Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-05-12
For the Standard.


ment in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, finding it ut
terly impossible to refute any of the statements
have madcsexposing his highly reprehensibe con-
duct, has adopted the only mode left him, that OF
pcrverting language and bespattering the object Of
his malice with gross and unfounded abuse-although
that is an article which he processes not to deal in
In his address q to the public-once more in the
Standard of the end inst, he plainly betrays con-
seriousness of his own guilt, though in that uncom-
mon display of depravity he labors and founders
hard but in vain, to justify himself before the pub
lie.
He even tries to justify his fraudulent attempt to
palm off his " Cultvator" the organ, and actu-
ally denies that he has taken back the " endorse
ment" and acknowledged lit endorsement"
He now has it, he only "explaned," and enters
into serious attempt to explain the erptdnGtaor-
an effort as peurie and ridiculous the first was
sneaking and deceptive. He says the sord official
was in+erpoated by me, "upon which the misunder-
standing depended, " &c. Here is another bold at
tempt at MISREPRESENTATION. The document, headed
" endorsement, | said, in the form and lam
guage of official document, and admitted of no
other construction. This maintain, and annex said
document to this communication, that your readers
may examine it and judge for themselves. 1t will
be seen that there is general in which the
word =" endorsement" heading such a document,
be distorted to any thing else but the Of
ticidL recognition expressed in the document. Its
coocaon gives it that specific meaning, and moth
ing else Just as the word Act placed over public
statute stamps it with official character, and rem
ders it unsusceptbe of any other meaning than that
Of lGao unless it be toryey; and MIR. Cookies po-
stion as teacher and publisher deprives him of the
plea of ignorance in the of the term in that con-
nection. The public will judge of the design with
which this endorsement" was published, and also
of the degree of turpitude which attaches to such
an act. He pleads, however, that he did explain,
that he only meant Recommendations. Very
well, not that taking back the endorsement and
acknowledging it was not an endorsement? But
why did he not the word recommendation
at first? The truth is, this miserable, though
oOu w 'cyfo nd q
sinks him d,cper in the mire than ever The preteXt
that he promptly explained the character of the
document las as he discovered that dis
tant friends had misapprehended it, " avail him
nothing. What will the public think of such pre-
tence when they learn that this explanation not
made as am informed, until after the chairman of
the Executive Committee, indignant at the deception
which had been practlced, came to this city for the
express purpose Of demanding its retraction-not
until after Mr.. Cooke called to attend confer
ence of the Chairman with the signers, and promis
ed a satisfactory explanation? distant readers,
indeed! Did not one of the papers of this city, (the
Starr even, not suspectDg the cheat, from its
struction of that document, speak of the Cultiva
tor as the official organ? Again. am authorised
to say that it was by false pretences that Mr. Cooke
induced of the gentlemen* at least, whose name
is affixed TO his emphatic recommendation, " as he
calls it, TO sign that document and now he has
the impudcnoc to condemn the idea of allowing
member Of the committee to express his choice by
proxy! Truly, the matter which issues from this
RESERVOIR OF impurity is any thing but tTItg7dnt
and the public will no doubt be much surprised
at it's vast contents, as Mr.. Cooke is disagreeaby
affected by its exposure.
He still harps upon the statement made in the
Standard in regard to the postponemcnt of the sub
jcct of the organ by the Executive Committee, but
levels his now at the manner not the truth of
the statement He says that Mr.. Lemay " crept into
the Standard Office and furnished the Editor with
statement puporng to give the action of that body
(Commttee) requesting that it should be inserted
editorially" &c. This little sentence alone is
IL i ,,of,>f
office at all to furnish the Editor with statement
Happening to meet Mr. Holden on the street, after
having read notice in his paper, giving some
count Of the proceedings of the Executive Commit
tee, remarked to him that the reason why the Com
mittee did not decide upon the choice of organ
omitted in that article; to which he replied, as
that matter of public interest if would fur
nisl him with statement he would publish it, edi-
torialy, as | understood him to say, as he had the
previous notice. which was furnished him by friend
and inserted in that form. | accordingly stated so
much of what had learned from the Chairman to
have been the action of the Committee as was ne
cessary to show why decision made the
question of choice-sent it to the Standard Office,
and it was inserted editorally. If Mr. Cooke
detect the slightest improperly in ths "optcs sharp
he has | ween to what is not to be seem" But
there were several specifications drawn from that
statement, by Mr. Cookesimagination, against which
he exhausted all the OF his long attack in the
Post. His charges there were met and refuted, the
truth of the statement established. and now Mr..
Cooke skulks out of the false charges which he had
raised, not by producing his Wanted statements of
the Executive Committee where are they ?-why
they not produced ?-but by giving it as has
"Opinio1" that there was design in those words
which they do not fully convey literally! This
reminds your readers of the story of Sambo and the
pig. When he started out with him &c he was pig"
but when he to deliver his charge 10 he was
puppy" Never base design so poorly
covered-never did an attempt to prevent the plain
meaning of words, and show what those "words
aoould seem to convey appear so garng and prove
so abortive.
There some smaller matters out of which Mr.
Cooke labors to make little capial-such as hold.
ing out the idea that he derded on account of
his past poverty, his being Yankee &c-which only
to expose the extreme paucity of his means of
defence; to furnish fresh proof of the unscrupuous
with which of certain class of Yankees will
essay to impose upon the public his false wares and
to show how who has grown fat upon public ia
vor and indulgence, will become inflated, arrogant
and presumptuous, and affect to despse those who
in an humber sphere, have acquired their possess
sions by honest industry and economy.
To cap The climax of falsehood and defamation
this MIR. Cooke-the same individual who sneaked
about privately among members of the Executive
Committee, soliciting their signatures to his recon-
aealdation, who after having succeeded in this I'M
demanded manner, in inducing but four of that
Committee to sign it before the others were called
together to hear and examine his peculiar claims"
and whatever claims others might present hastily
published the precious document as bona fGe sen
dOrsenent, AYE, this swift witness, thus coming
into court all over tainted, has the unblushing eff
frontery to stand up and utter what he knows and
what here to he