Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-03
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FRANKLIN, MACON Co, N. 9.
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Mr. Vance opened the discussion in speech of
an hours length. He said very little of Mr.. Bell
his principles but claims for his party nationality
The whole of his speech was taken up in songs to
the Union and in endeavoring to fix upon Mr.. Brock
inridge the stain of disunionsm and sectionalsm.-
He read to prove this from the Charleston Aercury
and from letters of W. L. Yancey, of Ala, and Mr..
Boyce of s. G. He denounced Mr.. B. as being .
squatter sovereign, and read from newspaper to l
prove this and closed his speech with panageric
to the stars and stripes.
Mr.. Hyman followed in an hours speech, it was
his first appearance here since he was eector on
the fillmore ticket. He opened his speech with an
explanation of his position, and stated that he sup
posed he would be assaed personally for having
been so recently on the other side-declared him
self Douglas Democrat, and that Mr.. Douglas was
the national Democratic canddate-had received the
vote OF the, Democratic Convention, and stood upon
the Cincinnati platform He too denounced the
Breckenridge party, as being disorganzers and dis
unionlsts He asked Capt Hoke, when he came to
reply if he not in favor of dssolving the Union
if Mr.. Lincoln was elected President? Capt Hoke
then asked Mr.. Hyman, if he in favor Of dissol-
wing the Union under any circumstances? Mr. Hy-
manwent into general declaration about the Union
oppression and tyranny. Capt. Hoke asked him to
state specifically what act he would deem sufficient
to dissolve the Union. Mr.. Hyman said that to set
our negroes free in the States would be sufficient
cause.
He then went off into eulogy of Mr. Douglas and
closed his speech by denouncing the Day Book in
unmeasured terms, with being an infamous paper,
and an aid to the election of Lincoln
Capt Hoke commenced by telling the people that
he was the advocate Of the Breckenridge and Lane
ticket; that he had very little to say about Bell,
as he considered him out of the way in North Caro-
lima. That if ad valorcm, John Pool and John Bell
could not carry North Carolina. John Bell alone
could not That Mr.. Bell had been in public life
long time, and no doubt desired to be President
That the OK knew his masters crib, and the longer
he knew it. the better he liked it. That Mr.. Vance
had charged the Democratic party with dsunion-
ism; that he dared not say that Mr.. Breckenridge
had ever breathed such sentiment but he endeav-
ored to stain Mr. Breckenridge because some of his
supporters had been disunionists. That by the
same reasoning Mr.. Bells party were black Repub
licans, for he was supported by L. D. Campbell who
had been and was now black Republican; that
black Republicans were received into the same Con-
venton that nominated Mr.. Bell. That Mr.. Doug
las supported by disunonists and disorganzers,
but that not one of these arguments met the issues
fairly.
That Breckenridge and Lane were national men,
and stood upon the Constitution as expounded by
the Supreme Court of the United States; that they
were not slave code men, nor congressional interven
ton men, and were equally opposed to Territorial
invention" as being unconstitutional that they
stood upon the national ground that neither Con-
gress nor the Territorial legislature had the power
to exclude slavery from the Territories. That Mr..
Douglas had opposed the Lecompton constitution,
the ground that the Territorial legislature had no
power to authorize the holding convention. They
were rot sovereign and could exercise only such
powers as were given by the act of Congress That
they must have enabling act, their action
would not bind-but when it came to exclude slavery
from the territories, that them Mr. Douglas thought
the people had sovereign power and only Them That
they were all powerful, and got their power from
higher law than the Constitution they were higher
law men, and this was aig cher law doctrine. That
Mr.. Douglas stood in false position this subject
and had not mind enough to maintain himself 1t
destroyed greater man than hc-Mr Clay, on the
Texas annexation question, and would destroy Mr..
Douglas or any other man who advocated doctrines
revolutionary and subversive of the rights of the
people Of the States That Mr.. Douglas had come
into North-Carona to get up a ticket for the pur-
pose of breaking down the Democratic party and
thereby giving the State to Mr.. Bell That any one
who is acquainted with his electoral ticket which
he has framed cannot tell whether they are fish,
flesh, or foul. That they have secession Democrats
on it, disunion Democrats on it, disorganizng Dem
ocrats on it-African slave trade Democrats on it,
and back-slidng Wings on it. That if there were
no other reason to object to Mr.. Douglas, his effort
to destroy the Democratic party in North Carolina,
was sufficient for any Democrat to oppose him.
That the Democracy in North Carolina could not be
destroyed in that way That nneteen-twentieths of
the Democrats were for Breckenridge and Lane,
would continue to be So and would give the State
of North. Carolina to them That Mr.. Douglas had
forced himself upon the northern wing of the party
That tine whole South had opposed him at Charles
ton because he advocated principles adverse to their
constitutional rights. That united South had vo-
ted against him fifty odd times at Charleston and
that when the party had met at Baltimore his friends
in high-handed and dctatorial manner, excluded
southern delegates who had right to Seats in the
upon the Southern people. That Mr.. Douglas see
ing that the entire South was opposed to him and
that the strength Of the party was in the South,
should have withdrawn rather than break up the
| party. That it came with bad grace from him to
charge the Democratic party with being disunion-
lists, and to threaten to hang them if they did not
submit to the aggressions of Northern fanaticism.
It was not slavery in the Territories that caused the
South to look around for the means of Defence but
it was the threats of Northern men, that the power
of the government should be used to force to &C.
| knowledge that the negro was our equal. That Mr.
Douglas avows himself ready to aid by force, in SUBJ
DUNG us so that shall acknowledge that equali-
ty; that Mr.. Douglas must renounce his position on
the slavery question, or 60 into black Republican
ism; that Mr.. Douglas had acknowledged the rights
of the South, to resist such aggreSSiOnS with the
force of arms; that it was the knowledge Of our
determination not to submit to such wrong and op-
preston that was the safety Of the South. It was
this fact that is now banding together the conser
vative element at the South, to defeat the common
enemy. Let it be once known that the South en-
braced the tory doctrine of passive obedience and
non-resstance and the black flag of antislave-
ryisn, would wave Its dark folds in tEiGmph over
law, justice, and the Constitution and the days of
Southern society would be numbered.
Mr.. Vance replied to Capt. Hoke in speech of
twenty minutes. He admitted that Mr.. Brcckin-
ridge was dsunionist but said that Yancey and
Boyce were and wound up with few anecdotes
Messrs Lyman and Hoke replied briefly, when the
discussion ended.
The Democracy are all right in Macon. The
Douglas movement is complete failure in this coun-
ty, and can get no votes. 1t will take more votes
from Bell than Breckenridge.
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