Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-09-14
nae c1oven Foo,ssit sec,ional,.m.

ticket for Vice President with Jefferson Davis
This correspondent urges the prescription of Mr..
SteetfesSs and the nomination of Mr.. Mason in his
rises on the ground that one of the chief officers
Oaght to come from the breadstuff States.
We profoundly deprecate any thing which savors
OF sectiona'ism, especially in crisis like the pre-
sent. Cotton States and breadstuf States Why.
the permanent Constitution is not yet in operation
and We hear already of classfcaons Of States, and
appeals to do justice to this section and that. How
stands the matter? Have the breadstuff States,
called demanded any thing Of the kind! Have
they complained that the President and Vice Presi-
dent together with all the members of the Cabinet
save one, are from the cotton States? Not at all.
They appear to be satisfied, they no doubt are.
What they are thinking of is the defeat of Lincoln
and the independence of the new Republic not the
claims of the cotton and breadstuff States. But
this correspondent is not so much concerned about
justice to the breadstu States as he is about the
political antecedents of Mr. Stephens. That gentle
man, it is well known, did not struggle others
did to dissolve the Union, but he stood by it as
Georgian as long as he honorably could. Like Bar
tow and Others, he struck at the temple of the
Union, not from choice, but only when and only be-
cause it was necessary, in his Judgment, for The in
dependence and liberty of Georgia. He was not
drsunionist per Sc, Mr.. Mason was and hence the
claims of the breadstut States all at once deserve
consideration.
Now, as citizen of one Of the Confederate States
as a citizen of State which is as much breadstuf
as cotton State, We have to say that we will join
in no such clanor as this. We are satisfied with
Col Davis and Mr.. Stephens, and we expect to sup
port them for President and Vice President for the
term of SIX years from and after the ed of Febru
airy next But we go for Davis and Stephens We
will not support Mr.. Mason in preference to Mr..
Stephens Col. Davis tcds a Democrat and Mr.
Stephens wds Wing So far, therefore, as mere
party autecedents concerned, it Is eminenty
proper that such ticket should be supported by
all the people; and so far as ability, information,
and fitness for the public service arc concerned
much respect the ability and experience of
Mr. Mason, consider it but just to say that Mr.
Stephens has the advantage Of him. To set Mr.
Stephens aside for Mr.. Mason any else, would
he reflection on his integrity ability, and patri-
elsSu which his friends in all portions of the Con-
federate States woul1 feel and resent.
Our readers will observe in this the germ of fu-
ture parties in the new Republic which are des-
tined, We fear to divide the people widely and as
angrily as they were divided under the old govern
ment One party will insist that the Confederate
government is not indeed, a government but sort
of league subsisting at the will Of the respective
States; aad the other party, while it will admit
that the doctrine Of secession at will is recognized
in the Constitution ITSELF and is part of the theo-
~ of the government, will nevertheless insist that
this doctrine, which may become the parent of an
archy and new revolutions, ought to be restrained
rather than encouraged, and that the government,
intrinscay feeble in ITSELF should be strengthened
and maintained in all its just powers SO as to be
rendered sufficiently stable for the protection Of life
and property. One party it may be, will claim too
much for the States the other it may be- will claim
too much for the government Experience is d:ar
but able schoOmaster. While We shall insist On all
the rights which the States have reserved we shall
Also i'll our feeble way, insist all the .Ist powers
of the common government; and we expect to stand
as long as We honorably can by Fat government.
State rights meant something under the old gov
eminent, and we were Stat: rights man after the
strictest sect but to insist on State rights now and
render the Confederate government an inert and pow
erless agent For OF part, We would secure to both
the States and the government the exercise Of all
their lightful powers We would be as prompt to
resist undue tendency to from the centre; but
repeat the danger lies in the tendency from the
CENTRE and in the disposition already evlnccd in
some of the States, and especially in this, to assume
| the duties Of the common government and TO deny
it the exercise of those powers with which it has
! been clothed for the common defence. If parties
must exist-though we should deplore their exist
ence one of the prime causes of the destruction
of former Repubcs-we shall take stand with
the Confederate party. and shall contend first for
the Democratic principle in States, and second for
the perpetuaton Of the Confederate government,
as the best under Providence for transmitting
| free institutions to posterty
But these remarks are rather incidental than 9TH
| erwise TO the subject under consideration. We
trust that Virginia herself will give no heed to any
effort to sectionalizc the Republic though it is
| proposed to honor one of her sons by the pro.
cess; and we trust the day may never come when
it shall be common to make appeals for or against
| particular States. We are, indeed, homogeneous
people; and he who seeks to produce a different
| impression among u.s. who labors for sectional
profit or advantage is foe to the South and to the
| Confederate States. Let Davis and Stephens be
unanimously reelected, and let us bend every ener-
gy against the Yankees Let contentious about
honors be postponed. Let the voice of party and
the voice of sections be hushed. Let one mind and
one heart animate the South, at least until the in
vader is driven back, and our independence fully
established.
! North.CarOlina School Books.
"a We learn from the Salisbury Banner that Prof.
Sterling, of Greensborough, assisted by Prof j. d.
| Camnhell has now ready for the press the First