Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-12-29
The STANDARD.
REMARKS OF Mr.. BROWN.
Or UAswELI

OF OASWEii5
,1stissrSs in tho Senate u Sorth-earosie6, De-
-eesaber 81, 1861.
Mr. Brown arose to ,repel the ihssnaatfcn made
b4 the Senator from jackson, (aH TNcmas,) that
he had any political connection With the Standard
newspaper, other than as menaber of the Demo-
cratic party Although he Agreed with the Standard
in most things, in Others he differed from it. He
had no political coasection with that paper, nor
with any Other IN the State. The first speech he
had delivered in the Senate, he had taken to the
Editor she State Journal who declined publishing
n, seesfng that he had not time to do so.
Mt Brown, desiring to be heard carried his re-
marks to the Standard office, where they were
promptly published. Some days after he requested
the Editor Of the State yeUraat to publish another
speech, and had met the like answer. He had
recourse again to the Stgederd for publication.
which was promptly done This simple act of
Justice TO himself had been made ground of mis-
representation.
Mr. Brown recognised in the Standard, journal
that had done long and able service for the Demo
cratic party 1t vas independent journal, otcned
solely by its Editsr ead st the organ of Disunion
He would thus correct misrepresentation concern
ing himself on this subject, which would show the
lberality With which the Editor Of the Standard
had acted
NJ. B. said the Senator from Jackson had spoken
of the secession and coercion of State he mr. b.
had been the advocate of the right of secession long
scAOSNho udu lISI kHOWu Tue SeUdIOT-HuiCu WAC
many years since, and had been the first man in the
South, at public meeting in Raleigh, who had de-
nounced the doctrine, promulgated by Judge Doug
laS, that State could be coerced by the General
Government While he fully concurred with the
Senator, thatwe had in the last few years been out
ragged by many aggressions from the North, brought
about by the disorganizaton of the Democratic par
ty, under the lead OF such men as Stephen A. Doug
las he did not admit that it had been the case on
all former occasions. Why" said Mr.. B.. " the
very soil which the Senator himself and large por-
ton of his constituents inhabt with portion of
tho soil of of the entire terri
tory of Georgia. large portion of the soil of Ala
bama Mississippi, and other South western States,
were relieved from the Indian tribes who occupied
it by the aid of the indomitable Democracy of the
North-by the votes of Silas Wright Franklin Pierce,
and other noble patriots besides the aid which they
had given in the purchase of Louisiana and Florida
and the annexation of Texas" is it just to ig-
the services of these patriots 10 the South Is
Inconsistent with Southern honor and Southern chic
a1y thus to msrepresent history, and do those gal
liant patriots, and the millions of men who have
stood by in the North, the great injustice of in
Guiding them in sweeping denunciation of the
whole North ?? 1t is this injustice to friends at
the North for the last twenty years which had
done to the South this incalculable mischief. The
Senator seemed disposed and doubtless intended, to
rush into early disunion certain contingencies
and had ridiculed the phrase, e Watch and Wait"
He, (Mr b. was not the author of this phrase; he
could, however. see in IT. on some occasions if not
in all much wisdom. why, the Senator himself,
CIR. b. humoreusly remarked, was no doubt some
times watch and wait man." Last night when
the town bells gave the alarm OF fire. he was proba-
bly, "ratchiny" inapprehension that "0ld Abe" was
upon us. He was to some extent ''soaif" man,
when he proposed 10 "rdif until the 4th of March,
before .dissolving the Union. Mr.. B. h1morously
added that by way of testing the valer and chiyalry
of the SenatOr-So StrnnClv ayinced IN the
occason-he would make proposition to him. 1t
was this: : That while he entertained feeling of
common brotherhood for the noble patriots at the
North who had stood by US, yet regarding Wendell
Phillips and VIM. H. Seward as enemies of their gov
eminent and country, if he, Mr.. Thomas, would en-
counter Phillips in single combat he, Mr.. B., would
pledge himself to meet Seward in the same way and
on the same terms