Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-12-04

stand firm, and all will 3e right do not al
ways agree with you, but 7 have no sympathy with
S'pose who are warning on YOU now2Spst ~ 4 ts4.t
The following extract is from letter from one Of
the Oldest and most influential Democrats in Orange
County No mans Democracy could be sounder or
better than,that Of the writer Of this letter. Stand
ing on the verge of the grave asking for nothing but
that his country may continue prosperous and hap
py-an honest man.and sincere Christisn--he is
incapable of fattering any one, or of saying what
he does not believe lie says: ~ sr5z..-f-fs (
You will ind enclosed the money for continu-
ance of the Standard. cannot think of disconiin-
uing 1t now, having taken it from its beginning I'M
der Pnne WHITE up to this date. / like il now
better than ever IN this very critical condition of
our national AFFAIRS .a~
We shall give extracts from other letters from
time to time Those here given are from Breckin-
ridge men, from Douglas men, and from Bell inen-
from patriots of all parties who have no sinister
aims to accomplish but who love their country, and
wish to save it from the consequences of present
secession. The roice Of the people is heard in these
ertracts and not the voice of the designing and the
selfish. ss e.
We hold that North Carolina belongs to the peO-
pie, and not to, the politicians thereof We hold
that the people are sovereign and can raise up
and put down whom they please We hold that
the government is theirs, the suffering will
be theirs in the event Of their being precipitated"
into disunion and civil war. Our appeal is to them.
Their decision shall be law TO us. But we protest
against manufactured public opinion. The disunion
leaders are engaged at this time in this very bust
ness. In the language of the celebrated Procama-
ton of Gen. jackson, say to the people " that
eloquent appeals to your passions, to your State
pride, to your native courage and to your sense of
real injury" are being made to "prepare you for
the period when the mask which conceals the hide
Gus features of DIsUNIoN shall be taken off" As
you value your safety, your Constitutional rights
your high privileges as members Of common Union,
\ and as you would avoid commotion and civil war,
give 10 heed to these appeals. Assemble calmly,
deliberate coolly, and vote undcrstandngly. Sup
port no resolves no matter by whom offered urg-
ed, which will commit you at this time to disunion
The federal Constitution so far from having been
exhausted has not yet been fairly tried 1t is your
Constitution much it is the Constitution of the
Northern people. Stand by it uphold it, demand
your rights under it ard hold it up as an impene-
trable shield against the shafts of your assai-
ants. 1t is glorious Constitution, and the Union
which it established is still glorious Union
If Convention must be called, let it be Con-
vcntion of all the States Let us have no con-
ferenccs or consultations to commit to disunion
and no calls on the people afterwards to be so
obgng to step forward and register the decisions
Of the disunion leaders. Let there be no conceal
ments. Let every public man be required to show
his hand If for dissolving the Union, let him say
so; if against disSolving it, let him say So The
man who now speaks with double tongue or who
would precipitate the people against their will into
secession and disunion is hypocrite and dema-
gogue The man who would destroy the federal
government for insufficient cause, and thus extin-
guish the light of well-regulated constitutional
liberty which was first kindled in this hemisphere
by Washington, and Henry, and Sumpter, and
Franklin, and Harnett and Caswell, is the worst
enemy the people of this country or the human
race ever had Hold your meetings, fellow-citizens
and speak out against disuRion!