Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-12-21
CamcrOn,s ReDOrt.

The report Of Secretary Cameron produces great
uneasiness in Kentucky Prentice of the Louis
vile Journal finds his wheels scotched, and bella
bors it Prentice, however, says it is no worse
than Lincoln's Message. He thus speaks Of it:
We this morning publish the official report of
Secretary Cameron. As respects the question of
slavery, the report confirms our worst apprehen-
sons And the most grevous fact of all is that the
report on this head can be regarded only as an ex-
panSion of what the President says in the same
lation The report of the Secretary is of course
sanctioned by the President What is said by the
one concerning slavery is but the illumination of
what is said by the other. The Secretary in this
respect is no worse than the President and the
President is no better than the Secretary. The
country has little to hope from either except in the
disposition that we trust both have to heed the
counsels of the country'S own better judgment and
better nature But these counsels must be heard
Enthusiastically to be needed. When so heard we be-
lieve they will be needed. We now, however, dis
miss the Secretary, and shall hereafter deal with
the principal in the case.
The conviction we expressed in our columns yes
terday, and the course of action then proposed,
gather additional strength from the developments Of
every hour. The radicals in Congress appear to
have things their own way. The character of the
propositions they introduce and the favor which the
widest of their propositions receive positively
| frightful. Congress has opened with a fanatical
howl, and seems ready, without a pause, to leap
into the furtheSt depths of radcalism. The winds
of sectional passion unclaimed. The tempest is
abroad. The pillows of anti-slaveryism running
| mountain high at Washington. The fierce roar is
| stunning the Of the nation. The dashed and
raging sea of fanatciSm is laundering against the
barriers of the Constitution aud threatens to sweep
them utterly away. Behind these barriers stands
| the President alone; and he, instead of rebuking
| the storming waves, throws over them the witchng
moonlight Of miS countenance. lie bends before
the storm Is it not manifest that if the President
is not promptly and resolntcy supported by the
sentative sentiment of the nation; by that benef-
cent and mighty genius whose real spell has yet
we fear been felt only partially at Washington,
there is most serious danger that the uproarious
of anti-slavery:Sm will presently burst through all
constitutional barriers and carry away him and them
alike upon its rushing waves? Nothing appears
more manifest to us. 1t appears too plain for ra
tional dispute.
Let then, the conservative sentiment of the Union
come promptly and resoutely to the support of the
President Letthe great genius Of conservatism shake
off his slunbers. and at once lay his spell truly and
deeply on the officers charged above all others with
the conservation of this glorious ark of human ber
ty and of human hope. We repeat what we sale
yesterday with the added emphasis of strengthened
conviction"
What Prentice "said yesterday was a sever,
criticism on Lincoln's message, worthy of Fort War
ren as times 20 in the North.