Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-11-20

STATE SOVerelSnIy..fIOpQSItlOn 10 NeSOtlatc'
There is nothing to distinguish Ityrannical ma
jority in America, which rules without Jaw from an
= absolute potentate of Europe or Asia who rides
alone by his WILL In the issue which We have
made-an issue which involves everything diStinc
lively American in politics. antithetic % European
the State of Illinois and the State of Ohio as the
man of Illinois and man of Ohio, have as much in
terest as the States and men of the South. These
rights We are maintaining against the power of the
North exercised through the Federal government.
THESE rights we to maintain as birthrights
Rter this war, for they are the holy of State
sovereignty and civil lberty.-AppsaL 11h.
For months past the Register has soug ht to evoke
from the press of the South just such expressions
OF opinion We have reiterated the declaration that
the State ofIlliDoS and the State of Ohio have as
much interest in the triumph of the South as the
men and States of the South" The appeal has at
length promulga the idea, and now We would in
quire whether that ably conducted journal will take
another step in the right direction and enquire how
fartis truethat this only be brought to close
through the action of these sovereign States? The
Appeal means to maintain the supreme sovereign
ty of each State after this war; We would earn.
estly inquire why may not this independence and
nationality of each State be practically asserted even
now2 There lives not thoughtful citizen who has
studied the character of Abraham Lincoln and of
the Cabinet that advises him. who believes that any
terms of peace will ever be considered by him. He
and his party exist and govern in the North Simply
and solely through their undlsguised and unmitiga-
ted hatred of everything Southern. The South gave
him not single vote; the South withdrew from the
Union because it despised the man and party called
TO rule over it. Peace froul Lincoln, Seward and
Chase? Never neVerl Brownlow, in the shape
of his snake like body, is not more nearly assmila-
ted to Lincoln than in his demoniac hatred of the
South and its institutions.
President Davis is actuated by no such absorbing
passions. He would have peace on any fair and
honorable terms. But how can he attain such
desideratum? Is there more than one mode }? He
represents Confederation which the whole North
to-day deems consolidated despotism. With it
peace will never be made. The North hates and
fears the South but while New York may hate
Georgia, New York does not fear Georgia If the
representatives of these two States should meet they
might induce those of other States to convene with
them and while Lincoln and Davis are incapable
ofnegotiaton, the several "Sovereigntes" of which
the Appeal speaks might demand a suspension of
hostlities till all the States represented in the
Convention.
1t may be objected that the Confederate Consii.
tuition gives the treaty-making power to the Presi
dent and Senate. This is very true but the diff
Guilty is not inseparabe. A Convention Of the
Southern States has the power to amend this Con-
sttution. 1t is an instrument only sacred while it
exists, and we are only sworn to support it while
in its present shape.
The proposition for suspension of hostilities with
the purpose of attaining these ends, would lead to
discussion of States Rights at the North Men en-
tertaining the views enunciated by the New York
World, Chicago Times and Cincinnati Enquirer,
would not only have the weight of reason and argu-
ment on their sde but all those who dread ceaseess
drafts who fear endless taxation, who tremble be-
fore the uprising form of fearful despotism, who
have reflected on the dangers which threaten the
liberties of the North will concur in such propo-
sltion emanatlng from the press of the South Yhe
Northern press has not been wholly silent hereto
fore, but restrained by the idea that there was in
the South only here and there newspaper which
adhered to the idea Of unrestricted State soVer-
eighty.
When man like LincOln-a savage brute-is in.
vested with dlctatoria power setting at naueht all
law, ana hihing with the lives and liberties of his
subjects as did Nero or Domitian-when c;tizenc
everywhere imprisoned by the click Of the tsIo
graph, and negroes are made preferred class there
Will not be wanting at the North the basis Of a
dence, and off with the head of the national tyrant
A Northern States Rights party will be orSan;ze,
ard Convention of the States demanded.
1t may be answered that Vallandigham has bee
, beaten. We answer that with all the influence :
those recent Federal bayonets arrayed against hiT
10 with untold wealth to combat, with the terror vh
limitless power inspires, with bribery ernployed :
defeat him, and offices and hoIors distributed amo
his most Jealous enemies, his defeat was still tr
umoh Without money, banished from his hon
his friends denounced traitors and as false to
citizen soldiery, it is matter of amazement that
discover even the germ of a States Rights party
tie Northwest
In very truth the appeal stops half way
Li,,ine of the argument. State sovereignty Nor
or South is sounding brass and tinklng cy
bal. unless the principle be applied practically
the present hopeless condition of affairs which vi
one voice, the people would nave remea.?d:
sacr State North or South conceded not only Il
nea.e NAV now be secured, if possible, but as
best possible means of its perpetuation;
80 The Iutslligsncer of this city has admitted tn
as now waged, the war must De eternsl OF iesuT =
the anpihilation Of either the North OF Sou'n