The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1841-11-11
THE STANDARD, &c.

TIE STANDAkD, &c.
The editor 81 The Standard, in his pa
,sr Of last week, PHrsues = course Of rea-
,.,.ias which We DO mi choose % follow.
. Ran,ing articles. fall of recriminaiiOn
,pl abu.e," are mol likely TO be profit
allie. and should not, therefore. be forced
rpau our readers. The Standards expo
nsace may be better Than ours, and he
NAV have formed just estimate Of his
readers when he considers them As 'gulls'
ready 10 swalhw with greediness The most
outrageous AMI gross receptions; we say
his n,ny be The character Of his readers,
slough We think We know among them
.sme honorable exceptions. But we have
4 more exalted opinion Of the ireenen oil
chi. couniry. and q oar readers in Parii-
e,Iar. We lllcrrfnre endeayor TO appear
bc(oe them in a character always mark f,
"a with soherncss and ruth; and when
We make an assertion, We are ever ready
I. sustain il by adequate proof Flippant
rnarks. fulI Of guile md hyPocriIieal de-
eeii, We have always held in utter deies-
,aiion. and hope the Standard speaks FEEL
iasly when he says ",hc days Of iOOlery
and humbug arc gone by" We shall he
Glad 10 sec tia, his practice will hereafter
show that he Il sincere in his profession
In relation 10 the matter in dispute be-
tween us. The Standard appears TO be We
a. unwilling 10 join issue: else why docs
he no, hiring forward his statements, his
p-ooGs, his . official documenisr Is he
afaid Of ihcml And does he expect to
crawl out BY saying tina, The treasury notes
Il which we spake "are NOT yet d"e?"
Docs he not know that large amounts OF
treasury notes were issued long ago, and
TIA, portions DC them are becoming due
continually. Or does he expect to lind a
way Cor retreat by saying tina, the remarks
Of The Wing members quoted by us "were
applicable 10 Mr.. Granger and not to Mr.
Kendall" when il is perfectly clear that
they al, as well as the extract from the
w.ssaCe Of the President, had refcrenc'
n the demands upon the rost-othco de-
department which rsre due when MIR
Granger FIRST entered il. or, even il tina
we're no, so perfectly apparent. docs ~
not know that when the report was mad
Mr.. Changers first quarter had not ex
pred, AMI that therefore the demands un
der his administration had mol bscOm
due?
Bat furthermore. if the Standard mean
to be honest, why is he so profoundly 81
lent about Mr.. Postmaster General Niles
Mr.. Niles, The Standard very well knows
filled the office Tor nine months before NJ
Granger came in; and the question Is,
what condition was the department VINE
Mr.. Niles left il! What its condllio
was when Mr.. Kendall left II, we do n
pretend to say hut we do say aud "
say i, ON the authority Of the President
the United States. that when Mr.. MI
left the department, at the close oil NJ
Van Buren's administration, the demand
upon it, beyond The means at It's col
mand, was "no, less than five hundr'
Thousand dollars" How can the Stan
ard talk OF others being Substitute oil Gu
dor" while he himself resorts to suea ne
low hearted AMI shameful eVaslons! v
d, no, think that the utterancc oil 'r"
would have SO fatal an effect upon
Standard editor as to "kiIl him corpor
w." but verify it does seem that he
afraid 10 Try il.
II the Standard has any confidence
his own story, we hope he will see
necessity of producing some sort Of 'c'
mary to sustain il. Ills assertions al
such twisting and turning, can be oil il
worth.