Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-22
For the Standard.

n. w. -WOODFIN AND DAVID COLEMAN, EsQs.
These gentlemen are the candidates to represent
Yancy, Madison, Buncomb and Henderson Counties
in the Senate of the State Legislature and OF their
merits and respective claims upon the frcemen OF
this District, We wish to say few things You,
Mr. Editor, aware that Mr.. Woodin has repre-
scented this District for the last ten years and that
his great policy has been extension of the Cen
trail Rail Road West to the Tennessee line. For his
supposed advocacy of this much loved project, the
freeman have warmly supported him, not that they
much admired the man, for in this respect he has
but few jealous supporters. But, alas, for the man
that ever he freighed his all upon this ship for at
the very hour when she needed his services most,
and when her future glory suspended upon the
uncertainties Of \ single vote, he intensely
engaged in contemplating the glory that would be
his when seated in the u. ). Senate Chamber, that
he did not know that the vote had been taken.-
Surely absent minded man indeed having been
sent 264 miles manly to watch over this interest
and to vote in its favor and then TO forget that he
an the LegiShtture. Mr. Coleman in his Bill Of
Indictment makes this of the Counts, and so
clearly does hr sustain the facts to the satisfaction of
all, that Mr.. Woodiin pleads guilty, but says that
he must have been engaged in conversation. This
will suffice to show how.this gentleman has been
humbugng his constituents, and they now see it,
and arc determined in August to show him, and
make him feel the effect by giving Mr.. Coleman q
large majority. Of Mr.. Woodin personally, have
but little to say, more than he is Federalist OF the
strictest sect, and in sentiments opposed to all those
Democratic principles that have been the means OF
making this Government the greatest in the world
His consolidation doctrines are interviewer III his
public and private talks, though Ilume-ke, he en-
deavOrs TO array them in a garb that will not be
odiouS. When not candidate he very much
apes the aristocrat but as he becomes can
didate he talks much Of the down-trodden condition
of the good people, but in fact is one of those cma-
gogues that, when found out, will eventually be
contemplate in the eyes of all free men. We ask
the treemen of this Senatorial District to critically
examine the journals of the Senate, and see II they
point out to one singh measure that this man
has brought forward and carried through that had
any tendency to benefit this section of the State
The truth is he has been either Pig Puppy, as he
thought either would but conducc to his own
preferment. When Mr.. Thomas got the charter for
the Blue Ridge Railroad, this gentleman denounced
it as a humbug and visionary theme, but when it is
conceded by all that the road will be built, he gets
out of his own negligence by saying Mr.. Thomas is
corrupt and not to be relied upon. The good peo-
pie of Mr. Is. District look upon HIM as their hene-
factor; whereas those Of Woodfins view him i'll the
same light that Phillips did Napoleon, being g0retn-
ed By criterion but his interest, and he bows
at the shrine of this idol with the devotion as
the ancient Egyptian did the Ok OF his worship. Is
of this peculiar texture of mind fitting to re-
present free and independent people, people who
from the purity of their hearts and unsuSpect-
ing characters have long been imposed upon by the
great Office seeker Of the West? And this is the
man that has been lccturing us on Mr.. ChngmanS
inordnatc ambition and that lie cannot support any
political asprant who will not wait until the good
people take him. Now II Mr.. ood1ln waits lor the
people to urge his election to the u s. Senate,
funerals will all be preached before it occurs, and
another generation will occupy the places we now
fill One word more, and shall leave this gentle
man to the fate that awaits him. MIR. Clingnlan gets
in Woodfns native county nearly seven hundred
majority, and it is well known that Nicholas would
vote for OIL Nick before he would for Mr.. Cling
man, therefore it is Il settled fact that Mr.. Coleman
who will vote for Mr.. CEngman, will get large ma
jority in that County, and all the old fogies cannot
prevent it. Mr. Coleman is young of talents,
and of kind and affable disposition, and so much
the people becoming pleased with him, and
fully is Mr.. Woodtin convinced that it is life
and death struggle with him, that he has condc-
sccnded to go to each mans house and see him face
to face, behind Mr. Coeman's back.
1t is generally conceded up here by the leading
federaists that Bragg will beat the General" and
that badly and their efforts are generally concen-
tratcd in trying to carry the Legislature. But in
this they will signally fail know of what am
speaking. MILFORD.