Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-09-06

and nothing less if by any possibility can have 1t
if not then for much of it yet can be rescued
and preserved; and in any event and under an CIR r.
cumstances, for the Union which God ordained, OF
the Mississippi Valley and all of which may cling to
it under the old name the old Constitution and the
old flag, with all their precious memories with bat
tle-helds of the past and the songs ana the Prouu
history Of the past-w:th the birth place ana the
burial place of Washington, the founder, and Jack
son. the preserver, of the Constitution as it is, and
i of the Union as it is was. Great applause]
But this correspondent again proceeds:
/ "If the sympathizers with treason and traitors
mediate to carry out their plans in this quarter
What plans? Just such as to-day have been the
business of this Convention; the plans of that old
Union party laying down platform and nomna-
ting Democrats to fill the offices and control the
policy of the Government to the end that the Con
stituton may be again maintained, and the Union
restored, and peace prosperity and happiness once
more drop healing from their wings.
"Plans," the fellow proceeds, I" in this quarter
they will doubtless find the work quite as hot as
thew bargained for" And tell the cowardly mis-
creant who telegaphed the threat that he and those
behind him will find the work fifty fold hotter when
they begin it than they had reckoned on both here
and in Indiana.
"Ten thousand stand of arms" he adds, have
been ordered for the State troops"
| For what? To put down the Democratic party
Sir, this is work which cannot be done by ten, or
twenty, fifty thousand stand of arms IL the hands
of any such dastards in Office or out of it If so
full of valor and so thirsty for blood let them enlist
under the call lust issued for troops in Ohio and In
| diana. Let them GO down and fight the armies OF
| the rebels" in the South and let Democrats fight
the unarmed but more insidious and dangerous Ab-
clifton rebels of the North and West through the
| balot-box Forty thousand additional troops, L
estimate it are called for in the proclamation of yes
| terday, from the State of Ohio. Where are the
| forty thousand Wide-Awakes of 1860, armed with
their portable lamp-posts and drilled to the music
ofthe Chicago PLATFORM Sir, propose that 81, 900
of them be conscripted forthwith. They will never
enlist they never do. They are " Home Guards"
| They don't CO." but stay vigorously at home to
| SANDER and abuse and threaten Democrats whose
fathers or brothers or sons in the Union armies
| or have fallen in battle. l speak generally-cer
| tainy there exceptions. But will engage that
If the records of the old Wide-Awake clubs in the
several cities and towns of Ohio shall be procured
and the Republicans will detail or draft $4,000 from
the lists will find 5000 strong armed stout-hear
ted, brave and loyal Democrats to go down and see
that they don't run away at the first fire. LGreat
| laughter.
Sympathizers with treason and traitors !-Seces
| sioniStS Sir, it is about time that we had heard
the last of this. The Democracy of Ohio and of the
United States arc resolved that end shall be put
to this sort of Islander and abuse. But do not pro-
pose to discuss this particular subject just now
| [" SO on, go on"
| Well then, from that which concerns the Demo-
| cratic party to word, a single word, about what
relates to myself; and beg pardon for the digres
| sion | am reioiced that it has been permitted me
to be here present to-day IN person before you
! Had you believed the reports of the Republican
| press, you would no doubt, have expected to see
| probably the most extraordinary compound of lep
rous and unsightly flesh and blood ever exhibited.
| Laughter.) Well, my friends you see that am
! not quite "monstrous" at least; and bear no
pecial resemblance to the beast Of the Apocalypse,
either in head or horns but am man of like fash
| ion with yourselves
To the Republican party alone, aId its press, and
its orators am indebted, doubt for 4 large part
| of the curiosity" which am sorry to say, seem
! to have excited, and which has brought out even
some of them as if to "See the elephant" They
have never meant to be friendly towards me, know,
but as see of them now within my vision,
let whisper in their ears, that never had better
friends, and no man ever had since the world began.
They have advertised me free of cost for the last
fifteen months; yes, may say for five years past,
all over the United States. Why, sir, Republican
editor without "the undersigned" for a text would
be the most unhappy mortal IN the world. Every
little printers devil" in the Office would be ho
| lowing for copy, and no copy to be had. | know
that they are friends, by the usual sign "thc re-
marks they make" Gentlemen, | have holy oil
with which the Democratic priesthood has always
been Amounted SANDER, detracton, and calumny
| without stint Really, am not sure that with me
it has not reached "extreme junction." though am
not ready, and do not mean, to depart yet. WE'LL
| will not complain 1t has cost me not a single
nights loss of sleep from the beginning. My ap-
petite If you will pardon the reference If you will
allow me- as Lincoln would say, to blab" upon so
delicate subject-has been in no degree impaired
by it Others before me, and with me, have
! dured the same Here ID my excellent friend near
me, (Mr. Medary0 Oh, blessed martyr Great
| laughter and applanse.) For and sixty years.
the storms of partisan persecution and nalignty,
! in every FORM have beaten upon his head, but
though time and toll have made it gray the heart
beneath beats still to-day sound and true to its
instinct of Democracy and patriotism, and of hu-
manity too when he laid his first offerings upon
the altar Of his country just forty years ago. What
others have heroically suffered in ages past we too
can endure We are all, indeed, still in the midst
! of trials.
| Here, before me, is the gentleman Of whom l
have just spoken, whom you have honored with the
Presidency of this noble Convention for forty years
| Democratic editor-for forty years devoted to the
Constitution and the Union Of these States man
who, through evil and through good report has ad-
hered with the faith of devotee and the firmness
of martyr to the principles and policy Of that
! grand old party of the Union, and now that the
frosts Of three years have descended and WIFI
tened his head-he, | say, has lived to see the pa
| per to which he gives the labor and the wisdom of
his declining years prohibited from circulation
| through part of the mails, "disloyal" to the
! Government (Cries of mo, no. shame.") Sam
uel Medary disoyall and Wendell Phillips patri-
otl Sir, it is not many months since, that in the
city of Washington, in that magnificent building
erected by the charity of an Englishman who loved
America wish there more like him. that
! art and science might the more widely flourish in
! this Countrywide Smithsonian Institute-W
Phillips addressed assemblage of men as false to
| the Union and the Constitution as himself Upon
the platform was the Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, the third officer in the Government;
by his side the Vice President of the United States
and between these two, in proportions long drawn
| out, the form of Honest Old Abraham Lincoln"
Am L mistaken, and was it at another and earlier
abolition lecture by that other disunionist Horace
| Greedy, in the same place-there have been many
of them-that Lincoln attended? The Speaker and
| Vice President know were there: and with these