Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-04-20

erett ten thousand dollars for the Mon.,
Fund, to write for one year for his paper
ing whether he would lose or gain BY # NY
an absolute donation; but Mr.. R. HapDe, '"
proposes out of every two dollars which l.
for subscriptions, provided he receives oDos
subscribers, to give fifty cents to Nom,
Who believes he will ever receive tbe,,
bers, or pay one cent to the cause? w.
the said R. Harper was therein huml,.
slightly mercenary yet if he had asked 6.
sy instead of credit, and if we had tbou,h.
titled to it. he certainly should have had.
what does all this amount to? What b,s a.
with his conduct as the Secretary of a n,
meeting? If be had been on the most ~,
terms with the Standard, that would bavs
fed him in his course. He knew, and NJ, T.
knew, that the omission by the meetinp :,
the STANDARD to publish was an oversight
cry Democrat expected the proceedings r..
published in the Standard that it Wac :,
furnish any portion of them to the Rec;,,,
they appeared in the Standard and that "a
sal to send them to the Standard would h..
as slight on that paper and its readers wba
tended or not. But we 60 further than III
declare that, in our opinion, Mr.. R. Harm,
ker, who applied to join and was rejected
Know Nothings, and Mr. Cantwcll, who tO,
at the hands of, and sat in, Know Nobn,
arc the only pretessed Democrats in the ST.
would have done or advised such thing
our opinion, and we are entitled to it. iva
tie, an unmagnanimous, a selfish, an epo,i,
most indicate and discourteous act. II w.,
which amounted to treason to the cause E,
nished portion of the proceedings to the B
before they were even seen by the Standard
an act, which, if it had been avowed heforl
the meeting, would have called down uDa
thors indignation and Kisses. What the mott
we know MI Ht>the act shows that the na
"pretext''He BY no means good one
r But Mr.. Cantwell endeavors to produce Al
preston that We. the Senior Editor, dislike N
cause he opposed our nomination for Cover
Charlotte. We have no wish to misrepres
gentleman, and so quote literally from his
He says:
"Mr. Holden must, think. deceive himself
regard to his feelings towards me, for nctls
public nor /, can be persuaded that so small Al
as this, has provoked and preciritated such
of invective and passion. Not satisfied with
ing me for the action OF the meeting, hc finds
because beginning with the May mmcdianl
ceeding the Charlotte Convention, have d
it necessary to protect myself against the hc
or the deliberate neglect of his friendS-raki
an old political SANDER twice passed upon and
ed in my favor, in the highest tribunal of my
he demands for my punishment hardly less i
clusion from the councils and confidence of t
mocratic party. hope nobody expects me
nit to this in silence, but if am excited,
aware of it. Mr.. Holden deccives himself al
friends only with the idea, that they can h
He and they tried it last winter, and failed
them fair notice that they may have anotht
whenever they choose. He has by his imprr
selishneSs, ridiculous ambition, and rercatedf
fallen so low in my esteem in his party, that
when next run for public Office I will thai
and them to continue to be opposed to me, al
it little better understood"
1t has been favorite object with Mr.. Ca
ever since the Charlotte Convention, to div
friends of Ellis and Holden. In this he has
failed, though we doubt not he got some
Clerk of the House at the late session by
this game Two years ago Mr.. R. Don VIII
Mr.. Cantwell were candidates for the Clcrl
the House. Mr.. Wilson is Western man,
er of our Associate a lifelong Democrat,
much better one than Mr.. Cantwell ever
Among such friends as we met while the
was pending, and who mentioned the suhjec
Clerkship, we spoke in favorable terms of n
son, and expressed the wish that he might
ed. That was all. Mr.. Cantwell beat him fl
in caucus; and soon after. we heard the
whether emanating from Mr.. Cantwell or
Mr.. Cantwell had triumphed over Holden's in
That was a specimen, if he made that boast
Cantwell's fairness and sense of Justice
some six months before the late Legislature
W. Alspaugh, Esq, of the Winston Sent
nounced himself candidate for the principa
ship of the House. Very soon We heard
mor-and we believe Mr.. Cantwell started
mor-that Col. Alspaugh was the "Holdcu
date. We wrote to Col. Alspaugh at once
promptly corrected the rumor. Certainly
had had a vote in the Democratic caucus, "
have given it to Ca. Alspaugh in preference
Cantwell; but whatever we said for Col. A
pending the contest, was said only when
sion presented ITSELF and with the utmost re
those whom we addressed Certainly, if
had vote, we would have given it to Mr.
Rowan, Gov. Ellis's Countyman, and his
friend at Charlotte,) in preference to Mr. {
whose Democracy is not and was not wort
mentioned on the same day with that of :
and Moore. Mr.. Cantwell beat these two g,
one vote, and very soon we heard the old b,
Cantwell had triumphed over Holden's in
Every weH-informed Democrat about her,
how and why it was Mr.. Cantwell was ell
both occasions. He electioneers incessar
pleads for office on the ground that he n
profits; he panders to every prejudice; hi
to every allowable expedient among gentlel
urges his services, his qualifications, his G.
that no one less modest than he is can
compete with him in this respect. He is ub
impassioned, interesting, instant in season
of season" with both tongue and pen, WI
running for Office What could not such
feet for himsey, if he were only sound D