Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-04-09
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING
OF RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA
For the North Carolina Standard.

For the North Carolina Standard.
| Mr.. EDITOR: The readers of your valuable and
excellent journal, would no doubt be pleased to un-
derstand whether the highly conservative and emf
nently patriotic course assiduousy pursued by that
sterling patriot-the Hon. Vim. B. Shepard, on the
vexed question of the day. has been cordially ap
proved by the people of this District. ] propose to
gather, from the most reliable and authentic data,
such unvarnshed facts will give to those who may
favor this article with perusa, thorough knowl-
edge of the spirit which animaes the in regard
to topic which shakes our glorious Union from CEN
tire to circumference. Our champion indeed occupies
Ia prominent position among the /" immortal few,''
who forgetting political differences, thought alone of
the rights, honor, and prosperity of the South and
although the vile demagogue may bitterly assal his
public acts yet he will be unable pluck bright
laurel from the chaplet that encircles his brow. Fu
tile will be the attempts of Coffee-house politicians
to delude the people, when they shall fully compre-
hend the mulfarious wrongs and injuries which
have been inflicted upon them, and which such dis
interested patriots Mr.. Shepard are diligently
striving to make them aware of-the appalling dan
gers which environ the South and seriously menace
the destruction of the most glorious fabric that ever
existed.
Opposition must necessarily. result from strict
adherence to the nalienabe rights of ones section,
when we have in midst men who sympathize with
the fanatics of the North in their mad crusade upon
our domestic institutions. When harmony and una
nimitY of feeling pervade all masses in regard to
this momentous subject, without being interrupted
by minor issues, we shall then have approached the
political millineum. But many have not the moral
courage so essentially requisite, to meet this question
as it deserves, if they have they basely desert their
section and believe that.
"They shall take who have the power,
And they shall keep who cam
1t should be the bounden duty of every true Southron
TO defend with his utmost zeal the interests of his
section, and to stenuously avoid being luled into
fatal security by the syren songs Of the timid
But it was my intention, Mr.. Editor, in penning
this article, to give the world statement uf facts
in regard the of Mr.. Shepard, and the ap-
proval or disapproval with which it has met, and
which has been sadly misrepresented by that
filous journal the Raleigh Times.' The editor of
that print chershes such kind respect for his ORTIZ
ern brethren. and so faithfully echoes the bIasphemous
sentiments of that vile demagogue Edward Stanly,
that it would be utterly impossible for him
with our Senator-a statesman that he has SO often
wantonly detained. But pray what authority has the
- Raleigh Times )" for vouching that the people of
this District are decidedly opposed to the opinions OF
the honorable gentleman? A "sterling" Wing pa
per has said so, and whatever enanates from such
pure source must necessarily be correction the edi
tors of both journals are certainly inallible. The
Old North State during the last campaign, gave
its most undivided support to MIR. Shepard and MIR.
Manly, and made frequent appeals to the legal voters
the party, so ably embodied in those gentemen-now
it has repudated both. What beautiful consistency
But politics as well as misery, sometimes make
strange bedfellows." change has indeed come
over The Esprit of the dream, and the editor
through different medium. By what circumlocu-
tion he may explain his extraordinary course the tu
ture alone unfold.
Again: The Times has alluded to meeting held
al this place some months ago, in which Mr.. Shep-
ards political prospects We're forever bghed. 1t
was d uleeting irrespective of party. Wings and
Democrats assembled for laudable purpose, wit:
to devise means by which might re:ort the
North tor her unprlncipled OF aggression and
must say, much to my regret, our object was defeat
ed by the meagre majority Of two. One of the Re-
solves heartily sustained Senator, bat the South
ern men with Northern principles" having marshall.
ed their forces, determined kill the whole string of
Resolutions which were submitted the occasion.
Many Of the orators were extremely grandiloquent,
and proved beyond doubt their fidelity the North.
1t is with unfeigned sorrow that l am compelled to
give publicity this matter, which is already far
known, and has indeed created very deleterious in
fuence. Submissionist and traitor synonymous
terms. and we have too many of them to accomplish
any good. The Editor of the Times has now his
tory of the meeting, its object, &C., and sincerely
trust he Will cease railing against patriot whose
services he will at distant day fondy appreciate
His prsillanimous attacks never be noticed by
whom he has often assailed for vindcating the
domestic institutions of the South.
The people of this District will maintain :her
rights all hazards and to the last extremity -sus
tain the patriot who has boldly and uneqaivocally
defined them-the journals (Albemarle Bulletin and
Poneer) that have truly represented their sentl-
unents-and return to Congress Democrat who will
not desecrae the Seat, aud that will, above ALL defend
the South and the Union of the States.
w. V.G.
Elizabeth City, N. c., March %, 1851.