Year: 1860

the whole democrotlc party OF the state theH
declared to be pIotters against the safety of the
Union and subsequently declared Stephen A:
Douglas TIE regular nominee of the National
Democratic party by the action of the BaltI-
more Convention, and that the sectional ticket
COMPOSED of Breckenridge and Lane put forth
by the boilers at Charleston was gotten up for
the purpose of destroying and not to save the
Union, we have been bitterly denounced by
Breckenridge papers and orators, great and
small, from one end of the State to the other.
Not only have we been denounced but few
vile, unprincpled men, here and elsewhere, have
taken it upon themselves to canvass against
our business-have even gone so tar as to use
their influence (such creatures can't have much)
to injure us pecuniarily simply because we have
refused to be muzzled- 80


We denounced the Seceders at Charleston as
did Messrs Holden, Humphrey and Ellis, and
host of lesser lights, as plotters against the
harmony and success of the democratic party
and as the enemies of the Union, and we now
affirm that, had we not fully believed that these
Charleston boilers with Yancey at their head
were attempting to break up this great Nation
al party with the object of ultimately dissolving
the Union we should have taken no part in this
convass. We have before contended and now
contend that there was more cause for bolt
ing at BoltimOre than at Charleston and we
can only attribute the stampede of fifteen of
our delegates from the Convention at it's second
meeting to the influence exerted over them by
Iancey and his trickstering coadjutors and
their want of patriotic firmness to do right and
remain firm against Southern sectional move
ment which had, even at Charleston, reached
almost to mob violence. While we were de-
nouneing the Seceders from the Charleston
Convention, from the 1st May to the 18th June,
we were patted on the shoulder called "good
boy" and told to ego it" by democrats gene
rally; they were glad to see independent pa
per averring sentiments SO thoroughly in &C
Cordance with their own, and even Gov. Ellis
and Col Humphrey thought we were an excel
1eut democrat and a mighty clever fellow, while
our friend Holden Of the Standard thought we
would "do to tie to-" But soon after the break
up Of the Baltimore Convention Gov. Ellis and
Col Humphrey, without extending to us the
common fairness Gin politics ofle letting us know
the nature of the great change which was about
to come over them, abandoned US; but still the
standard and its gallant editor, the acknoWl-
edged leader of the party for nearly twenty
years, with U.s. and we had nothing to fear
Our confidence in the justice of the cause was
increased when the editor of the Standard ut
tered the following, bold, fearless and independ-
cnt language in that paper on the 7th of July.
BE it recollected that this was before the names
of Brcckinridge and Consin Joseph went up to
the mast head of that paper with the conditions
attached. Read these sentiments of the Stand
ard, Democrats of North Carona-recolect it
was then your orgdR-and then say whether
not we had good cause for all which we then
had, or which we since have, uttered against the
boilers at Charleston and Baltimore Mr. Hold
and Ourself were together the 7th Of Ju-
ly, and zee have undergone no change. We
leave it to that gentleman to reconcile his pres
ent position with the National Democratic party
as best he may. Then he said:


1--WE call upon the Democratic party of the
State to take notice that we have done everything
in power to promote harmony When cer-
tain crisis reached at Baltimore g stood
aloof with no other view than to harmonic with
Democratic friends at home We have
sailed no one-we have lmpeached the motives of
We have made no appeal to the party
against the course of the fifteen delegates who
ceded at Baltimore All we have done has been
to counsel harmony, and to suggest such steps as
thought would promote harmony. But
have been met by threats. denunciatiOn, abuse
We will not submit to it We tell the Salisbury
Banner that if the must come ready
for it. We will not court tive will avoid it, if
possible. but if are canvassed' > we will can
vass in return. Standing by the national Demo
cratic banner. within the lines and on the planks
and strong in an unconquerabe purpose to do
right without regard to consequences. we defy
the assaults of those who would dragoon out of
our opinions and force into the support of
sectional irregular ticket. On the part of the
national Democrats of the State we demand terms
at the hands of the supporters of this irregular
ticket. We have proposed, and sued. and i'm
plored in vain and we now stand upon our rights
upon regularity. upon organization and nation
aity. We demonstrate, if necessary. that
stephen A Douglas is the regular nominee of the
national Democracy; and we triumphanty
vindicate at Baltimore from first last.
We know the nature of the combination that ex-
lists, but defy the worst that sefshness and
ambition can accomplish We 1oiH appeal 10 the
people, # necessary against secession and disunon.
We will strip the covering from William L Yam
cey, if necessary, and hold him ur and his follow
ers in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi in all
their hideousness as plotters against a Consttu-
tional Union and the be hopes of man We will
point the people of this State to the yawning gulf
of dsunion opening before them We tell gen
temen that we will do this, and nno'e if this
fare is kept mp against We will do it without
regard to consequences now and hereafter; for
they may well understand, once for all, that
when we have duty to perform, when we know
we are right, and when we are crowded imposed
upon, and insulted by those who should be our
friends or who should at least treat US Justly, we
will not stop TO consider consequences The
truth is great battle is to be fought in this State
sooner or later, between the people on one hand
and privlege on the other; and between Union and
Disunion Our friends will know where to find
us when that battle begins. We will stand or
fall by the people-we will stand or fall by Con
stitutiona Union We will not consent to secede
dissolve the Union for existing causes; and he
who would deliberately dissolve and destroy the
national Democratic party while it stands upon
its old and well known doctrine of non-interven-
ton, has but one more step to take to become a
disunionist Woe unto the man Who shall lift his
hand at this time against the temple of the Union
and against the banner of the stripes and stars !!


1t is needless to say that we have ever been
an admirer of Mr. Holden. We have admired
his private virtues and his political integrity,
and we have meyer had ca;rse To differ with