Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-08-08
For the Standard.

:, For the Standard
Mr.. EDrroR: At the request of number of the
friends Of Judge Douglas, i send you the following
extract from the able and patriotic speech made by
him, few days since, to the immense and enthusl-
astic gathering of the people that greeted him at
Concord, New Hampshire. Such noble and patriot
c sentiments are honorable to the head and heart OF
this distinguished Statesman, and give the lie direct
to those who charge that he is sectional in his views
and principles. Would to God that such national
sentiments are here uttered, in such strong
tones, could take hold the public heart, and
check the spirit of sec!ionalism which is precipta-
ting country to the brink of revolution and dis
union
Judge Douglas continued: 1" In my opinion, the
government of this country is the white mans gov
ernment 1t was made by white men for the ,bene-
fit Of white men, and ought to be administered by
white men. (Cheers) And think the white men
have right to small portion OF the time, at least,
so that their business may be attended to. You
never will have appropriate legislation on any of
these questions before Congrcss-and am not dis
GUESSING the question as to what the legislation ought
to be-but you never will have the subjects consid
cred and acted upon until you Danish the negro
question from the halls of Congress. Let US Danish
that question from Congress forever. Remand it to
the people of the Territories who are Interested in it.
Let them do as they please, subject to the constu
of controversy between the North and the South
Maintain the doctrines cf nonintervcnton and there
will be peace and harmony between all sections OF
the country. Why can we not now live in peace as
we did in former times? You will all remember
that during the Revolution the Northern army was
commanded by a Southern general, and the South
ern army by Northern general; and on the battle
field Southern and Northern men fought shoulder
by shoulder in common cause, poured out Their
blood in a common battle in order that they might
transmit common inheritance to their children
Why can we not live together now as we did then
in the bonds of peace and fraternity? These qnes-
lions come home to in the Northwest with more
force than they do to you even. Go into the plains
of Illinois, and there you will find the Yankee boy
with Southern wife, the Yankee girl with South
ern husband When their children have grown up
and have gone to visit the graves of their fathers OF
mothers the graves of their ancestors, they have
had to go to Virginia well as New llamshlre to
see them both. Each child has Southern ancestor
as well as Northern one and he don't like to have
heaped the head of the parent or the grand
parent Then, again, when you come to talk about
dissolution of the Union we tell you No! New
err" We trade Southwark as we'll as NorthWard.
We furnish the water that flows down the Misss-
sippi as well as the water that flows through the
lakes of the ST. Lawrence We intend to follow
that water wherever it flows until it nnsle into
broad ocean. (Applanse) We have social and
commercial relations with the South and the East
alike We have the tie of country and of blood that
binds them together. When you tell us that this
Union is to be dissolved We say "Nevcr!" for the
reason that we never intend to travel into foreign
country, and obtain passport and have it rised by
consul in order to visit the tombs of our fathers or
the scenes of our childhood. Hence there is not
on the frontier that don't love this glorious
Union; and because we do love the Union our mot
to is to do an act that would ALLEVIATE one por
ton of the people from another You can only pre-
serve the Union by maintaining peace and harmony
and concord among the people of the different sec
tons. Remember that one tic after another has al
ready been severed. This fell spirit of sectional
strife has invaded the holy sanctuary and separated
the churches into churches North, churches South.
This fell spirit of sectional strife has separated breth
rem at the communion table And when you find
spirit of strife deadly that it even sever So
cial tie and religious tic, and political tie, what is
your constitution worth, when you have made the
people enemies who live under it? You must bind
the hearts of this people together il you expect to
maintain the Union. You only bind those
hearts together, and mould them into one, by obser
wing those great principles of justice and equity up
on which our whole system rests (Checrs)