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

same time working upon the fears Of the people oy
misrepresentation, to alarm them for the sta
bility of the Union, they can succeed in breaking
down the Democratic party in this State, it will De
to them substantial victory which will recompense
them for all their trouble and pains:
But here is the recantation of last Saturday.
evil somebody do us the favor to fan us, ana
hold vinaigrette to our nose?
"INTERvENTIoN OR NoN-lNTERvENT1oN.-Are the
friends of the Union and good government prepared
to lose both on account of quarrel about the mas
cradle abstraction of Intervention or non-interren-
ton? Let us look for moment at these questions
and see if they are not miserable distractions. NO
man can point his finger to square inch of terrific
ry in which the cond ton of slavery is not definite
y settled, or to ,uare inch of territory in which
there is prospect that the question OF slavery or
no slavery cW arise in the future. This being the
state of the case, the question Of Intervention or
Non Intervention is settled. There is nothing to
bring it up If it comes up it must be forced up,
ami those who do force it up will do so for the u-
terror purpose of getting protect Disabling the
Union This is as plain as day ITSELF and how So
ber-rninded men, men of substance and intelligence,
can permit their tempers to be excited and their
Judgment warped by the discussion of so silly an
abstraction, is past all comprehension.
What comment on mans folly would it be, to
see this Union of thrty-three States broken to
pieces and the country involved in all the horrors
of civil war, on account Of a question uhieh nerer
can arise practically for legislation or judicial
action! Z"
But short time ago, the Register told us it was
"the imperative duty of Congress TO legislate for
the protection [of slavery in the territories that
this is the only true Southern ground" and that
to acquesce in different doctrine 'aoodtd 6ed de-
claration that slnues are not property"
Presto and behold only few months afterwards
the same Register tells US this doctrine is mis-
cradle abstraction and "sy abstraction, that
those who advocate it 'do for the purpse of get
ting pretext to dissolve the Union" and more than
intmating that those who get excited when they
talk about it, drunk, mere shadows without SUBJ
stance, and fools. More than that it rails at Mr..
Breckenridge and his friends and calls them disunion
lists because it suspects of them of entertaining
the very doctrine the editor himself taught few
months ago. and which he then said was the only
true Southern ground" Nor has anything occurred
to "settle" the intervention question since he
wrote the first article-on the contrary, much has
occurred to unsettlc it. and make it living threat
ening gorgon head, standing right in our path.
And what reason is given for thus suddenly ahan-
doning this essential and "only true Southern
ground?' None whatever. 1.-THE question of in
tervention or nonntervention is settled" saws the
Register Which way is it settled? Mr.. Lincoln
says Congress nay intervene to prohibit-Mr
Brown, of Mississippi, says Congress must inter-
vene to protect-Mr: Doug las says Congress cannot
intervene for any purpose but the Territorial Leg
islatures may. Mr.. Breckenridge says neither Con-
gress nor the Territorial Legislatures must inter-
vene for any purpose, except that the Territorial
Legislatures must protect it Here are four con-
ficting opinions on the subject, each Of which is
supported by large party, which represented
by candidates for the Presidency. If this is settled
what in the name of conscience can be said to be
unsettled? Will the Register favor the public by
informing it which of the four opinions prevailed in
the settlement? think thought to have been con.
sidered settled by the Kansas Nebraska act and the
bred Scott decision But did the Register think it
had been settled in July, 1852 when it published
the article have cited? That was after the act
had been passed and the decision rendered. If it
was not settled in July. 1850 what has occurred to
settle it since that time? If Mr.. Breckenridge is
disunionist, what was the Register from the 3Oth
July, 1859, up to last Saturday? Let "Citizen
Holden and Senator Clngman" try ever so much,
and they never will be able to excel the Register in
inconsistency.
To change ones opinions is human, bu: to throw
stones when one lives in glass house himself is
arrant folly. V1NDEA.