Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-20

And now a Black Republican enemy has endeav-
ored to take blood on Southern soil, and though it
has yet shed none it is preparing for another and
a greater effort. But even the attempt has aroused
a feeling which cries for blood atonement for
such attempt, and as a punishment for continued
efforts. Nothing but the black blood of the heart
of the Black Republican party can still the cry or
quench the thirst of Constitutional Union men for
blood Washington City must be the battle ground
The Constitutional Union loving men of the South
and of the North must now fight for the heritage of
their fathers and against the Black Republican usur
pers, with Lincoln at their head. They must break
up the rotten concern now called the government,
and drive from power and place the pirates that in
fest the Capitol. The Constitution is ours, the
Union is ours, the Stars and Stripes are ours the
blessings of free government and equal rights are
ours, in common, and we can and will maintain
them. Secession is not the remedy. That is fleeing
from our rights and resisting the attempts OF the
Black Republicans to bring us back to the enjoyment
C0 of those rights on their own terms. Let US not
merely stand off and fight to be let alone but let US
assert and die if needs be- in their defense,
under the Flag of Union. Let US make common
cause, North and South, against the disturbers of
our peace and the usurpers of that goodly heritage
bequeathed us by our fathers of the Revolution.
We are not for dsunion, nor for secession but for
maintaining our rights in the Union by queling the
rebellion of Black Repu5licanism. Now let US see
who are the submssionists and towards" Let US
drive out the greedy swarm of cormorants now prey
ing upon the blessings Washington fought for, and
left to US and to our care. Lincoln and his crew
represent only 7S4 79S out of 4,537, SCI. No such
minority can be allowed to usurp the rights of the
majority, and coerce that majority to bow the knee
before him. Let us crush out the Black Republican
concern and restore the Union in all its pristine
purity and vigor.-Ad ValOren1 Banner.
NEW CONSTITUTION OF GEoRGIA.--The new State
Constitution of Georgia, though differing wholly
from the old makes but few essential changes in the
organic law of the State. The most important Of
these alterations the linking together in one Sem
atoria district of three contiguous counties, without
regard to size population, for the purpose of re-
ducng the number of Senators to fortyfour requir
ing the assent of two-fths of the members present
to have the yeas and nays entered on the journal,
instead of two members, under the old nstru-
ment. This change the Augusta Sentinel terms "a
very esctual to keep an inconvenient knowledge
of their representative vote out of the reach of the
people" All elections by the people are to be by
ballot but all elections by the General Assembly
shall be uiua r0ce Perhaps the most important
change is that changing the mode of judicial ap-
pointment Under the new system Judges of the
Supreme and Inferior Courts are to be appointed by
the Governor and confirmed by two-thirds of the
Senate instead of being elected by the people and
Legislature as heretofore. Another clause provid-
ing that the Governor shall have been a citizen of
the Confederate States twelve years, seems to pre-
cude, the Sentinel observes every body from being
q candidate. We cannot see it adds how any body
can have been citizen twelve years Of a Govern
ment which, at the time of election, will not have
been in existence twelve months But that is q
small difficulty in these times.