Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-08-03
"D1cTATIoN . AGAIN.


that dctation if attempted by any one, at this time
of day, would meet deserved rebuke at the hands
of the people. Certainly have attempted nothing
OF the Sort nor do expect to; and those who
allege that we have, have either misstated the facts
or misunderstood the language we have used
What is it, then, that wellave done? We haze
stood By principle and la6ored to uphold orqaniza-
taon acstout regard to men, our "offence hath this
extent-no more" We might-if we thought it
would be of any present or future service
our regret for not having spoken out at an earlier
period in opposition to the positions assumed and the
course pursued by Mr.. Venable; we were silent be-
cause we desired if at all possible, to preserve har-
mony and because we hoped some settlement of con-
tiicting aspirations would be effected But when we
saw an issue presented between a Whig and Mr.
Lewis and Mr.. Venabe, with the latter against his
party on two important questions as well as on orga.
nization; when we foresaw that without concentra-
ton of Democratic strength the Whig would be elec-
ted and when we oresaw also that the of the
party could not unite one who so widely differed
from them as Mr.. ", but could and would do so
on Mr. Lewis, who agreed with them, we should
have been untrue to the responsibilities of place
and to the expectations of readers if we had held
our peace
Mr.. Venable, we learn, discourses in his peculiar
way about "ciques, " and boasts that the Standard
shall go down. Weknow Of no Democratic clique here
elsewhere. It does not become us to refer to
services sacrifices in the cause but may state,
in self defence, that lose more money per annum
for the advancement of Democratic principles than
Mr., Venable has'expended for the same object dur
ing the last ten years. The Standard will not 60
down until we desert principle and prove untrue to
the masses of the people; and that will be when the
sun rises in the west. Several of Mr.. Venable's
friends in Granville and Franklin have it is true d
fected discontinuance of their subscriptions on ac
count of the course we have deemed it our duty to
pursue; but their places, we are gratfed to state
have been more than supplied by subscriptions from
other quarters We allude to this to show how vain
it is to attempt to control free press. We have no
unknd feelings towards those who have discontinued
they had right to do so, and we do not complain
but we do think Mr. Venables course in this matter,
and that of his friends, looks more like an attempt
to dictate than any thing which has been uttered in
these columns.
Again: Mr. Venable took ground during the last
Congress against his party on the land and Cuba
questions and is endeavoring to bring the party to
an abandonment of their principles on these ques-
tons and to an agreement with himself What as
that but dictation? He well knew that in voting for
Benefits land bill, and in speaking against Cuba in
January last, he aoas making up an issue against
his party and against Gen. Pierce What was that
but dictation?
Again: Mr.. Venable found himself, at the close of
the last Congress, in new District and instead of
IL I'LL
himselfa candidate and spoke in contemptuous terms
of Conventions and ofDemocratic organization. In
addition to this, he exerted himself in every way to
prevent Convention of the party he and his friends
constantly maintaining that no Whig would take
the field and that there was, therefore, necessity
for Convention. What acas that but dictation?
No, fellow Democrats as we stated in our last Mr.
Vena6e is the DICTATOR and not the Editor of this
paper. Will you submit to his commands? viii
you endorse him? Can you return such a man te
Congress as your servant? If you do, depend upon
it you soil rue It, We can have interest in this
matter but to advance Democratic principles, and tc
guard against dissension and bitterness in the cam
paign of 1854.
az Mr.. Venable talks about our /" log og-cabinism
in 1910. Where was the gentleman when Gen
Jackson declared that the Union must and shall b,
| preserved ~? Was he not against him? Where wa!
he when the Democrats of the country came out a
gainst the "pet Banks " and for the Sub-Treasury
Was not Mr.. Venable opposed to the latter? NJ
"qui66Zing," Mr.. Venable but frank confession
that the present is not the first time you have taker
| position against the Democratic party.
This slang about our log-cabinism " is of Whis
manufacture, and Mr.. Venable is welcome to the us'
of it. We can smile at all such stuff as that. I
only serves to show the desperation to which Mr.
Venable has been driven by his own disorganizins
| and selfish conduct.
Mr.. Venable, we understand, says there is an odo
of turpentine upon our garments, which we caugh
| in the log=cahin DAYS of 1910. Pretty good-bu