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

than the king"
Mr.. Cantwell frankly and personally declined" |
&C. He endeavors to produce the impression that
,,e approached him on the subject of the Governor
ship Nothing could be more unjust or unfounded. |
The truth is, he approached us repeatedly, and we
talked about the matter only he drew us out; and
we talked carefully and prudently for we knew the
politician with whom we were conversing 1t is not
true that we sought or desired his support and the
inference the unmistakabe inference THAT is as far
as we will go now,) which we drew from his Ian
guage was, that he was opposed to both Ellis and
Holden, and in favor of another person compro
mise candidate He went to Charlotte to operate, as
he did operate against the expressed wishes of the
Democracy of Wake, whose delegate he was; but
before he left Raleigh he did something which
so handsome and so CantweLsh that we mast tell it.
lie repaired to the Comptroller's Office ransacked
the public rectr Is and took list of all the sums
which Holden had received as State printer, to use
against Holden at Charlotte! lie could not under
stand why Holden could not be satisfied Nth money:
it was has test, both of Democratic principle and re-
ward, and he was minded to tell the Convention So
But enough of this. Mr.. Cantwcll charges us with
the crime of ambition. We plead guty-but our
ambition is not mercenary and it has never injured
our party. He recommended" us, too, to stick
to our paper" That was very kind, but we did not
ask him for his advice. Mr.. Cantwells maxim,
then, is the tailor to his needle the carpenter to
his plane the farmer to his plow-handle, the editor
to his table, and the printer to his composingstick.
Such people must not aspire, says Mr.. Cantwell in
substance, to political station. They must stand
aside to make room for Mr.. Cantwcll and the like
The offices and the honors are not for them, and it
is ridiculous ambition" in them to struggle up
wards. Like the shoemaker, they must "stick to
their last" If they will not, Mr. Cantwell will not
be their friend-he will cease to advise them-hc
will pronounce them ''imprudent," "Selfsh, ''rdc
ulor,<ly ambitious" Cruel sIr. Cantwell. Very
well, then, why docs he not 'stick" to his profess
sion? Why is it that the Democratic party is called
upon to support him. to shing!e him with of
fees? We recommend" him to "stick" to his
law-hooks and become Judge! Why not? We
warn him through this newspaper, and through
others as friend" to "stick" to his law, to engi
neer his cases. and to let offices and disorganizing
newspapers alone.
Mr. Cantwcll says he could, if he chose to do so,
es made to him to edit the newspaper talked of here
last fall. No doubt of it. They knew their man.
Was he not approached and asked to do the same
thing by the Know Nothings in 1854? We heard
the rumor at the time, and we know the impression
was, during the Know Nothing .frror, that Mr.
Cantwells whereabouts and course were uncertain
Now we have objection to Democratic newspa-
per in Raleigh, designed to advocate the cause and
not the interests of a few. Such a paper we would
welcome with the right hand of cordial goodellow-
ship, and we would stand by it and fight for it a
coaborer in the cause, long there "a shot
in the locker" But if newspaper protesting to be
Democratic is established here for the purpose of
advancing the interests of few, and Of Furnishing
us for our ridiculous ambition" Mr.. Cantwell is
pleased to call it, we will war on that newspaper
and on the vengeance-takers who may back it, till
they die the death. And the people will stand by
U.s. trynjt when you may! But Mr.. Cantwell resis-
ted -four approached" Roman-like firmness, rare
political integrity But, woun it harepaid? That
is the question. Did the Statesman" pay? Ask
Mr. Cantwell. Did the Gircte pay in 1853 when
it preached redistribution and abused the Stand
ard9 Ask its editors, who wept at least pint Of
few months hence, and they will tell you
Mr. Cantwell and his organ, the Giraffe, both ex
press "surprse" at our article of Wednesday last
Whether this surprise is fcisncd or not we cannot
tell; but we can readily conceive that Mr.. Cantwel
aras surprised for he had gone long in his at
lacks on us and in his efforts to prejudice prominen
Democrats against us to advance his own ends, tha
he thought we would bear any thing and every thin
politically he might put upon The gentleman
is now undeceived
We have no idea of replying to the peurile edito
rial of the Giraffe but there are some fasehoods il
it which we will expose The arguments (?) of tn
writer of the cditoria-wc know not who he Isl
defence of the course pursued by the Secretary il
monopolizing the proceedings, in furnishing par
of them to the Register, and in withholding then
from the STANDARD, are perfectly ridiculous. The
are weak, silly, contradictory, and false, and wi
occasion among intelligent persons only a smile
contempt The attempt by this writer, to draw
line between Mr.. Branchs friends, in the late NEE
ing, and to produce the impression because Demo
Gratis differed on the occasion as to the best cours
to be adopted, that they enemies to each othel
to Mr. Branch, or to the STANDARD, is not only ir
sidious and disorganizing, but is wlfully wicked
since the object evidently is to destroy the party
and not to strengthen it. and that too at the expens
of truth The statement by this writer that W
meant to include such Democrats as Geo. B. Aler
VIM. R. Poole, and A. M. Lewis and "every men
Der of that meeting who voted 20 amend the resol,
ton as proposed by Mr.. Whitaker, and who vote
today Mr.. Wilson's majority resolution on the t.
ble"-we say the statement that we referred
these as "certain pretessed Democrats" is wilfull
and deliberately false The statement "that Nj
Busbee carried the resolutions to the meeting in hi
pocket" is also false. The resolutions were draw
up by Mr.. Cox, and were in his possession. Tn
Ghair,,o., L. a,nda