Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-12-06
IL won. Take Good Advice.

We are sorry-very sorry-to see that the Raleigh
Standard is unpleasanty excited Its contortions
would be painful they not ridiculous Apparently
all our good advice is thrown away upon it. We beg
ged it to keep cool and not use naughty words but it
'oont keep COOL and it wM use naughty words. It is,
so to speak, tearing mad mad March hare crazy
as rampant bed-bug.
1t openeth thus in King Cambyses' vein" Read
the precious words and think of The spirit that prompted
such sefconceited, egotstical bolnbast -
CUR AssAILANTs.-We shall devote more space in our
to INSCRIPTIONS assaiants. We shall show the
who these We shall lash these hounds of power
and their masters who setting them until they howl
under the nfction. We intend teach them Democ
racy and then drive them of the party which they
seeking to destroy for the qualification of their base
purposes.
What long tail our cat has got Why killing ~
and making alive" is humane work to what the
Standard now threatens Does it now mean to eat ell
it Stays? 1t might do so without the slightest incon-
venence The Standard might also give preliminary
lessons in the bowling" business. It is now .rying
some of that itself. 1t ho8ls" dolefully enough
When it gets tired it can stop.
But the Standard farther saith that the worst men in
this country certain editors and others upon whom
it charges an attempt to hurry North Carolina into
dsunion and civil war. Now who would suppose that
this Standard whose holy horror is strong
ly excited against the Journal and others, did, the
18th December, 1859, less than year ago. the
following words:
"After Stewards Rochester Speech, after the Harpers
Ferry outrage and after Helpers book endorsed it has
been by the leaders of Black Repubcanism the people Of
will the bonds $780, in 1864 1868, in 1872
before they will do it. We precisely what say,
and nnetnne hundredhs of those who may read this ar
| Gle will agree with u.s."
d.! the Standard mean what it said, all its
professions sound and fury signifying nothing
vugarly called gas? The contingency is upon US in
1860 and the Standard bravey and consistently marches
forward and-eats its words and not only So but
in the most holy and patriotic it deals damna
ton round the land" aenouncing disunonists and
" the worst men in this country" those who, having
been weak enough to believe in the sincerity of that pa
per- had calculated on its cooperation 10 all honorable
efforts to avert the evils that threaten the
State and the country at large The number Of dis
unonists for the sake of sunion very small in North
Carolina. We are not now, and never have been one,
the Standard to the contrary notwithstanding But
neither arrest the progress OF events nor remain
ignorant of it, or Indifferent to it, North Carolina
not remain Indifferent to that progress. 1t upon US,
and we must meet the responsibilities it brings with it.
But how? By isolation from sister States Of the
South or by consultation with them? By denouncng
each other as disunionists" and submssioniss
by having union among ourselves, and submitting"
to the voice of the sovereign people OF the State assem-
bled in Convention for the express purpose of consider
ing the question questions connected with Fed
era relations. We confess that we are not hopeful
We do not believe that the dominant and triumphant
North, having grasped the power, will recede one inch
will repeal one obstructive law-wil forbear word
of abuBe-wiI pause on the threshold of any new ag-
erosion. With the election of Lincoln installed in
power the idea which he had procsmed the idea of the
'rrepressib!e confct"the idea that the country
not permanently exist together one half free and the
other halt saveholdng. This idea carried out,
most solemDy believe will be, lead TO but one OF
two concusions-ether tie abject submission OF the
minority section, separation. In our humble judg
men certain of the States south of u.s. probably all of
them will decide for separation. Will North Carolina
stand aloof-wl she join with the abolition North,
with her kindred South? Let Us look at the thing il
is The Standard talked strong words year ago. WIN
it redeem them now Let its course answer that cues
ton.
But the Standard makes discovery, namely that one
of the editors Of the Journal born in foreign
|
ard did so long ago. but quite fool enough
to think could make anything out of it, before it babe
farewell to its party and its eenses al the same time
| The editor alluded to in the United States when
Martin Van Buren, was President, has voted the Demo
cratic ticket since he old enough ard cast his
first vote for Gen Cass III l848 in old Mecklenburg n
| G. He has since edited Democratic paper without
seeking for getting rich of the public pap raising
dismal howl when anybody else got chance The
Standard says Watch and Wait :" what does it think
of Live and Let Live" Turn about ia Fair Play p
and so forth.
1t can evidently make earthly difference to the
present issue heTe any party to the discussion was
born and to the world at large We suppose it would
make difference they had never been born at all
We commend this to the consideration of the Newbern
Progress which also be nors with of is scatter
ing datribes conceived in the good taste and gen.
erous spirit which evidently actuates the Standard
But, saith the Standard again:
We have Dever boted Convention and followed other
people out because other people went out Can
| much, Mr.. Fulton"
You did neither one thing nor the other
You went for nobody You " sort of squatted,' .
and kept squattDg all through the But you did
support the candidate of the Boilers such support
| as 1t tUa,.
In another article In the Standard of Saturday last
that to which have been referring, and which honor
our humble self with sundry notices. that paper pumei
itself upon the fact that during the of the
present year its articles quoted against the Demo
cratic party by the Opposition papers and speakers
while ours were not. This is bad eminence" which
we will not dispute with the Standard Ittha be dis
tnction it is one that we do not covet We do remem
Der this however that several of articles this
had very atterng circulation through the Democratic
papers, and for the Democratic We satisfied