Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-03-21

mony-that he knew that John Brown entertained
awless and reasonable designs against the Southern
States, and though Disappearing yet econceaedI y
from the country. This, gentlemen, Is the case q
man who comes to you andtells you he intends 10
murder your nc,ghbor at the hour of Midnight, wheh
asleep in his bed, and to despoil him Of his property
Could YOU Justify yourselves before your own con-
sciences and your God by simply telling the assassin
| it is wrong and failing to warn your neighbor OF
| the impending danger? How much more innocent
is the conduct of such man than that OF the muir
terer himself? Yet such is the conduct OF Senator
| Wilson. :,
Senator Seward was an accessory before the TACT
to the transaction and such could be convicted,
upon the testimony of his accomplish. before any
fairminded and honest jury in Christendom just
such testimony has sent many a man to the gailows
| here in North Carolina. Forbes acquainted him
with the "whole matter in all its bearings" as he
saws; vet he concealed it. A Senator of the United
States, sworn to support the Constitution OF MS
country harbors in the secret recesses OF his BOSOM
plot of treason against tina. country and OF muroer
against its citzens Yet, this is the man whom the
| black Republicans would make President With
his hands reeking in the blood Of murdered citizens
and the dark stains of perjury thick upon him, they
| would place him in the Chair of Washington and
clothe him with the mantle of the immortal Father
of his Country.
| This shame, my fellow citizens must never come
upon the country. No. never, never. This bold,
bad man, with his partizans, must be beaten down
and crushed out and the Democratic party can and
| must do it. Keeping our eyes steadily fixed upon
the true issue involved-whether slavery is to be
abolished here in the South, and animated by
full sense of the danger that threatens the country,
we will 20 into the battle under the flag Of the Con-
| stitution and the Unon-a flag that has never yet
sustained dishonor or defeat at the hands of any
foe--and depend upon it our victory will be as COM
plete and as brilliant as our cause is just and
righteous.
But in this vital struggle. we, strangely enough,
meet with obstacles here at home. Our opponents
here affect to doubt the soundness of Northern Dem
ocrats our allies, on the slavery question. should
be most reluctant to believe this charge to be true
for them rdeed would the last hope of this country
have deserted her. No, sir, it is not true If there
are any who deserve praise above others for re-
naming faithful to the Constitution of the country,
they the noble Democracy of the Northern States
With no pecuniary interest involved, with no
rights of property at stake without even the greet
ngs of popular applause to reward them,-surroun-
ded by adversaries all Sides they manfully main
tain the unequal contest; against detraction and
abuse-against fanatcism in all its fierce and fear
full FORMS they bravely fight the battle of the Con-
stitution and the Union. We, the Democrats of
North Carolina. greet them this day, before the
world, as worthy allies in great cause.
Allow me, Mr.. President, to call your attention to
practical illustration of the difference between
Northern Democrat ard black Republican. Gov.
Packer, of Pennsylvania, surrendered one of the
Iiarpers Ferry traitors, promptly, upon the demand
of the Governor of Virginia. He is Democrat.
Gov. Kirkwood, of Iowa. refused to surrender, upon
demand, Of the same conspirators, but gave him
shelter and protection. lie is black Republican.
The obeyed his oath OF office as an honest man,
the other perjurcd himself before his country and
hiS I'D This thoD fha yyida hefxv
Northern Democrat and an abolitionst. And he
who processes not to see it. in the face of evidence
plaln should not complain, if he himself incurs
the suspicion of an obusenesS of vision upon this
slavery question.
Another prediction of four opponents here is that we
will differ and divide in the Charleston convention and
thus be shorn of power to defeat the abolition
lists; the last thing in the world we intend to do.
Differ we often 90, but divide never The word
divide is not to be found in all the great dictionary
of the Democratic language. 1t only occurs here
and there in some fugitive productions that have no
rank among the standard works of our political lit
erature Our opponents seem utterly unable to
comprehend the nature Of our political organization;
We are party based upon principle, and have no
power to divide.
And, gentlemen of the Opposition let me say to
you here, now, that those of you who build your
hopes of preferment upon expected divisions in the
Democratic party, have long and lonely road to
travel before reaching your destination.
Why divide? Oh! it is said we differ about GER
tain questions out in the territories. True it we
differ as to the proper construction of law of Con-
gress. And We have agreed in that law itself to
submit that question of difference to the determn
alton of the Supreme Court tribunal erected by
the Constitution expressly to perform such duties
No true Democrat fears to submit any mere legal
question, this is, to the decision Of the Supreme
Court, and no true Democrat refuse to enforce
its decisions when made; and that, too with all the
powers of the government, whenever their exercise
may become necessary to this end. He who would
resist evade such decisions is not only bad De-
] mocrat, but a dangerous citizen. No, gentlemen,
! there will be no division at Charleston.
| The peace of the country requires the black Re-
publican party to be overthrow, and there is no
political organization that can do it but the Demo-
cratic party. The country, then, demands the uni
ted services of all Democrats and depend upon it,
as ever heretofore it will have them Wherever,
throughout our broad domain, waves the flag of the
Republic, there will be seen Democrats shoulder to
shoulder, resisting in solid column the reckless as
sailants who would tear down and desecrate this
emblem of our national liberties
Yet, in view of the plain facts of our situation,
an effort is being made to organize another political
power, which effort, it must be confessed, borders
rather on the udcrious considering the very serious
nature Of the subject. few respectable gentle.
men, who in times past, held high Offices in the
government; politicians of former generation,
nearly all of whom long years since having selected
involuntary retirement into the Blossoms of their
families" where only it is said true contentment
to be found, assemble in the City of Washington,
and gravely undertake to set up and knock down
political organizations just as boys toss about their
jack straws.
Itimay be that these gentlemen were not ANNA
ted by desire for Office yet, when we look at their
acts we can scarcely resist the suspicion that they
at least still have pleasant recoecons of the times
when the robes Of high Office encircled them
. Doubtless when assembled in conclave in the FEEDER
al City-the theatre Of their former grandeur-ani
looking each other in the face, they thought of the
past and all its glories-the halcyon days that were
no more, and INDUCED in the reveries of the poet
"Sweet memory, waited BY thy gentle gale,
Oft up the stream Of time turn my sail
To view the fairy haunis of long lost hours,
Bles with far greener shades, far fresher flowers"
But it is said, actions speak louder than words =
, LET them sneak in fhic cace These venerahI