Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-10

REGISTER made it. Yet the same Register, sosthout
having retracted the charge, now assumes to be
| the especial and Amounted champion" of Mr. Doug
las and calls Mr. Branch to account for not support
ing him. -,. = .rornover.
ing!"
The object of all this is very clear It is to keep
up 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 Roesville and the
Ozark Corner" in order that the old Jefferson and
Jackson Democrats in those neighborhoods may see
the game that is being played by the Know Moth
ings 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 trickery..
l have no doubt I 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 office,
which, by accident, have remained there since last
summer.
Here is one from the Register of 3Oth July, 1859:
1--WE 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 gingery than Freesoilism is to be adopt
ed "Freesoilism" doesn't suit the dainty and SEN
sitive stomachs of southern Democrats. Popular
or Squatter 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 unaGulterated Free
solis, and if that doctrine obtains, slavery will be
as eectually excluded from the Territories, as it
could be by the Wilmot Proviso or any other spe-
cies of congressional legislation. To see, then the
Standard and other Democrats, men who are con-
stanty pratng of the rights of the Southern slave
holders and denouncng 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 next ??
Here is another from the Register of July q,
1859:
"JupGE DOUGLAS BLACK REPrBLIcAN---We
commend to the especial attention of the Raleigh
Standard, an article from the Petersburg IntetS-
gencer 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 "unfriendly Con-
gressional legislation" and Douglas who proposes
to do it by "unfriendly 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 some quarters, it is natu
raj that Mr. Branch should not like to have the
Register constantly pointing him ont 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 judg-
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! disunon what horrid name!
Confuund it, are Syme and Yancey all the same?
2. come now to the second chapter Is any body
else besides Mr. Branch, as inconsistent with him
self and with, his antecedents as "Citizcn 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
y noticeable intervals and governed the country from
the foundation of the government, had suddenly
and without an aSsignable motive turned traitors,
and set about to destroy that very government they
have done so much to fortify in the public affection,
and to render illustrious all over the world. Ask
them to specify act, to assign a motive or to ad
duce proof, and all the answer you can get is
TRADE about Yancey. They will admit that Mr..
Breckenridge is loyal and true to the Union they
cannot point to an individual Democrat within their
own acquaintance who is disunionist-yet still
they persist in charging the whole body of Mr.
Breckinridges 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
y repudiated the slave code doctrine in his letter
accepting the nomination. as 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 entertains obnox-
ious sentiments
If however, the Breckenridge convention had de-
manded Congressional intervention to protect slave
ry, and MT breckenridge himself had endorsed the
demand, the Register cannot on that score charge
him with disunionsm, without at the same time
conuictiny 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 80, 1859. l give it entire:
SOUTHERN OPPOSITION AGAINST 'SQUATTER' OR
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY 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-
tories, but insist that 1t is not only the right but
the Imperative duty Of Congress to lgislate for its
protection as property soitin the Territories just
as it would be its right and imperave duty to egis.
late for the protection of horses CATTLE or any other
species of property within the Territories, and the
corollary from this proposition is, that the Terrific
rial Legislatures have right to drive off slaves
impair the value of their labor by "unfrendly leg
iclotinp p,oro thap ,ponld hoyo