Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-05-03
THE WILMINGTON HERALD.

THE WILMINGTON HERALD. sss
We thought proper to express our opinion, id the
Standard Of the 26th April with references to Mr..
Fmores visit to the Pope and to the infamous King
of Naples. We had right to do this; and We made
no allusion to the Editor of the Wilmington Herald
But the Editor in his issue Of Tuesday last quotes
part of the article referred to, and adds theifol
lowing: -,ss
eff nature had stuted the Standard would sup
pose that its editor had been stten with judicial blind
for his manifold transgressons and that God in his
wrath had visited him he did Simon of DID, and left him
example to his creatures that the of the trans
gressor is hard"
And now, who is this Editor of the Herald, who
thus arrogantly and maliciously assails cotempo-
rary?-a contemporary, too, who had no thought of
him when he wrote the article referred to, and did
not in any manner, allude to him. He is an Editor
who pretends to stand in mortal fear of Papal pow
er and aggrcssion-who could see something very
terrible last in the alleged bargain between
President Pierce and the Catholics as exhibited, as
he said, in the famous Nuncio statement to Mr..
Barriuger; and who now coolly just6es Mr. Fill
in his personal attentions to the Pope who ex.
uts in the fact that he honored with a seat by
his side, and who is ready, as his article shows,
to get Catholic votes for Mr.. Fillmore because
he has thus been honored, to his own words
by "Pope priest, prince, and people," He is an
Editor who went down into dark places, and
took solemn oaths to prescribe and prosecute
all Catholics; and who now recognizes as his poti-
cal equals and associates the Gallican Catholics and
the Catholics of Louisiana and Maryland. He is
Editor who delivered himself over, soul and body to
nd IF hiS in,
the Know Nothing society,-who abandoned his
right of thought an American freeman, and who
consented to plunge forward in the dark in politics.
So that he might put in his own party and put out
and crush down his opponents; and yet he talks
fippanty of others being "smitten with judicial
blindness for manifold transgressions." He is an
Editor who declares he is true to the institutions of
North Carolina slaveholding State; and vet he
unites with freesoiers and abotonists in denounc-
ing President Pierce, Judge Douglas, and the ma
tional Democratic party for repeating the Missouri
restriction, by which the shareholders of the South
were let in with their property to the Territory of
Kansas. He is an Editor who admits that his cam
ditiate for Governor, Mr.. Gimer, is in favor of a
change in the basis of representation,-wh knoaos
that Mr. Gmer holds the present basis to be "doacn-
right tyranny in its most odious FORM who knoaos
also that Mr. Gilmcr thus characterized the basis,
because, he says, 1t coners too much poseer upon
shareholders and tao payers-who knoacs also that
MIR. Glmer has attempted to alter, and is now in "a
vor of altering the federal population basis accord
ing to which the School Fund is at present dstrbu
ted-who knoscs also that Mr. Gilmer is in favor OF
calling Convention to change the State Constitu-
ton, by bare majority of the voters in palpable
riolation Of that instrument ITSELF; and yet he
this Editor-professing to be conservative in his
views, and the friend and advocate of the rights of
his section is nevertheless resortng to every expe-
dent fair and unfair to induce his readers to sup
port Mr. Gilmer-to elect to the highest Office in tie
State gentleman thus sectional-thus revolutiona-
ry in his opinions-thus hostile to the compromises of
the State Constitution-thus determined if he should
ever get the power, to deprive slave property of
just representation in the public councils, and to
bring the larger taxpayers under the control of the
smaller He is an Editor who processes to be law
abiding,-who stands forward champion of the
Protestant reigion,-who thus seeks to nculcate
the mild Gospel precepts of peace and love- and yet
in the very issue Of his paper from which We have
quoted, We find the following Speaking of the ap-
preaching municipal election in Wilmington, he
says:
Our opponents are oon6dent-they anticipate easy
victory. They have refused all propositions looking
compromise and for the suppression of excitement They
for They intend crush if they can-to put
end to American interference in municipal affairs.
is for decide whether shall calmly submit,
meet force by force"
Now, we have heard nothing-we have seen moth
ing in the other papers Of Wilmington, indicating
that the Democrats and anti-Know Nothings will
sort to 'orce" to carry the election. But the Edi-
tor of the Herald conures up fight in advance he
is ready to "MEET FORCE BY FORCE" This
meek, this law-abding, this exemplary " American"
Protestant is evidently Gerry sorry-having made the
discovery himself-that the Democrats-hs neigh
bors, men with whom he at least has business rea-
tons and with whom ne exchanges the courteses of
life" are for war but then he is ready,-he will
not give back, he is thinking of "FORCE,"-he
has not forgotten the Louisville and New Orleans
tragedies, in which the prowess and the principles
of the "great American party" were so strikngly
illustrated.
We now say, in conclusion, to this arrogant and
malicious Editor that we have answered him only
for the purpose Of exposing hi-not because We at
tach importance to any abuse he may pen publish
about us. We can regard our contemporary, If VIC
should choose to do SO, with-contempt. We are
not in the habit of boasting,-we do not pretend to
be fighting man but we ready to repel such
language as that used towards US by the Herald
and to brand its author as he deserves There
are not enough Know Nothings in North Carolina
| to intimidate us. RI