Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-08

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Nh Enron: At the request Of a number Of the
friends Of Judge Douglas, send youthe following
extract from the able and patriotic speech, made oy
Mir, a few DAVIS since to the immense and enthusi-
astic gathering Of the people that greeted nlm AZ
Concord New Hampshire. Such noble and patriot,
ic sentiments honorable TO the head ana neaie
this distinguished Statesman and give the he direct
to those who charge that he is sectional in his views
and principles. Would to God that such national
sentiments as are here uttered, in such strong
tones. could take hold on the public heart and
check the spirit Of sectionalism which is precplta-
ting our country to the brink of revolution and dis
union
Judee Douglas continued: ain my opinion, the
government Of this country is the white mans gov
eminent. 1t was made by white men for the oene-
fit of white men, and ought TO be administered by
white men. (Cheers.) And think the white men
have right to a small portion Of the time, at least
so that their business may be attended to- fou
never will have appropriate legislation on any oil
these questions before Congrcss-and am not dis
GUESSING the question to what the legislation ought
to be-but you never will have the subjects consld-
cred and acted upon until you Danish the negro
question from the halls Of Congress. Let US oanish
that question from Congress forever. Remand II 10
the people of the Territories who interested in IT.
Let them do as they please subject to the constitu-
ton of the United States and there will be no cause
of controversy between the North and the South
Maintain the doctrines of nonntervention and there
will be peace and harmony between all sections OF
the country Why can we not now live IN peace rs
we did in former times? You will all remember
that during the Revolution the Northern army was
commanded by Southern general, and the South
ern army by Northern general; and on the battle
field Southern and Northern men fought shoulder
by shoulder in a common cause, poured out their
blood in a common battle in order that they might
transmit common inheritance to their children
Why can we not live together now as we did then,
in the bonds Of peace and fraternity? These ques-
tons come home to us in the Northwest with more
force than they do to you even. Go into the plains
of Illinois, and there you will find the Yankee boy
with Southern wife, the Yankee girl with South
ern husband When their children have grown up
and have gone to visit the graves Of their fathers or
mothers, the graves of their ancestors they have
had to go to Virginia as wei. as New Hamshire to
see them both. Each child has Southern ancestor
as well n Northern one and he don't like to have
heaped on the head Of the parent or the grand
parent Then, again. when you come to talk about
dissolution of the Union, we tell you Mol New
err" We trade Southwark as well as Northward.
We furnish the water that flows down the Missis
sppi as well as the water that flows through the
lakes of the St Lawrence. We intend to follow
that water wherever it flows until it minges into
broad ocean. (Applause) We have social and
commercial relations with the South and the East
alike We have the tie of country and Of blood that
binds them together. When you tell us that this
Union is to be dissolved we say "Never!" for the
reason that never intend TO travel into foreign
country, and obtain passport and have it cised BY
consul in order to visit the tombs Of our fathers or
the scenes of our childhood. Hence there is not
man on the frontier that dorft love this glorious
Union; and because we do love the Union our mot
to is never to do an act that would ALLEVIATE one por
ton of the people from another. You can only pre-
serve the Union by maintaining peace and harmony
and concord among the people Of the different sec
tons Remember that one tie after another has al
ready been severed. This fell spirit of sectional
strife mas invaded the holy sanctuary aud separated
the churches into churches North, churches South
This fell spirit of sectional strife has separated breh
rem at the communion table And when you find
spirit of strife deadly that it even sever So
cial tic, and religious tie, and political tie what is
your constitution worth, when you have made the
people enemies who live under it? You must bind
the hearts of this people together if you expect to
maintain the Union. You only bind those
hearts together and mould them into one, by obser
wing those great principles ofjustce and equity up
on which our whole system rests (Cheers.)