Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-06-27


plorable a calamity, to beware how they throw OBJ
stacles in the way of our at the ballotbox
for if the election should be lost through their errors
or machinations no power on earth can move the
South to resistance. %. ~ .f
was reared and have spent my manhood thus
far in the Democratic party. | have secn it do
wrong more than once; and more than once / have
seen it temporarily Succumb before its adversarieS.
The Establishments inflicted upon it by the people
have always been merited, and it has risen from
these blows more potent than ever, because more
entitled to the confidence oil patriots. With these
occasional exceptions it has administered the gov
eminent for ftysix years, and whilst with steady
hand it has upheld the Constitution, and maintain
ed order throughout our extended borderS 1t has
proved to the unbceving statesmen and philoSo-
pliers Of the Old World that hostile races, diverse
interests rival religions, and apparently incompati.
BILE Interests, crn all coexiSt without collisions, and
prosper under the federative republican system ad-
ministered by the Anglo Saxon race.
Without entanglmg alliances unjust wars we
have absorbed almost all the nations around us and,
after teaching them how TO govern themselves,
have adopted them as members into the great Re
public.
Without large standing armies, we have spread
our people, laws and institutions vast CONT
nent; watching over and protecting them in the
wilderness, an'i at the Same time, succoring and
protecting the helpless savages whom we suppant
advancing like q giant Out not CRUSHING CNeil
wormi our path.
Infidcty and atheism radicaliSm and socialism,
false philosophy and foul religions, have poured in
from every part Of the world. We have not at
tempted to exclude them, nor to crush them; but
Democratic principles like the healthfu secretions
of the human stomach have corrected what was
poisonous, and assimilated what was foreign, and
made them all contribute to the grow and strength
of the nation.
Whilst German and French statesmen and phllo-
sophers have been specializing about civilization, we
have raised here on this continent political and civil
institutions so perfect and achieved results by the
application Of industry and art grand, and estab
lshed moral and social systems so pure and beaut
full that the Old World cannot exhibit civilization
surprising our own. Annually. Europe is trayerS
ell by almost countless armed hosts, eating out the
substance of the tong masses; and decennally it
is devastated by bloody wars waged to aggrandiZe
kings or settle their disputes Under our wise end
peaceful policy wars and rumurs of wars" rarely
reach US, and the nations might is left to sluInber
iE the arms of freemen
do not deny that all this might have been ac-
complished under the rule Of other parties but
do say, it has not been. 1t has been accomplished
under Democratic rule; and during all the time it
has been in progress our adversares have been vo-
citerating that We were running the country.
What party or association, in all the history Of
the world, save only that of the Christian Church.
has contributed so much to the welfare and happi-
ness of the human race?
Are you willing to see it broken and destroyed,
so that 1t can never again know victory for the sake
Of an abstract declaration of right, which no one
pretendS is OF present Importance? If YOU not,
speak out before the 18th Of June Add your voice
to that Of the Democracy Of the Union, in urging
that every district and county in the United States
shall be represented at Baltimore and in demanding
that nomination shall be made When an aspr-
mt has nd - 49,,
certaned that he cannot be nominated according to
the usages and customs of the party let him be
dropped and another tried In this way nOmna-
ton can lie made; IN THIS WAY A NOMINATION. WILL
BE MADE; and then victory for the Constitution
and the Union will crown our efforts.
Compared to this how insignificant are the per-
sonal predictions that draw men together or the
animosities that sunder them! He who will thus
lay his preference or his enmity on the common al
tar for the benefit Of the country as much better
than the intrguer or the bgot who would compel
him by unfair means to do So as patriotism is purcr
than selfShnesS.
L. OBJ BRANCH
WASHINGTON CITY, May Is, 1860.
Extract from speech cfL Oh Branch, in House Of
Representatives., July "a, 1856.
But it is said the bill allows the people resident
there to prohibit the Introduction of slavery before
such feature The 32d section declares its intent to
he to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions i'm their own
way subject only 10 the CORstitutiOn of the United
States" If the Constitution allows them to prolai.
bit slavery, then the bill permits it; if the Constl
tuition does not allow them to prohibit slavery then
the bill does not permit it. The power of the PEG.
pie during the existence of their territorial govern
ment is judicial question to be settled by the courts
1t case should ever arise involving the question
and whatever Congress might have said in the bill
it could not have altered the Constitution nor taken
the question out of the hands Of the courts What
ever may be the decision Of the courts will be
contents Ter regard the great main feature Of the
bill as infinitely transcending in importance any d
the MINOR questions that can be raised under it
And would rather trust the question to the people
oil the Territory than to such Congress as we now
have and are liable to have at any time in future
Extracts. from speech Of l.. Oh Branch, in Hous
cf Representatives, December IS, 1856.
Mr.. Speaker when, in 1854, we accepted the Kan
sas and Nebraska bill, accepted it with perfec
understanding of all its provisions We knew
that it REFERRED the question have Been examinin,
to the courts OF the country. We aimed to refer
to that tribunal because it was a question appro
pirate to the courts. We had confidence in them
and were willing to abide by their decision. w,
knew the act repealed the stigma upon us and ou
institutions which had been standing on the statute
book for more than thirty years. That commende,
1t to our favor. But above all we embraced it be
cause it contained the great doctrine Of non-inter
ventlon by Congress; because, under the fair an,
full operation of that principle the question of slav
cry could no more get into Congress to furnish fue
for the fires of agitation, and to make the main ele
ment in elections; because under it we and our in
situations would cease to be football in the polit
cal arena, and because we might expect peace an
security instead of the insubordination and insur
rection which northern fanatcism is beginning t
| produce in our midst We knew that the grea
evil under which we are suffering is the domesti
dsquiet caused by congressional agitation, and W
embraced that bill cordially; not because it estat
lished slavery in the Territories for knew it di
not, nor yet because we thought it insured the es
Establishment of slavery for leading southern states