Year: 1859

RALEIGH: SATURDAY. NOV. %. 1859.


wv HOLDEN, STATE PRINTER,


AUTHORIZED PUBLISHER OF TUE LAWS OF srArEs
The Views of the Register on the Present Crisis


in Public Affairs.


Not long since our neighbor of the Register made
the extraordinary and startling declaration, that
between black Republican and a national Democrat
for the Presidency he would make no choice We
held him to this declaration up to the time of the
Harper's Ferry affair, when We ceased to use it
against him. He has not yet withdrawn it in so
many words; but his course has recently been such
to leave the impression all fair minded persons
that he did not mean what he sapd-or that he meant
that he would have candidate of his own for the
Presidency, and would not be forced to choice
between black Republican and Democrat But
let all this pass. We are not disposed in crisis
like the present. to make party capital out of the
question of slavery. We must all look above party
when the Constitution and the Union are at stake.
While preserving our organization as Democrats,
must forget the issues and the prcudices which have
heretofore divided us, and divided our people gcner
ally, when two hundred millions worth of slave
property in North Carolina and nineteen hundred
millions worth Of slave property in the Southern
States, gravely threatened by abolition raids,
and by the united action of the largest and most
dangerous geographical party which has existed
in this country
Our neighbor took ground in a recent issue of his
paper, for expelling Seward from the Senate We
seconded the movement. He declares in his issue
of the 10th, that the South uiU nerer submit to
the election Of Sewara, any sectional Republican,"
We unite with him in the declaration We do
deliberately and emphatically. But we take issue
with our neighbor when he says lit must be appar
ent that the Democracy at the North is utterly pow
erless organization of itself to lend any aid in
the defeat of black Republican candidate" We
deny the proposition. We insist that the conserva-
tive "Opposition" North. and the "Oppostion
South precisely in the situation in which our
neighbor would place the national Democracy; and
that the only hope of the Union according to the
Constitution, is to be found in the national Demo-
cratic party, aided by the conservatives Of the nom
slaveholding States. We insist upon this,


First, because the conservative opposition North
we mean the Fillmore men and old line Whigs-do
not embrace more than four hundred thousand voters
in the non-slaveholding States.


Secondly, because they have no regular organiza-
ton, and are already being absorbed by the Demo-
cratic and black Republican parties.


Thirdly, because they only carried one State in
1856, Maryland-and We all know they have not
acquired any strength since.


We insist upon this further,


First because the national Democratic party
polled in 1856 not less than one million of votes in
the non-slaveholding States-as many votes lacking
only three hundred thousand as Fremont polled.


Secondly, because the Democratic party has a ma
tional organization and is regarded sound and
so true Southern rights that it can hold its Con
ventions in saveholding States. with as much &C
ceptability to the people of the localities in which
its delegates assemble, if all the delegates were
themselves shareholders.


Wirdly because in 1856 they triumphantly elec
ted their candidate, Mr.. Buchanan, polling for him
one million eight hundred thousand votes. f


In addition to this, in the late election in New
York, as admitted by the New York Tribune, the
Democratic party poed 100000 votes-as many as
it polled in lS5S-against 100000 votes polled by
the black Republicans. The Americans in the late
election in New York, polled but 10000 votes
whereas, last year they polled 10000. In New Jer
sey also the Democratic candidate for Governor has
been defeated by only 1000 votes running he die
against the Americans and Republicans combined.


We commend these facts to the consideration oi
our ncighbor. Can he, after considering them, and
after full and unprejudiced survey of the whole
field, repeat his declaration that the Democracy al
the North is utterly poweress as an organization Of
itself to lend any aid in the defeat Of black Repub
lican candidateg" We do not think he can.
But our neighbor has another article on this sub
ject in his last issue, which, as we desire to do him
entire justice, we will copy in full He says:
If ever a country needed some man who, by lof
ty patriotism enlarged experience, indomitable for
titude and eminent public services, could command
the public confidence country at this time needs
just such man. But, alas ! in looking over its
length and breadth we fail to discover an individual
who can supply this pressing and urgent want We
find no man in this Union capable of grasping the
helm of our tossed and wreck threatened ship
Of State and guiding her into safe harbor. When
We look around at this time, when there is much
need for unselish men; for men Of patriotism
sense and courage and see the race of piddng, jos
olEg, Juggling and mercenary men, who now control
our public affairs how the heart sickens the sight
While from it goes up the, perhaps selfish wish thai
we could call to earth once more such man as
Old Harry Clay, and assign him the task of once
more saving that Union for the perpetuity Of which
he sighed out his last earthly wish. But such wish
Sare vain. We must deal with the times upon
winch we have fallen as we best may, and never
'eaSe 10 struggle to save the country from the disas