The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1860-11-17

Nort9 Garolinialr.
ArErrEv1LLE. n. G.
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the following extracts from Southern
rf1ssl nent which should be in the heads O
avesJ Il is an article written in favor of Ger
tsi.s hern rights resolutions passed at St
Joh1 llston in s. c. last Sprin.. Read it:
DEMOCRATIC PARTY: DIVIDED.
II neonceivable, fellow citizens how anv re.
fea16 $3.50 sFith all the fac.s before him shouk
So z Neiuded himself, to suppose, that the
1exty could be united, upon any com
!. 0 principles, which could lead to
lSfdpGi u y warfare they have been engaged in
- keif,siean aa,Ey tor i.4s p.ssid-n-
cy. Af.er Judge Doug had announced his dor
ma of sqnatter Sovereignty. and his principles had
been ratified, and adopted generally, by North
ern and Western Democrats the seeas of den n
were sown in the party, never again to bc cradica-
ted. The Northern view on this question was in
such direct antagonism, with that entertained Inv
the South, that it would be supposed no witchery
of the necromancer could possibly reconcile them
The gull between the two wings of the party, like
that which separated Dives and Lazarus. was 50
broad and deep. that it would have seemed to be
impossible to bring them together, in uuited action
against the common enemy. But, nothing is deem
Seeker by trade and they seemed to think that
even this lmpassablc chaSm could be brideed over
by resorts to "expediency" and appeals to party
success" Indifferent themselves prtucpLes they
appeared to think that all other are equally SO
hen therefore, they assembled in Convention in
Charleston they undertook to up the difficult
ty which they could neither remove nor destroy
and to accomplish by ambiguity, fraud and indirec
ton, what too strong for them openly to crap
pie with They accordingly offered platform
which they knew was Janus-faecd and deccptiye
and must necessarily operate as swindle.
CONTEMPT FOR SOUTH
l make no comment upon the insult anil contern Mt
TO the South which this purpose implied con
tempt for intelligence which could not pcrceire
the swindle; contempt for political morality.
which would glce up our principles for the success
our manhood, which could be driven from it's pro-
prlety, by Je"r ef conseQ uences and the power of
numbers. But by whatever motives prompted, tho
attempt to impose upon the South such a platform,
fattel-as every intelligent man believed it would
fall, who had not lost faith in the South-that she
still had spirit enough to assert her rights and
who did not believe, with the contemptuous North
that she could It be kicked ont Of the Union y
The South had been cheated once already in that
paf form, and by the ambitious Expounder of it .
and she had openly dt clared her intention not
to be cheated She was nsultcd by not being be-
Eero0, both by her associates i'm Northern vino
well as by some of her sons, ured upon her
bosom, but who, alas had learned ulSo to dispa-
retge her!
Bur there were on the other hand. many-aye,
,ss os aial ~ -asslz,,s~ awouid w lt be- be-
lieye fF,Ciing diSrepuiablc of her: who truSto in
her WISDOM and never doubling her courage, be-
lievcd chat, in her own way, AMI in her own Good
time she would lay aside her .be .rance and plant
herself rtsozutely upon her rights.
Could sons, then, like these, suppose that she
would 20 into National Convention Of Democrats
and for any cause, and under any temptations com
promise her principles or surrender her heritage of
rights l tell You, nay, fellow citizens! They
never would indulge thought dishonoring to her
to suppose that, if principles be surrcn-
dercd to unite the Democratic party, the surrender
would be on her part!
But if they FL that the South would stand
firm. they also persuaded that no concession
would come from the Northern wing of the party
arrogant they from se!fconsciouS power. and
feeling, they do that they represent the majori
ty section Of the Union, which, they resolved
shall gire lar to The Souh
TEE Y ALTON Al DEMOCRATIC PARTY BEING BROKEN Up
INTO TWO HOSTILE 5WISGs WHAT IS THE INTEREST
DUTY OF THE SOUTH UNDER THE CIKcuMsTAS-
Here nav. we perceive in the bosom of the Ma
tional Democratic Convention tuo parties with
prr cipes radically opposed and irreconcilatl, ard
both resolute in maintaining their ground How.
then could union and concert of action be expected
from such iarring elements? tell you, sir they
were not expected and the breaking up of that
Convention and its failure to nomir.at. a common
candidate for the party, are precisely such results
wcll-InfOrIncd man, who had given thought
to the subject had confidently anticipated. The
meeting then of that Convention, and It's proceed
ings afterwards, watched by every earnest
fend of the South with intense anxiety, looking
for the rupture.
And now l ask can any different result be cxpcc-
ted for the future' There is nothing to justify the
expectaton-I will not say the hope The causes
which led to that rupture, SO tar from being tempo
rarv are permanent, and increasing dry by Gay,
in number and strength. No union, then, on prin-
cipLes may ever again be looked tor in any Demo
cratic party.
If then. the Democratic party (thc only organiza-
tnn which may be called national, and is not pure
lY-e.eional.) NAV be considered rs b. oEcH up, and
the Government is t" fall into sectional and hostile
hands, l ask-lst. what interest has the South in
the Democratic party any longer; and, I'd, what is
the position which she should take for herself IN
are not fully secured to her, i; it compatible with
pendent make ight" swelling its ranks and put
ting 1t into power, and then receive from 1t, I'm the
persons cf a fetc OF her needy cJtcesteHeTs) fe"
worthless crumbs as her share Of the spolls! Gan
1t be TO her interest to continue to be mere dppen-
d0ge to Government whose treasury she supplies
annually with than forty millions OF revenue,
to receive back, in return only twenty millions IN
disbursements Can it be to her interest to belong
to a nation. in which she is out-numbered and out
voted by those who are her e1eD ies--ln which her
dearest rights are at tIe mercy of other men VINO
have openly announced their intention to destroy
them, and who now begin TO contemn us IN their
hearts becanse of our pusillnnimaty in not defend
ing ourselves? Every feeling of dignity and self
And may God deliver us from the apathy which
min Il dafin