelligent and
patriotic people Appeals from our opponents cal
culated and designed to array class Of our cti-
zens against another have been heard and weighed
by intelligent voters and that policy which calls Tor
such appeals has been condemned at the ballot box
1t is to be hoped that never again Will AMBITIOUS
men venture their use in North Carolina
But do not propose to review the field or boast
that it has been won 1t should rather now be the
concern of us all to prepare for the crisis that the
Ides of November will bring upon the country. is
there peril ahead not to the Democratic party but
to the country? There is. Is there no danger TO
the Constitution and the Union should Lincoln, by
dental chair "hgher Law" than the Constitution
and known hostility to section of the Union?
There is Is W. L. Yancey's avowed wish and pur
pose to "preciptate the Cotton States into revolu
ton less reasonable and dangerous to the peace Of
this great nation? 1t is not. What party, then,
and what man shall be equal to the times-meet the
crisis and save the country? Hitherto the Demo-
cratic party has been equal to the wants and emer
gencies of the country and if it had not been shorn
in part of its strength, and divided by seceders,
there would to-day be no doubt of the result in No
yember, and the Union would ,have been safe under
the administration of Stephen A. Douglas. Scarce
ly would intelligent seceder deny this and scarce
ly would fair-minded one deny that>h he has to-day
q surprising hold upon the confidence of the great
mass of the people, both North and South. 1t is
this which makes him the dread of abolitionists at
the North and fre-eatng disunionsts at The South.
He is equally their cemy as they are his. To this
confidence add the great strength that is. and by
November will be, his IN still greater numbers lin
spite of seceders,) as thesnomnee of the national
Democratic party at Baltimore, and he becomes the
bearer of that banner under which all friends of the
Union should rally, the best hope of the country
to prevent the success Of the black Republican Lin
coin.
For full six weeks has an almost unanimous DEM
ocratic () press besought the people of NorthCaro
lima to enlist under another banner, unfurled with
out authority from them Not yet have they agreed
to it. Active seeding delegates have asked entire
approval of their precipitate and unauthorized NOM
nation They have not yet gotten it. This could
not well be expected to be otherwise, for it is
ganization against DISCRIMINATION, and regularity
against irregularty; non-ntervention by Congress
with slavery in the territories against Intervention
by, perhaps at early day, abolition Congress;
union in the Union for the sake of the Union under
the Constitution against the cry Of union, mainly in
the South for the sake of right of little practical
benefit to the South.
1t is worthy of praise that one paper in the State
is rejecting the wish of the people, by manly sup
port of Douglas and johnson, the regular nominees
of the national Democratic party at Baltimore in
regular Convention assembled, for the Offices of
President and Vice-President. The Newbern Pro-
gress doing good service IN the of Democracy
and the country by such course In these times Of
trial and peril to the party, and secession from its
ranks and dctatoria demands made by those who
by secession, brought disruption upon the party;
upon those who refuse to desert the flag of the Union
for that of secession that paper could give itself no
prouder position in the State than it is now assu-
ming by appealing to the people against the precip
itate management of seeding leaders. Surely no
advocate Of party organization consistently aban
don the regular Douglas and johnson ticket for the
support of that of the seeeders, who, by their unau
thorized nomination of separate ticket have
brought upon the Democratic party most perious
division | say unauthorized" for the people had
given the seceders at Charleston and Baltimore no
authority to go to the one or the otner of these
places and put forth separate nominations of their
own, for the purpose of defeating the choice of the
party in the Union, because that choice was not
their own. When in the wake of the Yancey move
ment they felt it their duty to withdraw from the
original and regular Convention to which, and to
which alone, they were appointed, that same sense
of duty should have prompted them to return to
their North-CarolIna constituents and ask of them
the authority 20 again convene and nominate other
candidates to contest the field with those put forth
by the regular Convention. This they did not do.
This they knew it would not even bear attempting;
for well they knew that no such authority would
have been given them by the people of North Caro-
lima. Such course of action on their part would
have given the seeding ticket of the weight of
party obligation to sustain it. and such additional
authority from the people could alone have redeem
ed the Breckenridge ticket from the disorganizng
phaze which it wears. Hence all the obligations
that rest upon Democrats to stand by their party in
80 &c AL.
in favor of the Douglas ticket No palmer PROPOSE
ton could be addressed to the common sense intel
ligence of our people, and firmly believe that the
great mass of our people rapidly taking this
view of their duty to their party 1t is certainly
in Chatham.
Not less from choice than from sense of duty to
their country and their party do the larger portion
of the Democratic voters of the State wish and in
tend if possible, to vote in November for their party
nominees at Baltimore, Douglas and johnson. Be-
ing one of them, to some extent know their feel
ings and wishes, and sure am that do not mis-
state public sentiment in part of the State. To
this point speaks the Newbern Progress with earn
est truthfulness as follows:
"Put the thing fairly and seuarely before the
people Of North Carolina, and she will be found for
Douglas. We have no hesitation in saying that, as
far as we have been able to hear an expression of
opinion privately, a majority are for Douglas He
is considered not only the regular candidate but be
is looked on as the strongest and the only that
can have shadow of chance of election against
Lincoln We have seen one who claims a single
Northern electoral vote for Breckenridge and Lane
No one expects them to get one; and this being so,
we to look on that ticket the great national
Democratic party? Heaven forbid We say the
Democratic people in North Caroli:a prefer Douglas
If the seceders persist in running their ticket we
say to them now, that they cannot count, with any
certainty on Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee
Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, or Louisiana These
things may be unpleasant, but they are So The
people want one man and the wire-workers give
them another.
These are our honest convictions, honestly and
frankly expressed, and in expressing them we have
no object in view but the triumph Of the national
Democracy and the welfare of our country: but
should We be assaled and abused politically or per-
sonaly "a portion of the political press of the State