Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-10-12
Sectional Feeling.


and speaks in bitter terms the East There would
be some force in what the Neps says, but for the
fact that one Of the Eastern Senator's Mr.. Davis
elected By the combined Uotes Of the friends of Nessrs
C1ingman and Acery; and but for the further fact
that both Mr.. Merrimon and Mr. Clark had intro
duced resolutions proposing fair arrangement in
relation to Senator's ohic6 resolutions cOted
docn by the friends Of Nessrs Clingrnan and AVery
We go further and say that after the election of Mr.
Davis, the friends of Messrs Clingman and Avery
acted as if they were the only Western men who
were fit to go to the Senate. This is fact, which
is known to be strictly true. If their names had
been withdrawn after the election of Mr. Davis, we
entertain no doubt that Western would have
been elected As it was, members of the Legisla-
ture from all quarters felt it to be their duty to ter
inmate contest which was producing i'll feeling
among the people, and costing hundreds of dollars
per day,
We agree with the Ne,cs that Mr.. Clingman is an
able man. but differ with that journal as to the
<splendid ability of Mr.. Avery. The latter gen.
teman possesses respectable talents but no one has
had better opportunities for mental Improvement
We admit that he is more ambitious than Mr. Cling
man, If possible; but he does not compare with that
gentleman in any respect statesman. The Ne,cs
cannot make giant of Mr. Avery by any process
to which 1t may resort but it may dwarf its pecu-
liar favoHte, Mr.. Clngman, by such comparisons.
We know the men thoroughly and we can do JUS
tice to both of them. Nor can the Ne,os add to Mr.
Clingmans reputation by expressing regrets that he
was not continued in civil office He had just been
unanimously elected Colonel of regiment, and had
a.. II,
bic body of men ever lived. No civil Office can
confer honor upon a who is in the field, as Mr.
Chagwan is, ready to shed his blood for his coun-
| try. lhe NGcs, instead of complaining, ought to
rejoice that he is in this position; and it ought to
urge Mr.. Avery, who was much more anxious for
the present condition of things than Mr.. Clirgnan
was, to Ego and do likewise"
The Neus treats us unjustly by suppressing our
article about the Confederate Senators, and at the
same time making copious extracts from Eastern
papers which agree with it on this subject 1t pro-
poses to give its readers the benefit of the 4" COM
ments" of the Raleigh papers" on the Senatorial
election, but it only characterizes our article, and
then withholds it from its readers Is that fair p
We think not. Come, Mr.. Atkin, publish our
"comments" in full and let your readers judge for
| themselves.
| But the Wilmington Journal says:
''1f the West yields US the compliment of both
! Senator's may we not fear that when the Conven-
| tor meets, she will demand more than gull pro
| quo in the way of the substantial power connected
| with the basis of representation !"
To which the Necs responds
1.-THE Journal fears the West will demand in
spirit not to be trifed WITH her just rights at the
| hands of the Convention which meets in November.
| Very likely
Is the Journal in earnest? Does it really mean to
invite the West to disturb the basis of representa-
ton2 Don't be alarmed, good people, this is only
one Of the old tricks of the Journal 1t has been
the custom among certain politicians for years. when
their arrangements for offices and honors between,
the East and West have been defeated to turn loose
this bugbear of the basis of representation" Ger
tain politicians in the West will threaten, and GER
tain politicians in the East will become alarmed, and
say, you had better do justice to the Vest
which Justice always consists in an arrangement to
| elect gentleman from each section holding the
same political views to high Office at the time
and as soon as this is done-the object of certain
clique having been accomplishments hear no more
of the basis of representation" 1t goes to sleep,
and is not stirred up again until some new arrange
ment has been made. Then, for example, sou dis
interested person like the Editor of the Journal and
some disnterested person like the Editor of the Neus
each possesses himself Of long POLE and the "5asis
of representation" is made to rattle its chains and
howl like the Gyascutus, until the arrangement,
! thus Sc: on foot is carried out But perhaps these
gentlemen will say this is not so, and that they
in earnest about the basis Well, them let us take
| hot hp baSic Of attn
includes and protects negro slavery. Next to land
it is the paramount interest of the State. Though
the conflict between the North and the South is not
nOw about negro slavery, but simply between arb-
trary power on one side and constitutional liberty
on the other yet we all know that the present war
| originated in negro slavery. Does it become us,
then, to weaken the institution especially in this
crisis by assailing the basis? Let the Journal at
tempt this thing seriously, or act with those who
may attempt it and the same power which forced it
recently to take ground for secession by Counties,
would force it to take back its hint to the NeUS
/ and to double quick" to new position with
brlskness which would be both interesting and
amusing.
But the Ners is pleased to dispose of US sumEar-
ly, as follows:
1.-The Standard has always boosted of its devotion
| to the West and this we suppose is an illustration
ofitl From such friends the Western people may
| well pray to be delivered"
The News is mistaken,--the Standard has never
"boasted of its devotion to the West" The Stand
ard has been willing let its acts speak for it. with
out Boosting of Them But the NeOs knows that
for the last thirteen years the Standard has steadily
and zealously advocated every measure which had
for its object the moral, physical, and intellectual
improvement of the State, including the Western
people, with all their interests and pursuits. In
deed, we voted almost alone among Eastern MEM
bers, in the Legislature of 1885, for an appropria-