The North-Carolina standard., 1843-11-15
FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER.

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The Editor Of the Observer has more than once
charged us with giving circulation to "falsehoods
and foreeries;" and on one occasion he said we
were not in the habit of retracng either extract
ed or original falsehoods and forgeries" To these
afrontful charges we replied, by telling the Edi,
,or that he was the last man to talk about faise-
hoods and forgeries," and asked him if he had
forgotten certain " forged letter" published some
time since for the purpose of njuring the election
of Dr. MONTGOMERY. This reply has provoked
fam him an article full of insolence and black
,,,,rdisrn-an article totally unworthy the public
1ress of North Carolina; and we only notice it
because his paper has some circulation, and be-
oouse it is generally supposed to say, in Fayette-
lilo what the Register shripks from saying IN
Raleigh. ~
49,, ,ra think proper TO meet and fight him with
-. o,vn weapons He insim~0ted that we had
,h1isbed "falsehoods and forgeries; for proof
P .Lo cbaroes brought was not exhibited. He
Joos not defl, but he seems, with bulldog spirit
- ,ourt exposure; and we tell him we shall hold
In, m afresh to the public contempt at the pro-
.or time Nothing he can do or say shall either
bou rs back or push us forward. We can prove
horever It shall seem good to US to do so, that 1t
generally believed here, during the campaign
hot,reen DIR. MONTGOMERY and GEO. w. HAY
u,oon. Esq. that the Editor of the Fayetteville
or.or,,or-the "veritable Mr.. Hale was IN
s,rnu,entaI in giving circulation to forged Let
49, which he OUGHT to have known, or which ne
ia know, to be utterly falsei And this IS the
Editor who eleyates his SGinted voice, ana warns
,bo noonle against the alleged. "forgerles oi 'ne
Standard. Il.
p,t the most stunning blow of all-the @""'@'-
latino tbrust-is that wherein he says we are no
gentleman. How Notifying to be excluded from
he walks of gentlemen, by Edward j. Hale
How humiliating the reflection that e0''@T''s ato0
rive laws oenteel to and from the great wing
7ortv of the State! We shall not return the COIN
nIincnt by telling him that he IS no gentleman
Rnt if it will suit him BETTER we Will c@'' MIN
gentleman: a gentleman who publishes 1orgeq
ic,tsrs and black falsehoods, and then endeaVofS
- escaoe odium by charging the same SIN on
others: gentleman up to his ears IN mihg'eo
METH and brGuery; a gentleman who loatheS eve
~ ,bino which has It's birth among Democrats,
and Iauds and pufs the meanest things in the
Whig ranks; a gentleman-not of the e." OLD
school" but of no school ct all; gentleman IN
fine who prints the second edition of the Register,
and baasts of an acquaintance with Mr.. Badger,
and who is therefore not to be lightly spoken Of
By the way, has the Editor of the Observer ever
acknowledged the wrong he did DR.. MoNTGoNE-
Ry as we'll as his o,on party, by publishing that
forged letter? Out with the truth, Mr. Hale. You
have mistaken your man. if you think yon can
d5Igs us; we know you; we have fixed the
hook of truth in your mouth; we have tisflcd you
up from the waters of error and falsehoot, and
we intend to hold you of, and holl you up, as
long as it suits Us.