Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-08-28
THE ROCKFORD sLANnpn


A few days before the late eloo+;o 4i''
or the Plymouth Villager" and aAlbor0 OOver
letn " published. statement to the og buI
GOV Reid had, in discussion in surr w. " that
taken ground in favor of distributino, y GOuntl
FUND according to white population '.0 ochOd
papers gave as their authority for this stat U ines
gentleman IN Rockford. We deponO rslisnt
whole affair at once as an outrageous fnn1 IT,
called upon these Editors to give the nara "Du aa
"gentleman Or, falling to do So fowl ''e OF TIL
minds to be held responsible themsoIrss up the9
ialsehood' The last " Vilager" speaks nnt ~ III:
lows: 0uC as H.
"The publication of the Rockford
per OF the 28th ult has perceive coas IN our D.
led Messrs Holden and Gulick and sens efaby r.
cofoco spokesman. We recur to the pns., other L.
justice to ourselves, and not in answer o'ef DOW
and Standard. oI the Patio,
The letter was signed by Mr. Abpe,
was dated at and mailed from Rcckto,i Drown. |,
have the original. 1t was received Sr1 We still
days, we think, before our issue. US only two
tons induced US to Five credit to the consde.
letter. Inc democratic editors told Us thai M IN the
had adopted the opinions ascribed 10 Cue MI Kerr
cause they were popular in the Yves, Nv Held, be.
ducements were offered to Gov. Reidr me Same in.
sufficient reason for misrepresentatioD Nc Knew no
mems were made as facts and capable If n nc STATE.
they were true, 1t was our duty as pubc f ;" If
to make them known to the people. This WE journalist
doubling their ,truth-accompanvino th we Gid not
with what we considered suitable WIZ g publication
TO our Eastern friends "0'u oI Warning
Snhclent Time has elapsed for the cone-
of the statements of the Letter-,b.t LoOAltnaton
done, and we now declare our belief ba, !OI been
Reid was mlsrepresented-not by US, but bv ,b
Ter OF the Letter We do not know the WIN, ne VIII
sonaly-out be ne Wing or Democrat, We can pei
express our contempt and disgust of tho ro uaH Uny
will not only belle political foe, but maan man, who
an innocent editor into the publication Of a SS
We denounce and despise the author of tho niue, lOeA
we desplse him as liar, because he led 'e'-
| Inns is all we can say, or do, in reparator n 4
wrong we have done Gov. Reid; for unIika u a. %e
gentlemen. we alue too highly the prominent Muse s
In our State, to take any pleasure in deaming ,bas
And unlike them we are ready-desirous. n "r ul
the amende honorable when We are convroo " make
error. ~ VI our
A word to those gentlemen, before we cIoso Il;
notice: Their notices of the Letter referred n ,N
be construed to intimate that the " ViIlager'' and G
Bulletin, acted in concert, in the pGbIicaor ' ns
the Letter referred to- and that we sent il forth
ing 1t 10 be false. If that meant we saw in .n
the bitterness of our nature, they foulIy lie If a
stamp OF falsehood iven to the statement was n,sD
ded by them in any way to apply TO u.s. we give Lsa
the lie with and oathing and will nof aIvar.
nor long bear the insult, without more efficient VIZ
dication. If they only intended it for the author n
the Letter. and in wise for US, them we have no,
ing more to say, than that he well deserves the
of US all. -
And so the Villager has been done up L Brcwp.
Who IS Abner V. Brown? Cannot some friend
in Rockford ascertain and inform us who it Was
that, about the 18th of July, put letter in the
Post-ofice in that place addressed to the Editor Of
the " plymouth Villager"? If hoax, who per
petrated il? If deliberate ie intended to inima
Gov. Reid, who wrote it?
The way the " Villager" swears at Brown is
rather caution. 1t IS pity that such an "inno
cent " Editor as Mr.. Eborn should have been mis-
led, embroiled and en-" 6rown ed in this war
We have no reply to offer, just now to the say.
age remarks of the Viager in relation to brother
Gulick and oursclf. We cannot begin to explain
with such man as Eborn standing just before US
with his sleeves rolled up his knuckles creased and
sanded for the conflict, and ready to pitch into Us
Such "vindication is rather too deficient for
Us; we prefer to explain after the thrashing. We
have one consolation, however, and that is that
Gulick is nearer Plymouth than we are. SOMEBODY
is to catch it. and Guck, from his proximity, very
naturally-we will not say properly -comes in for
the first dressing; and it may be that Ebom, by
the time he gets up here, will look upon the whole
affair as an "innocent" joke, and let us off.
But seriously, the Editor ofthe L" VillageF owes
it to himself to ferret out and expose the writer
that letter. No one will doubt, after his remarks
on the subject that he received such letter or that
he now has it in his possession; let him, then'
he would vindicate the dignity Of the press and
aid in preventing repetition of such falseho0lS
hunt up the writer and expose him. If we can
be of any assistance to him in this work, we are al
his service.