Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-06-28

Mr. Lenay, the Editor and proprietor OF that paper,
addressed letter to Mr.. Graham requesting q loan
of money with which to purchase part OF the Star
establishment. Neither the date Of the letter nor
the precise phrascology /: recollected. Mr. Graham
replied expressing his regret that he could not for
some cause or other which he gave, comply with the
request 1t private letter to him, IN relation
to business matter and though there was nothing
connected with it of nature to make any one
blush" still it occurred to the writer that it
could under any circumstances, being thus private
and in Mr. Groham's hands, find its way into the
public newspapers 1t did, however, find its way
into the papers, not in full with the date at which it
written, but in the way of insinuation and IN
uendo leave the impression that it bore date
about or just before the time when we took charge
of the Standard Mr.. Grahams political course
was freely examined and commented on in the Stan
dard, and these covert insnuations constituted a
part of the answer which made in his defence
We at once perceived that he must have author
lied the of this letter; and we lost, of course
much of the respect and all the personal regard
we at one time entertained for him. Willing
to wound and yet afraid to strike" his partizans
have for years, with has permission, sneaked about
with the vile lie upon their tongues and in their
newspapers that we were ready, having once been
q w 10 aufocdte dHJ CAUSE WHICH, "ouiu P"'iOA
ize loan us money and now, for the first time
the charge has assumed authentic shape in his or
gan, the Hillsborough Recorder, published in his
town, and speaking no doubt by his authority and
direction. We have repealed the charge, and now
demand the exposure" threatened by the Recorder.
We have given the facts; let the letter now come
forth to confirm them. 6" Forbearance," indeed
When have we courted or DESCRIBED "forbearance at
the hands of such Federalists? "Gov. Graham"
says the Recorder, has not spent thirty years of
his life among :" the people of Orange I" in vain v
and that paper then eulogizes him, and adds " the
Standards sneers and SANDERS will circulate here
without the slightest effect unless it be to lower his
own standing among honorable men," That paper
NAV praise Gov Graham as much and as fulSome
ly as it chooses, but it shall not thus refer to us
with mpunity. We tell that paper, and these " hon
orabe men about Hillsborough, and this gentle
man who gives out to his partizans, by insnuation
and inuendo the contents of private letter to be
used to protect himself against the influence OF this
journal and to injure US, that though once prin-
ter's devil in the very Office whose types are now
used to SANDER us, and though of obscure origin,
and unsupported by those assumptions and that ar
rogance and dignity of manner with which certain
gentlemen surround themselves, are yet, we trust
as keenly alive to what is honorable " or dshon-
orabe as they can be; and that, if they wish to 81
lence in this campaign, or to prevent us from as
sailing the conduct of William A Graham, they must
do it by arguments--by fair means, and not by
threats and false insinuations "Forbearance " in
deed when did expect it or claim it? Out
with your charge gentlemen, and let the honest peo-
pie of Orange see what it is
The Recorder is pleased, in this connection, to al
lcge that the Standard is actuated by malicious feel
ings and that its statements not to be relied on
We arc always ready to be judged by what we pub
lish Our object is truth and the best interests of
the country. If we have exhibited malice, let the
Recorder show the fact if have made false state
ments in regard to political affairs let that paper
point them out. It's declaration unsupported by
proof will not amount to anything. 1t is habit,
confess to speak plainly and call things by their
right names and we know of no paper, which, for
sly, smooth Misrepresentation or for disregard of
truth to advance party purposes is more notorious
than the Hilsborough Recorder. All its preudices,
instincts, habits and modes of thought are, like
Gov. Grahams, intensely Federal in their nature.
1t has uniformly opposed, he has done, the acqui
sition of territory and the extension of American in
stitutons 1t opposed Texas, though but for annex
alton to this country it would have been British
dependency it opposed California, though but for
have been diverted from us and poured into British
Golfers 1t took sides with the enemies of the Uni
ted States in the late with Mexico and we be-
lieve it would Cuba pass into the hands of Eng
land without advocating the first blow the part
of this country to prevent it. 1t submitted, and
begged, and cried for quarters in 1850, when the
Freesolers were pressing the Southern States to the
wall on the slavery question; and then, after the
Compromise of that year had settled the great
principle of non-intervention and when it was pro-
posed to incorporate this principle into the Nebras
ka BILL it either opposed the bill joined the Ma
tional Integencer in its lamentations the alb
rogation of the odous Missouri line. Its Wing al
lies in the free States raising the cry of re-
peal ofthe Nebraska bill, and it is slent-t is "wat
ing" with Gen. Dockery, "to see" how far these in
cendiaries will proceed with the torch they str
wing to apply to the temple of the Union 1t will
submit and beg again when the time comes. 1t is
opposed to slavery, and will do nothing to spread it
to regions, though the slaves themselves would
be thereby benefited and not one would be added
the number In State affairs it has been the steady
and decided opponent of Free Suffrage or the
right of every free white to vote for Senators
in the Legislature-though it pretends to be for
Convention for the purpose of obtaining Free Suffrage
knowing we'll it does that Convention cannot
be called. 1t will not now say whether Mr. Graham
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