North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-05
For .he North carolina Standard.


Ma. EDIToR The readers of your valuable and
excellent Journal would no doubt be pleased 10 IN.
derstand whether the highly conservative and emf
neny patriotic course assiduousy purs ued By thai
sterling patriot--the Hon. Wm. B. Shepard, on the
vexed question of the day. has been cordially APP
proved by the people of this District propose &c
gather, from the most reliable and authentic data
such unvarnshed facts will give to those who may
favor this article with perusal thorough knowl-
edge OF the spirit which anmates the in regard
to topic which shakes our glorious Union from
tire to circumference. Our champion indeed occupies
prominent position among the @ immortal few, -
who forgetting political differences thought alone oil
the rights, honor and prosperity of the South and
although the vile deuagogue may bitterly assal his
public acts, yet he will be unable to pluck one bright
laurel from the chaplet that encirces his brow. Flu
tile will be the attempts of Coffee-house politicians
to deude the people. when they shall fully compre-
bend the multlfarious wrongs and injuries which
have been inflicted upon them, and which such dis
interested patriots as MIR. Shepard are diligently
striving to make them aware of-the appalling dam
gers which environ the South and seriously menace
the destruction of the most glorious fabric that
existed.
Opposition must necessarily. result from a strict
adherence to the inaenable rights of ones section,
when we have in our midst men who sympathize with
the fanatics of the North in their mad crusade
our domestic institutions. When harmony and una
nimltY of feeling can pervade all masses in regard TO
this momentous subject, without being interrupted
by minor issues, shall then have approached the
political millineum. But many have not the moral
courage essentially requisite this question
as it deserves they have they baselY desert their
section and believe that
'They shall take who have the power,
And they shall keep WHO can"
1t should be the bounden duty of every true Souhron
to defend with his utmost zeal the interests of his
section and strenuously avoid being luIIed into
fatal security by the syren songs of the timd.
But it was my intention, Mr.. Editor, in penning
this article, to give TO the world statement of facts
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prevail disapproval with which it has met, and
which has been so sadly msrepresented by that sour
rilous journal the - Raleigh Times The editor of
that print chershes such kind respect for his North
brethren. and faithfully echoes the basphemous
sentiments of that vile demagogue Edward Stanly,
that it would be utterly impossible for him to concur
with SENATOR statesman that he has SO often
wantonly DETAINED. But pray what authority has the
" Raleigh Times :" for vouching that the people of
tbs District decidedly opposed the opinions of
the honorable gentleman! A Z" sterling " Wing pa
per has said so, and whatever emanates from such
pure source must necessarily be correction the ed
tors of both journals certainly infallibe. The
&c Old North State during the last campaign, gave
its most undivided support to Mr. Shepard and Mr..
Manly, and made frequent appeals to the legal voters
to exert their influence to sustain the principles of
the party, so ably embodied in those gentlemen-now
it has repudiated BOTH What beautiful consistency
But "politics we'll as misery, sometimes make
strange bedfellows." A change has indeed come
over the spirit of the dream, and the editor
through different medium. By what circumlocu-
ton he may explain his extraordinary course the flu
ture alone unfold.
Again: The Times has alluded to meeting held
at this place some months ago, in which Mr.. Shep-
ards political prospects were forever blghted. 1t
was a meeting irrespective of party. Wings and
Democrats assembled for laudable purpose. wit:
to devise means by which might re:ort the
North for her unprincipled acts 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 on the occasion.
Many Of the orators were extremely grandiloquent,
and proved beyond doubt their fidelity the North
1t is with unfegned sorrow that l am compelled to
give publicity this matter, which is already far
known, and has indeed created very deleterious in
fuence. Submssonist and traitor synonymous
terms, and we have too many of them to accomplish
any good. The Editor of the Times has now his
trust he will cease railing against patriot whose
His prsanimous attacks can never be noticed by
whom he has often assaulted for indicating the
domestic institutions of the South.
The people of this District will maintain :her
rights at all hazards and to the last extremity -sus-
lain the patriot who has so boldly and unequivocay
defined them-the journals (Albemarle Bulletin and
Pioneer) that have truly represented their sent-
nents-and return to Congress Democrat who will
not desecrate the Seat and that WILL above all, defend
he South and the Union of the States.
w. v. G.
Elizabeth City, N. c., March %, 1851.