Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-22

Nh EDlf0R Once aenln has hard political bait
lie been fought in the State, and the Democratic
past adminstsaiio1o Of the State goyernmenf upheld
and approved BY the verdict Of an intelligent and.
patriotic people Appeals from our opponents, cal
cuated and designed 70 array one class Of cti-
zens against another, have been heard and weighed
by Intelligent voters and that policy which calls for
such appeals has been condemned at the ballot box
1T is to be hoped that never again will ambitious
men venture their use in North Carolina.
But do not propose to review the field, or boast
that il has been won. II should rather now be the
concern of us all to prepare for the crisis that the
ldes of November will bring upon the country. is
there peril ahead not to the Democratic party, but
to the countryl There is Isthere no danger to,
the Constitution and the Union. should Lincoln. by
success in November, carry with him to the Presi-
Dental chair higher law than the Constitution
and known hostility to our section Of the Union
There is. Is w. L. Yanceys ayowed wish and pur-
pose to "precptate the Cotton States into reyou,
tion less reasonable and dangerous to the peace
this great nation? 1t is not What party, then
and what man shall be equal to the times meet the
crisis and save the country? Hitherto the Demo
cratic party has been equal to the wants and emer
gences Of the country and if it had not been shorn
in part lof its strength, and divided by seceders
there would to-day be no doubt of the result in No
vember, and the Union would have been safe under
the administration of Stephen A. Douglas. Scarce
lywould an intelligent seceder deny this, and scarce
ly would far-minded one deny that he has to-day
q surprising hold upon the confidence of the great
mass Of the people, both North and South. 1t is
this which makes him the dread Of abolitionists at
the North and ire-eatng disunionists at the South
He is equally their eemy as they are his. To this
confidence add the great strength that is and by
November will be, his IN still greater numbers. Tin
spite of seceders,) as the nominee Of the national
Democratic party at Baltimore and he becomes the
bearer Of that banner under which all friends of the
Union should rally as the best hope of the country
to prevent the success Of the black Republican Lin
coin n - 81 - -
For full six weeks has an almost unanimous Dem
ocratic ~ press besoughtthe people of North Caro-
lima to enlist under another banner unfurled with
out authority from them. Not yet have they agreed
to it Active seeding delegates have asked entire
approval Of their precipitate and unauthorized
inaton. They have not yet gotten it This could
not well be expected to be otherwise, for it is or
against irregularity; non-intervention by Congress
with slavery in the territories against Intervention
by, perhaps at early day, abolition Congress
union in the Union for the sake of the Union under
the Constitution against the cry Of union, mainly in
the South for the sake of right of little practical
benefit to the South
1t is worthy of praise that one paper in the State
is rejecting the wish of the people, by manly sup
port of Douglas and johnson, the regular nominees
Of the national Democratic party at Baltimore, in
regular Convention assembled, for the offices of
President and Vice President The Newborn Pro
gres is doing good service IN the cause of Democracy
and the country by such course. In these times of
trial and peril to the party, and secession from its
ranks and dictatorial demands made by those who,
by secession brought disruption upon the party
upon those who refuse to desert the flag of the Union
for that of secession that paper could give itself no
prouder position in the State than il Is now assu-
ming, by appealing to the people against the precip
itate management Of seeding leaders. Surely no
advocate Of party organization consistently aban
don the regular Douglas and johnson ticket for the
support of that Of the seeeders who, by their
thorized nomination Of separate ticket have
brought upon the Democratic party a most perilous
division / say unauthorized - for the people had
given the seceders at Charleston and Baltimore no
authority to go to the one or the otner of these
places and put forth separate nominations of their
own for the purpose of defeating the choice of the
party in the Union because that choice was not
their own. When, in the wake Of the Yancey move
ment they felt it their duty to withdraw from the
original and regular Convention to which, and to
which alone, they were appointed, that same sense
Of duty should have prompted them to return to
their North-CarolIna constituents and ask of them
to contest the field with those put forth
by the regular Convention This they did not do.
This they knew it would not even bear attempting;
for well they knew that no such authority would
have been given them by the people of North Caro-
lima. Such course Of action on their part would
have given the seeding ticket some of the weight Of
party obligation to sustain it, and such additional
authority from the people could alone have redeem
ed the Breckenridge ticket from the disorganiEng
phaze which it wears. Hence all the obligations
that rest upon Democrats to stand by their party in
support Of its nominees are against that ticket and
in favor Of the Douglas ticket No palmer PROPOSE
ton could be addressed to the common sense intel
r. 49,
great Of our people are now rapidly taking this
view of their duty to their party, tits certainly
in Chatham. $780,.
Not less from choice than from sense of duty to
their country and their party do the larger portion
Of the Democratic voters Of the State wish and in
tend if possible, to vote in November for their party
nominees at Baltimore Douglas and johnson Be-
ing one of them, to some extent know their feel
ings and wishes, and sure am 1 that / do not mis-
state public sentiment in our part of the State To
this point speaks the Newborn Progress with earn
est truthfulness as follows:
"Put the thing fairly and squarely before the
people of North Carolina and she will be found for
Douglas We have no hesitation in saying that as
far as we have been able to bear an expression of
opinion privately, majority are for Douglas. he
is considered not only the regular candidate but he
is looked the strongest and the only one that
can have shadow of chance of an election against
Lincoln. We have seen no one who claims single
Northern electoral vote for Breckenridge and Lane
No one expects them to get one and this being so,
are we to look that ticket as the great national
party? Heaven forbid. We say, the
people in North Carolia prefer Douglas
If the seceders persist in running their ticket we
say to them now, that they cannot count with any
certainty, on Virginia North Carolina, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, or Louisiana, These
things may be unpleasant but they are So The
people want one man and the wire-workers give
them another 81. ,ss,i.
These are our honest convictions, honestly and
frankly expressed, and in expressing them we have
no object in view but the triumph Of the national
and the welfare of our country; but
should be assailed and abused, politically or per-
sonally Ia portion of the political press Of the State
has aeecenfiad loxr enouoh IN do anvtI,;,, fr iar