The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-09-08
A GLANCE AT THh RECORD.


for'the purpose of convicting Mr. Holden of gross
Inconsistency, but to show those persons who have
been acting his advice and holding "public meet
ings denouncing secessionists and passing treason
able resolutions, that they have been deceived and
urged to a course ~hich will cause them and their
children many bitter regrets hereafter. We want
to show them that If they denounce any southern
man it ought to be the Editor of the Raleigh STAN
dard, who, for many years past, when the country
YVES enjoyngp threatened war and excited the
people against the old Union. And we now warn
those people who are following Mr. Holden's lead
that when they get inte difficulty and trouble comes
upon them, he will desert them as he did the seces-
sionists. IF they will examine his present course
they will that it1s artful and cunning; he denies
having said that he is favor of reconstruction, but
he publishes communications and proceedings of
meetings favorng it. If the South gains her inde-
pendence (and she certainly willy the Editor of the
Standard don't intend that any open declaration in
favor of reconstruction shall appear the record
against him, although it llappear against others
who acted from his promptings. He will then
sumo an air of innocence and leave his duped and
misfed co-operators to suffer. The man who insti-
gates another to commit crime is just bad as if
| he had committed it himself
But let US refer to Mr. Holden's record and see if
he not original secessionist-let US judge
him by his own declarations. In the Standard of
December, 1885, he said 80
awe have heard the idea recently expressed that
| State has right to secede from the Union-that
there is no help from oppression ercet by revolution
In other words that the States the creatures Of and
dependents on the Federal Government and of course
subject to physical coercion. Such assumption
humbly submit is unsupported by any testimony de-
| rived from the Constitution itself from any single
circumstance attending its formation adoption. 1t
is with all regular ideas of free repub
| lican government =. X We hold that as no State
could originally have been forced into the Union
be o5ed to remain in, rather be prevented from
| going OUT
| Did Mr. Yancey any other man strong
er language in favor of secession. than the above
and has the man who penned the above any right to
denounce and abuse secessonists Let any can
did, honest man answer and say if the above deca-
ration does not convict the editor of the Standard
of being original seeessionist.
| From the Standard of the samesdate we also copy
the following:
GAIL we now ask of the free States is to cease the
agitation of The slave question in Congress and carry
out the fugitive slave law in its letter and spirit Let
| them do this and march together-let them
fuse and DISSOLVED This is strong language,
but have weighed it and have given utterance TO it
with deliberation and soemnity. Here stand. If
this confederation of States must perish; if their
flag radiant with achievements immortal as the
stars that cluster it, be torn and trampled in
the conflict, and if brothers must be converted into
| deadly foes the very graves of their fathers
who won their liberties, the Ruler of Nations who
judges Justly, and all posterity upon this continent, will
hold slaveholdng States guless of this incapable
crime"
Here is direct threat to dissolve the Union, &C
companied with the declaration that in such an
event the slaveholdng States will be held guiltless
Yet the author of the above paragraph is now con-
tinually blaming citizens of the slaveholdng States
for the dissolution after the free States had refused
to execute the fugitive slave law, and after they had
denied rights. Did any ever such
inconsistency? Why don't his ''pubic meetings.
put the blame for the war, where it kelongs' :.
And the Standard of September, 1856, gave vent
to it's sentiments in the following style:
"The election of Fremont would inevitably lead to
separation of the States. Even if overt direct
of dissolution should take place, he could carry
no government in the South. No true decent south
man could accept office under him, and our people
would submit to have their post Offices,
houses and the like filled with Fremonts Yankee Abo-
litioniss.'
In another article, same date, the Standard de:
cared that
"They Fremont and Dayton) stand upon platform
which makes them and their supporters mortal
every man, and child in the Southern States
We regard them as personal mortal enemies. If they
should succeed in this contest, do not believe
they WILL the result will be separation of the States
No human power could prevent it. If some of the
Southern States should be disposed to wait and see
| what the wolf would do with the lamb or the hawk
| with the dove, others will not.'
| Again, in October, 1856, the Standard said:
&c If they (the Northern people, will respect our
rights must make them do it, If we yield, they will
trample upon us, if we beg, they will despise and
| scourge If the white people of the South should
do what is impossible, if they should make up their
minds submit for the sake of the Union to the rule
and to the measures of such Fremont and
Banks, and Gddings, and Burlingame, they will de-
serve all the deep and unspeakable degradation to
which they win descend" -..-.
! We give the above three paragraphs merely to
show that the editor of the Standard strong
disunionist in 1856, and urged the people not to
submit to the election of Black Republican Presi-
| dent.
But we now call particular attention to what the
Standard said few months before Lincoln's cleo
tion We quote as follows from the Standard of
January, 1860:
sIf Black Republican sectional President shall
be elected in 1860, will go with the South-we will
stand side by side with the sons of Virginia and South
Carolina, as ancestors did at Yorktown and the
Cowpens, and will do it, cnging to the .constitu
ton and despising the forms of vicious oppressive
and usuring Union. That will be its character under
Black Republican rule, and for one we will bow
our head to its degrading yoke. We mean what
say We have considered the whole subject calmly,
and we are prepared for the consequences"
That was pretty brave talk before the war. but