Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-06-20

whole hog, and true to their name place on their
Opposition platform q true representative Of them
selves, . living embodimentof their leading idea
man who, as he stands now, is literally and dia-
metrically opposed to himself think there isre-
ally too much opposition for the people to swallow
that pill Mr.. Pool is little too good an Opposi-
ton man, and heWill find out in August that he
has just little toe much opposition to get to the
gubernat0rial chair. gltI ~ i'.f{ -.s%4sF AHtA
But speaking of your Opposition candidatetre-
minds me OF the Opposition in this State. think
If Mr.. Pool was out here he would just suitsome of
our people They carry it just little further here
than ever heard Of They were opposed to a
Southern Convention the Galveston Convention,
the Charleston Convention; and 10 and behold they
are even now opposed ito the Baltimore Convention
that has just adjourned Convention of their own
stripe and in which they were represented and their
candidate at one time during the Convention the
most prominent man before it Though regularly
represented in the Convention taking part in all its
deliberations, approving Of its action, and every
thing going off with perfect harmony and the great
est unanimity, yet when they come home they. must
have grand mass meeting immense crowd, COM
posed Of all the hangers on, oficeseekers, and
swranghng scssortailed babbling politicians Of the
great and populous city Of Austin Many, great
and patriotic the speeches on that august oc-
casion. They were opposed to a'Southern Conven-
tion because Sam Houston's gigantic brain did not
conceive it-opposed to the Charleston Convention,
because he was never solicited to allow his name to
60 before it-opposed to the Baltimore Convention
because he was not nominated and it will be great
wonder to me if account of their great levee of
opposition, they don't all take the stump against
each other. No, sir, the whole gst of their oppo
sion like the opposition in North Carolina is their
love of Office. power and position. 1t is not princ
pie that moves them, but the spoils. They have
lost favor in the eyes of the people and now they
will raise hue and cry about the Union, and try
to frighten them into the idea that Sam Houston,
the veritabe moving living representative of ncon-
sistency, is the only that save us. Jeffer-
son, Madison and jackson are dead; but Sam Hous-
ton, the "Oid Chief" the !" Hero Of San Jacinto,
the only representative living of Jackson's old
guard, the man that has few of Madisons old let
ters and piece of Jeersons shirt TAIL he is the man
for the times, the only hope Of safety. He is viii
ling and ready at any time, when the cry Of the
people like the voice of man shall 60 up before
him, to throw himself into the breach and stop the
wave that is now thrs hing like deluge to sweep
over our country, and bury in its ruins the rights Of
the South and the last hope of republicansm. But
the people have too much strong horse sense to be
humbugged in any such manner-no old clothes
of Jefferson can buy them off They think too
| much Of his head and the product of his brain to
. go crazy over little piece of his shirt tail No,
the true cause of their opposition is too evident
The veil is too thnthe skin is too small, the ears
Of the animal will stick out Sam Houston knows
that this is his last chance that his failure in the
Baltimore Convention is the death blow unless he
can raise the wind some other way. In this State
his days are numbered, and at the end Of his CUB
ernatoral term the last sand shall have eked out o
his glass Poor old fellow may the evening of his
life be calm and peaceful and the evil that he has
done be buried with his bones. ,-s-s .t.esess,I
The John Bell farce, the offspring of the late Bal
timorc humbug, is dead thing in this State. The
freesol tendencies of the ticket are little toe
strong for the inhabitants of as warm climate as
this locality. The men of their own. party will moi
support it. Sam Houston is their choice, and they
disregard the nomination Of the Baltimore Conven
ton, and their determination to support him fol
President -. -.l, - OLD RIP.