Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-06-13


In 1776, the issue of political slavery or freedom,
was directly and distinctly presented to fore
fathers. They accepted i'll They ceased then to
discuss distractions. Wrangng about the princi-
pies of civil liberty-the making out platforms of
political ethics then ended, and they closed with
their enemies hand to hand in the deadly conflict
1t is too late now for to quarrel about the prn
cpes to be applied to territories thousands of miles
off The assaults of our enemy made at our
very doors He has challenged us to the rrepressi-
BILE conflict We cannot evade it il we would. 1t
must be met. Black Rcpublicanism must be defeat
ed-driven back-put down. there is no safety
for us, or peace to the country ~
Am mistaken in all this Would to God that
were! But look to the openly avowed opinions
of Lincoln, the black Republican nominee. He bold
ly proclams the negro to be equal to the white
race-that the negro in this country should be plac-
ed on an equality, socially and politically with the
white man-that slavery should be exterminated-
that to this end never ceaSing warfare should he
kept up against it. Hear his language In
his Springfield, Qll.,) speech of June 18th, 1858,
he says:
I'm my opinion it 1.-THE slavery agitation) will not
cease until crisis shall have been reached and
passed. A house divided against itself cannot
stand I believe this government cannot endure
permanently half slave and half free do not en-
rect the Union to he dissolved do not expect the
house to fall but do expect it will cease to he di.
vded 1t will become all one thing all the other.
Eltner the opponents OF slavery VIII arrest
Their spread of IT. and place It where the public mind
shall rest the belief that it is in the Of ulti
mate extinction its advocates will push il forward
until it shall become alike lawful in all the States"
Here is the "irrenresSible conflict" in all its
forcei He kne1c the States could Rerer become "all
Stare" He was conscious that he was proclaimng
the doctrine of his party that they shouh become
"all free" That is its mission they declare, and,
think You, the warfare will cease? Do You not
know that it will increase in bitterness? And yet
here quarrelling about what is the best "ab-
stractiOn to apply to the government Of territories
which have no existence
In that conflict, thus presented. either the black
Republican party, glorious Constitution one,
must perish! In such conflict, am not afraid to
trust our banner to the hands of Stephen \. Doug
las and to fight under his lead. No man living has
higher qualifications for leader. Ready fertile in
reSourceS-cool and collected in the face of every
Storm--of ndomitable energy-with a zeal that
never sleeps and courage that never 1uailed-bold,
fearless and able as a statcsman-he is the man for
the crisis and If those Of his party, who are
now opposing HIM, act, in the event Of his nomina-
ton on the high principle do unto others as yon
would that others should do to von" he will carry
the friends Of the Constitution to certain and signal
victory!
1t was he who combattcd tho Infamous doctrines
of Lincoln during the campaign of 1858, in Illinois,
with zeal and ability seldom equalled and never
surpassed. For more than twelve years he has been
fighting the battles Of the South with degree Of
daring devotion that made him all occasions the
CherHlier Bayard Of those who opposed the hosts
Of aholitionism. And how nObly do the sentiments
expressed by him in his great speech at Blooming
ton 0ll.,) the 18th July. 1853 contrast with
those Of his competitor, Lincoln, to which | have
referred:
IL recognize (said he all the people Of these
States North and South, East and West old or new.
Atlantic or Pacific brethren. flesh Of our
flesh and would do m III IN Them that would
not he willing they should do unto u.s. | would
apply the Christian rule to the States of this
Union that We are taught To apply to individuals.
This would secure peace. Why should this slavery
agitation he kept up Does it benefit either the
white man or the slave? Who does it benefit eX
cept the Republican politicians, who use it as their
hobby to ride into office: Why, I repeat should
it be continued? Why cannot be content to
administer this government as it was madc-a con-
fedeiacy of sovereign and independent States? Let
us recognize the sovereignty and independence Of
each State-refrain from interfering with the do
nestle institutions and regulations of other States
permit the territories and new States to decide their
institutions for themselves, we did, when
in their condition. blot out these lines Of North and
South and resort back to these lines of State boun
diaries, which the Constitution has marked out and
engraved upon the face Of the country-have no
other dividing lines but these, and we will he one
united, harmonious people, with fraternal feeling
and no diScOrd and diSsention This Union can be
preserved oTly by maintaining fratrrna feeling be-
tween the North and the South the East and the
West If that good feeling can he preserved the
Union will be as perpetual the fame of its great
founderSr'
This is the man who is to he denornced. villifird
and prescribed by men, the horizon of whose patri-
OtiSm is not larger than oyster shell
But, sir, in connection with this subject there is
one significant fact. In the recent contest for
Speaker of the House of Representatives nearly the
n.
III jOrty of the Southern oppoSitionsts voted for
McClernand, popular sorereignfy- Douglas Demo
crHt, to defeat Sherman, the black Republican candi-
date. When the opposition convention met this city,
recently they adopted resolution almost unanimous
~ approving the votes OF Messrs. Smith, Vance
and Leach for McClernand; yet the very men who
approved that vote will turn up their eyes in affect
ed holy horror at the idea of any man voting for
Douglas. even on the same principle, for President
Of the United States lf it was right in Southern
Democrats and Oppositonists to vote for McCler-
nand TO defeat Sherman, where is the inconsistency
where the crime in Southern voting for Doug
las to defeat Lincoln and his clan?
In what have thus said, | have not sought to
depreciate the claims to the nomination for the
Presidency of any of the other distinguished states
men whose names have been mentioned in connec-
ton with it. l shall support cheerfuly whoever
is nominated by the national Democratic party. No
power on earth shall induce me, for any causes
existing to follow the lead of the ultra men Of any
section into the black gulf of secession civil war,
fraternal bloodshed 1 shall do what believe to
be right-rght regardless of personal consequences
and trust that the Convention when it reassembles
on the 18th of June, may be governed by nation
al conservative spirit and that its final action may
result in the good of our common country, and the
triumph of the Constitution over the mad schemes
of fanaticism that threaten its overthrow I"
JUDGE SHEPHERD.-This gentleman having COM
pleted his Spring Circuit retires from the Bench
and returns to the Bar. During his short service
on the Bench, he has won for himself all over the
State what he already had secured in his own coun-
ty. where best known the esteem and confidence of