Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-07-18
RALEIGH N c. sWEDNEs DAY. JULY is 1860 ].
For the Standard.
oiTRE PEOPLE OF THE SLAVE STATES.

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To TIE PEOPLE OF THE SLAVE STATES.
Do you wish to divide the Union and bring on a
civil war? This is the question which You will
hayesto decide at the ensuing Presidential election;
andn is time you should be preparing your minds
for its decision 2.@1st ~. I.
AGonvention the Democratic party fairly and
regularly constituted, according to the regular and
recogRized custom, has nominated Judge douglas as
Its candidate for your snffrages. minority Sc
cedlRg from that body has nominated Vice Presi-
dent Breckinridyc The reason assigned for this
secession and refusal to abide by the nomination of
Douglas IS that he refuses to to abandon the doc
trlne hitherto maintained by every slave State, that
Congress should not egisla:e for against slavery
III the Territories leaving to the propcr Courts their
appropriate duty of protecting the rights of slave
owners. well as all other tights whenever unlaw-
fhiESdssalcd This is the only reason assigned for
the. secession and rejection Of Douglas Now, If
Mrs. Douglas is wrong, all Of you as well as large
m1oriry of the Northern Democrats. have up to
this time been wrong with him. Is it not passing
strange, that what you have al! heretofore consd-
cred extremely right, should become extremely
wrong so Suddenly? Forve many years and un-
til yesterday Congressional interference with slave
ry You all declared to he wrong. To-day you are
called on to say it is right that the man who still
maintains it to be wrong is to he pronounced her
tic and excommunicate-to be driven out from
your association as unclean and leprous You all
declared for intervention and in support of this
doctrine Douglas has batted with the hosts OF, aho-
litiondoin facing more dangers, expending more la
hor and making more sacrifices than any other man
in the Union. He is to-day more hated and feared
by the ahotonists fnr this than any single man in
the world And you will remember that IN doing
and suffering all this he was fighting in your cause
and supporting yonr doctrine And for this, and
for this alone you called on to turn your backs
on and denounce him. Is this the vaunted chivary
of the South? Is it honor gratitude, or even com
mon honesty? When Northern Democrats remind
you Of these things what can you say in jnstifca-
ton of your treatment of Douglas? If he is to be
osiracised by the South you expect to ever see
another Douglas leading yOnr van in battle with the
aholitiOnsts? 1t pains me to say you once before in
this way turned your hacks on man who had ever
been trnc to the Sonth until you fnr>ook him-T
mean Martin Van Buren. Had you been Just to
him. abolitinnSfn, in my opinion, would never have
grown to its present formidable proportions. 1t
cannot he expected of our human nature that men
will incur labor. danger. and sacrifice even for
Just cause, when deSertinn and denunciation to
be their reward No cand man will say that he
ever expects to law passed hy Congress for the
support of slavery in the territories New Mexico
lately passed sucha law. and ssraiyhtway the House
Of Representatives passed hill to rrereal it. And
all know that the majority opposed to the Protec-
ton Of slavery is constantly and regularly increas-
ing in that body and in all probability will contin
ne to increase there. and in the Senate too But
were Douglas as desirons to extend and support
slavery as the most RAMPANT secesSlnniSt and pro-
slavery man. he could make no law in its behalf
All he could du-and to this he stands pledged
would lie to veto any law affecting it injuriously
which Congress might enact You all know that
the President can enact no Law, but may prevent
the passage Of such he believes to be improper.
For years and until YESTERDAY, your watchword was
Hands off the Territories" and Douglas and our
Democratic friends at the North cried ''Amen," and
did battle in its support. Today you turn son,-
ersct and cry Hands on the Territories" and call
on them to turn upside down, and shout "Amen -
to that too If they hesitate. you dcnounce them.
Several of the States have declared that the election
Of black Republican would cause them to secedc
from the Union. Now should the election of such
he the result of your refusal to support Doug
las under the circumstances detailed above, are you
prepared to secede too? Large calculations have
been made on the support Of our Northern friends
in the event of that collision between the South and
North felt generally to he inevitable between the
two sections in the event of separation Will We
not. by our refusal to support Douglas, throw away
all claim to this? When our present Union shall
have become two countries will not Northern De-
mocrats rather say with Decatur: "OuR country,
may it always he in the right; but right or wrong,
may it always be successful -
Is it not enough to ask our Northern friends to
give steady and consistent support to Southern
rights? Must and ought We to ask them to stultify
and render themselves ridiculous by turning somer-
sc's at our bidding? | guess there is too much
pride among them for that. Douglas has told you
that the division Of the Democratic party was dis
u;,inn And it is true. The Northern Democrats
can never hope to offer US from their section as
candidate for the Presidency or Vice Presidency one
more fully pedged'to the maintenance Of Southern
, rights than he is, one more cordially hated by
the enemies of cur section. This conviction must
of necessity throw all the power Of the federal gov
ernment into the hands of the black Republicans;
when the funeral knell of the Union will he sound
ed That Breckinridge and Lane are unexcepiiona,
BILE candidates most cheerfully admit. A better
choice could with difficulty have been made In trut,
nv opinion of them is so high that T entertain a
strong hope that they will withdraw candidates
before the election and suffer the full strength OF
the Democratic party to he concentrated on the reg
ularly nominated candidates for the sake of doing
Justice to our Northern friends and ccmenting the
!, harmony of the Democratic party, on the con.
tinuance of which, depends the Onion of the
Sttaes ] will admit more-that were their re-
spective positions changed would vote for Breck
nridse and Lane with more hearty gooti will than
expect to vote for Douglas and Johnson grant
too, that politician, Douglas has committed er
rOrS. no mas not y lie OuSnt hot 10 nave VOteo
against the Lecompton Constitution, although ths
acceptance rejection Of it could do extremely lit
tie good or harm, iiasmuch as it might have beer
altered as soon The people of Kansas chose.
think too that instead Of contenting himself with
promising to maintain the Dred Scott decision, he
ought TO have added thatit was decision
Twill close this writing by proposing to Judge
| Douglas the following question: with request thai
he win answer ii through the medium of the North
Carolina Standard: 5..sEss5.i
-. To STErHEN A. DouGLAs. .ra
Will you. If elected President Of the Emitted States
use all the ciyil military and naval authority wtl
which President is invested which may be neces
sary for the protection in the territories Of the Uni
ted States of slave property in the event at
tempt being made unlawfully to molest themlin th'
use Of such property, OF to deprive them Of it un
| hvfully9 = Egt-zs! ~ II - - e.. z;,',t
| hope Mr.. Editor, you will forward to Judg