Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-30
THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD: SATURDAY. AUGUST % T
l.Mark T.heua i

AS might have been expected, the Aqt3QTS OF such
Raleigh papers IS glory In an intense American
feeling who claim to be par ercelencs the friends
of the American people, again at their contemp-
tible game of detractionla 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 an
onymous editors of the Signal grossly insulted the
people of the State who honestly differed with it. by
proclamng that the wealth intelligence, and char
acter of the District, 0he 4th, accomplishing such
men as Geo. E. Badger, Willie P. Mangum, VIM. A.
Graham, men who have occupied the second Office
in the world and have been cabinet officers and Sem
"Why such names as these, and others that could
be mentioned, are aoorth million of those who vo-
ted at Hawtree in Warren or the Old Fields in Nash,
or elsesohersr'
AT the time that precious paragraph was given to
the world, stgmatized, in proper terms, the
spirit which prompted it. We RETAINED from en-
tering 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
Mr. Shepard "-foreigners who shamelessly fawned
around this Know Nothing crew, exhibiting, with
out blush, the stamp of degradation upon their
brows, placed there by these very men-casting
votes for them which this set proclaimed them unfit
to give These Intelligent foreigners were rank
ed with Geo. E. Badger, Willie P. Mangum and w.
A. Graham, who were "worth a million of those
who voted at Hawtree in Warren, the Old Fields of
Nash, or elsesohere ~
Well, the people have again voted so, too, have
the " intelligent foreigners" and the cabinet minis
tiers, &C., and how stands the account 1t appears
that, rating the opposing parties as man to man,
there is balance of THIRTEEN THOUSAND on
side; that in count at least, the people are more
than the equals of intelligent foreigners 'cab
met ministers"
And then let US see how the Register and Signal
speak of the dear, honest patriotic people, for
whom they feel so sensitivey, at their prospect of
"ten cents day." The honest men who were STOOL
ed into the culvert, but who have shrunk back
again, horrorstrcken, into the broad light of heav-
en-, where freemen should be-these men are mildly
styled by the Register as 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 a "coNrEMPr1BLE SET, aoho meanly
sneaked into the detunct order AFTER OFFICE and
more m,eanly sneaked out atter ditto" "But" adds
that worthy sheet, their day is over, their cam
paign is ended "-and off goes their head. That is
the language, freemen Of North Carolina, used to-
wards you by who, but a few weeks ago,
Rugged you SO closely to their bosoms, while their
slanderous tongues called you brother and
these the motives assigned to your actions. And
what will be said OF you who still remain in the
"old defunct order" when you dare to withdraw
from it?
When will this "codfish aristocracy" learn to
know the people? When will they begin to give
them credit for some intelligence some honesty,
patriotism! Gentlemen of the Signal believe us,
there are some small portions Of these qualities in
the people. They not totally destitute of intel
ligence and character though poor they be. Believe
when we assure you that neither Geo. E. Badger,
Willie P. Mangum, VIM. A. Graham, any one of the
"ntelligent foreigners" any one of the serenteen
editors of the Signal, the lonely editor Of the Beg
ister nor all combined, is or are " 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
ribe mark upon you yet