Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-09-07

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HOLDEN l. WILSON.
Julv q, 1859.
r,s 6 democratic Press ''.-alias Firebrand. |
Wehave patiently submitted for the space Of three
-.,,tbs to the attacks which have been made upon
-. hx ,bc Fsrebrand and the Warrenton Ners, not
hs;nr ;lsposcd, on our o~n account, to prolong =
.ontroversy with papers which prefsssed to be
nomocratic. Our motives have been questioned,
AZ, course has been msrepresented and every effort
has been made to prejudice Democrats against US.
Conscious of the purity of our motives, and seek
~ not our own personal advancement but the
n,ramount good of the Democratic party. we made
m our mind to disregard these attacks and to leave
i to the party generally to do us justice and to
command the peace" For ourself We ask nothing.
xhle for the sake of harmony and for the cause We
c,n bear much; but, when We see such Democrats
&c Gov Ellis Henry NJ. Shaw, and Alfred N. Scales
,ssaled, reflected upon. and misrepresented, We
should be untrue to the duties of our position if We
remained silent any longer.
The last democratic Press" alias Ffre6rand,
contains the following article:
"Wuar IS IT TO Us?-We are frequently twitted
nv uersons who do not understand the "whys and
xherefores" with the fact that the Raleigh Register
receives favors at the hands of our State Executive
and ne do not. Those persons seem to think it
strange that opposition paper, actively engaged
in irving 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
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nothing and finding ourselt"
Now in reply to all this, we have simply to say:
those persons who twt US thus are doing worse than
working for nothing if they suppose that our course
WILDE Influenced by such party [paltry considers
ton as the doing of SIS $50 worth Of advertising,
for Gov. Ellis, in the course Of year. We don't ex-
pec to receive our 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 arc 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 us
He is free man-so are We. Will the above salts
II those who have twitted us p
Now, Gov Ellis has published but one advertise
ment in the Register and Standard since the LIST Of
Nay This he did as President es-c1cio Of the Lit
erary Board. The democratic Press was not in
existence until after the Goth of May; and the ad-
versement referred to was published in the Stand.
ard and Register of the 7th Of May. So the state
ment of the Frebrand is not in accordance with the
facts. Governor Ellis could not have asked pape,
raeh uas not in existence to publish the advertise
IA A. L. oE ~
new Bank, Gov Ellis. Mr.. Treasurer Courts ani
Mr. Comptroller Brogden, have recently published
advertisements in the Register, Standard and othe
papers, and have omitted to publish in the Pres
but they no doubt had good reasons for omittini
that paper and Gov. Ellis surely is not to be hell
responsible for that But why is Gov. Ellis singles
out and assailed? Mr.. Treasurer Courts has pub
lshed an advertisement in the Register and Stand
ard since the Democratic Press" was commenced
and yet the Frebrand makes no allusion to that
1t is the "State Executive the Governor, Johl
". Ellis who has offended this mighty sheet, an
not Mr.. Treasurer Courts, though the former eoul
mol, as We have shown, while the latter could, hav
published in the d" Pressr' What is the meanin
OF this? Does the Firebrand, which invariably fol
lows its little interests without regard to principle
the pig follows its nose. hope to divide Democrat
here at the CENTRE and then profit by the division
Is that the game it is playing?
But we take higher ground, we maintain tina
the custom of both parties has heretofore been
publish State and Literary Board advertisements
'ne Register and Standard, and Is the people
10Th parties have sanctioned this custom, it ougt
not to be departed from. John W. Ellis while
Democrat Of the best stamp is at the same time Il
"oVernor Of the State, and not of a party.
would not be right, in matters where all the poop
are interested, to confne advertisements exclusive
'ne journals which are supporters Of the admin
aaaon' and to prescribe al, others. This wss 4
view entertained by Gov. Reid and Gov. Brag
1ne'r practice was to give advertisements to Il
"esster and other Wing prints; and We new
neard them charged with disposition to build up
t"per which was trying to pull down the Dem
asac party" When Gov. Morehead, 3ov. Grahal
."a Gov. Manly were in Office, they gave adverti'
uen's Of the kind referred to, to the Standard .,
.,'er Democratic prints; and we never heard tn
s were charged by any Of their friends with
disposition to build up the Standard or the Den
""ac party. No, the Fire6rand was determined
- sSan Gov. Ellis as it has assailed Dr.. Shaw q
~ 'cales and it has seized upon this as prete,
~ se who control it have motive in so doir
We mink We could guess where this attack osi
.ea but We do not choose to do so now. It
~ originate in the Capitol, or among sound Den
"u' the Firebrand says it has been "twitte
W. use 1t has received no Executive patronage.
"0 mas "twitted" it? Certainly, no one'has do
NJ. p.oncly. Why, then, should the Editor, or I
aO@'nal Editor, parade his personal griefs before
FN'"e! Would he, if he had been friend Of G.