Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-04-25
/ CAROLINA sTANDARD:g WEDNEsDAY.A APRIL 25 1885,

- ne heglsIer OF Saturday last makes vulgar
and characteristic attack on George w. Thompson,
Esq, and that, too, before it was even known that
that gentleman had accepted the nomination of the
Franklinton Convention. That paper says of him
" he IS very worthy man, we believe-of homely
capacities, bang up at exhorting," DC. There is
something said also, about " that nasal twang
heard in conventicles" as if to show the contempt
which the refined, exalted and v"ry fastidious Ed
itor of the Register entertains for those who ex-
hort men to repentance and for the Baptist Church
generally, of which Mr.. Thompson is a member
We expected this. The Register does not like
men of homely capacities THAT is, men who
are distinguished among their neighbors, as Mr..
Thompson is, for plainness Of manner and living,
for candor, and for the cultivation of those "home-
ly'' virtues which are the pride and glory of our
hard-handed farmers and planters. The Register,
it is very evident, regards Mr.. Thompson, as a
"rustic" country tackey"-as man who
ought not to have been thought of even for Con-
gress. That paper is pleased to state, however,
that it "believes' Mr.. Thompson to be "a very wor-
thy man." 1t is not certain of the fact Of course
feel grateful for this expression, and we have no
doubt Mr.: Thompson will take occasion to acknow-
ledge it in suitable terms before the people.
Mr.. Gales is a graduate Of the University-Mr.
Thompson is not. He was once an "old-feld
schoomaster," and never enjoyed the advantages
of classical education; yet as writer and speaker,
so far as dicton is concerned, he would compare
favorably with Mr.. Gales and if the two
gentlemen were to happen to meet in public dis
cussion, great would be the superiority in every
respect, displayed by Mr.. Thompson, that the
dience could not help thinking of the battle be-
tween the lion and the mouse Ex-Governor
Manly knows who Mr.. Thompson is he met him
before the people of this County in 1914, and can
bear testimony to his ability, to his courtesy in
debate, and to his character as man and cit
izen.
We have been told all along that the Know
Nothings would put down old party hacks, and
elevate new men fresh from the ranks of the peo-
pie. The Register sympathises with the dark lam
tern Order, and now and then speaks for it. Here
is opportunity to redeem this pledge, for Mr.
Thompson is emphaticay one of the people, and
neither sought nor desired the nomination. lie
had retired to private life, and will come rthonly
as matter OF solemn and imperative public duty.
CT LnlS SeDleln;ln because nc Is u DenlOcTdt ell
counters even before he has formally accepted the
nomination, the bitterest opposition and the most
vulgar abuse at the hands Of the Wing Know No
thing organs. Does not this prove. for the hun
dreth time, the complete identification of Whigge
ry with Know Nothingism
But for the consideration that the Editor of the
Register retire to the refined circles of the arts
tocracy, at the st. Nicholas or the Metropolitan,
New York, in the event of Mr.. Thompsons cleo
ton, should feel hurt at the young gentleman's
situation. The country is large, and travelling on
steamboats, and railroads is easy and pleasant; and
so the Editor can escape, if he chooses the pres
ence of this 'homely" member of Congress, and
can be left to his imagination only as to that ma
sal twang' which so touches and tortures his re-
fined and educated sensbilites. One so deli
catey constructed, so made up of rainbows
and rhetorick, so far removed from what
ever is "homely" or commonsshouId be famed all
tendery with feathers from linnet's wing, and
RECALLED perpetualy with the odors from the per-
fumed shores of "Araby the best"