Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-03-05
PRAISE AND DISPRAISE.

The Editor of that bitter Federal sheet, the Ash
borough Herald, thus summariy puts down and puts
IN several Of the leading members of the last As
sembly:
.Hon. VIM. B. Shepard, a gentleman distinguish
cd for his talents, gained fresh laures in the last
session. He intro iuced the doctrine of secession,
which after q stormy debate, was efectualy killed..
was an imprudent step, and almost regret that
one so talented should be guilty of so much folly He
erilentiy did not know people as we'll as they
know themselves. Not content with one step to run
he completed his by voting on both sides OF the
EauaI Suffrage question. Hon. William II. WASH
ington. heretofore rather favorite with his party,
plunged his bright prospects into dark gulf in the
same easv way. We have not a doubt that both
these gentlemen returned their homes regrettlng
that they had spent the winter in Raleigh: The one
failed to establish favors doctrine. and the other
showed himself wanting in the essentials of a good
sa,esman-frmness and Independence. In speak
ing of what these gentlemen have lost, We allude TO
their general standing and popularity how they may
sustain themselves at home, we Preteno mol 10 say
A people strongly attached to an able representative
sometimes sustain him in error.
Mr.. Glmer preserved fresh and green the laureIs
heretofore gained. Mr.. Haughton added new ones
his political cap. N. w. Wood6n. of Buncombe,
did no less. None in the Whig party gained so
much as John Gray Bynum, of Rutherford. He went
to RaIegh decidedly unpopular, and left favorlts
and leader. He sustained we'll his talents, and dis
PLAYED much prudence. His reputation as states
man is decidedly ascendant. John A. Lillngton
fuIly sustained himself. Col. Joyner is a corner
stone, and will be-"
1t would be matter of regret, indeed, if such an
Editor could do what he inagines he has done IN the
above article by few strokes Of his pen; but Messrs
Shepard and Washington will pursue the even tenor
Of their way just if this Editor had never spoken
of them, and Messrs. Gilmer, Haughton, " ood6n,
Bynum Ellington and Joyner in no serious dan
ger of being s1ed by any sudden rush OF popularl-
,y which the Herald man may produce in their favor.
MIR. Shepards offence is, that he stood up manfu-
y for the rights and the sovereignty of his native
State; and Mr.. Washington has sinned beyond all
hopes of PARDON because, like Mr.. Shepard, he DEEM
ed it his duty TO vote for Equal Suffrage The Peo-
pie of the State may see in this language OF one OF
the Convention advocates, what they may have to ex-
pect in case the schemes and purposes of such men
as the Herald Editor and of those he compliments,
should happen to prevail.
Col. Joyner, it seems, is "a corner.stone." This
is, doubtless, because that gentleman spoke con-
temptuousy, during the late session, of the non-and-
holders and of their claim to political equality with
the rest of their fellow-citzens.
The man who could deliberately write and print
such an article as the above shows by his principles
that he is not fitted for citizen of Republican State
speak not of the substance or of his remarks
in relation to the gentleman named but of his oppo
sition to Equal Sufrage-an opposition SO bitter that
he would devote destruction those of his own party
friends who sustained it by their votes, while he Law
ishes the highest praise gentleman who made
hwaelf notorious for all time, by the contempt and
iuagnaiion with which he treated this great measure
ofequs nstice and equal rights. If,he Editor of tn.
Her ~ 3ires to live among no people who do no
- discriminating against each other at th'
,on kcount of the want of certain species o
.spey. be will find it necessary, ere long, to emi
sa,e from North Carolina. Perhaps Canada or Grea
Britain would suit hiu. better.