Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-03

action of such modern Washingtons as Rhett and |
Yancey. !
There Is no hope for this country but in THE PEoZ
PIE. That is our opinion. We give it to the dis
unionists freely and without charge and they may
make the most of it. ...... - i
~ Extreme views in both sections have been
mainly instrumental in producing the present con-
dition of things in this country. Congress and the
Legislatures nearly all the States north and south,
are in the hands of extreme men. If the country
would Only remain quiet until the people in both
sections could again be heard at the balobox there
would be no difficulty in adjusting our national
troubles. This is a truth which should be kept
steadily in view by all conservative men. The ex-
tremists know it to be an important and salutary
truth, and hence they resist it Witness their late
meeting at Goldsborough, and their efforts Of all
kinds to keep the public mind excited They know
that good ORDER repose, quiet will result in their
political destruction. They fear the "sober second
thought" Their existence depends on agitation.
The ofice-seeking disposition of so many people
in this country has not only been curse to the ma
tional Government but is serious annoyance to
the State Governments. The man who gets an Of
fee is frequently deserving of much if not more
pity than the man who fails to get one.-Chartotte
Democrat
We concur with the Democrat Ofice-seeking IS
great evil. Washington City swarms with Office
seekers, and so does Montgomery. We heard
"good one" of Toombs day or two since. An old
friend of his visited Montgomery and with hundreds
of others, pressed his claims, but rather modesty
for Office. AT length he called on Toombs. He ex-
pressed his surprise at the condition of things. He
told Mr.. Toombs that he expected to find Southern
applicants for Office giving way to him somewhat,
and treating him with some lberality and fairness but
he found they were as greedy, persistent, and un-
princpled as they were at Washington. Toombs
gave him no satisfaction, whereupon he told him he
thought it was hard that he could not obtain Of
fee, while he, Toombs, held three. Toombs' reply
was eff do hold three can discharge the duties
of all of them better than you can one" Mr. Toombs
is member of the Georgia Convention, men,
Der of the Cabinet, and member of the Soon
federate" Congress. But Mr.. Toombs belongs to
the favored few, who debate Constitutions and adopt
them for the people with closed DOORS"
W North-Carolina will not secede from the
Union for existing causes. Nearly all the Union
candidates in this State advocated Convention; if
they had opposed it. it would have been voted down by
80, 900 majority We state this as one of the strong
est evidences that the State is not disposed at this
time to secede 1t will not do to say that the peo-
pie of North Carolina are submissionsts. They are
just brave other people, and because they are
they are not ready to fight shadows North-Caro!i-
ma is still the equal, and proudly the equal of the
most powerful States in the Union. Florida, with
a white population not larger than Chicago, would
also have been the equal of New York, if she had
remained in the Union. But say the disunonists,
the Southern States not the equals of the North
ern States in the common territories. We deny it.
The territories of Colorado, Nevada, and Dakotah
were organized by the last Congress-the Republi-
cans being in the majority-without the Wit'not
Prociso. As Mr.. Douglas observed IN the Senate,
Mr. Wilmot arrived and took his seat as Senator
from Pennsylvania only to find that his own party
had repudated his Provso All the territory we have
has been disposed of-there is no more to be organi
zed New Mexico, part Of which lies north Of the
old Missouri line, protects slavery by stringent
slave code as that of Mississippi. The bred Scott
decision exists and applies to all these territories
What then? Why the Southern States are the
equals of the Northern in the common territories.
So far then, as the territories concerned there
is no cause for secession. But in addition to this
several of the free States have already repealed their
personal liberty bills; and the last Republican Con.
gress passed by two-thirds vote proposed amend
ment to the Constitution guaranteeing slavery for
ever in the States This amendment will no doubt
be adopted and become part of the Constitution
We repeat North Carolina will not secede. Vir.
ginia will not secede. The late action of her Con
vention shows that she is watching and waiting
She sees good cause just now to join in the wal
dance of secession Our disunion friends may as
we'll hang up their fiddles The people will KEEP
step to no tune of their playing.
az 1t is by no means probable that any thing
like serious war will take place SO long as the
States remain as they are. There may be sklrmshes
here and there, but the border States standing be
tween the two sections will be able to command thu
peace and there will be no fighting on an extensive
scale. But it. from whatever cause the fifteen slave
and nineteen non-saveholding States shall separate
they will become deadly enemies and general wal
will be inevitable. Canada will be brought dowr
to the Virginia line on the north; and twenty mil