North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-30

having performed our duty to this communi,v -,
taken our iuil share of the responsibility which
'aches To an advocacy of the CASTOR Road, we Io.r
the Estate CapitaP'-atl least tor the present-ir,t
hands ofthe Register. We shall see wha, ,b., "'"e
per has to say on the subject. F1
The Journal has failed to do us Justice in ono ~.
important particular connected with this subject
paper, in its issue of the 18th instant, speaks of M
Raleigh papers " as possessing Virginia feeIirr.,
and charges them with being opposed to the advano.
ment and prosperity of Wilmington. OF course III.
expression was intended to include the Stand..l
We demonstrated, in our reply to the Journal. h..
we had uniformly and cordially sustained the inero.,
of Wilmington and the Cape Fear region and -,
appealed to that paper, if not in many words >,
least by the whole scope and tenor of our rema,L.
to DO US justice in this respect but upon this pon'
the Journal is profoundly silent.
The Journal says it L" will not disturb the barmo.-
of the party BY initiating the Standard in CONS,
so well calculated to produce that result" m
MreO the first stOne2 Our readers will bear u;r,.'
to the fact that we have acted on, the dsens;y. j.; a.
whole matter. We made no attack on the Jov,n.T
is it our habit to our friends, or disrn
with them Our reply to that paper speaks for ,saf
1t defensive in its character and was not i,,I
ed as attack. w submit with all due deferono.
that it is neither, Sc violent,'' nor ARROGANT " ~
dictatoral 1T is plain, straightforward vipdio.
ton of friends and of our position and an atn,
to convince the Journal Of some errors under ,bi,
| its Editor laboring. If we spoke STRONGLY :.
was because felt strongly; and if we We're diroo.
and positive, it was because we prefer to saw ,h.
! we have to say, and what it is duty 10 saw i
such form and such manner as that no one NAV -
deceived or mistaken.
The Journal intimates that We have assumed g.,
ourselves the prerogative of "proscribing" and oc
sc reading" Democrats 6 out of the party. " IT,.
idea is absurd. We nothing-we Stand unon
| the rock of Truth, and we intend to do Justice .u
round if we know how to do it, g though the He,.
vens should fall.'' We would defend the Jonrr,l
against unjust attacks, any ether friend.
and not true that paper, or to the cause !,
advocates, if, when it in error we do not tell
its Editor promptly of the fact, and seek to prevent
him from doing himself injury by pursuing mis-.
taken course. He has the same rights, anil the
same duties to perform in relation to us; and this
is so-not because this Editor or that, or this Dem
ocrat that, be g read out - of the pary-but
because We are all Democrats and friends together
and in the party until acts shall hare put us ou.
Oui 49, HIT " Iedu men out OF the
party, but to get them in.
The Journal says its difference of opinion with
Gov. Reid, s. in regard TO the policy of particular
act, " was "honesty entertained and respectfully
expressed. " We are far from doubling the honesty
of the Editors, but let US recur 10 what was said
" Gov. Reid is not man who acts unadvsedly, but
We think it would be better take no advice at all
than such as would prompt him to farther fan the
flame of sectional feeling in this State. - Is that
respectful - Is it kind Is it the language which
one friend ought to towards another! 1t is as
sumed that Gov. Reid had acted under such cad
vice as " would prompt him - TO array one section
Of the State against another. What does that mean
/ Who gave that - advice"? And what Sort of
/ Chief Magistrate is it that would hear advice"
this character! Does not the Journal perceive, or
reflection, The real nature of the above sentence an
the inference were forced to deduce therefrom!
The Editor of the Journal intimates that he ma
reply at large TO article. Should he do so, W
hope his reply may close the controversy. We di
not commence it, and we have no wish to continu
it. We entertain unkind feelings towards tn
Edit ors of that paper and them tina
this discussion has not been agreeable or pleas
ant one to us. But we have performed our duty, o
attempted to perform it. Let US reserve our ammuni
ton for the common foe any rate, let not ex
haus it to our own injury, political associates
and friends.