Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-11

5 TO The friends Of Douglas and yoknson. ftAs ma
tiondt nonsinessof tho national Democratic par
ty,) an North Carolisa. IS
FELLowaC ITIzESs: ask your candid attention to
few reflections which I desire to submit for your
serious considerations In the first place. permit me
to inquire, whether it is your intention to submitn
silence to the arrogant dctation insulting menaces,
and degrading reflections upon your motives in
which some Of the leaders and organs Of the "seced
ers ticket, are udulging The Democratic State
Convention, which assembled in Raleigh last spring,
pledged the Democracy Of this State to the support
of the nominees Of the national Democratic Conyen-
ton. You honestly believe that Douglas and John
son are the regular nominees of that Convention.
You think it is your duty, in honor and patriotism
to support them. You cannot, in reason and in
the face Of the undisputed facts which have come to
the knowledge of the whole nation Justify the acts
Of the seceders. You believe it would be an aban-
donment OF principle and an aiding in the support
of sectional and disunion sentiments to sustain the
"seceders' ticket" Well, have you not right to
say So to think it. to write it. to speak it Is there
any infamous "sedition law hanging in terror over
your heads? Are you sldres and have those who
went to Charleston and Baltimore and endeavored
to break up the national Convention lien on your
judgments and souls so that you cannot speak your
honest opinions, except under their permission?
1t cannot be that you have suffered yourselves to be
brought down to such humiliating condition
believe you intend to act like independent freemen,
you to the secession of Yancey Rhett, Keitt,
and Others, bent, as they are on precipitating
country into Revolution and disunionl
Well, having right to think, to speak, to act to
vote as you please acknowledging no set of poll
ticians as your masters-you or many Of you, had
the audacity the rebellious assurance to require
request Robt p. Dick, Esq, the national Commit
teeman of the national Democratic party for this
State, to issue call for the assembling together in
the City of Raleigh, on the 30th Of this month, of
those who prefer the national Democratic nominees
to the secession nominees to decide what course
duty and patriotism demands they should take
You had a right to require this of Mr.. Dick. lie
had right to comply with your request The
Railroads. and the public highways, are open to all
who wish to travel on them and will pay. They
don't belong to the "seceders." The public hotels
in Raleigh have not been all chartered for the spe,
cial and sole comfort of the B" seceders." If they
have been. there private houses, and you can
camp out, your fathers did in the revolutionary
war, if it becomes necessary. You expect to pay
your bills out of your own pockets. Well il you
do all this and entitled to these privileges what
right have the leaders and organs of the seceders"
in this State, to forbid your meeting-to attempt to
muzzle and overawe you? Who constituted them
political Star Chamber to inquire into and
punish your actions! know you will scorn such
dictation and act in the present crisis OF your
trys affairs, like freemen who know their rights
and are determined to maintain them at all haz-
ards
The Democratic Press (Ieayen save the mark y
demands to know "by what authority Mr.. Dick
calls together the Douglas and johnson men of
North CarolinaT | reply, by the same authority
they have to meet. The same authority that gives
tho Press the right to ask the question. The
authority that to its electors the right
"to meet and consult together for the public good"
or for the election Of their particular favortes for
the Legislature, for Congress- or for President
And, perhaps, in the estimation of the Press, Mr..
Dick and the other friends OF Douglas have still
higher right. They have received the publicly
pressed permission of the high priest of the "sece
ders'" ticket-Mr Buchanan. In his speech in
Washington City, on the 9th of July last, he de-
clared that neither Breckenridge nor Douglas was
the regular nominee of the Democratic party, and
Democrats could rOte for ichOm they thought prop
err" Now, here is Mr.. Buchanan's permission to
the Douglas men to vote as they think proper
Is not this sufficient "pass" for the secession
patrol" should they "catch" any of those "rebes"
on their way to Raleigh on the Both inst.
would advise the friends Of Judge Douglas, who
design attending that meeting, to procure copy
of Mr.. Buchanan's "stump speech in Washington
City. 1t may keep the lash of the secession pa
trol" off their backs. And as it is understood that
Mr. Douglas expects to be present on that occasion,
and speak to his friends it may be reTy important
to his personal safety to send him a copy of Mr..
Buchanan's speech. Would it not be humiliating
in the extreme to have Judge Douglas come without
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| of the Press" and their brother "patrollers -
| "Sirl your pass r'-"I have none SIR" By tchDt
authority are you here then? How dare you come
! to North Carolina, without the permission of the
simon pure Democrats-the friends of Breckenridge
and Lanc?" The Judge might reply that he came
under the "banner of the Stars and Stripes and
| "Sy authority of his right American cit-
| zen but what would this avail him? The
| cutioners-the hangmen OF the "seceders" would
reply" y his is excuse. Mr. Dick had no an-
thOrity to invite you and your friends here. You
all rebels traitors and shall be dealt with ac
cordingy. Take all such to the watch-house, and
thence to the guillotinei" Now, this would indeed
| by dpfuL state of things! My good friends, We
| Douglas and johnson men, We supporters OF the
regular Democratic nominees-be cautiouS-stay at
home retire to some place of safety, don't come to
Raleigh, the fiat has gone forth If you do have
the audacity to come, the horrors Of ST. Bartholo-
NEW were "mere circumstance" compared with
| what awaits the Douglas and Johnson men on that
dayl And dare you come, in the face of the fact
that the Democratic Press" and the Wilmington
Journal" and the little squad of political dicators
! about Raleigh, have decided, and proclaimed, that
| you have "no authority no right to meetT Call
this free country! If such internal dictation as
that to which the secessionsts Of the South
deavoring to subject the Democratic party is usti-
| fed, or submitted to, no better off than
| SldceS!
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