Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-07-28
100 FOR the Standard.
PINEBUR MoccAs1N ON LINN BE SANDERS


leshure time with me, my gests havin' all gone out
or gone to take nap, / went into my offs, pulled
OIL my coat, cravat and Shoes onbuttoned nv shurt
collar, dropped into my rockin' cheer and was soon
nalf dozln, half dreamin' like, my mind runnn' on
Linn be Sanders and big fly buzzin' round nv
nose, wonderin' in that half asleep condishun if
there scds SIGH man Linn be Sanders and If that
~as dy, and if so, which was which, and which
was tother; for in my dozin' state. you see, got
things mixed up and confused and all so indistinct
that fly in fact and Linn be Sanders in imaginashun
was about the same thing Then fell to philoso-
ph'sn. and thought wouldn't bother my head any
more about either of them; and if there was Linn
be Sanders he might remain Linn be Sanders; and
if that was fly he might be fly, and bedarned to
both OF them, for didn't care puter button about
neither.
The next thing knowed sumthn' shuck me, and
then my little boy Samuel q used to call him Sam
or Sammy till the internal Know Mullins cum about,
but always call him Samuel ow,)-says Samuel,
Onconshusly made lick at the fly and sed, "Drot
him and Linn be Sanders too" You see didn't
know xacty what was sayin' or dom, or wouldn't
connected fly and human ben' together in that
way, even though was not sertn about the human
bein' Samuel latfed, and droppin' the papers and
letters in my lap, left.
| walked right up. and the fust paper opened was
the Sem-Weekly Standard of July II. Thinks l.
there must be sunthin' important in this for only
take the Weekly Standard and the printurs wouldn't
ushua in It. The fust article my eyes fell on was
about the Senior editor ben' alarmed about
Linn be Sanders pitchin' into him and me- and SO
forth and Stain that friend had sent me circu-
lar ritten by Linn be Sanders. l was sumwhat ag-
tated but great shakes, and soon picked out the
circular from my other letters and papers, and saw
it was addressed to Mr.. W. W. Holden-sir"-
Thinks |, What have got to do with it? But red
it and soon saw.
Sumtimes felt like latfin', sumtimes amost like
IL. T Al.
got the editur into SIGH a scrape, and so on; and
though my douts is not fully removed I'm gwine to
admit for the present that there is SIGH man as
Linn be Sanders, and that he's dstribushen candi-
dit in Johnston county, and treat him accordingly.
In the fust place. why is it that he pretends to
care nnthn' about me, and yit my name assail-
in me through the editur? Why isn't Pinebur
Moccasin jest good and as 'onest name as Linn
be Sanders, drot him? He needn't think, because I
live up here in the mountains and keep hotel that
] feel myself one bit below him. I'm jest as good
as he is, and hope better-I know I'm higher. He
bedarned What rite has he got to call me nick
names, jest like cross, contrary, ill-contrapshuned
schoolboy? What does he mean by calm
"battery" and "breastwork ?" and wEar did h. larn
geogray calm this little mountin village of Mecca.
sinve "city of REFUGEE" It's no city at all, and
especially no "city Of refuge" for them that de-
serves punishment II Linn be Sanders don't b'lieve
it let him try it. If by calm me "battery" he
means TO insinuate that I'm disposed to kick up
muses. and be gilty of what the lawyers call salt
and battery" he's mistaken, for I'm peaceable man
when not provoked; and if by calm me breast
work he means that wear emmy armor, or emmy
thing emmy body to sheeld my breast from
sponsibility, he's confoundedly mistaken. And ant
that rich about his not approachn' the suberbs 1t
vile, for it has but suberb and that's Joe
Smithers, and he's the ONLY Linn be Sanders and
McRaie man emmy whar about here If he had
knowed that Joe-we call him suberb Joe now-was
his only friend here, reckon he wouldn't give him
SIGH onkind cut
be Sanders. Because have scratched him sum and
made him smart considerably, he seems to think
I'm like a cuckle bur a chestnut bur; and he has
| acted Jest like boss with of these burs for a
crupper, for he has away, broke off his Dimi-
cratic harness. busted the britchin of organzashun
and kicked himself loose from the party; and then
| he has made the charnel house of Know Nothinism
| his lefty of refuge" from which he pokcs out his
head and makes mouths at me and calls me names,
and at the same time cusses Holden and swars Hol-
| den red him ou:'n the party and insted of SEEM
that he is himself among the rottin' bones of Sam,
in his final restn' place, he ses Holden's in d.
lcmma!" Shorey
| He's one of the rarities
| Of Know Nuthin charities;
rarity, indeed, for seekin proecshun in the grave
of defnnct party in which lies the decayin corpses
from which the vitality Of opposishun to furreners
and catholics has escaped, and emttin. insted, the
stencil of dstrbushun. 1t to that he's
jest about in the posishun Frcemasons assume when
they take a sertin side degree, known among the
| fraternity as The " assnose degree" 1t is newly
instituted degree, but maybe sum Of the bruthren
about Rolly has bin Insulated into it, and ex.
| plain to him what mean.
Now haven't time pashencc to motifs all the
abSurdities of this circular for it's nuthin but alb
surdities from beginnn' to eend Judas is the only
traitor ever heard Of Linn be Sanders included tina,
did not try justify his treson; and my advice to
him is that he'd better initiate Judas in what may
now be called his fnality." With the ushua1
demagogical cry of "high taxes" Mr. Sanders, q
| call him Mr. Sanders onct because he calls ME Mr.
Moccasin onct) tries to divert attenshun from his
treson. But if high taxes is necessary, didn't he
help to make them so? Didn't he vote for that old
circumbendbus Central Railroad charter in 1S4s
the very bcginnn', as we may say, of State Diet
| @ YES but that road runs through his county. A
great menny representatives bounds their patriotism
by the limits of their counties and the chances
of bein' lected agin. That is, they call selshncss
patriotism. Would Linn be Sanders be willin to
sink all internal improvements and put back taxes
whar they was before internal improvements COM
menced? Who is it complains most of thigh
taxes?" 1t ant poor workin' people, nor is il
we mountin people who have paid our taxes without
emmy immediate benefit to US; but it's the rich men
along the lines of railroads. that has got all they
want, and they don't care a cuss about other folks
Now don't know nuthln' about the circumstances
of Linn be Sanders-in fact you know have my
douts about there bein SIGH man, but if there 4,
SIGH one, I'll bet he's rich man, and that the
railroad is helpin' him to add to his welth every
wear ten times more than his increased taxashun
and ten times more than he could add to it without
railroad. It's putty patriotism to grumble about
high taxes, to oppose improvements and hold back
the State from prosperity, and at the same time spend
more money for shampane and segars than would
pay two SIGH taxes and tell you we've got lots o.
Jest that sort of patriots Linn be Sanders ses We
are poor, as State, and already owe as much as We
are able to pay" That's not so; and if it was So
sumbody else would have foand it out before Mr.
| Morale Linn he Sanders either. Sich a course