Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-10-03
For the Standard.
FRANKLIN, MACON Co., N.sG.( {
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the Douglasites, and the Breckinridge party was
represented by j. F. Hoke, Esq. -. =.
Mr.. Vance opened the discussion in speech of
an hours length. He said very little of Mr.. Bell or
his principles but claims for his party, nationality
The whole of his speech was taken up in songs to
the Union and in endeayoring to fix upon Mr.. Brock
inrdge the stain of disunionsm and sectionalism.-
He read to prove this from the Charleston Mercury
and from letters of,W. l.. Yancey, of Ala, and Mr..
Boyce of s. c.. He denounced Mr. B. as being
squatter sovereign and read from newspaper to
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 an eector on
the Fillmore ticket He opened his speech with an
explanation of his position and stated that he sup
posed he would be assaulted personally for having
been so recently on the other sde-declared him
self Douglas Democrat, and that Mr.. Douglas
the national Democratic canddate-had received the
vote of the Democratic Convention, and stood upon
the Cincinnati platform He too denounced the
Breckenridge party, being disorganzers, and dis
unionists. He asked Capt. Hoke, when he came to
reply if he was not in favor of dssolving the Union
If Mr. Lincoln was elected President? Capt Hoke
then asked Mr.. Lyman, if he in favor of dissol-
wing the Union under any circumstances? Mr. Hy-
man went 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.. Lyman 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
unmcasured 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 Gd uaLOrcm, John Pool and John Bell
could not carry North Carolina John Bell alone
cOnd not That Roll had aap in Dnbl liz q
long time, and no doubt desired to be President
That the knew his masters crib, and the longer
he knew it, the better he liked it That Mr.. Vance
had charged the Democratic party with disunion-
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-
lcans, for he was supported by L. d. Campbell who
had been and was black Republican; that
black Republicans were received into the same Con-
vention that nominated Mr. Bell That Mr.. Doug
las supported by disunionsts and dsorganizers,
but that, not of these arguments met the issues
fairly.
That Breckenridge and Lane were national men,
and stood upon the Constitution expounded by
the Supreme Court of the United States; that they
were not slave code men, congressional interview
ton men, and were equally opposed to Territorial
invention" as being unconstitutional; that they
stood upon the national ground that neither Con-
gress the Territorial legislature had the power
to exclude slavery from the Territories. That Mr..
Douglas had opposed the Lecompton constitution,
on the ground that the Territorial legislature had no
power to authorize the holding convention. They
were not sovereign and could exercise only such
powers as were given by the act of Congress. That
they must have an enabling act their action
would not bind-but when it came to exclude slavery
from the territories that then Mr.. Douglas thought
the people had sovereign power and only them That
thov aoll and fho,r fro,n
higher law than the Constitution; they were higher
law men, and this was higher law doctrine. That
Mr.. Douglas stood in false position this subject
and had not mind enough to maintain himself 1t
destroyed greater man than he-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-Carolina to get up ticket for the pur-
pose of breaking down the Democratic party, and
thereby giving the State to Mr.. Bell. That any
who is acquainted with his electoral ticket which
he has framed cannot tell whether they fish,
flesh, or foul. That they have secession Democrats
on it. disunion Democrats on it, dsorganizing Dem
ocrats on it-African slave trade Democrats on it,
and back-Slidng Wings on it. That if there were
no otherreason to object to Mr. Douglas, his effort
to destroy the Democratic party in North Carolina,
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 a highhanded and dictatorial manner excluded
southern delegates who had right to seats in the
Convention for the purpose of forcing Mr.. Douglas
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 dsunion-
lists, and to threaten to hang them if they did not
submit to the aggreSsions of Northern fanaticism.
1t slavery in the Territories that caused the
South to look around for the of defence, but
it was the threats of Northern men, that the power
Of the government should be used to force to ac
knowledge that the negro was our equal. That Mr..
Douglas avows himself ready to aid by force, in sub
DUNG so that we shall acknowledge that equali-
ty; that Mr. Douglas must renounce his position on
the slavery question, or go 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 the knowledge of our
determination not to submit to such wrong and OPP
preston that was the safety of the South 1t was
this fact, that is 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
nonresistance and soon the black flag of anti-save
ryism would wave its dark folds in triumph over
law Justice and the Constitution, and the days Of
Southern society would be numbered
Mr.. Vance replied to Capt Hoke in a speech of
twenty minutes. He admitted that Mr.. Breckn-
ridge was no disunionist, but said that Yancey and
Boyce were, and wound up with a few anecdotes
Messrs. Hyman and Hoke replied briefly when the
discussion ended.
Douglas movement is complete failure in this coun-
ty, and can get no votes. 1t will take more votes
from Bell than Breckenridge.