Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-15
The Sfaaoafo.
THE CRISIS IN NOVEMBER
WHAT VIM. .ras sou1n DO n lIscols BE ELEcTED :


WHAT WILL TIE SOUTH DO IF LINCOLN BE ELECTED
Litter from M. Speaker Or on the election Of
A5e Lincoln
ANDERSON @. H., July 90, 1860.
CsNTLRaEN--I have read and carefully considered
your appeal to me to become a candidate LOT the
Legislature in this district The steadtast and cor
dial support you gave me throughout my public
career of sixteen years. renders 1t painful Tor me to
decline any positionwhich you desire me to occupy,
and vet private considerations, of too great weight
to be disregarded npel me reluctantly to decline
am. like yourself, deeply impressed with the
critical aspect of our federal affairs and believe we
are drifting rapidly upon revolution. NY hope, as
you know for years past for the OF tne
rights Of the South in the Union has been upon the
democratic party. So long as y was uniseo, mar
monio,,s and triumphant our rights and institutions
were safe That great party that has, IN times gone
by. won so many brilliant victories over federalism
a6olitionism and consolidation, and established SO
many sound and conservative principles, is now dis
united, divided and broken up.
Its disruption extinguishes my ardentiy cnerlsh-
ed hone Of preserving not only our rights, but the
Union tself II is idle 10 debate or review the cause
that led to its disruption Let it suffice here lot me
to say. that in my opinion the secession Oh the
Southern delegates from the Charleston convention
was unw;se and impolitc. 1t was manifest .here 70
the most casual observer, that Judge Douglas mno
was so Justly obnoxious to the South "ouid not re-
ceiye the nomination in full convention, anu was
eonally certain that Mr.. Breckenridge would nave
49,, he nom;nee if the Southern delegations had
mot ahanaoned their posts If Mr.. Breckenridge had
hoor tha nominee at Charleston his election would
49, bsen a certainty. He is now the nominee OF
only one wing of the party, the other wing having
nominated Douglas, and while shall give to Breck-
inridge and Lane the nominees OF the baitlinore
of tried
sound urinciples. hearty and cordial support
see no prospect of their election either by the Peo
pie or otherwise. -.
r I;ncoin and Hamlin the black republican nomi-
nees will be elected in November next ana the
South will then decide the great question whetner
they will submit to the nomination oil olacK repuo-
lican rue-the fundamental principle OF tne organi
zat;on being an omen. nndisguised and declared war
upon our social institutions. believe that the honor
and safety of the South, in that contingency VIII
reou;re The proInpt secession OF the slaVehoidlng
States from the Union, and failing then to obtain
from the free States additional and higher guarantees
for the protection of rights and property that
the seeding States should proceed 10 eslaonSn
new government But while think such would be
the imperative duty of the South, should emphat-
icaRy reprobate and repudiate any scheme having
for its object the separate secession OF Soatn caro-
lima. If Georgia, Alabama and MISSISSIPPI alone
giving us portion of the Atlantic and Gull coasts
would unite with this State IN common secession
upon the election of black republican, L would
give my assent to the policy
would indulge in no language of elimination or
denunciation of our brethren in the South who are
impelled by a sense of patriotic duty to support
Douglas and johnson. l believe they are miSjudg-
ing the most efficient Of preserving the rights
and interests of the South in sustaining these gen.
tlemen; but | concede to them patriotism as
catholic as claim for myself and feel well assured
that when the great sectional issue between the
North and South is to be decided-an issue which
words alone will not settle-that the South will
have need for the services of all her sons, and that
Breckenridge men and Douglas men will only emu
late each other in their gallant devotion to her honor
and interests.
Thanking you. gentlemen, for your kind consid-
Grafton, and reiterating my regret tina. cannot res
pond afirmatively to your call, subscribe myself
most truly your friend and fellow-citizen.
JAMES L. ORR.
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