Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-01-25
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WAsHINGroN CRY, Jan. 20. 1860.

House of Representatives is beginning to tell prac-
ticaly among the business men Of the North. Resi-
dents of Northern cities with whom have convers-
cd assure me that there is beginning to be mani
tested alarm and disrust which threatens as Sc
rious financial embarra;sments as those we have SO
recently emerged from Their banks are becoming
cautious and disinclined to accommodate to any ex-
tent their customers and the fear betrayed by these
institutions is affecting every department of trade
The merchants who rely mainly upon Southern
trade for their support are in view of the present
aroused feeling and Independent spirit exhibited by
the South, at loss to determine whether or not the
supplies received from that source are to continue
or be diverted to other points; consequently their
purchases are meagre, and this in turn strikes a
blow at the prosperity of the manufacturers who,
depending upon these wholesale merchants for sales
OF their wares find a. falling off in the demand and
are forced to circumscrbe their operations and dis
charge large numbers of their operatives. So far
immediate dangers and financial disasters, growing
out Of the practical workings of republicanism, are
concerned, the North is seriously threatened, while
the South has less to apprehend than at any previ-
Gus period in her history. Northern labor and cap
ita under the most favorable auspices, antagon
istc and ever at war, while that of the South is
thoroughly consolidated and harmonious, and unaf
fected by the shocks and vcssitudes characterizng
the former. If the storm which now threatens to
burst upon docs come with wreck and ruin in its
wake, the South will be found we'll prepared to
meet Its fury. The closing Of Southern purses and
diversion of trade in favor of dealers in their own
section of the country is telling its tale among
these unblushng advocates of fcndish, incendiary,
and revolutionary policy, which sanctions murder,
arson theft and bestal outrages and is strengthen
ing the hearts and hands of our own people The
raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry and the
threatened aggressions of aboltiondom have aroused
the Southern people to a quckened sense of the
wrongs already endured and those by which they
are now menaced, and they occupy the position of
man who has been unwarrantably assaledand retreat
ing as far as honor regard for the safety of his
life would permit, stands resolutey battling for
the security of BOTH 1t is amusing to witness the
writings of these vile Helper endorsing -incendaries
when goaded by such truthful declarations as that
made few days since by Mr.. Houston, of Alabama,
that the election of an endorser of Helpers book
would be shame, curse, and blighting disgrace
to the country" They groan under such pointed
denunciations, and the truthfuness of them but
adds to the severity of the telling home-thrust--
Can any casuist demonstrate the difference between
the outlines of a man who steals horse and one
who steals negro? Can any sophistry gloss over
the crime of netting armng and aiding the negro
in the South to butcher his uns,lspectng and Sleep
ing MASTER so as to make it less henous than being
accessory to the assassination of white in the
North? Is that man eft to be Speaker" or deserv-
ing the recognition and countenance of honorable
men, who openly avows his purpose to extlrpate
slavery by any means; who approves and furthers
designs which surely lead to the indscriminate mas
sacre of save-owners-to the outraging and butche-
ry of helpless wives and daughters--to the slaugh-
ter of innocent children and the total destruction of
property? Should not man turn from these Hell
ferites with the sckcnins loathng he would feel by
personal association with the midnight assassin or
the convicted fe,on? Where is the difference other
than that the one has pcrpetrated the revolving deed
and the other only bdes opportunity to act SINH
larly?
The designs and purposes of this republican par
ty have not yet been fully announced Faint, in
tangible forcshadowings of their policy are given
occasionally in the rabid leaders of the Iribnne
and the doctrine of the "rrepressbe conflict and
vague hints dropped by republican members Of
Congress give US gimmering of what is to come.
So far, they have only sought to satisfy the morbid
cravings Of their fcllow-hnatics of less ambitious
yearnings, with meaningless generalities and clap
trap phrases about "slave olgarchy and the Tag
gressive " spirit of the slave power" All this is
for effect and deeper and more daring purpose I'M
derlies this glitterng surface. Sir Oracle Greedy
tells US that "our government cannot long be pre-
served under the limitation of political power" and
he and his party openly defy and trample under foot
the decisions of the Supreme Court, utterly denying
its authority and power to decide constitutional
questions; further STILL where they have the power,
they have passed in their State legislatures personal
liberty bills rendering the fugitive slave law inopcr-
ative and bidding defiance to federal authority
The encroachments and daring usurpation of these
fanatics have grown to that extent that they seek
by gradual notifications to rcvolutionze our pres
ent system, and inaugurate consolidated govern
ment as substitute for our present one based upon
the Statesrights federation principle Time alone
can show whether not these fanacal expermenters
will be permitted to consumnate their purposes.
\ word as to the efforts made to organize the
House. 1t has been indisputaby shown that the
democrats alone can do nothing None but the
most captious cavilcr find in the course of the
democratic party cause for censure. They have
done all they could in order to compromise and select
some candidate outside of their own organization,
but up to this time their overturcs and attempts
have been fruitless The South Americans would
not sustain Bocock, Milson or Hamilton; and when
the democratic party earnestly DESTROYS of completing
the organization Of the House, dropped their own
nominee and magnanimouSly took up South
American, Mr.. Maynard, of Tenn. his own party
failed to give him the support he had right to ex,
pect from them. Does this SAVIOR of hctiousness on
the part of the Democracy of the Honse? They
have done and are still doing their duty in laudable
efforts to end this diScreditabe struggle, and the
infamy and shame which should attach to those who
have brought about this state Of affairs, belongs
mainly to the republicans They are the obstruc-
tionists and instigators Of this, as yet bloodess
revolution in which we are really plunged. They
can at once elect Corwn, of Ohio, or Pennington,
of New Jersey, but these gentlemen have slight
odor of conservatism about them which renders
them obnoxious to the intensely abolition Helferites
John Sherman or no one is their fixed resolve they
have chosen an endorser of the Heller book, and
they dare not recede, if they wished from the posi-
tion they have taken. There is scarcely possibili
ty that they will ever abandon him, hoping in the end
to the votes Of the nomadic anti
else cram upon the House the plurality rule. This
latter scheme will never meet the success desired by
its advocates There are now quite number Of
Southern members who have signed written pledge
that they will remain here till March, 1861, rather
than submit to the adoption of this unconsttution.
al rule which will lead to the elevation to the Speak
e-ship of man approving the damnable doctrines
enunciated by Heller. There also others who
have not signed this paper, fully determine to pyr
sue the same course meeting these revolutionizng