Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-05-17

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notes the convenience Of the community, may
formed when it is recollected that while in the Leg
lsature of 1888 he asserted and argued to prove
thatour State Banks were created by w hig votes
and that the Bank of the State was pre-eminentIv
q Wing institution Well; perhaps that fact &C.
counts for its high credit and undoubted solvency
Register.
The Registers losing no occasion to use the ques-
tons of Bank, Internal improvements and the like
for the advancement Of party schemes We call the
attention of the citizens of the State without dis
tinction of party, to the fact.
The Editor of the Register himself knows little if
any thing of Mr.. Bragg's while in the Legs-
iature aside from what he gather from the jour
nails. The Editor was but {" chap" then, and could
not OF course, be expected to hear or understand
speeches on the Bank or other questions; but in Or
der to sustain false charge against Mr. Bragg to
w.t. that he is hostile to whatever promotes the con-
venience of the community he states that he asser-
ted and argued and so, and this statement he
makes or gives from hearsay. Very well-what if
he did? One thing is certain, our State Banks are
and always have been Wing in their administration,
and the Register knows the fact to be so. The Re
gster knows that all the lucrative Offices held in the
two State Banks, with one exception, are held By
Whigs-that Democrats never appointed either
Presidents, Cashiers, Telers, Clerks. Still, as we
wished to keep the Bank question out of party poll
TICS we have studously refraned from complaining
of this gross Injustice and we refer to it now in
selfdefence and to show the lengths to which that
unscrupulous and. unprincipled paper, the Raleigh
Register will go to advance party ends.
The Register processes to be in favor Of liberal
system of Internal improvements It's recent course
the question, and its general character public
party journal leave no doubt mind that it
would at once abandon and oppose the of In
ternal Improvements if it believed that il could
thereby certainly defeat Mr.. Bragg. That is our
opinion of the honesty Of the Register, and the Edi
tor and his coadjutors are welcome to it. Party be-
fore State, party before Union, party before South,
party before slavery-these the guiding lights of
that journal Of course it would rather have State,
and Union, and South, and slavery-but party it
must and will have in the last resort.
rs The Fayetteville Argus is in a rage because
we merely referred to the fact that Gen. Dockery
voted in the Convention of 1885 in favor of free
gro suffrage. Getting in rage, and using harsh
language, will not do away with the fact We only
intimated, in the first place. that Gen. Dockery
in error in saying he for Free Suffrage iH 1885,
and that in the second place, in the noise and
fusion of his ideas he had probably COMPOUNDED Free
Suffrage with free negro suffrage which he support
cd at the time referred to- That all, if we
cept the fact that also showed that Gen. Dockerys
preudices strong for the free negro in 1885
as they were against Gen. jackson in 1871.
The Argus is pleased to refer, in connection with
the Standard, to 'hyenas and ghouls of party pu-
PRESENCE and the Editor also makes comparisons
as to what @ gentleman - would or would not do
Mr.. Cameron is welcome to the of such slang
We shall not consult him either to whatwe should
should not do; shall follow him in his
style writer, or attempt for one moment to emu
late his demagogueisn. If he wants personalities
he must draw them forth from some other quarter
~ Our Washington Correspondent refers to the
bold and manly course of Mr.. Kerr on the Nebraska
ter his recent speech. Mr.. Kerr was at time
complete submssionist the Slavery question
the State contained but brief residence at Wash
ington and with vile Representatives CT vile
abolitonists, and knowledge thereby forced upon
him that the free States largely and powerfully
against us, have wrought decided change in his
sentiments and conduct We glad to record the
fact lie has spirit which cannot tancly submit
to every aggression and every insult; but General
Dockery, the present Wing candidate for Governor,
served several years amid the and
turned with the same disposition to truckle to Free
soilism which he carried with him to Washington
Let Dockery he elected and the fact will be hailed
throughout the free States national JFhig Scott
ScoarG triumph. Greedy will at least exult that the
warm and active advocates Of Nebraska have been
defeated