The North-Carolina standard., 1850-08-14
AN OUTRAGE UPON THE STATE.

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The following extraordinary paragraph appears i,
the Raleigh Register of the 7th instant:
"There can be but little, or no doubt, therefore
that David S. Reid is elected Governor of North Ca
rolina. How does that sound to wing ears-to thu
ears of those wings who have fixed upon our gooe
old State, for the first time since the amendment O
the Constitution, the burning reproach of having
iocofoco Governor, and the indeble disgrace of hav
Ing chosen such a chief Executive Officer! %
The Fayetteville Carolina makes the following jus
and indignant comments on the above:
" Let any man possessing the feelings of gentle.
man read that paragraph, and look 1t in the broad
ness and deepness of its meaning. Mr.. Gales young
and inexperienced, has there committed an outrage
against State-a gentleman-a party-and people.
If the election Of Mr.. Reid is disgrace, - the
people have disgraced themselves and their State
for they elected him ;and to say nothing of the anti
republlcanism of the above paragraph it looks very
presumptuous, to say the least, for young man lust
entering the business world, who has learned to use
pen, without possessing the judgment to guide it,
to publicly declare that the people of State have
disgraced themselves by an act of sovereignty.
10 be sure, people at home here, who know the
editor, will take it for just ,otat it is ,oort but peo-
abroad may Think either that the people of North
Carolina deserve all the contempt which many are
inclined to heap upon them, or else the eor Of the
wilfnlly.
Further comment on suck disgracefal paragraph
is unnecessary"
The editor of the Register has offered gross in
suit to the whole people of the State in that article
and he ought to atone for it, far it may be atoned
for by an instant apology to his readers and to the
people generally. We can excuse much to wounded
pride and chafed feelings, and if We thought the
above had its origin in such feelings and in wounded
pride could overlook it, but such is not the case
The article bears the impress of caution and delib-
Grafton, and it is but the beginning of the opposition
intended to be waged, by unscrupulous Federalism,
against the peoples will and the peoples Governor.
The Editor of the Register dares to talk of the
'indeble disgrace of s' such "a Governor as Da-
vid S. Reid! Who is Charles Manly, and what has
he been doing! What friend of his (and we are not
his enemy, personality look back at his course
during the late campaign, without blush! But we
foroear. We might retort upon Gov. Manly in the
severest TERMS and prore statements as we pro-
ceed ;but defeated and humbled as he is, We shall
hold his friends responsible for this violence of the
Wing organ and permit him for the present at least,
to repose quietly in the retirement to which the peo-
pie have consigned him.
David S. Reid il of the ablest men in the State
Of his age, and a gentleman in every sense of the
word. Exemplary in his conduct as man, and re-
liable and honest as politician, no man commands
more respect or stands higher than he does among
those who have known him from his birth. Called
to various posts of honor and trust by his fellow
citizens, he has uniformly been reelected by in
creased maiorties; and at this moment whatever the
Register may say to the contrary, he is the pop
ular man in all the State. He either deserves this
popularity, or the people too ignorant to discern
merit, and incapable Of selfgovernment! The Re-
gister no doubt holds rothe latter oriniou The peo-
pie are very clever fellows" so long as they elect
and re-elect Wing Gosernors-it is very convenient
and agreeable to have the control and management of
them; but when they riss up in their majesty and
slecs Democrat to the highest Office in their gift, they
naict inde6le diagraee upon themselves and the
State! Is that Whigism!
But we turn with pleasure from the insulting ex-
'ressions and mpotent rawlings Of the Register, to
mother Wing paper which does credit to itself and
o its cause by the following remarks. The Green's
borough Patriot, printed in Col. Reds neighbor-
rood, says:
I" We have no disposition to PREJUDICE Col. Reid's
administration of the State Executive Office. Born
md reared In county where an Overwhelming De-
necrat'c majority prevails, with respectable but not