Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-09-03
l.. N0RTH-CAR0LINA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1856
Mark Them !!

Mark Them!
AS might have been expected, the Editors Of such
Raleigh papers as glory in AN intense American
feeling who claim to be par excellence the friends
of the American people, again at their contemp
tible game of detraction and belittling.
After the last Congressional election, the Star,
which was then presided over by the gentleman who
now stands between the public and the sixteen
onymous editors of the Signal grossly insulted the
people Of the State who honestly differed with it, by
proclamng that the acealth Intelligence, and char
acter of the District, 0he 4th,) ,)-comprising such
men as Geo. f. Badger Willie P Mangum, VIM. A.
Graham, men who have occupied the second Office
in the world and have been cabinet officers and Sen
ators-uoted for Mr.. Shepard.' 1t then added,
"Why such names as these, and others that could
be mentioned, are scorth million of those who vo-
ted at Hawtree in Warren the Old Fields in Nash,
else,ohere!F'
At the time that precious paragraph was given to
the world, we stigmatized, in proper terms, the
spirit which prompted it. We refrained from en-
teIing into the discussion of such question, and
we alluded to it merely that the people might know
how they were rated by such leaders. At the same
election, the intelligent foreigners" too, "voted for
"AA'
around this Know Nothing crew, exhibiting, with
out blush, the stamp OF degradation upon their
brows, placed there by these very men-casting
voaes for them which this set proclaimed them unfit
to give These "ntelligent foreigners" were rank
ed with Geo. E. Badger, Willie P. Mangum and w.
A. Graham, who "worth million of those
who voted at Hawtree in Warren, the Old Fields of
Nash, or elseVAere P'
Well, the people have again voted so, too, have
the 4" intelligent foreigners" and the cabinet minis
ters, &C., and how stands the account! 1t appears
that, rating the opposing parties man to man,
there is a balance of THIRTEEN THOUSAND! on one
side; so that in count at least, the people more
than the equals of intelligent foreigners "cab
int minister's"
And then let US see how the Register and Signal
speak of the dear, honest patriotic people, for
whom they feel SO sensitvely, at their prospect of
" len cents day" The honest men who were STOOL
ed into the culvert but who have shrunk back
again, horrorstricken into the broad light of heav
en- where freemen should bc-these men are mildly
sty led by the Register pretended friends of the
American party =" but the Signal comes boldly up
to its former mark, when it was STAR and denoun-
ces them as "CoNrEMPrIBLE SET, acho meanly
SfSdkeO lHtO tHc UeJuRcC OfUcf AFTER OFFICE, ana
mare meanly sneaked out after ditto" " But" }" adds
that worthy sheet, "ther day is over, their can't
pa;gn is ended and off goes their head. That is
the language, freemen of North Carolina used to-
wards you by men who, but few weeks ago,
hugsed you closely to their bosoms, while their
slanderous tongues called you brother and
these the motives assigned to your actions. And
what viii be said of you who still remain in the
"old defunct order," when you dare to withdraw
| from it?
When will this Goldfish aristocracy" learn to
know the people? When will they begin to give
them credit for intelligence some honesty, some
patriotism! Gentlemen of the Signal, believe US,
| there are some small portions of these qualities in
the people. They not totally destitute of intel
lgence and character, though poor they be. Believe
US when assure you that neither Geo. E. Badger
Willie P. Mangum, VIM. A. Graham, any one of the
intelligent foreigners" any one of the sereateen
ed tors of the Signal, the lonely editor of the Reg
lister, nor all combined, is or arc worth million
| of those who voted at Hawtree in Warren, the Old
| Fields of Nash, or elsewhere" Believe US, do-and
mend your ways-or the people will put more ter
rible mark upon you yet.