Year: 1860

MEssRs FULTON & PRICE


Gentlemen We have noticed that you have copied
from the " Raleigh Standard what you have appro-
priately denominated remarkable document mani
festo" which has emanated from highly respectable
citizen of Guiford by virtue Of my (his) appointment
as member of the National Executive Committee of
the Democratic party"


Waving the authority from whence Mr.. Dick derives
his right to issue this call for Convention of the Doug
las Democracy of North Carolina and passing by the
unauthorized and ill-timed mpressioa sought to be
made by Yancey secessioniss," we come directly to
the impropriety, as well as the mpocy, Of any such
movement as he now seeks to inaugurate


The friends of Judge Douglas in this State cannot at
least they ought not to shut their eyes to the fact that
at crisis like the present, the first consideration with
every Southern man. 1--WE the term Southern man, for
this is pre-emnenty Southern question: should be to
sacrifice all minor differences, all preference for men,
order that the South should be unit in purpose.


They not called upon to sacrifice any principle In
going for the Southern ticket unless it be- land
not do them the injustice to harbor such thought)
that they AFFIRM with Judge Douglas, that the people
of Territory can by lawful means exclude slavery be-
fore it becomes State, and DO matter what may be
the decision of the Supreme Court on that abstract
question: still the right of the people of the Territories
to make slave Territory is perfect and complete"


No. we cannot we will not even Intimate that any Of
them ndore the above Squatter Sovereign heresy for
we know many Of tie leaders of the Douglas party too
we'll even to insnuae as much they are too high
toned too chivalrous and too much imbued with the
true Southern sentiments, to give in to such political
absurdity.


Why then stand aloof from the Breckenridge ticket,
AID waste their energies aud probably lose that proud
position that many of them have occupied in fighting
the battles of Democracy, and breasting the storm of
fanaticism, whether it in the open guise of
enemy or under the horrd and nsdious approaches of
a friend.


What principle either great or small do the Douglas
part of North Carolina sacrifice in the support of the
Southern ticket None whatever for if understand
them they hold upon this vital question the sentiments
of the Southern candidate.


True, they complain that gross injustice has been
done to their avorte by the Southern delegates In Con
vention that determination fixed upon, by few
ruling spirits of the South, not to take him.


Grant all that is here demanded, will they dare deny
that tenfod grosser injustice would have been done the
South had he been forced upon them with his construc
ton of territorial rights Would not his nomination.
under all the circumstances by which it was pressed &C
companed by all the for which it was resisted
have been endorsement by the South of the very doc
trines combatted? Would not non-intervention, as
explained by Judge Douglas be virtual degradation
of Southern equality to say nothing of Southern hon.
or? If would, then ask, why attempt to stir up
hopeless opposition to the recommendation of the
ceding delegates at Baltimore for extremely hopeless
must it be- when the entire Democratic presses of the
State, backed by at least nnetenths of the
Democracy thereof have endorsed their recommendation
Do the Douglas party not know that party IN this
State, have nothing to gain, but much to ose by an
internecine political warfare among ourselves and that
by splitting our people into factions apt to
be shorn OF the essential strength necessary to carry out
measures identified with the best interests of the State


You cannot, you must not, suppose in the language
of the Wilmington Journal that the great majority OF
the delegates from this State to Charleston and Balt
more-the electoral ticket, chosen by the party of the
State the Districts respectively-the Democratic
press-the Democratic candidate for Governor-the
: Democratic delegation in Congress-a are wrong and
are awed by dctation from the administration at Wash
ington City on the one hand or the Yancey secession
~ lists on the other"


n Such suppositon would be rash in you and altho
you have preferred the charge have only say thai
it shall at present draw forth any unknd remark


We say then, to the friends Of Judge Douglas, you
can unite with in the support of Breckenridge anC
Lane but that cannot for the reasons given, come


the support of Judge Douglas for his territorial sover
I'd eighty has placed wide well mpassabe gulf be
Mt tween US.


Not so however, with you, for if we understand eve


the position you occupy, you are still with us uF


on this question and that for the that you


in reality of us ;" but how long you will remain 81


will depend entirely upon the you pursue ID this


our trying emergency for rest fully assured the De


mocracy of North Carolina will hold to rigid respor


sbility the inauguration of step perfectly uncale


for and so replete with mischief to a common party


A DEMOCRAT.