Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-06-27


division of the South 1t behooves those who would
band the South one man in resistance to SO de-
plorable calamity, to beware how they throw OBJ
stacles in the way of our success at the bAotbox,
for If the election should be lost through their errors
or Vaccinations, no power on earth can move the
South to resistance.
was reared and have spent my manhood thus
far in the Democratic party. l have it do
wrong more than once; and more than once have
seen it temporarily succumb before its adversaries
The chastsements inflicted upon it by the people
have always been merited and it has risen from
these blows more potent than ever, because more
entitled to the confidence Of patriots. With these
occasional exceptions it has administered the gov
eminent fo- fftyslx years. and whilst with steady
hand it has upheld the Constitution, and maintain
ed order throughout our extended borders, it has
proved to the unbelieving statesmen and phioso-
piers of the Old World that hostile races, diverse
interests rival religions and apparently incompati-
bic interests can all coexist without collisions, and
prosper under the federatve republican system, ad-
innistered by the AngloSaxon race.
Without entangng alliances or unjust wars we
have absorbed almost all the nations around us, and,
after teaching them how to govern themselves,
have adopted them as members into the great Re-
public 4.
Without large standing armies, we have spread
our people, laws and institutions vast CONT
nent; watching over and protecting then, in the
wilderness, and, at the Same time, succ0rng and
protecting the helpless savages whom We supplant;
advancing like giant but not crushing even the
worm in Our path.
Infdelity and atheism, radicalism and socialism,
false philosophy and foul religions, have poured in
from every part of the world. We have not at
tempted to exclude them, nor to crush them; but
Democratic principles like the heallhul secretions
of the human stomach, have corrected what was
poisonous, and assimilated what was foreign, and
cfr
of the nation
Whilst German and French statesmen and ph,lO-
sophers have been specializing about civilization, we
have raised here this continent political and civil
institutions perfect and achieved results by the
application Of industry and art so grand, and estab-
lished moral and social systems so pure and beauti
full, that the Old World cannot exhibit civilization
surprising on: own. Annually, Europe is travers-
ed by almost countless armed hosts eating out the
substance of the toing masses; and decennially it
is devastated by bloody wars, wagcd to aggrandize
kings settle their disputes. Under wise and
peaceful policy wars and rumors of wars rarely
reach US, and the nations might is left to slumber
| iE the arms of freemen.
do not deny that all this might have been &C
complished under the rule of other parties; but
| do say, it has not been. 1t has been accomplished
under Democratic rule and during all the time it
has been in progress our adversaries have been
ciieratng that we were running the country.
| What party or association, in all the history Of
the world save only that of the Christian Church,
has contributed so much to the welfare and happi-
ness of the human race?
Are you willing to see it broken and destroyed
so that again know victory for the sake
OF an abstract declaration of right, which no one
pretends is OF present importance? Ifyou are not,
speak out before the 18th of June. Add your voice
to that of the Democracy of the Union, in urging
that every district and county in the United States
shall be represented at Baltimore and in demanding
that a nomination shall be made When an aspir-
ant has been tried and it has been satisfactorily
certaincd that he cannot be nominated according
the usagcs and customs of the party, let him be
dropped and another tried. In tbs way nomina-
ton can he made; IN THIS WAY A NOMINATION WILL
BE MADE; and then a victory for the Constitution
and the Union will crown efforts.
Compared to this how insignificant are per-
sona predictions that draw men tcsethery or the
anmosities that sunder them! He who WILL thus
lay his preference or his enmity on the common al
tar for the benefit of the country is as muclbetter
than the intriguer or the bigot who would compel
him by unfair means to do So patriotism is purer
! than sel6shness.
L. OBJ BRANCH.
WASHINGTON City, May 10, 1860.
Extract from speech Of L. OR Branch, in House OF
Representatives, July "a, 1856.
BUTT is said the bill allows the people resident
there to prohibit the introduction of slavery before
their admission into the Union. 1t contains no
such feature. The sgd section declares its intent to
be ITO leave the people thereof perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions in their own
way subject only to the Constitution Of the United
States" If the Constitution allows them to prohi-
bit slavery, then the bill permits it, if the Constr
tuition does not allow them to prohibit slavery then
the bill does not permit it, The power of the PEG.
pie during the existence Of their territorial govern
ment is judicial question to be settled by the courts
it a case should ever arise involving the question
and whatever Congress might have said in the bill
1t could not have altered the Constitution taken
the question out of the hands of the courts. What
ever may be the decision of the courts, will be
content for regard the great main feature of the
bill! as infinitely transcendng in importance any
the minor questions that can be raised under it
And would rather trust the question to the people
Of the Territory than to such Congress as we now
have and liable to have at any time in future.
Extracts from speech Of L. Oh. Branch, in Hous
Of Representatives. December 10, 1856.
Mr.. Speaker, when, in 1854, we accepted the Kan
sas and Nebraska bill, We accepted it with perfec
understanding Of all its provisions. We knew
that it referred the question have been examinn,
to the courts of the country. We aimed to refer
to that tribunal, because it was question appro
pirate 10 the courts we had confidence in them
and were willing to abide by their decision. W
knew the act repealed the stigma upon us and GU
institutions which had been standing the statute
book for more than thirty years. That commende
1t to our favor. But above ALL we embraced it be
cause it contained the great doctrine Of non-ate,
: vention by Congress; because, under the fair an
full operation of that principle, the question Of sa,
cry could no more get into Congress to furnish ue
for the fires of agitation, and to make the main elk
ment in elections because under it we and orr ir
situations would cease to be football in the polit
i cal arena, and because we might expect peace an
|, security instead of the insubordinaton and insu
rection which northern fanaticism is beginning
n produce in our midst. We knew that the gre.
n evil under which we are suffering is the domest
disquiet caused by congressional agitation, and "
3 lshed slavery in the Territories for we knew it d
j not, nor yet because we thought it insured the e.
Establishment of slavery for leading southern