Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-10-10
The Sfapaates.
For the Standard.

Douglas Referring 70 these things the REGISTER
of the 26th says!
"Mr Branch's position, as we have more eao
once proved n the most grossly neons'seen. one
occupied by any one person, save mat Oh 0'u]eh
Holden sid Senator Clingman
ItgsAot pretended that Mr. Branch ever prefer
Eea Mr. douglas for the Presidency, or directly, or
Indirectly favored his nomination. On the contrary
r. is k6own from his repeatedly recorded opinions
extending from 1s4s down to the present time that
he has always held in adherence Mr. Douglas faE-
orite theory of squatter, or POPULAR or territorial
sovereignty, He is in favor Of total absolute nom
intervention by Congress the Territorial legsla-
lures leaving the question of slavery to be settled
by the people, when they frame constitutions pre-
paratcry to their admission into the Union. Mr.
Douvlas on the other hand whilst denying to Con-
vress the right to intervene claims for the first set
tlers tie privilege of saying who shall come upon
the public land and who shall not. If his doctrine
is constitutional and few Northern men, by making
haste to Get into new Territory, may exclude from
it. by law all Southern men, why may not others
20 into another territory and make law that no
person shall come into it and acquire land, except
members oil their own family? If handful Oh
such adventures as generally constitute the nrst
settlers Of Territory can annul rights OF property
acquired under the constitutions and laws oil the
States what is to prevent them from assaing other
fundamental rights and relations established by the
same constitutions and laws? Why may not col
oay of Massachusetts PuritanS make law BASTARD
izng every North Carolinian who may go upon that
part of the public domain winch they themselves
rovet unless he can prove that his parents were
married according to the usages and laws OF New
England? If Mr. Douglas doctrine is constitution
Al these things NAV be done. But Mr.. Douglas
doctrine is not constitutional. The fundamental
relations of society and rights of property are liked
and establshed-by sovereign power, and cannot
when once acquired under the constitution and
l.. folo hu
Temporary and inchoate government of a Territory.
In view of this wide difference between them it is
absurd to say that Mr. Branch is obliged by consid-
erations of consistency to support Mr.. Douglas.
It would be easy to show that Mr.. Breckenridge
entertains precisely the opinions on non-InterVen-
ton which Mr.. Branch expressed in the circular
letter to which the National Democrat and the Reg
iser have so often referred of late, and that re-
gard for consistency in the absence Of any higher
motive would compel Mr.. Branch to support him.
But these questions of individual consistency are
of little interest to the public and my object in ia
king I'D nv pen was not to defend Mr.. Branch, but
to show that the editor of the Register ought to be
the last person to reproach him before the public
for not supporting Mr. Douglas. / charge that no
longer ago than last summer, when Mr.. Branch, in
reply to an inquiry addressed to him on the stump,
said that he intended to support the nominee of the
Democratic party even if Mr. Douglas should be the
nominee the Register assaulted him sc bitterly for it
and denounced Mr. Douglas and his doctrines in
such unmeasured terms, that any prudent man
might be pardoned for hesitatng to do the overt act
the mere contemplation of which brought upon him
such vituperation from the Register. So violent
was the hostility of that paper towards Mr. Douglas
that willingness to vote for him under any cir
cumstances even to save the Democratic party from
DISRUPTION, 10 save the Union which 1t loves so
much, or to prevent the election of a black Repub-
lican was most heinous offence, the perpetrators
-. onA hlanE a0tnhl IN
cans. Week after week Mr.. Branch" unfortunate
Mr. Branch was belaboured most numerically
in its columns because he was willing to vote for
Mr. Douglas if he should be fairly nominated by
the Democratic party. The same paper, edited by
the same gentleman, now arraigns Mr.. Branch for
not supporting him when he has not been nomna-
ted Oh, hypocrisy where is thy blush
Let the friends of Judge Douglas, who have wit
messed the profound sympathy for them and their
cause manifested by the Register and other opposi
tionists of late read and ponder well the following
editorial articles published in the Raleigh Register
last summer:
1. The leading editorial in the Register of August
8, 1859, is in the following words. l give the
tire article, without emitting or changing word.
Some lines are italicised by me:
"BLACK REPUBLICANIsN IN THE SOUTH, &c.-There
is no earthly doubt that no inconsderable portion
of the Democratic press and leading politicians of
the South is fast becoming Black Republicanized.
We say this deliberately, and will prove the truth
of what we do say. Mere names in the estimation
of men of sense pass for little or nothing. Men of
sense look to practical ends and results and would
as soon see the institution of slavery wounded or de-
stroyed, by men calling themselves Black Republic
cans, by calling themselves pro-slavery DEM
ocrats. Nor will men of sense stop to choose be-
tween the different means which are proposed re-
spectvely Of wounding destroying the institution
of slavery, by the calling themselves Black Re-
f,irh he cali cla
ry Democrats. What matters 1t to men of sense,
whether slavery is kept out Of or abolished in the
Territories-the common property Of the United
States-by Congressional Intervention or legislation
against it or by "unfriendly Legislation" of the
Territorial Legislatures? In either the result
is precisely the In either slavery is kept
out of the Territories or banished from them. In
either the doctrine is asserted that slaves are
not property doctrine which strikes at the root
of slavery in the States less than in the Terrific
ries. These premises assert to be true and chal-
lenge for them denial having even shadow of rea-
son to sustain it.
What then is the conclusion? This, and only
this-thdt every Southern man, as nell as euery
Northern man. acho gires his support to Stephen A.
Douglas sanctions the doctrine that the Territorial
Legislatures may by "untriendly legislation" pre-
cent stauery from being introduced into the Terri
tories or Danish SLAVERY from the Territories The
Raleigh Standard, Messrs. Branch Scales and 9TH
eES III OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES v. Jones ana 0tnerS
in Tennessee, Ex-senator Foote and others in Mis-
sissipp, and many more BESIDES are all ready to
support Stephen a. Douglas, and are therefore
ready practically to assert that there is no right of
property in slaues land if this-rO matter sohat 1t
may be called popular sOUereignty" or sohat not
Is not Black RepublicGnism, then things equal to
the same thing are unequal to one another-then
there is no such thing automatic truth-then
maxims are humbugs. and common sense delu-
sion. And yet Holden, Branch, Scales, &C., are
southern rights democrats-the especial, and an
nointed champions of the Peculiar Institution !"
WSH somebody do US the taror to fan us and hold
a caaaigrette to our nosei The impudence of some
people IS Ocerpoaoering"
Who of you gentlemen, friends of Judge Doug
las, will be kind enough to hold "the vinaigrette"
to the editorial hose of the Register?
The impudence of some people is overpower-
ing"
If the readiness on the part of "the Raleigh STAN
ddrd, Messrs. Branch Scales and others in North