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

) Sumo WOTKIIIg
Misrepresentation, so to alarm them for the sta
bihty of the Union, they can succeed in breaking
down the Democratic party in this State it will be
to them substantial victory which viii recompense
, them for all their trouble and pains.
But here is the recantation Of last Saturday.
"Will somebody do us the favor to fan US, and
hold vnaigrette to our nose ~
s'INTERv ENrIoN OR NoN-INTERvENTIoN.-Are the
friends of the Union and good government prepared
to lose both account of quarrel about the mus
cradle abstraction of interreation or non-nterven-
ton? Let us look for a moment at these questions
and see if they not miserable distractions NO
man can point his finger to square inch of terrific
~ in which the cond ton Of slavery is not definite
" settled, or to uare inch of territory in which
there is prospect that the question of slavery or
no slavery lciU arise in the future. This being the
state of the case, the question Of Intervention or
N0n-interUentiOn is settled There is nothing to
bring it up. If it comes up it must be forced up
ami those who do force it up will do so for the ui-
terror purpose Of getting pretert for dissotring the
Union. This is as plain as day ITSELF and how So
ber-minded men, men of substance and intelligence,
permit their tempers to be excited and their
Judgment warped by the discussion of so silly an
abstraction, is past all comprehension.
What comment on mans folly would it be, to
see this Union of thrty-three States broken to
pieces and the country involved in all the horrors
of civil war; on account Of a question chich nerer
can arise practically for legislation or judicial
action!"
But short time ago, the Register told us it was
"the impe". tive duty of Congress TO legslate for
the protet on of slavery in the territories that
this is the only true Southern ground" and that
to acquiesce in different doctrine "1oOutd be de-
cLdration that slares not property"
Presto and behold ! only few months afterwards
the same Register tells us this doctrine is "mS-
cradle abstraction" and "siy abstraction that
those who advocate it do so for the purpse of get
ting pretext to dissolve the Union" and more than
intimating that those who get excited when they
talk about it. are drunk mere shadows without sub
stance and fools. More than that. it rails at Mr..
Breckenridge and his friends and calls them disunion
lists because it suspects OF them Of entertaining
the very doctrine the editor himself taught a few
months ago. and which he then said was the "only
true Southern ground" Nor has anything occurred
to "settle" the intervention question since he
wrote the first article-on the contrary, much has
occurred to unsettle it. and make it living. threat
ening gorgon head, standing right in our path.
And what reason is given for thus suddenly aban-
doning this essential and "only true Southern
ground?" None whatever. 1.-THE question Of in
PREVENTION nonntervention is settled" says the
Register Which way is it settled? Mr.. Lincoln
SAYS Congress nay intervene to prohibit-Mr.
Brown, Of Mississippi says Congress must inter
vene to protect-Mr Douglas says Congress cannot
intervene for any purpose but the Territorial Leg
islatures may. Mr.. Breckenridge says neither Con-
gress nor the Territorial Legislatures must inter-
vene for any purpose, except that the Territorial
Legislatures must protect it. Here are four con-
hicting opinions the subject, each Of which is
supported by large party, which are represented
by candidates for the Presidency. If this is settled
what in the name of conscience can be said to be
unsettled? VIII the Register favor the public by
informing it which of the four opinions prevailed in
the settlement? think thought to have been con-
sidered settled by the Kansas Nebraska act and the
q i. D.,A 4 al i'll.
had been settled in July, 1859, when it published
the article have cited? That was after the act
had been passed and the decision rendered IL it
was not settled in July, 1889, what has occurred to
settle it since that time? If Mr. Breckenridge is a
disunonist what was the Register from the 30th
July, 1859, up to last Saturday? Let "Ctizen
Holden and Senator Clingman" try ever so much,
and they never will be able to excel the Register in
inconsistency.
To change ones opinions is human, bu: to throw
stones when one lives in a glass house himself is
arrant folly. NlNDEA.