Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-09-14
Gbt Stan0arb.
RALEIGH: SATURDAY. SEPT. 10. 1850.
HOLDEN l. WILSON, STATE PRINTERS,



HOLDEN WILSON, STATE PRINTERS,
AUTHORIZED PUBLISHERS OF UNITED STATES
The WarrentOn News and the Firebrand.
We referred in our last to the malignant and dis
organizing conduct OF these papers, and especially to
the attack made by the Frebrand on Gov. Ellis
We propose now to resume and conclude the SUBJ
ject
1t is significant of settled purpose on the part Of
the Freband to create dissensions that that paper
assaled Gov Ellis for the first time after the Stan
dard in reply to opposition journal, had declared
for him for Governor for another term. Nothing
which the Standard does or onts to do, peascs the
Frebrand Every issue of that paper for the last
three months, while it has been preaching harmony,
and while we have been silent under its attacks, has
contained some insidous and malignant reflection on
the Senior Editor of this paper.
The Warrenton Ne,cs and the Firebrand are both
influenced in their course towards us by malice and
envy. Some time since we failed to volunteer to
sign the bond of Mr. Walsh, which he gave as con-
sderation for the Neus establishment to the former
owner; and we have the best reasons for believing
that from that very moment all Mr.. Walsh's feelings
towards us changed and he became our deadly enc
my. 1t is well that he did not ask US to sign the
bond, for such was regard for him then that we
would doubtless have done it; and if we had the
charge made against us would indeed have been
plausible, that instgated and encouraged him to
assail Mr.. Branch, Gov. Bragg Mr.. Clingman and
Mr. Page as he did last fall. As it was we were
clear even of the appearance of having encouraged
or endorsed his course on the occasion referred to.
The truth is we disapproved it, and would have re-
monstrated with him but for the suspicious which
got abroad, we know not how, that we had had some
agency in or connection with the attacks which he
made on those gentlemen. Every man ofintegrity-
every gentleman will readily perceive that our hands
were tied long these suspicious existed or were
in circulation.
So much for the personal malice of Mr.. Walsh
Some time since Mr.. z. Harper Whitaker called
at our Office and asked us, in the presence Of our
Associate to sign his bond for thousand dollars,
which be was to give for the power-press he now
uses. We declined, as politely as we knew how, to
sign the bond. Wedeclined not because of any dis
position to see Mr. Whitaker embarrassed in his
business, for at that time we were friendly with
him, and would have aided him, if we could have
done so consistently with determination we had
formed in relation to own affairs. 1t has not
been our habit of late to sign as surety, and we so
told Mr.. Whitaker. When We do sign bond we
expect if the principal cannot take it up, to do so
ourself Such has been our practice heretofore
Y L., To In
gal obligation incurred as surety, as some Of our
friends in this community happen to know. We
did not feel willing to incur this obligation for Mr.
Whitaker and We have the best reasons for believ
ing that from that moment he became our enemy.
This was before the "Prcss" or F1rebrand was CON-
menced and it was this personal feeling which main:
' y influenced him. as Secretary of Democratic
meeting, to withhold the proceedings from the Stan.
dard to monopolize them for his own (neutra) pa
per- and to furnish portion of them to the Register
the Know Nothing organ, before we had even seen
| them
So much for the personal malice Of Mr.. Whitaker.
The Warrenton Ne,es has teemed for the last two
or three months with the grossest falsehoods in re-
laon to the Senior Editor of the Standard both as
politician and man. We have not noticed, and
shall not notice these falsehoods in detail We SIM
ply declare as we have heretofore declared that all
its statements in relation to the Governorship the
senatorship and as to plans for the future are
unquafedly false. They are nothing more and
nothing less than lies, manufactured by the Editor
He also lied, wilfully and knowingly, when he
charged that we considered ourself above other me-
chancs, and would not speak to him or to other me-
chancs on the streets. Every mechanic and every
citizen of Raleigh knoars this charge to be false.
But while we decline to notice Mr:cWalsh's false
hoods in detail, especially those which were intend
ed to affect us personally, there some Of polit
cal nature which our duty as public Democratic
journalist requires us to refer to.
The Warrenton Neaos states, on the authority oi
Maj Drake, one of the Committee, that the Thirty
Million bill was not mentioned in Committee at the
franklinton Convention. Maj. Drake is mistaken
ihe Thirty Million bill soas mentioned, and no mem
'r of the Committee proposed to endorse it in the
resolutions to be reported to the Convention. The
resolution on the subeqt of the acquisition Of Cuba
urawn up by the Senior Editor of the Standard
passed the Committee unanimously, precisely as il
nad been written, and afterwards passed the Con
ehlon by acclamation. Maj. Drake is gentleman
"uth-but he is afflicted with deafness, and that
counts for his not having heard the conversation
'" uie subject. We met no member of that Con
,,. auon who was decidedly in favor of the Thirty
'''D'on bill yet the Convention, acting in ibsra