Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-18
For the Standard.
HALIFAX COUNTY, Aug. IA, 1856.


MEssRs. EDITORS The contest in this District is
over, and the result is yet in doubt. Yet i cannot
withhold any longer from Mr.. x. Rayner and H. w.
Miller my thanks for the gaod which they did the
cause of Democracy in this county. It behooves
all good Democrats in North Carolina to pray for
the preservation of these two gentlemen until after
the next Presidential elcctionespecially for that
man of might and immortal valor, who has fought
so many good fights against the tyrant Pierce and
his one hundred thousand Office holders; and who,
in Weldon, caught him by the nape of the neck
and the seat of the brooches and pitched him out OF
the windows of the White House! Why Falstaf
and his men in Buckram, make but "sorry sig Int "
in comparison with this contest which has been GO
ing forward through sundry counties in this District
between K. Rayner and the United States. eff
there were not two three and fifty upon poor old
Jack, then am no two legged creatureS "If tell
thee lie Hal, spit in my iace-ca me horse. -
If Mr. Rayner has not met and bearded the Execu-
tive of these United States with all his patronage
and power, if he has not called him hard names, aad
initiated George Washington in his bold defiance Of
George the III-then he has fallen short of his in
tenon, be meant it for tragedy, if you laugh at it
farce-or perhaps he thought President was only
fit game for a spoken of for the Presidency
The rest of mankind-only small potatoes-food for
pop-gun inteects, and not worthy of his heavy Or
dipance; or perhaps he sought a cheap fame, re-
memberng these lines of Ajax:
Losing he wins, because his name will be
Ennobied by defeat who burst contend with me-"
But word, MIR. Editor about that statement and
those l1tters al Mr.. Barringer to Mr.. Rayner. Can
Mr.. BarringeF clear his skirts of this thing? having
50 long permitted this SANDER against the admins
traton to so uhcorrected. Does It not look very
much like SchetHe concocted to affect elections?
and after it had done its work, to he explained and
repudated by its authors? Mr.. RaYner, in his
speech at Weldon, did not correct his statements
but read Mr.. Barrngers letter sustaining it, ard
when it was perceived how far short fell proof
Of RayRer's charge, and that Mr.. Barringersstate
ment was haflidess and without point; Mr.. Tucker
Of Northampton, requested copy of the letter
which Mr.. Rtynsr released upon the ground that it
was a PT'i0ate letter; and yet not minute after
declared it would be published in the American Or
gan at Washington! Does it not look as if he
determined it should serve the purpose of this
vass, and that Dr. Shaw and his friends should not
have the benefit of the truth. Col. Paine used this
thing throughout the canvass; he gave Mr.. Barring
er as his authority-dd he, too misunderstood Mr..
B.? did he get it second handed from DR. Rayner?
1t seems to this thing ought to be investigated,
and the truth kept before the people. Mr. Miller
did not mention this thing in his speech in this
ty; and though his effort did not do much for his
cause, yet he preserved his self respect and the
respect of all who heard him.
The usual majority in Halifax county for Wing
CCinmoners is sixty whereabouts; this time not
less than ono hundred and fifty claimed by the
Know Nothing presidents and secretaries. How
could it be otherwise after Mcssrs- Miller and Ray
ners great efforts? Please to present, in big type,
to these gentlemen, the response of the Democracy
of Halifax
TWENTY ONE MAJORITY FOR II. ii. SHAWL
FARMER.