Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-10-03


Of October 1903 who stood up in the Senate Of the
United States and moved for the confirmation OF
that treaty which Jefferson had made with Napoleon
for the purchase of Louisiana? Andrew JACKSON,
lcheers; and from him, and the democrats oil tnat
day, came this great boon to our country. VINO
cried out against it The federal party the North-
ern party of that day; and the man whom the re-
publican party now place at their head their great
patriarch-(and an honorable man he is, OF whom
will speak only with reverence: ] mean the Vener-
able Josiah Quincy senior)-that distinguished man,
then the representative man of New England OPP
posed the purchase of Louisiana and her admission
into the Union slave State, and on the Il 'or OF
the House in 1911, declared that if the bill passed
admitting Louisiana as a slave State, at 1cas cir
tudlly dissolution Of the Union," and he added,
as it will be the right Of ALL so it will be the duty
Of some to prepare for a separation, peaceably If
they can, forcibly if they must" And at another
time that same gentleman proposed, upon the floor
of the House, to impeach Thomas Jefferson for vo-
lating the Constitution in making the purchase OF
LOUISIANA Such are the venerable relics and such
the principles that have come down to our times,
and now minge with this new party which calls it.
self the republican party of to-day who intend to
take possession of the Government and conquer the
democratic South by severing her from the North.
Now, gentlemen, let me ask you-and desire
you, young men, to look up this history, and look
over the map of your country-let me ask you how
country has been accomplished until it has increas-
ed from thirteen to thirty States? Never was
a State admitted into this Union without the oppo-
sItion of the federal party, the wing party the abo
ltion party, the modern republican party. The
democratic party has always had to drag every State
into the Union, from Tennessee in 1896 down to
Oregon in 1856, when the whole of this republican
party in Congress voted against the admission OF
that State even free State, because she 60
ing to bring two democratic senator's into Congress
one of them honest Joe Lanel Cheers. And
have no doubt that though they were ignorant of it
at that time, there was some strange presentlment
of the future-a sort of Notwithstanding with
their ideas, that if they admitted Oregon, and Joe
Lane took his seat in that body, we would make
him President of the United States by the choice of
the Senate, in 1860. Laughter and cheers.
How, ask, has this expansion of the country
been accomplished? Simply by letting alone that
everlasting negro. The democratic party have let
him alone They have neither gone for slavery nor
against slavery in State or Territory. That is the
way that they have achieved all this expansion
They have established some twenty Territories but
they never said a word, since the adoption of the
Constitution in the organization of those Terrific
ries about negro; nothing was said about ne
gro, in organizing a Territory, until Mr.. Douglas
took it into his head. at the suggestion of whig
from Kentucky, to put him in the Kansas and Ne
braska bill That is the first touch of the negro we
ever had in a Territory And out of those Terrific
res that were thus created have come into the Union
twenty new States, added to the thirteen-al of
them coming in simply by ignoring slavery; simp-
~, gentlemen by the honest principle Of treating
slave States and free States just alike; simply by
carrying out the glorious motto of John c. Brock
inrdge there[pointing to the motto at the foot of
the hall +
1.-THE Constitution and the equality of the States!
These are the symbols of everlasting Union."-
[Cheers.
By carrying out that doctrine of "the equality of
the States, twenty new States have been added to
this Union; and out of those twenty, twelve are
free and only eight slave States. And yet here are
We at the North with the lions share in our grasp,
growing and tearing at the South aSsailing her in
Stitutions abusing her citizens as barbarians"
reviling and malignng and teaching our people ha-
tired to the South their religion! And all this
when we have obtained only success, support pros
perity, and wealth, from what her resources and her
slave labor have given to us; when we have more
free territory than can settle for century when
every market that has been thus opened has been
seized upon by the commerce and the industry OF
New England and the rest of the North and its best
fruits reaped, and the proceeds put into pock-
etsl That say, is historical fact. All this has
the democracy done for the country. Under this
policy it has lived and ourished for sixty years till
1T has become the most prosperous nation that God
ever made the sun to shine upon And now, with
this Northern discomfort about the very slave labor
we have grown rich upon, we are becoming like the
Israetes of od-getting fat and kicking up our
heels against the Lord for the prosperity we enjoy
And here comes in this exclusively sectional,
Northern party, made up, with some few eminent
exceptions of the smallest kind of specimens of men
that we have running about, [great laughter and
applause, which undertakes to seize upon the Fed
eral Government, and change its grand policy into
miserable sectional negroism. The statesmen of
r al.
not, for the most part, ambitious flippant young
men, inexperienced, rash and unreasonable
never read the Constitution of the United States,
laughter, or never largely cOmprehended a single
article of it if they did read it? Renewed merri-
ment They undertake to say, the wisest and the
weakest Of them all that there is an " irrepressbe
conflict " between slave labor and free labor; that
slave States and free States after this grand expert
ment of 70 years Of peace and prosperity, can no
longer live together; and that we must now set to
work to make them all slave or all free These are
the wise men who go about to the people asking
them for the power of this mighty Government that
they may make war between the slave labor of fif.
teen States which produce the cotton and ether ma
teras of manufacture and the free labor of eighteen
States that live by it. These wise men talk of the
irrepressibility of supply and demand in production
and manufacture, and they ready to say to the
millions OF free laborers who live and support their
families BY working up the great staple of the South
(which can be produced nowhere but at the South
with involuntary negro labor, and is decreasing
everywhere else they are ready, by their wretched
sectional policy to say to those free white millions
IN the Northern States, well the four millions
OF spinners in England: STARvE, PERISH waste aaoay
0hoLe generation Of you in order that we wise
men may put stop to slave negroes raising cotton!
Oh! it some power would only give to these men
the gift OF that particular selfknowledge of which
an ancient sage once boosted, what a blessing it
would be to them and the country; for Socrates
said, "My highest knowledge is to know my own
ignorance" Laughter and applause.] Instead of
even this wisdom in their councils, Mr.. Lincoln, the
"original author and inventor" of that atrocous
dogma Of the irrepressible conflict, is made their
presidential candidate Mr. Hallett having inadver-
tently used the name of Levi Lincoln, and being
corrected by the audience, remarked-Did l say
Leri beg his pardon, for he is true patriot-and
for my own part wish there had been common
sense enough in these three conventions that met
TO-DAY to have all selected Levi Lincoln for the gov