Weekly North Carolina standard., 1857-12-02
" The little dogs and all;

Tray Blanche and Sweetheart see they bark .tu-
Our suggestion as to the policy proper to be Dur.
sued in the coming gubernatorial election, has mada
an awful uproar in the Democratic pack "From
the sturdy mastiff that growls at the door of tbs
treasury, to the starving turnspit that yeps on tb
reotest verge Of the frontier" there is an ncesant
din OF barks and constant gnashiug of teeth at us
What better proof is wanted to show their mortal
dread that the American and Wing party will unite
with the Distribution Democrats 10 beat an an,j-Gs
tribution Democrat? The Raleigh Standard on
this occasion particularly than any Of
its brethren, wishes to put the skirts of the Green's
boro Patriot DC Flag between it and the danger il
apprehends. 1f the Standard expects TO sow
tares " between our Greensboro contemporary and
ourseif let it make the attempt, and it will find in
the segnal that it will have its labor for its pains"
The Register claims not, an aspires to any con-
troll over its political friends Unlike the Standard
the Register claims no authority to say vino is and
who is not Whig American, or reject, dsoxn,
and utterly repudiate," any body for difference Of
opinion on a single point Of policy. We knew and
highly esteemed the Patriot and Flag long before
we were enrolled in the editorial corps of the Old
North State, and while regret much that il differs
in opinion from u.s. that circumstance shall never
prevent our bearing testimony to the zeal fidelity
and ability with which it has labored for the good
cause. Whether or not the Patriot and Flag on q
more mature consideration of the matter will recon.
slider IFS views and give its valuable cooperation in
policy, which, while it sacrifices a single Whig
and American principle, would secure q great good
and patriotic end, time alone can tell. In the mean
time, We would guggest to our Greensboro friend
that he lives in such strong Wing and American
community that he may lose sight Of the difficulties
which beset the party in other quarters os the State
Every thing in his vicinity is cour de rose but he
must remember it is not so elsewhere.
The above is the leader in full from the last Ra-
leigh Re7ister, and surely that paper should not be
surprised at the fact forth in the classic lines at
the head of its article. Dogs bark, just as men
laugh, at the ridiculous the fantastic; and while
Tray Blanche and Sweetheart" like the Greens
boro Patriot and Flag bay the Register on ac-
count Of its outre costume, the Democratic party
laughs at it as one of the most fantastic figures ever
exhibited on the political stage. Unlike harleauins
IN general the Register unconscious that il is
Its ridiculous appearance that creates the uproar
around 1t, and attributes that uproar to its formd-
able aspect and awe-inspirins attitude. Never was
self deception more complete, nor selfimportance
more over-rated.
But to dismiss the doggsh similitudes Instituted
by our neighbor, we at lvss to imagine a po-
sition more humiiating than that of the Register
1t has passed through all the gradations of opposi-
ton to Democracy, from Whiggery down through
Know Nothingism, American whiggery, &C.; and
in all its changes it has denounced as TRAITORS and
IT,
has abandoned all these old positions and is intent
on hunting up and supporting some nondescript,
dsorganizing Democrat, who, by rule much more
just than that heretofore applied to Wings by the
Register, might be denounced as traitor and rem
egade." With the hope of keeping its head above
the waves of Democracy. now threatening to engulf
it. it throws of all its old membranes and buckles
on, as its hfepreserver what it calls "a distribution
Democrat" which simply meas5f when right, in
terpreted, no Democrat at all, but deserter; and
when it is taken to task by one of its own family
the Patriot and Flag, it "roars gently as suck
ing dove towards that paper, and at the same time
raises tremendous howl against the Democratic
pack, pretending that it is assaed and about to be
devoured ty mastifs and turnspits
But there is another feature in the matter more
humiliAting STILL The editor of the Register is a
regularly initiated Know Nothing, or American" as
he would say. In that initiation he took an oath to
support no one except q member of his own party
Tor office. Of course bis conscience must be alb
solved from that oath now, as he proposes to sup
port what he terms a member of another party
But how was he absolvedf Was it by some Pope
or high priest of the party? o did the simple fact
tnat his party became "powerless" per se work his
aosolut'ons But taking for granted that his mind
Is easy on that scorce, It must be q humiliatng
Election that he did not exercise more judgment and
discretion, and thus avoid that crash swearing"
from which he SO soon sought to be absoved, so
to enable him to support some one outside the
"order." s..-- .-
But the most humiliating feature Of all is the fol-
lowing: "The Register Claims no authority to say
who is, and who is not Wing or American" Whatl
after having been q Whig-after having been an
" American" and after havirg sworn to support
none but " Americans" now to turn round and say
you do not know who is whig or AmericanI Is
possible that the editor Of the Register has reno.
sad<d from party to party, turned and twisted ind-
sers ways in such quick succession that his brain
has become confused and that he does not know
where he now is, 10 what party he now belongs, or
what principles he now advocatess Really it would