The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-06-21
The standards deception.

In looking over he ariioa q pal,icsl paliiEsns.
We not unfrequenlIs mee, with . paradox %
which We have leen unable % obtain any ssiis-
fssiury solution. How i i shas mep Who in pr
ysis lie maintain lsspee,abls ssahding for moral
honesty. and who ara never suspected q presafi-
cation or ialsshood; yei who. in political con-
iesi. and % aid = party 10 which lhey may Be- a.
taehed. win not hesitate 70 be guilty q deoePsiOns
of lhe very grossesi sot, amounting % direct u.
olstiOn Of uulhi An instance II ihis kind j. now
brf5re u.
In 1874 the Wig Central Committee q Ra-
Ieish issued circular % their friends ihreughout
the Stale. urging Them % vigilance and watchful-
ness in order 10 guard ugainsi the frauds and IN.
fair practices which they had reason 70 aPprehend
would he Eesored TO in the effort 10 defeat Tie
Wing party.
This circular the editor Of the Standard got
hold d. and by dressing il up with Italics. &C.,
underworld 10 create The impression that the
Wings had threatened "a rsroiafi0si." IL Polk
and Dallas should be elected. How much effect
the Standards Efforts At this SOFT Of deception had
in the election in 1874, We DO not know bul il
seems Iha, i. attributed enough efficacy to them
to encourage him 10 repca. the Snnle sort Of de-
esplion ia the now pending election. And hence
il Is that he has lugged into bis last weeks paper
ihi. Sams Wing circular, dressed up with H0ics
as htiore. and introduced By heading garnished
with significant quotations. anfally calculated to
delude superficial readers into the belief that the
Wing central committee actually did Sdyise re-
sor 70 revolution" under eertain circumstances.
We cannot believe that the efforts Of the STAN
dard and is cOadutOrs at this sort Of deception in
Is44 had much effect; and we should suppose
il would have les now, since their duplcity has
become more generally known. Nevertheless the
authors and eirsulaiors Of these calumnies and
ISLANDERS ough, 10 lie exposed, and the max Of
Cain fixed upon them.
The proof Of design on the part Of the Standard
to deceive Is plain, and We trust few words will
make il % appear 10 our readers. The editor
by inucndo charges that the Wing committee, in
their circular, threatened rerolliion il Polk and
Dallas should he elected; whereas they say in ef-
feet and with emphasis, that revolution cannot be
resorted TO- and urge upon their friends 10 the
hallot-box As the only means 10 correct the evils
under which the country was suffering. The
committee say, 1--WE quote from the circular:)
by any means. an apparent majority is re-
turned for Polk and Dallas, nothing but revolu-
ton can help us-cyen Il such apparent majority
should be procured by open, gross and demonstra-
bic fraud. Nolr, then, Is The time and the only
time. in which We can act for our country with
effect" true. we have a majority
Of six thousand in the state; but, il two or three
thousand Wing voters stay away, and Edgecomhc
votes a thousand beyond her real strength, and
other strong Democratic counties resort to similar
means. what awaits our real majority! The Gp-
parent majority win thus, BY our neglect and
their fraud, be on their side, and when once this
happens, the result however false and fraudulent
cannot be corrected"
Is any revolution threatened here
With this evidence before US Of gross Sian.
der and vile attempt to deceive the people, are we
not warranted in putting our readers on theil
guard against attempts at similar receptions in
other matters, which may originate in the same
quarteri
The truth is, that the Wings throughout th'
whole Union, are noted for ready submission ID
law and order, and adherence to conservative prin
ciples. And the only acts Of revolutionary
tendency which we have noticed in this country
have proceeded from the Democratic party. Dix
not the state of Tennessee remain near two year
unrepresen,ed in the Senate Of the United States
because the Democratic portion Of one branch o
her State Legislature withdrew from their pos
and refused to perform a constitutional duty
Was not the same disregard to duty, and viola
ton Of law and order, practiscd by the same par
ty, and foi the same purpose, in the states Of Vr
ginia and Indiana We do not refer to thes,
acts of party violence with pleasure, and shall
omit others that might be named. But while w
regret such occurrences any where, we feel prou,
in being able to say that the Wings have nevc
attempted, nor do they desire, TO effect any ." re
volution" under this government, excep, at TN
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