Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-22
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TO THE FRIENDS OF DOUGLAS & JOHNSON,
The National Nominees Of the Democratic party,
in North Carolina

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TO THE FRIENDS OF DOUGLAS & JOHNSON,
The National Nominees Of the Democratic party,
in North Carolina 80
FELLow-CrrIzENs: was guilty, in my former ad-
dress to YOU of the freshness and ndscretion of re-
buking, in somewhat plain language the arrogance
and tyranny, shown by some OF the organs and lead
of the Seceders' ticket towards You, because
you have dared to exercise the same rights which
they claim for themselves, and which guaranteed
to all by our Constitution and laws. But it seems
that the simple fact of friend Of the regular nomi-
nees, Douglas and Johnson speaking his opinions
fearlessly and rebukng, in bold terms the intoer-
ant and malignant spirit of denuncation and perse
cution, which has been brought to bear against the
great statesman Of the Northwest is an atrocious
crme-is high treason against certain set of poll
tcans, who think because they in the enjoyment
of all the honors and offices of government, they
possess all the political sagacty and orthodoxy Of
the day. and entitled to the privilege of dicta-
ting opinions Of political faith TO others. BY
What said seems to have aroused the ire of
full pack, and stray, blanche and Sweetheart" all
opened upon me- But let them bark. / shall not
permit the vulgar epithets they use to divert me
from the object have in view, and that is to i'm
press upon you the importance of united and prompt
action on the part of the friends of Douglas and
johnson in this State. To secure this united and
promptaction, it is necessary that many of you
can conveniently attend, either in person or by
delegates, should meet in the City Of Raleigh the
SOFA of this month shall proceed to state brief
ly, the reasons which urge you to this course. L
ask for them your candid consideration.
First: You believe Douglas and johnson are the
regular nominees of the national Democratic party.
Ii is unnecessary to state the reasons which have
brought you to this conclusion. IL you honestly
believe they are the regular nominees then you are
bound in good faith, in duty to the Democratic par
ty, and 20 your country, to sustain them. The adj
vocates of the "Seceders' ticket" do not claim for
it any regularity of nomination. 1t fact they ad-
NIT that Breckenridge and Lane were not regularly
nominated. This President Buchanan himself con-
cedes. They insist however, that there was no
regular nomination at Baltimore and that Democrats
have right to vote for whom they think proper"
Now, can understand, how men who honestly be-
lieve this, support either Douglas or Breckin-
ridge, but how those whose judgments have forced
them to the conviction that Douglas rds regularly
nominated-and that he stands before the country
the only chosen standard of the national De-
mocracy, can refuse to support him, give
countenaunce and aid to an irregular nomination,
is to me, incomprehensible Are such acting in
good faith9 Were they not pledged to their breth-
rem throughout the Union to sustain the nomineesf
Believing that Douglas was regularly nominated,
they not violating their plighted faith, when
they refuse to support him? DO they not abandon
their duty and surrender their convictions Of right?
1t is Of no consequence in this view of the case,
whether Douglas Breckenridge be the stronger in
this State. II Douglas has but an hundred friends
in the whole State the question for them is one of
conscence-of duty-of loyalty to their party-not
as mere local. sectional or State organization-but
as a national party. Take the Union at large, and
Douglas is five or six times stronger than Breckin-
ridge. He is gaining every day in the Southland
it is universally conceded that if Lincoln is to be
defeated it will be done by the Democratic strength
at the North, which is ralyng, with an enthusiasm
and zeal unsurpassed, around Douglas. Besides, if
it conceded that Breckenridge is stronger than
Douglas in this State, this would be no better
for you to go for Breckenridge than it is for the
Northern Breckenridge men to support Douglas
Yet they have refused to do So and their leader,
Danl S. Dickinson, proclaims unceasng war against
Douglas and his friends. No you are not permit
ted by them to look at this question of duty
of conscience-of fealty to party, or of obligation
to your country. They must haze your uncondi-
? tiOnal surrender or nothing. In the language of
arrogant and tyrannica leader of the "Seceders'
ticket" the Douglas men in this State must be
crushed out" "Brave wordsI' Now, is it your
purpose to surrender your rights as freemen, to
abandon your duty, to cover under such tyranny,
in this alarming crisis Of your countrya God for
bid that you should Act like men, and the truth
and justice of your will carry you through tri
umphantly. 20 si- ISL
Secondly: You cannot support Breckenridge and
Lane withOut abandonment OF principle. For
the last few years of the cardinal principles Of
the Democratic party-yea, Of the whole South
without distinction of party-has been non-inter-
UentiOn by Congress toi slarery in the Territories
1t is the doctrine OF the Cincinnati PLATFORM upon
which the Democratic party trinmphed in 1866
The "Seceders" .repudiate this doctrine, and pro-
claim that of Congressional iRterceRtioB for the
protection of slaoery. This throws the whole sub.
ject of slavery into Congress,-opening again the
food-gates of the slavery agitation. You wish to
stand on the old platform Of Democracy You
think the doctrine Of non-intereaton necessary for
the peace of the country and the safety Of the South
How the can you support the "Seceders ticketT
Is it not your duty, under such circumstances, to
hoist the old Democratic ner-inscribed with the
names of Douglas and johnson, and appeal to the
people to sustain you. 49,
~ Thirdly Justice and gratitude as well az policy,
demand that you should stand boldly and fairly by
the regular nominees In all the struggles of the
South with abolitionism Judge Douglas has proved
your fast friend and fearless defender. No man in
the nation has done more to stay the mad progress
of fanaticism In return for all this he has been
traduced, misrepresented, yiifed and loaded with
ndignities by many of the selfish and unprncipled
politicians Of the South 1t is the duty Of bis
friends in this State few though they be- To- stand
faithfully by himi Let us do this, and returning
sense Of justice will yet yndicate bis elais against
the venom and heartiessness Of that persecution to
which he has been subjected In addition to this,
the Democracy Of the North West destined to be
the seat of political power on this Continent ARE
our truest friends Judge Douglas is their repre-
sentative their great statesman. If Ne IS unwor-
thy of our confidence, 90 are they But what did
the Democratic Convention of this State, which as