Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-09-07

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The " Democratic Press ''..alias Firebrand.
Wehave patiently submitted for the space of three
months to the attacks which have been made upon
us by the FIrebrand and the Warrenton Neus, not
being disposed, on our oecn account, to prolong
controversy with papers which progressed even to be
Democratic Our motives have been questioned
our has been misrcpresented and every effort
has been made to prejudice Democrats against US.
Conscious of the purity of our motives, and seek
ng, not our own personal advancement, but the
paramount good of the Democratic party we made
up our mind to disregard these attacks and to leave
it to the party generally to do us justice and to
command the peace" For ourself we ask nothing,
while for the sake of harmony and for the cause we
can bear much; but when we see such Democrats
as Gov. Ellis Henry NJ. Shaw, and Alfred NJ Scales
assailed, reflected upon and misrepresented, we
should be untrue the duties of our position if we
remained silent any longer.
The last democratic Press" alias Fire6rand,
contains the following article
"WHAT Is IT TO Us?-We are frequently twitted
BY persons who do not understand the "whys and
vherefores" with the fact that the Raleigh Register
receives laVOIS at nduS O our Stdte Executive
and ICE do. not Those persons seem to think it
strange that opposition paper, actively engaged
n trying to pull down the Democratic party and to
build up its own, should find more favor in the eyes
of Gov Ellis than one actively engaged in the cause
Of Democracy; and they try to abate our zeal for
Democracy by telling us that We working for
nothing and finding ourself"
Now, in reply to all this, we have simply to say:
those persons who twit us thus are doing worse than
working for nothing, if they suppose that course
WILDE influenced by such party [patry] considera-
ton as the doing of SIS 800 worth of advertising
for Gov. Ellis in the course Of year. We don't ex-
pect to receive pay from that quarter; that was
not in all our calculations. We expect our reward
from the high minded, intelligent and Independent
Democracy. We expect to make living, and we
expect to do it independent of State patronage
Gov Ellis is under no obligations to us, not even
for the support we gave him; we are under no obi
CATION to him, and it's nobody's business whether
Gov Ellis sees fit to recognise and patronize our
paper or whether he prefers the Register before U.S.
He is free man-so are we. Will the above salts
fly those who have twitted us?'
Now, Gov. Ellis has published but one advertise
ment in the Register and Standard since the LIST Of
May This he did as President er-cticio of the Lit
erary Board. The Democratic Press" was not in
existence until after the Goth of May; and the ad-
vertisement referred to published in the Stand
ard and Register of the 9TH of May. So the state
ment of the Fsrebrand is not in accordance with the
facts Governor Ellis could not have asked paper
which not in existence to publish the advertise
ment 1t is true, that the Commissioners of the
new Bank, Gov Ellis, Mr.. Treasurer Courts, and
Mr. Comptroller Brogden, have recently published
advertisements in the Register, Standard and other
papers, and have omitted to publish in the Press !;
but they no doubt had good reasons for emitting
that paper, and Gov Ellis surely is not to be held
responsible for that But why is Gov. Ellis singled
out and assailed? Mr.. Treasurer Courts has pub
lshed an advertisement in the Register and Stand
ard since the democratic Press was commenced,
and vet the FIrebrand makes no allusion to that
1t is the Estate Executive the Governor, John
W. Ellis, who has offended this mighty Sheet and
not Mr. Treasurer Courts, though the former could
not, as we have shown, while the latter could, have
published in the Press ' What is the meaning
of this? Does the FSre6rand, which invariably fol-
lows its little interests without regard to principle,
as the pig follows its nose hope to divide Democrats
here at the centre and then profit by the division
Is that the game it is playing?
But we take higher ground, we maintain that,
the custom of both parties has heretofore been to
publish State and Literary Board advertisements in
the Register and Standard, and as the people Of
both parties have sanctioned this custom, it ought
not to be departed from. John W. Ellis while a
Democrat of the best stamp is at the same time the
Governor of the State, and not of party. It
would not be right, in matters where all the people
are interested to conne advertisements exclusively
to the journals which supporters of the admins
tration, and to prescribe all others. This was the
view entertained by Gov. Reid and Gov Bragg.
Their practice was to give advertisements to the
Register and other Wing prints; and we never
heard them charged with disposition to build up a
paper which was "trying to pull down the Demo
cratic party" When Gov. Morehead, Sow Graham,
and Gov Manly were in office, they gave advertise
ments of the kind referred to, to the Standard and
other Democratic prints; and we never heard that
they were charged by any of their friends with a
disposition to build up the Standard or the Demo
cratic party No, the Flre6rund was determined to
&sail Gov. Ellis, as it has assailed DR.. Shaw and
Mr. Scales, and it has seized upon this as pretext
those who control it have a motive in so doing.
We think we could guess where this attack origi.
mated, but we do not choose to do so now. 1t did
"ot originate in the Capitol, or among sound Demo
Gratis
But the Firs6rand says it has been "twitted
U mcause it has received no Executive patronage
VINO has "twitted" it? Certainly, no one has done
publicly. Why, then, should the Editor or the
"%nhal Editor parade his personal griefs before the
f00'cs Would he, if he had been a friend Of Gov.