Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1858-02-24

"Mr McRae reminded the audience Of the fact
that when in 1S4O clouds and darkness overshad-
owed the fortunes of the Democratic party, he was
manfully fighting its battles and sharing without
murmur its fate, while certain Editor, not thou
sand miles from Raleigh, was clad in coon.skins,
having string of gourds around his neck and swil-
ling hard cider in a log cabin."-Register's Report
Of 4HcRaes Speech.
So did Rives, and Tallmadge, and Van Buren, and
Benton and Blair fight the battles of Democracy and
share its fate; but they permitted their ambition
and their seshness to get the better of their judg
ments, and abandoning principle they fell at once
deeper than pummet ever sounded. The late Con-
sui of the United States at Paris, with Douglas and
Wise, on the same inclined plane on which the
public men referred to went down to those inn
measurable depths; and the late Consul has already
sunk so far that no mortal hand reach him to
bring him up.
The late Consul has been highly honored and we'll
paid for his sacrifices G) for the Democratic party
We believe he also shared the fortunes of John Ty-
er, and was sent by that gentleman when President,
on special errand to Mexico for which he received
some s., 500. He afterwards subordnated distri-
button to the Consulshp at Paris and went abroad
leaving the lands to be squandered and plundered
as aforetme and received therefor some $50, 600 in
dry federal money. He returned and took up the
distribution thread precisely where he had drop
ped it; and now, some of the Know Nothing distri-
butionists are afraid to run him for Governor lest
in the midst of the campaign he might be offered
another federal Office, might accept it, and thus leave
them without candidate. Nothing would be left to
them then but TO fall back upon their principles which,
it must be confessed, would be dangerous opera.
ton. They might fall space, and so fall ad in
Jfnitum.
Our former political associate does we'll to remind
US of those "coon-skins and to rattle those gourds
about ears. He makes the matter infinitely worse
than it was. We neither handled gourds nor wore
coon-skns in 1910. We were engaged at that day
in setting type for a lving-we had no time,
as Mr. McRae had: to devote to politics and
speech. .making and we plain woolen and
cotton clothes, which we earned and paid for
by hard labor. As to log. cabins" our earliest
recollectons are associated with houses of that
sort, for we were born in of them; and
doubtless we had more sincere respect for their
occupants in 1910, as we have now, than those old
federasts who affected to be the poor mans friends,
and some of whom SO warmly applauded Mr.. McRae
in this City Monday last. We have never sought
federal office, nor would have it if offered to
and to this extent at least, have the advantage
Of Mr.. McRae.
We repeat, Mr. McRae does well to twit US with
1910. The federalsts and Know Nothings have
been doing the same thing for fifteen years. The
gentleman repeats with 1uency the lessons he has
learned in the opposition school, and if he is salts
he'd with his employment in this respect, we are
sure We Our political record for the last ff-
teen years is without blot: We have labored for
and sought the good Of our party more than our
o"n,-we have thought more of principles and OF
the triumph of our cause than we have Of SELF No
man say that have ever even hesitated either
as to principles or as to organization since have
been at the head of this press. Can MIR. McRae say
as much? Mr. McRac was born and brought up in
minority, and he adhered to it after it reached a
majority only so long as it promoted and honored
MN; We left majority for minority, and that too
ata time when the success Of the latter regard.
60 as next to impossible. We are willing any day
and at all times to compare political records with the
gentleman II