Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-10-10

las and calls Mr. Branch to account for not support
ing him : .oa. a.o.,. ). o,.,nowsr
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The object of all this is very clear It is to keep
up a division in the Democratic party that Bell and
Everett may carry the State
wish you to send some copies of the paper con-
tanning this Register article, to RolesvIle ana tne
Ozark Corner" in order that the old Jefferson anu
jackson Democrats in those neighborhoods may see
the game that is being played by the Know y, Noln-
inps t. defeat the old Democracy by dividing. us
Old birds can't be caught in such net as that 1t
smells too strongly of Know Nothing trlckery.
I have no doubt can find plenty more OF the
same kind of articles if l only ha6 the patience to
look through that pile of newspapers IN my ONCE
which, by accident have remained there since last
summer. .
Here is one from the Register of 3Oth July, 1859:
ave begin now to see some of the fruits of the
election, by the Democracy of Virginia, of John
Letcher to the Executive Chair of the largest slave
holding State in the Union. Freesoilism every
where is strengthened by it But word more
choice and gngerly than Freesoiism is to be adopt
ed "Freesoilism doesn't suit the dainty and SEN
sitve stomachs of southern Democrats. popular"
or Sguatter Sovereignty is the phrase for those
southern Democrats who are ready to support Judge
Douglas in the event of his nomination by the
Charleston Convention. Popular or Squatter Sow
eregnty is nothing but pure and unacuterated Free
soilism and if that doctrine obtains slavery will be
as effectually excluded from the Territories as it
could be by the Wimot Proviso, any other sPe-
cies Of congressional legislation. To see, then, the
Standard, and other Democrats men who are con-
Stantly prating Of the rights of the Southern slave
holders and denouncing as dangerous on the subject
of the peculiar institution, all who will not throw
up their hats and shout for Democracy, supporting
Stephen A. Douglas and squatter sovereignty, would
be an amazing spectacle indeed but for the fact that
Democracy does such strange things that, like the
sailor who was blown up by the fireworks, we feel
at each succeeding caper cut by it like crying out,
what the Devil will they do nextT'
Here is another from the sRegister OF July ~,
1859:
"JUpGE DOUGLAS BLACK REPuBLCAN.---We
commend to the especial attention of the Raleigh
Standard, an article from the Petersburg Inteti-
0encer which will be found in another column, and
wish it to tell us what is the practical difference to
the South, between Seward who proposes to exclude
slavery from the Territories by "unfrendly Con-
gressiOnal legislation" and Douglas who proposes
to do it by "unfrendly Territorial legislation ~"
There is scarcely an end to such articles, but |
will not occupy any more of your columns with
them. have given many to show that the editor
of the Register is the last man who ought TO assail
Mr.. Branch or any body else for not supporting
Judge Douglas. In these critical times when
changing" is so flippantly talked about, and so
promptly practiced too in quarters, it is natu
raj that Mr. Branch should not like to have the
Register constantly pointing him out for public ven.
geance as black Republican, &C., &c, as he had
every reason to expect the Register would do, if he
actually supported Mr. Douglas. And as his iudg
ment and sense of duty to the country required him
to support Mr. Breckenridge, We have no doubt he
was greatly surprised to find the Register in few
short months transformed intoa whipper-in for Mr..
Douglas
But 10! disuuiun what horrid name
Conuund it, are Syme and fancey all the same?
9 come now to the second chapter. Is any body
else besides Mr. Branch, as inconsistent with him
self and with his antecedents, as Citizen Holden
and Senator Clingman ?"
The Register and other opposition papers, and
the orators and Streetcorner agatorS of the party
have charged that the Breckenridge ticket is dis
union ticket and repeat the charge and harp upon
it until one would suppose that the old Democratic
party, which has been in the ascendant with scarce
ly noticeable intervals and governed the country from
the foundation of the government, had suddenly
and without assignable motive turned traitors
and set about to destroy that very government they
have done much to fortfy in the public Affection
and to render illustrious all over the world. Ask
them to specify act to assign motive, or to ad-
duce proof and all the answer you get is
TRADE about Yancey. They will admit that Mr..
Breckenridge is loyal and true to the Union they
cannot point to individual Democrat within their
own acquaintance who is a disunonist-yet still
they persist in charging the whole body of Mr..
Breckinrdges friends with design to subvert the
Union and trample its flag in the dust, because Mr.
Yancey was in the convention that nominated him,
and because Mr. Yancey and his followers demand
Congressional legislation for the protection of slave
ry in the Territories. They say the demand is
made in the expectation that it will be refused and
then they will have pretext for dissolving the
Union. Yes say they, Mr.. Yancey seeded from
the Democratic convention at Charleston because
that doctrine was not Incorporated into the plat
form. At Baltimore other States seeded, and the
seeding States formed another convention by which
Mr.. Breckenridge was nominated. All that may be
true. 1t is equally true that the Breckenridge Con-
vention did not insert Mr. Yanceys doctrine in
its PLATFORM and Mr. Breckenridge himself express
ly repudiated the slave code doctrine in his letter
accepting the nomination he had repudiated it
before All this is well known, and yet the Regis
ter and its coadutors persist in charging us with
hostility to the Union because Mr. Yancey was in
our convention, and Mr.. Yancey entertans obnox-
ious sentiments
If however, the Breckenridge convention had de-
manded Congressional intervention to protect slave
ry, and Mr.. Breckenridge himself had endorsed the
demand, the Register cannot on that score charge
him with disunionism, without at the same time
eonUictiny itself By confession in open court and
charging its whole party with having no longer ago
than last year entertained designs Of the most dan
gerous character against the Union Of the States.
Read the following editorial article from the Reg
lister of July 30 1859. give it entire:
SOUTHERN OPPOSITION AGAINST 'SQUATTER' OR
POPULAR SovEREIGNTY.-We believe that the fol-
lowing resolution of the Platform of the Opposition
Party of Georgia, embodies the sentiment of the
Opposition party of the South, generally. The OPP
position party Of the South do not claim that Con-
gress has right to legislate slavery into the Terri
tories but insist that it is not only the right but
the Imperative duty Of Congress to legisate for its
protection as property uithin the Territories Just
as it would be its right and imperave duty to legs-
late for the protection of horses cattle any other
species of property within the Territories and the
coroary from this proposition is, that the Terrific
rial Legislatures have right to drive off slaves,
impair the value of their labor by "unfriendly leg
slation," any more than they would have the right
by "unfriendly legislation" to drive off, or impair
the value of any other species of property. This,
we repeat is the ground occupied by the Southern
Opposition generally and it is the only true South