Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-02-16
Public Speaking in Wake County.


On Thursday last Quentin Busbee, ESQ.,, one of
the Union candidates for the Convention in Wake
County, addressed the people at Auburn, and was
replied to by G. Fl. Farbault ESQ.,, for the disunion
side.
Mr.. Busbee spoke for more than an hour endor-
sing the resolutions adopted in the meeting in this
City on Saturday last and exposing the dangerous
schemes and designs of the disunionlsts. We learn
that Mr. Busbee was listened to with much attention
and that his remarks highly satisfactory to the
audience, with the exception of some four or five
dsunonists.
We learn that Mr.. Faribault objected to the Union
ticket because it was from the City of Raleigh but
Mr.. F. did not state the fact that the ticket was
nominated by the County, both parties uniting in
making the nomination; nor did he state the furth-
fact that last summer of the parties nominal
ted the whole of its ticket for the Commons from
the City. Both Messrs. Busbee and Holden have
heretofore supported Mr.. Faribault, who resides in
the country; and we think this charge ridiculous
and peurie as it is comes with bad grace from
him.
Mr. F. also objected to the Union resolutions as
not being sufficiently strong for Southern rights
parties who are as true to the South and truer to
the Union than he is. During his remarks he was
somewhat confused by question asked him by one
of the crowd, if he did not secession cockade
on the 14th November last, and declare he was for
an immediate dissolution of the Union. He confess
ed that he did. Mr.. Busbee then said, Mr.. Fari-
bault has no sympathisers in the crowd. The men
here are Union men, and will vote the Union ticket"
The response of the crowd showed that Mr. B. was
right
On the same day W. W. Holden, one of the Union
candidates, addressed the people at Roesville and
was replied to by A. NJ. Lewis Esq. The speech
of Mr. Lewis if not an out and out dsunion speech,
was highly acceptable to the few disunonists who
were present. But it ,oas in our judgment dis
union speech. The tone and tendency of It were
towards disunion.
We are not disposed, under the circumstances, to
do more than characterize the speech but We must
say that the course pursued by Mr.. Lewis towards
Mr.. Badger, was unfair and unjust He rung the
changes upon Mr. Badger as federalist, and sought
in this way to the prejudces ofthe Democratic
portion of his audience against Mr.. Badger But it
was all in vain We conversed with number of
voters after Mr. Lewis had concluded his speech all
of whom told US that they knew no party in this
contest and that they would vote the Union ticket.
We are gratfed to state that at least nineteenth
of the Rolesue uoters are Union The speech of
Mr. Lewis, instead of changing any of them, only con-
frmed them in their views and reused them to in
creased exertion.
The discussion was necessarily limited, owing
to the fact that an auction was going in the vii
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auction to occupy much of the day. Messrs. Hol-
den and Lewis spoke fifty minutes each, and then
briefly replied to each other.
Once more we say to the people, not only of Wake
County but of the State be that you knoD your
men before you cote for them. Vote for no man
uho aoW not pledge himself to ,oork zeaIOusty and
hopefully for the Union. Vote for no man who ai-
peals to your passions against your Judgment, and
who would hurry you without reflection into the
horrors of revolution and civil war Let the
Union, if it can be saved Better to giUe time noo
to sqce it, than to depIore its destruction through all
time to come
Union men! rally to your flag! Mark the disu-
nionists, and set your faces against them. To the
people we say, the appeal is now to you and the
power to save or to destroy yourselves is yours
Your action is of the last Importance. Millions
now living and innumerable generations yetto be will
rejoice the result of your action in this
crisis. Do nothing hastily or in passion. Be eau
ous and watcEful and firm, for your very liberties
and lives are in peril. Prore your public men be-
fore you cote for them. Cast old party tranmels to
the winds. See 70 it that no man prostitutes old
party organizations to advance his own selfish aims
Your country, not your party, now calls for your
best efforts. Will you falters Will you think of
party when every thing you hold dear is at stake?
Will YOU abandon good government, and that too
in haste or in passion, when you have no assurance
that you will have tolerabe government there
after9 Will you trample on the patriotic counsels OF
Washington, and jefferson, and Madison, and Jack
son, and Clay, and Webster, and Buchanan, and set
up as idols to be worshipped and obeyed such men
as Yancey, and Keitt, and Rhett? Fellow-citizens,
ponder these things, and answer at the polls