Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-13

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N.no,.on once said--" America is . fortunate
country f she thrives by the foIlies Of our Euro
mean COUNTRIES III dis! how shc has re'eise"
her policy anu .Stsad o. living by aVo'u"s 'e''
follies, she has not only adopted them, war tGes
onnr.ssions but she has gone step tarther' anu Us
pSP",;"r - deS,rny her own liberties, the lber.
tas 81 vbi1s men in order to strengthen or secure
thosa of tho black race The history of mankind
-oSsrts ms with many insane foles of nations; hut
none canal ia insanity to this stupendous folly OF
Republican America, in this noon OF the nneteesn
ceturv. A year and half ago. the American ne
puulic. with the motto "E Pluribus Unum nam,
ing in her beak, was developing her resources oil
mind and body, with an external force, ana an ih-
ternal freedom, that bad never parailei III Tue
worlds history. a continent ana Two oceans,
said the London Times, "are IN the nahoS OF tn's
people" With a most heroic past VIC nau .uo
promise of most glorious future. AT peace Win
sI the world and with ourselves-the terror OF ma
tions-a career of national prosperity was opening
before ms unlimited in extent rvaliing in happiness
the fsbled Utopias of the poets Out of the once
unknown wilderness, in less than three centuries, a
mighty empire had arisen. Upon the scarcely rot,
ted roots of the primitive forest proud cities stood
teeming with busy life and growing like the prairie
grass in spring The boldest and most enthusiastic
Specuator could have scarcely ventured to predict
the destiny of this country, if integrity had con-
tinued to govern her deliberations, and wisdom had
prevailed in her councils. Her worst enemy, as he
looked out upon the vast inheritance OF TINS people
stretching from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific
from its inland seas at the North to the Floridlan
reefs with all its teemng Millions and all its evil
dences of prosperity everywhere, must have been
compelled to exclan, with Baal the Of PeOr, as
he looked out upon the tents Of Israel, whitening
all the plains of Moab, who can count the dust OF
Jacob, or the number of the fourth part of Israel?
fhory fort
the river side as of gn alocs which the Lord
hath planted as cedar trees beside the waters.
All this prosperity and promise for the future was
the natural result Of the constitutional policy OF the
democratic party which had ruled in the land SO
long That party held as the policy oil Its creed
strict construction of the Constitution; equal ana
exact Justice all who entitled to Its privileges;
antagonlsn to all forms of sectionalism based upon
hostility to institutions whose privileges were guar
anteed by the Constitution. Had such policy been
adhered to- this nation to-day would have remained
u united and happy people. But sectional organ
Zatiun protesting for the basis OF its creed eternal
hostility to slavery revolutionary in its origin and
destructive in its policy, proposed govern this
country by usurpation; to overthrow and set at
naugh every guarantee OF the Constitution in refer
ence to fifteen States of the Union; to shut them
out of the magnificent territories acquired by the
common blood and treasure Of the Umon; to main
tain this Union Just as the Union between England
attempted TO maintain the Union between the moth
er country and the American colonies. When the
danger of disrupted Union was y OF IS, and all
the horrors of civil war menaced, ey l,-s:steEtly
refused all attempts at concli;t'"I' III Compromise
and preferred the arbtraue'.t ii Var 10 that of
pgace. aud Cancellation. They rer'.sid canciha;.;@
nd compromise, ana when i'.er INA SO they knew
that War would result roG. the refusal.
The tneT inyteG-7aay, longed fDr-iS now
upon rs, all is brought in its train all the ruin
that has Wa I'd lis blood stained foot>tepS.-
Every un1 mental principle of constitutional liner
ty has be-. scattered to the windS-enormOuS ex
pendulum the rrsuit of speculation and fraud, de
mani oppressive and exorbiiant taXcs-whole heca-
combs OF victims have 0ecn offered up and there is
hardly house, in ancient Ey gpt, IN which there
is not one dead"-a large proportion oil the produc
tive industry is being turned from the peaceful Pur
suits of agriculture, to where the reapers descend
to the harvest of death-eSerywhere individual and
national bankruptcy are staring US in the face.
In thelegiSlatve councils Of the nation. every hour
makes manifest that the object Of the is not to
uphold the Government, the Constitution or the
Union out to lift the artificial weights from all
mems shoulders" in the language of President LIN
coln-to wage ian irrepressible conflict" sgainst
the institution Of slavery-to the white man Of his
liberty, that the slave may enjoy It Nineenths Of
the legislation of Congress has been this session d.
rccted towards the condition of the slave and how
to alleviate that condition, while the awful situation
Of this Government intended for white men, is en-
tire Y lost sight Of In the meantime the nation
"reels and staggers to and fro like drunken man."
Democrats of New jersey the hour when YOU
are to meet in council is not far distant Upon you
together with your colreres in other States rests
the hope of the country. Wtha bold, vigorous and
determined effort you can help to save it; but it
will not be by hG!ray, temp0rizing measures
You cannot save it by endorsing and approving the
acts of the present administration; by endorsing
no ofta he he
subject; by approving Of war of subjugation and
determination. The cunning, unprincipled promo
tiers OF this war, who are specializing upon the
'lood and treasure of this nation, have no desire
1t it shall cease. Under the specious and delusive
cry that the Government is in danger and the Con-
stItntlon must be upheld they are uprooting the
foundations OF the one and rendering nugatory every
provision of the other. Read the history of the
past year. read the daily legislation of the men in
congress who are bounding this strife and then
tell US honestly-do you believe this TO be a war
for the Union or the preservation of the Constitu
uon! II you do not, it is high time you should
cry aloud and spare not
1t is time that you should arouse from the lethar
gy that enervates, and the false security that de-
ludes you. fyOu believe that the further contipu-
ance OF this war will only entail untold miseries up
on yourselves and your posterity, you have q right
by all constitutional means within your power to
endeaVor to make it inality. If not, you acknowl-
edge right and a power in this Administration
winch only belongs to despotc governments that are
founded in force and not in the consent of the gov
crned. o.
Let this war go in the spirit it is now being
%aged' ana you Will dig an impossible gplf between
North and South Remember what Senator Doug
las SAID IN the Senate before disease had dimmed his
eye ard paralyzed his mind: whether the war
that these Republicans now cIainor for, lasts one
year. seven years, or thirty years, the result must
De the Same-a cessation Of ho,tilities when the
parties become exhausted and treaty. of neacA 70.
GGgnizng the separate independence Of each section.
DETERMINATION, suJusdtion or separation, one of
me .Ire6' must De ths result Of the oar Jstween the
Northern and Southern States"
Now, the question is, will you wal, until war of
yeats mas Frustrated every Iar.rest DESTROYED a
st.;ts: part nj your population AMI m, i, rsSte al
n1S'iati9n OF the Norln, or wn you demand peace
no~F Is the treed1T OF The negro of more impor.
tahoe thai Inn nj tha r,,i,a 't"P''