Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-08-22
RALEIGH. N. c.. WEDNEs DAY. AUGUST %. 1860:
For the Standard.

For the Standard
Mr.. EDITOR: There are thousands and tens of
thousands of true Democrats in the South who be-
lieve that Stephen A. Douglas and II. V. johnson
are able statesmen true to the Constitution and the
rights OF the South and they also believe that these
gentlemen are the regulnr nominees of the national
Democracy, and that it is the duty of the party
throughout the country to support them as such.--
Thus believing they have claimed the right of every
citizen of this Republic, to express their opinions
and act upon them. But how have they been metz
With spirit Of arrogance and tyranny calculated to
arouse the indignation of any man who has spark
of independence or courage in his SOUL Douglas, it
is known, has been burnt in etfigy in this State
He has been denounced traitor to his party and
the South, by some Of the intoerant and vindctive
leaders of the Breckinridge party. They ex-
tending the sphere of their operations and are
burning Gov johnson in effigy, as will be learned
!; from the following extract from a Tennessee paper
! appeal to the Douglas men of North Carolina to
come to the aid Of their brethren in other States
and put down such tyranny.
JUSTICE.
HANGING IN EFF1Gy-tsov. Herschel V. johnson,
who is on the ticket with Douglas, recently address,
ed political meeting in Macon upon the questions
/, OF the day-enforced the claims of Douglas and
showed up the Inconsistencies of the Democrats in
opposing him and going for Breckenridge Next
morning the counterfeit presentmcnt" of the Gov
ernor, done up in old Clothes and stuffed out in cot
ton, was hanging near to his hotel, having
: been placed there by the Breckenridge Democracy!
Now. We no admirer of Gov. Johnson's politi-
cal course in life, but such argument in reply to
his withcring chastisement, is no argument at all,
and is wholly improper and wrong 1t is weak
and peuri!e argument simply contemplate and
one which always recoils upon its authors. No
man in Georgia, or in any State in the Union whose
good opinions worth anything will think any
thing less of Gov johnson because he was hung in
efigy by squad Of BreckInridges followers. We
believe that Gov. johnson is wrong in politics, as
! all other Democrats are, North and Sorth; but at
the same time he is in free country, and has a
right to his opinions, and it is his privilege as cit
izen to express them, and all attempts to suppress
them and put them down by mobccratc violence
wrong in princ pie and subversivc of the rights
, of the citizen. He has been the Governor of the
State, he is able and distinguished man. an Elder
E; in the Presbyterian Church. and courteous deba-
ter, and deserved no such indgnity.
/; We deaounce this whole business of hanging in
effgy, an unworthy, revolutionary, and Locofoco
attempt to suppress freedom of thought and action
| If it is followed up and made part of the pro-
gramme of the Breckinridge party in Georgia, it
: will give the State to Douglas and johnson. The
sympathies of all right thinking and generous men,
are enlisted in behalf of the victims Of persecution.
III For the Standard
MR EDITOR: see from the papers that the friends
Of Douglas and johnson are to assemble in the city
of Raleigh, on the 30th of this month"; to organize
for the Presidential campaign. | am glad to see
this. regard those gentlemen the regular nomi-
nees of the National Democratic party just as much
so as Cass was over Van Buren in 1S4S, and Thomp-
son was over Bledsoc in Wake county. pledged
myself and so did all true Democrats in the State,
to stand by and support the nominees of the Con-
III Al.
regular nominees, then there none, and the De-
mocratic party is irrecoveraby broken up and de-
stroyed. This am not disposed to admit but il
the course of the seceders is to be justified then the
party had as we'll break up, dsband, and proclaim,
itself impotent for good,-yea, dead. -
= But see the faacy of the reasoning by which the
seceders urge the support of the Breckenridge and
Lane ticket, and insist that the Douglas and john.
son men disorganieers in attempting to get up
ticket in this State for the national nominees They
admit that their Convention had only about one
third of the Electoral vote of the Union in it. By
the usage and an express rule of the party. it re-
guired tuo-thirds to nominate Then, certainly,
their candidates were not regularly nominated. -
But say they, the Douglas men ought to give up
surrender, in at once to the support of their
ticket because a majority of the Delegates to the
Convention from this State-our members of Con
gress and our Governor-are for that ticket Now
what right had our Delegates to secede from the
National Convention and join the Richmond squad
and bind their constituents to its action? None
none whatever. repudate the idea that they had
any such right. Well then, the members Of
Congress and the Governor the keeper of the con-
sciences Of our people on political matters? Are
they authorized to Select candidates for The Pre-
sidency and Vice Presidency? Irepudiate that idea
also as craven and slavish But "what is sauce fol
the goose is sauce for the gander" There were
nearly half of the States of the Union that had nc
Delegates in the Yancey Convention and in most
if not all of those States, Breckenridge and Lane
don't stand the ghost of chance yet their friends
insist on running separate ticket. Look at New
York and Illinois. There are nine tenths of the
Democrats of those States for Douglas. They voted
for Douglas in the Convention. Yet the secession
party is moving heaven and earth to get up Breck
inrdge and Lane ticket in those States. In them il
is all right in ns here, it is treason. National De
mocrmts--Douglas and johnson mer-stand by you,
colors,-rally like men on the 30th Of this month
and put down dictation and oppression.
! THE UNION FOREVER.
DEATH OF PROMINENT CrTIzEN.-We were star
tied yesterday afternoon by the painful unexpected
, announcement that Hon. VIM. H. Washington hac
passedfom time to eternity We had seen him on tAt
street but few days before and his illness had beer
of such short duration that had not even hearc
OF his being confined. He addressed public meet
ing at the Club House here but few evenings pre-
vious to the election and taken sick we learned