Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-07-04
20 An efigy representing Stephen A. Douglas, was
found suspended this
Tuesday, morning. 1t had placarded on its back:
"srEPHNN A DoueLAs
THE TBAIroR


"Squatter Sovereignty" and in another, dis
union"
By whom it was suspended is unknown. It re-
manned in this position till late hour in the day,
as no friend Of the "Squatter Sovereign" was to be
found to haul it down. Wilson Star.
We are sorry to read such disgraceful account
of the citizens of Wilson. 1t must have been some
Know Nothing who has done this. Democrat
surely has more respect for himself and his party
than to commit such an outrage upon a man who
has always been true to the South.-EayettcriUe
Cdrolinian
After long and animated contest Texas was an
nexed, thereby adding three hundred thousand
square miles of slavehoding Territory to the Union
Stephen A. Douglas did as much as any other man
TO annex Texas. After long and animated strug-
gle with. the fcderalists, Congress refunded the
amount of the fine imposed on Gen. Jackson by the
traitor Hail. Stephen A. Douglas did as much
any other man to pass this act doing justice TO
"Old Hickory" After a long and animated strug-
GLE the proposition to extend the Missouri line to
the Pacific ocean was defeated. Stephen A. Doug
las did all in his power to extend that line. After
long and fierce contest the WIlmot Proviso
defeated. Stephen A. Douglas contributed more
than any other man to its defeat After long and
animated contest the Missouri restriction was re-
peaed opening all territory north of that line to the
South. Stephen A. Douglas, perceiving that a ma
jorty of the Northern people were not disposed to
respect that line but wanted all the territory South
as well as North of it brought forward proposition
to repeal it. which was passed But for Douglas
the South would never have had any opportunity
for struggle even to eStabl sh slavery in Kansas
Because of his course in this respect-because he
thus repealed odIous restriction and secured for
the people of the South equality in the territories
he burnt in efgy in the free States denounced,
maligned, prosecuted, and his "name cast out as
evil" among the Northern people. In defence of
the fugitive slave law and the Constitution of the
United States he encountered the fury of a mob of
negroes and white men in Chicago; and though his
life was in peril, and though when he commenced
speaking the mob was against him, he talked them
into obedience to the laws and they adjourned with
three cheers for the fugitive slave law and the fed
eral Constitution. Under the doctrine of non-inter-
vention established by Douglas in 1854, the South
has absolutely gained eighty three thousand square
miles of siaveholdng territory. How? Why, the
territorial government of New Mexico has enacted
slave CODE as full and stringent the slave code
that territory; and of the two hundred and fifty
thousand square miles of that territory eighty
thousand square miles, embracing the oldest and
most thickly settled portion, situated north OF
the Missouri line.
This is the man who is hung in effigy in a slave
holding te!-burnt in efigy the non-slavehold
ing States for his devotion to the Constitutional
rights of the South, and hung in efgy in a slave
holding State for his supposed hostility to in
terestsi
We are not advocating Mr.. Douglass claims to
the Presidency, but we insisting justice to
consistent national Democrat We are striving to
put out the fires of sectionalism, which, if permitted
to burn on, will consume the very temple of the
Union. We are neither for the South agains: the
North for the North against the South, but for
an undecided country, and against sectionalsn and
disunion. If every Northern Democrat who agrees
with Douglas is to be put under the ban, hung in
efigy with him, and denounced and magned as a
feesoiler will look in vain to the North for SYM
pathy aid in the days of trouble which we fear
the future has in store for US. For our part will
not cast off the national Democrats of the free States
whether supporters of Douglas or Breckinrdge-
We would be glad to see them unite now, if union
be possible; but if this cannot be effected, will
look with hope and confidence to a reunion in
1864
We do not defend--we never have defended the
course Of Mr.. Douglas on Lecompton, nor do we ap-
prove his notions on Territorial sovereignty. But
Lecompton is a settled, dead issue; and if we are
to take the Washington Constitution, the organ of
Mr.. Buchanan and supporter of Mr. Breckenridge,
authority the majority platform" adopted by
the Convention at Baltimore, means in sub
stance, if not precisely what the resolution of the
old Convention means. offered by Mr.. Wickliffe-
The Constitution speaking of the Breckenridge plat
form, says
1.-THE platform says that it is the duty of the fed
eral government to protect when necessary the
rights of persons and property wherever its consti-
tutional authority extends; and the Supreme Court
of the United States declares that as the Constitu-
ton recognizes slaves as property, it also pledges
the federal government to protect it"
So much for that The resolution of the old Con-
vention offered by Mr. Wickliffe, declares that the
decisions of the Supreme Court which have been or
may hereafter be rendered, "shoud be respected by
all good citizens and enforced with promptness and
fidelity by every branch of the general government"
And now where is the difference between the two.
according to the organ of Mr.. Buchanan? Judge
Douglas holds that the Supreme Court must be
obeyed; that its decisions must be carried out that
if the President lacks means to carry out these de-
cisions Congress should rote him the means and
that he will cheerfuly so VOTE if necessary. This
was the ground which he maintained both in Illinois
in his discussions with Mr.. Lincoln, and in the Sen.
ate in his replies to Mr.. Davis and others But
this is not Congressional Intervention This is not
what Mr.. Yancey wants; and yet Mr.. Yancey is
satisfied with the resolutions of the new Convention
We have no idea that he understands and constructs
them as they construed by the organ of Mr.. Bu-
chanan. He thinks they embody the doctrine of
Go,.-acS;oral I,-atectinn and tharefarn ho Sta