The North-Carolina standard., 1850-07-17
THE REGISTER IN DESPAIR!

There are unmistakeable signs OF despair in tho
,as, number of the Register. The Editor talks to the
Whigs-,o the masses Of his party-as if they were
20 many slaves or dogs. Speaking Of the last elec-
tion and sxhorng about this, he thus addresses the
Wings Of the State:
..Had Won done your duty, had you labored as you
should have labored, had you given day or two to
the common cause, had you persuaded Your " hlg
usighbors 20 the polls aud gone yourself, not with
the determination aaunter about, and almost forget
u vote, but with the resolution to ,Uork-woRK-
WORk-aN day, until the going down of the sun,
then we should not have been under the modification
Of seeing our majority put down at the meagre num-
Der of s54 but our triumph would have been haiiec
throughout the whole Union! Do you intend to act
in the same way again Do you intend again to be
on your back, and suffer the enemy to remove you
States disgrace! If not-if you intend to redeem
your own character and her character, then GO TO
WORK, and continue at it until THURSDAY NIGHT.
TEE FIRST or AUGrsr NEXT.
Oh! you lazy Whigs-you who did not stand up
to the rack before for the author of the Sodom
Speech, but who sauntered about =" refusing neg.
isctng vote for him-you, who not having the fear
Of the Register or of the Raleigh Clique" before
your eyes, remained home and thus contributed by
you inactivity and carelessness to tighten the Wing
leaders into cooked hat" and nothing else-you,
who came within tho mionth part Of an inch Of
" disgraeing" yourselves and your State two years
sines-look about you, and pearten up for of the
Central Whig Drivers is after you with keen lash
and any quantity of sharp sticks! Desperation sits
upon the plume of that Central Driver-wrath 10 in
his eye, and words Of vengeance on his tongue !;
and you may calculate-oh ye lazy, sauntering "
Whigs-on catching it not merely occasionally, but
generally and constantly until Manly is defeated and
the State redeemed! Wecondole with ye, gentlemen.
It 10 hard to have to take the lash in this style from
enc of your own ' kith and kin '-but you have
consolation and that is, the election is close hand,
and then Of course, you will escape the hand of your
imperious and unfeeling Driver. Brief as the time
TO- however, between this and the LIST day Of August
Wings "as has feeHns" ought not to be treated in
ihis way.
The Register not only thus bcrates and abuses its
own friends, but it comes in one Of CHASING them
with vagrants. Our vagrant law of 1884 describes
vagrans person, who, among other THINGS ".aun-
ssrs about" and does nothing; and this is precisely
che charge preferred by the Register against those
Wings who did not "stir their stumps" two years
since. Such an allegation as that is too bad; and
coming from such source, it is enough to make all
Of 40, who can boast nothing than "twenty dol
lars cash and isorse, think seriously about moving
away. If a "poor" Whig "neighbor" cannot
!" ssunter about" and " work when he pleases, and
let +" work " alone when he peases-without having
the Editor Of the Register down upon him with tim
horns and sharp sticks-then indeed have our FORE
fathers fought and died in vain!