Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-11-28
Our Course.

Our Course. U~
We know we'll that it will be charged by our eneN
mics that We would have pursued different course
in relation to Constitutional Union, if we had
been elected State Printer. Persons who make this
charge Judge us by the standard of action which
they have erected for themselves We would have
maintained our consistency and our views in any
event We have adopted no new course-we have
struck out in no new direction. We have uniformly
said during the campaign what We say now, that
divided the Democratic party was in the contest,
the mere triumph of the black Republicans at the
ballot.box would be no sufficient cause for disso-
linton of the Union that such triumph would be
4 great calamity, and would render it our duty to
prepare, to be on our guard, to watch the enemy,
and to he ready to maintain rights promptly, if
assalcd; but that, while thinking thus and acting
thus and while determined not to submit to the adj
mlnistration of the government on black Republi-
can principles, it would he our duty to give Mr..
Lincoln a trial, and to preserve the government, if
possible, from disruption and destruction We have
uniformly declared that the South relies for pro-
lection and Justice on the federal Constitution, it is
and insist upon it until its powers are exhausted
There can be no Union without the Constitution
Exhaust the Constitution, and the Union will be no
more.
We have no idea that the Democratic people of
North Carolina are prepared at this time for revo-
Tuition and disunion I'VE have idea that the sup
porters of Mr. Bell in this State prepared for
revolution and disunion If it shall be said that the
supporters of Mr.. Breckenridge in this State are
committed, either by their platform or the antece-
dents or declarations of their candidates to dsunion,
then the reply is that the fact if it be fact has
been made known only since the election. If it be
true, as the fire-eaters declare, that Mr.. Breckn-
ridge was the disunion candidate, then We say that
at least forty thousand of the Democrats Of this
State who voted for him have been deceived. Ger
tanly VIC for one would not have supported him if
we had believed him dlsunionist. But he is not
disunionist His Ashland speech proves that he is
not Nor is Gen. Lane disunionst for he en-
phatcally declared in of his campaign speeches
in the Northwest, that if Mr. Lincoln should be
elected it would be the duty of the people to give him
trial-that the four years of his administration
would soon pass away. and that the Democrats and
conservatives Of the country would rise up in 1864
and hurl the black Republicans from power. So
the fre-eaters of this State in their efforts to dis
solve the Union not sustained by either of their
standard-bcarers in the late contest. The truth is
il Mr.. Breckinridge had announced in his Ashland
speech the views and sentiments contained in Gov
Ess message, he would not have received twenty
thousand votes in North Carolina. If it be true
therefore, that Gov. Ellis has spoken the sentiments
of Mr.. Breckenridge then we say that thousands of
Constitutional Union Democrats have been deceived
and if it be true, as we understand it is, that Gov
Ellis uttered no such disunion sentiments in his
campaign as he has uttered in his message, then
We say that he has deceived thousands of Democrats
who voted for him. ~ ~
But the hounds of power will be set upon us, be-
cause we have dared to think for oursel and to pro-
test against measures which would preciptate the
State into dsunion and civil war Let them come.
We will receive them with hot shot from this old
Democratic battery, and send them bowling to their
masters We shall stand like rock against both
disunon and submission. We shall call on the
people to come to the 1t is their cause that
we are advocating Let them hold meetings prompt
y and say to the reeaters thus far, but farther.
Let them tell their representatives that consulta-
ton with other States is necessary, and that Con-
yenton of the people of this State is necessary, il
it be their determination to remain in the Union
and to give Lincoln trial. Let them tell their re-
representatives. to reorganize the militia, and to
as many volunteers as can be armed, with such
means as can be procured in the midst of this finan-
cia crisis; but let them protest against any meas
the part of their representatives @hich oil
Get in motion the machinery Of disunion. Fellow
citizens, if that machine starts it sciu necer stop
until it has carried you out Of the Union. The
leaders know this and hence their anxiety to commit
you by consultation with other States before they
consult you your primary capacity as to what shall
be DONE Be warned in tlme