Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-02-21
1855.
Insulting and Slanderous.

In Mr.. Jesse A. Waugh's lannon's, or
rather, infamous Report. it viii be seen that
he INDUCES in the folIowing insulting and
libellnus insinuafioa, againstt those who signed
the Temperance Memorials laid before the
Committee on Propositions and Grievances:
"Your Committee, therefore, think that
this effort, invoking the aid of the law to
prevent the traffic in liquors, is mistaken
Zeal reckless of results. Il species of JdndtI-
cisH chich has lis parallel only in the insane
] desire Of those, VINO WCULD DEPRIVE, AT oNE
FELL BLOW, EVERY PLANTER OF his SLAVES,
and tara loose upon the land, ruA a moments
notice, millions Of haman beings"
The disiugenuous, ~cnntompiible. analogy
drawn Ivy Jesse A. Waugh, is unworthy even
Of him. We believe it contains a falsehosd,
in the first place for we have no idea that
the majority of the Committee frcm which
this Report came, will endorse the insulting
paragraph. Il is a sneaking attack upon
those signers, by drawing an odious COM
p%arison, and thus a,ttmpting to faint them
with incendiary designs-a charge which he
dare not openly anu undisguisedly make. Il
is therefore the more insulting. mean and
mdttSiohNf ANU We rHht uedl Will II IN tue
severe manner it deserves.
We ask every gentleman and lady who
signed those Memorials to read carefully the
insulting and Slaniernus language heappd
upon them 4" a Legislative Document Of the
it General Assembly Of North Carolina. You
1t are here told that you are exactly on a " par
allel with the vile Abolitionists Of the
W North, and a sneaking, covert, mean insin-
y uation given, Of your association ,cith 81 those
,oho 'couH deprice ere,y planter o fhis siares,"
dc.
Has Mr.. WaHgh, or any other member of
at the Legislature. the temerity to make such a
lat charge, openly, against the sisners Of these
Memorials We dare them to do so ! But
m they will not-hnt Mr.. Waugh will resort to
rat this contemptible employment o: language. in.
tended to make certain ndious and detestalle
his Impressions, while he takes care to leave a
y a l~oop-hole through which he may escape, 10y
em saying he did not mean to b. thus understood
we 1t cannot bc-the purpose is too apparent
and the design il the more hateful and op
lels probrious. because it was a steathy, assassin
like stab in the dark. 1t shall stick to hin
as like the tabled shirt of Nessus, much as W,
ice? know he will try to cast it from him.
'ver And are the free citizens Of North CAROL
ma thus to be insulted, m~aligned and dorideC
IAN for the exercise of a right guaranteed hy tn
om- charter of our Liberties +? Are VIC tn lie houte
hen as interiors, miniOns to dema !ogues an
n OF charlatans who by accident or intrigue lin
d a their way into legislative posts? Then il
a deed are we ready to be made slaves an
de- bondmen all! But no we have not - 10
'ucn the breed Of noble bluods !'-and so the
miserable i~nsulters VI popular rights al
lar private virtue will find, to their final owe
fern throw.
ne is The signers TO those Memorials are as i
ana t%elligent. ~yirtuous respectable citizens
ana North Carolina cuntains-men who are
T. purr1otIc, Royal and True TO the South n
the her institutions, as Jesse A. Waugh. a
reoI any of /" the tribe of Jesse "-men who
po"h not worship ut the whiskey bar nor il the
,ings patriotism tainted with the smell Of yapt
rum. And these are the men whom [
dis Chairman of the Committee ON Propositio
from and Grievances would faint with want
the fealty to their country. He will wish he b
who been asleep when he wrote that documr
erely before he hears the last Of it.