Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-20
The Course of the Patriot and Flag towards Mr..
Scales...COl. Puryeaf.

Flag entcrtains no hope of re-electing COL Puryear
by fair means, and SO it has commenced the cam
paign with shpsoers of perversions, misstatements,
and misrepresentation as to Mr.. Scales and the
Democratic party. 1t hesitates at nothing which in
its opinion will benefit its cause. 1t denies the le-
gisative record-it insnuates in one BREATH and in
another openly asserts what is untrue-it persists,
after being corrected in mild terms, in repeating
charges against Mr.. Scales which have foundation
whatever in fact. We soemny warn the honest
voters of the Sixth Congressional District against
the dsingenuous and unfair of that journal.
Let them take for granted nothing which it may
say; but in this campaign at all times, let them
examine and determine for themselves-let them
"prove all things by the record and hold fast to
that which is good" Mr.. Scales and his friends will
shrink from no position vote taken or given by
him. But they ask they have a right to demand
that the facts be known and heard and that the peo-
pie decide not upon the assertions of
Gus and strongly preudiccd political opponent, but
upon the proofs they exist in Mr.. Scales's public
career.
Among other things the Patriot and Flag has as
Serted and continues to assert that Mr. Scales voted
in the last Legislature against repeating that part of
or receive one and two dollar Bank notes. When
this assertion contradicted and shown to be I'M
true, the Patriot instead of frankly and honestly
admitting its error, persisted in it, and endeavorcd
to prove by another cote of Mr.. Scales against al
lowing all the Banks to issue small notes, that its
statement correct. Such is specimen of the
honesty of that Journal and of the tactics by which
it is characterized.
On Tuesday, January 9th, 1857, the bill to repeal
sections 9Th, 9th and 7th of the Revised Code chap
ter 36, making it indictable to pass receive small
notes, was taken up in the Senate 1t was amended
that day, and passed its second reading On the
10th it passed its third reading in that body; and
on the 18th it was received in the Commons and
numbered 396-"a bill to amend the Revised Code
chapter Sc, title currency. section G. and to repeal
section of the same" On the 22d it was taken
up in the House and motion to postpone till
the 4th Of March, it was decided in the negative,
yeas Al, nays 63-Mr. Scales voting against post
poning. On the 23d the bill was again taken up,
and passed its second reading. yeas go, nays 40
Mr. Scales voting for the bill. [See House Journal,
page S2s] And on the oath, the said bill passed
it's third reading without division, and was ordered
to be enrolled
Mr.. Scales, therefore, the record shows, voted
first against postponng and then for the bill to re-
peal the law making it indctabe to pass or receive
| one and two dollar Bank notes.
But on the 2sd January, he voted to postpone in
definitely "House bill No. S. to authorize the
Banks of the State to issue small notes ;" and on
the same day he voted against this bill its third
reading. [See House Journal. pages 800 and 331 Il
These the votes which the Patriot and Flag has
been dishonesty attempting to show were cast
against bill No. 396 above mentioned
We have not examined the files of the Standard
to see how Mr. Scales was reported these ques:
tons, is it necessary that we should do So The
| Patriot and Flag says he was reported as voting
against repeating the law making it indictable to
pass small notes. and this of itself is pretty strong
evidence that he was reported in the Standard as
| voting the other way. If wishes to arrive at
the truth when reading the Patriot and Flag, he
must invariably take that paper by contraries
That is our experience as one of its readers.
The Patriot and Flag seeks to make little capital
by constant illusions to information in relation to
these votes of Mr.. Scales, obtained in Raleigh by
the Editors of the Western Sentinel. The Editors
of the Standard the State Printers and as such
were engaged in printing the Journals of the two
Houses at the time the information referred to was
desired They promptly sent it to the Editors of
the Sentinel who did not desire it for their own sat
sfaction for they knew what the vote was and APP
proved it. but to be used to repel at once the ia Sc
statements which they felt confident the Patriot and
Flag would make; and in meeting that paper they
wished to be able to refer to the record itself by
pages and dates. That is all
Again, the Patriot and Flag twits the Sentinel
about the Standard, and grauitously assumes that
the Sentinel follows us in its Editorial course Such
assumption is not only unjust and unprofessional
but is totally unsustained by the facts. The
Standard is quite apt to follow the Sentinel as the
Sentinel the Standard. That paper is every way
capable of considering judging and acting for it.
self; and it has uniformly done so, keeping all the
while the Democratic PLATFORM and acquttng
itself as an expounder and advocate of the true
faith in manner highly credtable to the gentle
men who control and conduct it. The Patriot aud
Flag no doubt estimates the Sentinel as it does it.
self 1t feels the necessity for leaders-for depend
ence the judgment of others and feeling thus it
makes itself ridiculous by supposng that others are
afflicted with the weakness and want of inde-
pendence.
The object of the Patriot and Flag in all this is
however, quite apparent 1t seeks to divert the at
tenton of the people from the highly Objectionable
anti Southern, anti Constitutional course of Col
Puryear in Congress- but it will fail in this, ii
has in its effort in this to fasten false charge
on Mr. Scales. Col. Puryear will be thoroughly ex
posed. His utilization with the black Republicans
on the Kansas Nebraska question will be made clear
to every voter in the Sixth District; and he will be
called to account for his flight from his seat leaving
the government on the verge of disorganization and