Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-11-24
The Election of State pr,nter,.

ever, that there was sort of combination on the
part OF several persons the object being to
the spoils, and at the same time to punish the
Editor of this paper for certain alleged sins Of his
recently committed The public printing has been |
executed for some time past at the Standard office
and no one has complained either of the style of
the work or of the time occupied in doing it We
were candidate for reelection, and our name was
submitted to the caucus. We were defeated by |
small majority and then like true and loyal Demo-
crat as we are, we yielded to the action of our par
ty friends. We electioneered with no one for the
office. We entered into combinations for "the
spoils." We concealed no opinion which we enter
tanned in order to secure reelection but we frank
ly told every one with whom we converscd on the |
subject, that We were for Constitutional Union,
and opposed to disunion and civil war. We tcere
defeated mainly because of our derOtion to Con-
stttutiOndl Union. The defeat of so humble per-
son as ourself is matter of no moment in ITSELF
except as it may indicate the course which public
events are taking in this momentous crisis bare
majority of the party has soemny declared, by this
act of prescription towards u.s. that is to be
recognized as true Democrat or friend of his coun-
try who is opposed to disunion at this time and FOR
this sweeping declaration. We denounce the dis
unionsts, and we appeal to the people against them
We appeal from the secret ballot to the open and
spoken word. We tell the Democracy of North
Carolina whom We have served so long and so faith
fully, that we have never bolted a Convention nor
refused to support nominee. Weare as loyal now
as We ever were; but should be faithless senti-
mel on the watchtower if we failed to warn them,
and the good people of this State that the control
of the party has been usurped by ambitious and de-
| signing men, who, if not checked in their course
will commit this State to revolution anarchy and
civil war. Let the people rise in their majesty and
say to these followers of William L. Yancey, thus
far, and no farther. Let them rescue their own
cause and the dearest interests of the State from the
hands of professional and trading politicians. The
policy of these politicians is embodied in the mes
sage of Gov Ellis, which publish to-day-a poll
cy which, if adopted and carried out will inevitably
lead to dissolution of the Union for insufficient
causes, and bring down upon all such calamites
have never been experienced the Northern por-
ton of this Continent We predicted in the Stand
ard of July last that the day not distant when
the battle would have to be fought in this State be-
| tween Union and disunion-bctween those who
would struggle for the preservation of the Union
according to the Constitution, and those who IN
willing to trust to two departments of the govern
ment against one and unwilling to rely a return
ing sense of justice in the Northern people and the
millions Of true friends whom the South vet has in
that portion Of the Union, would madly rush into
the vortex, black and bottomess of revolution Sc
cession, military domination, and civil war. That
I1o rirsH ilya
both disunion and submission With both houses
of Congress and the Supreme Court in our favor,
will try Mr. Lincoln but we will not submit to the
slightest ndignity the slightest encroachment on
Southern rights. The very day he lays his hand
the honor Of the South or on its vital interests
that day the Constitution is broken and the Union
perishes. Let us then, Watch and Wait.
These, brother Democrats, are our honest senti-
mcnts. We have uttered them time and again in
these columns, and not one Of you has called upon
us TO retract or qualify them. "Our offence hath
this extent-no more" For this we have been pro-
| scribed We have been assailed and censured for
advocating your views and maintaining your cause
A naturalized Englshman, but recently Democrat
with no claims the Democratic party of the State
has been specially complimented and favored while
that he was for the Constitution and the Union and
who had served you long and faithfully, has been
repudiated without the slightest recognition
of his past fidelity. And this has been done,
too, by the use of official influence. We en-
tcrtan the belief that your Governor stepped from
his high position to press the claims of his IA
vorite and to shape me action Of the caucus. The
Clerk of the House of Commons, (Mr. Cantwell,)
who is avowed dsunonist and who even dares
to wear disunion badge while acting as the Secre-
tary Of Democratic caucus, violated the law of the
State by giving out his printing to another Office,
supposed to be party to the combination against
us, and that too when we were the State Printer
and entitled to the courtesy at his hands of being
recognized as such.
We trust our friends will not regard us as COM
planning because the public printing has been taken
from us. We arc not complaining but protesting
against the rule which has been established that no
man is true Democrat or a friend of his country
who is opposed to secession and disunion. We pro-
test against and denounce that rule. We declare
that we are better Democrat than John W. Ellis.
Our Democracy nave never before been questioned.
His was in 1854 on the subject of distribution. 1t
is well known to Democrats that he lost the nom-
nation for Governor in 1854 on account of his tshi
ness on the subject of distribution; and it is well
known also that he obtained the nomination at
Charlotte in 1858, by a resort to means which
would be considered unfair even by New York
politicians. When he assumed the leadership of
the Democratic party of the State our majority
was 10000. By the aid of all portions of the
party, and on account of the unpopularity of dis
| trihntion he received a majority in 1865 of some
10000 But in 1860, under his lead, and as the re-
suit of policy which he recommended, this MAORI
ty was reduced to 5000; and in the late election