Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-08-04
NUMBER ss1.
Gov. RefR-%the Market Charge.

Gov. Kefd--~the Market Charge.
The plain and unostentatious people of the noun
tans it seems, have heard Of the charge preferred
against Gov Reid BY the Raleigh Register, of 60
ing occasionally to the Raleigh market. The charge
"touches the quick up there as it must do among
all who are not too proud to attend to their own
business The last Mountain Banner contains the
following notice of this charge: -.
(" GOVERNOR RED: Governor Reid has been hon.
ored with the confidence of the people of tho Stste.
He has identified his name and his adminisraoN with
great measure of popular freedom; and hasesuc.
ton for practical usefulness He has ably and faith
fully performed his high duties, every of them,
chiet Executive Of the State. and. without prejr-
dces pariali,y, looked steadily to the advancement
tions, least he assuredly possesses andnow stands
before his fellow.citizens for re- election. And In
what particular of his administration has he been
found deficient? In what has his most violent op-
ponent made objection Why should he be turned
out, and another, un,ried, substituted in his place!
1t will hardly be beIeved-but such is the fact
that when subjected to the most rigid and uncharita-
BILE scrutiny by the Kerr organ at Raleigh, and the
Wing Clique there his entire administration is found
to be obnoxious to but single charge, and that
he actually seen morning in the market place
in Raleigh, and to have carried thence, down Fay
ettevie street, some article which he had purchased
tor his family dinner! The editor Of the Register
his duty, as public journalist and friend Of" gen
ty,' to expose to the world SO shameful proof OF
his Excelency's want of "dignity." And this is the
great fault of his administration if any other be al.
legged, it has escaped our memory.
And has IL TO- this in old North Carolina, that
free citizen walk the streets of the town OF
Raleigh, with article purchased at market, with.
out forfetng all claim to public confidence, and In
curing the ridcule and dsapprobation Of MIR. kerrs
organ? Is it pledged On behalf Of Mt. Kerr, that If
he IS made Governor he will be above such low and
discredi,able conduct! That he will alravs send a
servant market, and never be there among the
plain and honest yeomanry Of Wake and the adjoln.
ing counties Is this whiggery or not! If it be-
lei the people answer if it is repubEconism and
whether this great sin against the decency virtues
of the whig organ, is sufficient to dspace an honest
and faithful public officer"
And this charge, BE- it remembered, comes from
the peculiar admirers Of log cabins in ls4o-fronr
those who, as they themselves said, stopped to
conquer" in that memorable campaign!
}! The last Petersburg Democrat &C ntains the fol-
Ewing very good thing in relation to Truman
Smith and the Peterson affair: q:
can individual in the State Of North Carolina re-
Gently attempted the impossible feat Of cheating the
Hon. Truman Smith, chairman Of the National Whg
Committee for the diffusion Of electioneerhg Iles
The attempt very discreditabie, but not more
discreditabe than stupid. This Truman Smith is tho
most sagacious and cunning Of party managers. he
is perfect adept in all the tricks Of political seig
ofhand. He was Whig manager in general in the
campaign of l84S, and to his extraordinary genius In
the art Of popular deIuson, as much as to any thing
else, the election Of Gen. Taylor is attributable. As
we'll attempt TO battle Mitternich in diplomacy. OF
unravel the mystery Of the wonderful MANIFESTATIONS
of Is that unrivaled magician MacaIliser. as to head
the Hon. Truman Smith in his profession OF concoct-
ing cheats and giving currency to lies Yet an OBJ
scure individual from the pine fields Of North Caro-
this very identical thing. The old Wing fox caught
him, the little scheme he had carefully nursed
, was exploded, and he himself blown sky-hgh. And
thus ended the adventures of the heroic M Peterson
But not so the exulta,ions of the Whig press over
the discovery Of solitary instance Of fraud practised
u by member of the Democratic party. They seize
upon it-parade it at the head of their columns-and
exhibit every symptom of the nensest satisfaction:
With delight do those black scavengers oi
nature, commonly called buzzards, snu the fragrance
s Of some fresh decayed carcass.
But is not tho sublime Of hypocrisy in the WhQ
party affect such horror At solitary instance OF
fraud perperated for political purposes! The w hR
party is organized cheat, and it lies upon princ
8 Pile and deceives by s-stem. Why, wha, is the Hon
Truman Smith doing al this very moment, In tue va
9 of electioneerng fraud Frankng documents to thu
II South, prove PIERCE abotionist and frankini
II documents the North, prove him pro-slaver,
l. bunker" To the Western Reserve, the Hon. Sena
II sends the record Of PERcEs hostility to anti
e slavery agta on-to Virginia, he sends the calum
nes Of The mendacious journals of abolitionsm Th
man is the duly ano,nted high priest Of the yserie
Of Wing eectoneerng, and the pilot of the bark ha
'e carries Scott and his fortunes and yet Wing paper
10 affect TO execrate political fraud. Satan reprovini
Of ain, and Beelzebub casting out devils! Poor MI
vi Peterson has been seduced from the path of virtue
but he shall not be stoned by more guilty tha
n himself"
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