Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-03-29
THE RALEIGH STAR.

being declaration of ours, founded as the Editor
well knows in fact that the Democratic party is the
national party of the country. We proved what we
said by Seference to the late vote in the Senate
the Nebraska BILL but this served only to enrage
cotemporary. He indulges in personalities, which
appear to have been deliberately conceived and ut
teredpersonalties which we shall not soil our COL
umns by inserting, for readers who are acquant
ed with our habit of dealing with public men and
measures will take it for granted that the provoca
ton must indeed be strong and marked which could
induce us to pen such reply intend to make
The Star speaks of the Standard and of its Editor
as /" "it"-thus endeavorng to conceal, under an at
tack upon the paper, the low venom ranking in the
heart of Mr. Doub (or of some one who writes for
him) against the man who conducts it. We intend
to deal with that individual in plain terms he shall
have personalities because he has provoked and in
deed compelled them; he shall have notoriety, but
more than this notice of his mpotent malice in the
columns ola respectable public Journal may give him.
We shall not descend to argue with the Editor :;
for he has been so constituted and educated as to be
alike proof against arguments offered by an adver-
sary, and obivious of the fact-if indeed it exist
that there such things to be urged for his own
the position of Editor-fresh from the academy
fresher from those hazy and enervating departments
of human existence in which men dream of consd-
Grafton, yet make efforts to obtain t-and freshest
in common sense, in common tact, and even in the
most ordinary appreciation of what is due from one
gentleman to another in political discussion-and
wthal possessed of the idea, for the existence of
which we have no means of accounting, that he is
at once an organ and man of taents-it is no mat
ter for wonder that he should put airs and
to lecture misrepresent and abuse his superors and
betters. We can respect bold and chivalrous op-
ponelt-one who comes at us with his beaver up,
and who strikes so that all may see his blow; but
for the sncaking but not hestatng hypocrite with
smile upon his face and malice in his heart, and
who processes to be friendly at the time he at
tempts to stab you, entertain neither respect
that he is entitled to even the quarters
sometimes extended to bandits at the close of battle
The newspaper press, when it passes into the
hands of such men, not only suffers in character,
and therefore in the hold it has upon the public
mind, but the people themselves, who arc affected
by it, arc rendered hostile towards each other and
learn to hate and deride where they should cherish
and reciprocate good feelings.
"Comparisons," as Dogbcrry says "are odious'-
and L--- l:-r --:.:- H. - n,,r
Tr-W eekly twnkler; but cannot resist the temp
tation of intimatng that with all his assumed i'm
portancc as of the umnaries of his cause, he is
not quite equal to the animal that played the flute
"by accident"
"The fable which now present,
Occurred to me by accident.
A stupid morning went
Into field by accident,
And cropped his food and content,
Until he spied by accident,
A flute which some oblivious gent
Had left behind by accident;
When shifting it with eager SCENT
He breathed on it by accident,
And made the hollow instrument
Emit a sound by accident:
"Hurrah hurrah :" exclaimed the BRUTE
Chow ceverly play the flute"
A fool, in spite of natures bent
May shine for once by accident
There is however, ample room for Improvement; !;
and shall not be slow to record the evidences II
they should be furnished, of such progress as our
cotemporary may make in his laudable competition
with the long cared gentleman above described. lie
indeed speaks, in another part of his paper, of his
capacity for "kiekng and this, confess, rather
strengthens our confidence in him in his of en-
ulatlon with the animal referred to.
And now, Mr. Doub, what remains but to dismiss
you with word of afectionate advice? BE
an organ, Mr. Doub if only in agination-let your
light dispensed from new tin candestick, shine as
aforetme, with twinkle half pale, as if meant for
your friends, and half blue, as if touched up by
Lucifer himself for your enemies-be careful not to
deal in such questionable and unhandsome things
as arguments, but slang, slang, slang your po-
litical opponents as you best know how-give US
the latest news from China and the Chincha islands
with fragment now and then from Robinson Crusoe
or Sir John Frankln's expedtion-and, by all
means continue to abuse President Pierce, Judge
Douglas, David S. Reid, the Democracy generally
and the Democratic candidate for Governor that is
to be-not forgetting that Gen. Dockery is second
Washington, and that you will be much better EMIT
led than any other Whig who could be named, te
hold his hat while he speaks in Raleigh. Do this
and you will not only take posterity and the rest
mankind by storm, but they will take you for ar
embodiment of whatsoever is amusing, Of whatso
ever is dull of whatsoever is malicious and ridicu
lous We cannot notice you further. Our bushes!
is with principles and our time is too important
be devoted to personal controversy. When yor
skulk, we will expose you-when you state false
! hoods to bolster up your cause your candidate
we shall be certain tell the people what you hav
been doing; when you profess friendship and at th
same time indulge in abusive and offensive expires
sons, shall not regard you as honest or sincere
but, having advised you above, and in the mos
gratuitous manner imaginable, as you will doubtles
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