The North-Carolina standard., 1850-07-20
THE .RALE1GH CLIQUE"

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THE "RALEIGH CLIQUE
The last Register goes into heroies and abuses Us
roundly, because We have been exposing the Central
Wing Clique' and demonstrating how it has ruled
the State and divided the Offices between its members
for years. The Registers remarks not offensive,
simply because we attach no importance to them.
Demonstrations and abuse do not move us. Such
stu-especiaily from of the instruments of this
same I" Clique ''-passes Us as the idle wind. We
regard it not.
We opened the war upon this same 'Junto" seven
years since; and from that day to this have been
exposing it's seshness its efforts to monopoze all
the Offices of honor and profit to the exclusion of 9TH
ers equally worthy, and the unblushing imPudence
with which it has claimed for itself and its depend
ants the honesty, responsibility, decency, and vr-
tue. Me have made no attack upon sneighbors,'
asleharged by the Register. We have said nothing
against the Raleigh Wings as men, as commu-
nifty; but the contrary, our columns will show,
and as our votes in the Legislature will prove beyond
cavil, have uniformly stood by their interests and
asserted their rights We have even lost materially,
in pecunary way, by advocating their most cher
ished measure, the North Carolina Rail Road and
we are prepared still to stand by Raleigh as COM
munty, and to see, so far as our humble efforts may
co. that the interests of the Raleigh people are equally
cared for and equally subserved with those of other
portions of the State. Can the Register expect or
demand any thing more! Does not that very paper,
by claiming nearly euery thing for Raleigh, thereby
excite preudices against the place. stir up opposition
to it, and members of its party, at dis
tance, to look with distust and suspicion Raleigh
tactics, Raleigh politics, and Raleigh Wings! We
leave it to the Wings of Raleigh, themselves to say
if this is not
We ask the attention of the Register and of the
people of the State, to the following extracts. The
Rutherfordton Banner, leading Whig paper, says:
We announced in our last number, the fact that
Gov Manly had been nominated for reelection. This
result we had long anticipated. We have been long
convinced that the Clique, avhich hns for gears
past controAed the Wig party g this Slate, and dvid
ed amongst its members the curious offices Of the State,
pie again, because they regarded that step as neces
sary to maintain their ascendancy If they had yield
ed the expressed wishes of the party, conveyed to
them from all parts of the State-excep the centre,
in a manner not to be mistaken-if they had given
way to their inportunilies, their day of rule would
have been over. The government of the Whig par
ty would have passed to the peoph-the coers, and the
consequence Of the Ciq"e-the RIGHTEOUS CLIQUE,
mpiousIy said by his Excellency, in that extraord-
nary harangue read by him to the Wing Convention,
to be holy enough to have saved the bcgoco City IF
SodOm, would have been gone forever. 10 preserve
this power, Governor Manly has again been forced
upon the party. They have been warned again and
again. They have been told that the Wings in the
strong Whig districts ,vouM not unite upon him.
They have been entreated to give US candidate upon
+ We conceive it to be our duty
to exercise our privileges as freemen under the Con-
stitution. We dislike to vote for Democrat-one
who differs from US on questions of Federal policy.
But with questions Of that kind the Governor Of
North Carolina has nothing to do There ques-
tions of State poicy-loca questions if you please,
upon which we have tried Gov. Manly. He cannot be
trusted again. Selfnterest, selrespect forbids it..
Eucry thing hold sacred calls upon TO maintain
rights, and to break up the miserable faction,
has been curse TO the ,rhoie Slate. Gov. Manly is
the the tool of that faction, and
him We prefer DAVID S. REID; and we shall ac-
cordingly give our humble support to the Hon. DA-
vID S. REID for Governor Of North Carolina.
Has the Register ever answered that! Has ii ever
attempted to doit! But here is proof Of 'CHque-
ism,'' taken from Whig paper-a Whig paper
which goes for Gov. Manly. A correspondent, Of the
Edenton Bulletin of the 10th instant, says:
'As your paper has taken an independent stand up
on the subject which now agtates the public mind,
hope you will not refuse your columns to short ex-
animation of the proceedings of late Whig Con-
vention, and Gov. Manly's address. have person.
ally no objection Gov. Manly, and My opposition
to his nomination arose simply from the mode and
manner in which he was originally brought before the
people as Candidate for the office of Governor
! Upwards Of two years ago-Gov. Graham's second
term Of service being about to expre-in all the prm.
ary meetings of the people to nominate his successor
no mention was made of Gov. Manly, but both West
and East, it conceded that the nomination was
due the latter In defiance of this clearly expressed
opinion by the people, Convention assembled ir
Raleigh in mid winter, composed almost exclusively
of delegates from the surrounding Counties, and be.
eve the surprise OF the whole State, least to
the voters Of the ninth Congressional Distct, brought
forward Gov. Manly as the candidate of the Whig
party. As Gov. Manly is a resident of Raleigh, il
is impossible that he could have been ignorant of the
objects and motives of those persons who contrved
his nomnation-he has no right thefore to complain
he does in his late address of the GOODNESS and in
difference of protesting political friends. My reco
reading passage in the address alluded to which
doubtless refers to the late Nashville Convention
viz: 1" We invoke no aid from assemblies nor con.
ventions of doubtful purposes and designs, and un.
defined Professionalism arbitrarily and irregu'
lary appointed and irresponsible to the people," Now
would calmly ask Gov. Manly to review this pass.
age, and then ask himself ,chere woud he hart
been, ,oere it not for an irresponsible" Convention o.
the people, far their ishes could be asccrtained
By primary meetings.
} l am, Mr.. Editor, Wing, and Nashville Con
vention Whig, and believe the assembling of tina
Convention to protect and defend the institution o
Slavery, more important to the people of North Car
Convention which two years ago nominated Governo
! Manly for Chief Magistrate Of the State.''
We commend the above to the particular attention
teries from u.s. and direct them against the Edento,
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