Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-09-19
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that some compromise would be effected in this
State by which the whole, Democratic vote would
be cast for the same Electors But the presence Of
Judge Douglas in Raleigh, and the action Of the
late Douglas Convention have dissipated this hope
The Douglas Democrats have refused and still refuse
to unite with the Breckenridge Democrats in the eff.
fort which is being made to carry the State against
the Bell ticket They even refused in their resolu
tons adopted in their late Convention to express
preference for Breckenridge over Bell; and this re-
fusa is the more significant and singular from the
fact that large majority Of the Douglas Democrats
of this State disapprove the views Of Judge Doug
las on territorial sovereignty and approve the views
of Mr. Breckenridge on that subject, as set forth in
the platform on which he stands.
The tendency of this refusal on the part of the
Douglas men to unite with the Breckenridge men is
to give the State to Bell and Everett and the ten
dency Of the same policy in the Northern States is
to give them to Lincoln and Hamlin. As general
rule the Breckenridge Democrats in all sections of
the country have evnced disposition to unite and
make common-cause against Bell and Lincoln We
Will not characterize the action of the Douglas De-
mocrats in this respect; but it will be obvious to
every one not blinded by partizan feeling that the
course of the Breckenridge Democrats, in thus seek
ing to present united front to common adversa-
! ry, so as to save the country from Opposition or
black Republican rule, is the result Of an enlarged
and liberal patriotism and as such will be apprecia-
ted by every true friend of the Constitution and the
| Union.
But if the tendency of the policy adopted by the
Douglas Democrats is to give the State to Bell and
Everett it by no means follows that that result will
be accomplished. There are in this State from S.
600 to 10000 Democratic and Southern rights vo-
ters and there not more at the outside than So
900 Opposition voters. Not more than 80, 900 votes
will be pollcd in November. The people, it is true
excited and deeply concerned for the fate of the
country; yet the vote in Presidential is never as
| large in State elections, and in addition to this
no inconsiderable number will fail to vote, on &C.
count of the confusion and uncertainty which pre-
vail If the Breckinrnge Democrats will poll 49,
600 votes they will carry the State. That they can
do this If they eiU there can be no doubt The
Bell leaders will find it impossible to rally full
vote for their fossilifcrous Anticipated ticket 1t
came into being with only partial life, and it has
acquired no vitality since. A united vote against
it in this State would have defeated it by from tif.
teen to twenty thousand majority. But we must
defeat it as we are and we must defeat the Douglas
ticket with it The latter cannot poll sufficient
vote to deprive Breckenridge Of a majority, provided
the friends of the latter exert themselves they
are now doing up to and on the day of the election.
Let u.s. then, 90 forward, brother Democrats, with
an energy and ardor which will accept of no other
than victorious result We have the platform,
and we have the men to lead us in this great con-
test for the rights of the States and Constitutional
Union. Whatever others may do, let MS stand By
our principles and do our duty. Wear neither dis
unionsts nor the friends apoogists of disunionsts
We seek to preserve the Constitution in its purity
and to guard at all points the rights and the equai
ty of the States. We make no threats as to what
it will be duty to do in the future, for "suff
cient unto the day is the evil thereof" There is
nothing that savors of disunion in these views ant
sentiments. The Union can be preserved only by
faithful observance by all sections of the Constitu
ton and when the Constitution loses its vitality
and the spirit of justice infused into it by its fran
ers, the Union itself will cease to exist Read thu
speech of Mr. Breckenridge in to-days Standard
and then say, if you can that he is not loyal ant
devoted friend of Constitutional Union. No othe
Union is worth preserving, and any other Unor
would fall to pieces at the first touch of aggressive
or coerclve power. These are the views which w
have entertained from the moment this unfortunate
slavery controversy commenced; and We never ex
pect to change or abandon them.