Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-02-08
For the Standard.
WADEsBoRo', N. G., Feb. LIST, Isl

WADEsBoRo', N. c., Feb 1st 1860.
Mr.. EDITOR: see in the last issue of the Regis.
ter an article protesting to give an account of De-
nocratic meeting recently held in this village.
Now dislike to dignity this precious production,
and add to the complacency of its author, by reply
ing to it; but there few things in it. that seem
to require some little notice at my hands,
The writer, who exhibits taste in the selection of
a name alone, tells his story with commendable
degree of frankness. He learns by some means,
that meeting is to be held-sneaks along in the
wake of certain persons, whom he observes going in
the direction of the court room and of course gains
admittance with the crowd Now as public notice
had been given that such meeting was to be held,
and as all true Southern men were invited to at
tend, and as all the proceedings were conducted in
open daylight, must confess that | can see moth
ing remarkable in the fact that any oneeven though
unaccustomed to the society of decent people, should
have been allowed to witness them; not so with |
the one-eyed-man since he makes it matter of spe
cial remark doubtless the hour of midnight and
culvcrt dmly Illuminated by dark lanterns would
have accorded better with his tastes, and with his
experience Of the manner in which such affairs
should be conducted.
We are sorry that he should have been disappoin-
ted, but Democrats always prefer daylight. Having
entered he is much scandazed to find certain old
line Wings participating in the deliberations of the
meeting. 1t was quite natural that he should be
exercised at such spectacle for these the very
men, Mr.. Editor who by their honesty intelligence,
and weight of character served to render the "Op-
position" respectable, but who were Disguised and
driven from its ranks by its shameful shifts its ut
ter disregard for truth and consistency and by the
indecent haste which it has manifested to co operate
with the black Republicans Of the North. 1t is in
relation to these men, that this afflicted individual
constructs something which he is pleased to call a
dilemma Admitting it to be such, (for which ad-
mission may the Lord forgive me- and granting that
these gentlemen, seeing their long cherished prinei
pies repudatcd by the country; and the party they
had served so WELL broken and ruined, and wishing
to unite with some other that seemed both able and
willing to save the country; allowing l say, that
these men did, from sense Of duty, and out Of re-
spect to the verdict of vast majority of people,
adopt the principles by which that people chose to
| be governed, and under which they had prospered
so well suppose too that this was done at time
when Democracy was in the ascendent; what does
it all amount to? Is it ever improper for man to
do what he believes to be right? And now Mr..
Riley, your amiable proposition has been accepted
one horn of your dilemma is occupied-nor will it
prove an uncomfortable situation as you suppose
| But some dilemmas have more horns than one, or
two either. Yours, much afflicted friend is one of
that very kind; and on one Of these, you now hang
selfimpaled fit subject for the sneers and derision
of all honest and sensible. men. For you know that
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the Southern people, and in concert with the avow-
cd enemies of Southern rights, and yet you are de-
tered by false pride from doing what you know to
be your sacred duty. Take my advice Mr. Riley,
and let logic alone. You may be good at some
things but reasoning is not one Of them. In fact,
you seem much more at home, when indulgng in
such vulgar personalities as would disgrace any one
who claims to be gentleman; though of course,
you not affected by such considerations.
Vnu ara q verv funny fellow Mr. Rilav hnt faor
you don't discriminate sufficiently between wit and
bufoonery, and that you sometimes mistake one for
the other; still you very funny and the funniest
thing about you, is your modesty. Just to think a
man Of unquestioned ability pnblc speaker, and
one who has encountered successfully the giants Of
your party, taking incontinenty to his heels at the
unreasonable hour of SUNRISE out of sheer dread that
sensible fellow you must be! Esop tells story of
an OK and fly. Besides being funny man, you
must also be very brave man-witness your rude
filings at one now totterring beneath the weight of
more than "threc score and ten." Verify it is re-
freshing in these degenerate days, to meet a man
who is at once model of modcsty and brave as he
is modest And now sir, take my advice, and never
have learned something Of the usages Of such soce-
ty and till you can better appreciate the courtcsies
of civilized life: again say, go and learn better
manners. VINDEX
For the Standard
HALIFAX County, Jan. %, 1860
Mr. EDITOR: Allow me placcin your paper to
congratulate the friends of ST. Johns College on
their being so highly favored as to secure the SER
vices of Thomas c. Tuley, as Principal of that Insti
tuition have been familiarity acquainted with Mr..
Tulcy, his habits manner Of instruction, &c. for the
last eight or ten years and take great pleasure in
recommending him as heightened gentleman, and
teacher admirably qualified to prepare young men
thoroughly to enter any college in the United States.
He was raised and educated in Virginia, and has
taught school in this county for six successive years.
where he established an enviable reputation as o
teacher Of no common ORDER especially in the French
language, and the varied and higher branches-of
Mathematics, together with all the branches usually
taught in the best preparatory schools in our coun
try. Mr.. Tuley, as may be SEEM has called to bis
assistance Mr.. Joseph Venable, OF Oxford who, am
informed, graduated at Chapel Hill some three OF
four years since with tho first distinction, and has
been:engaged ever since in teaching either alone OF
with James H. Horner, giving in both instances
general satisfaction as first classical teacher.
It should be remembered that st Johns College
is now at last free from pecunary embarrassment
and that its friends need no longer fear that the pre-
dictons of its enemies will be verified, that il
would have to be sold for debt; but they may rest
assured that the school is now commenced upon a
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confident that as preparatory school, while it is in
the hands of Thomas c. Tuley and Joseph Venable,
will be inferior to very few if single in North
Carolina. -
But the important question naturally arises, will
the members and friends of the Fraternity come
forward and relieve it of the reproach Ito say the
least of i which is now and has long been resting
upon it and does the past treatment of its pretend
ed friends afford us any ground to hope for better
times? Let us bear in mind that we have erected
splendid and costly building the only one of thu
kind in the State, in the possession Of one hun
dred and fifty Masonic Lodges, and Eve thousand
members; and with the united efforts Of one fftietl
of these St. Johns College might very soon be al
that its friends could wish. There is not q. gooi
school in NORTH Carolina that is not literally patron
lied; and Hhsli we, win we suffer building which
cost upHark u thirty thousand dollars, and sui
cient capacity for two hundred studsnts, to rensil
unoccupied Or 70 stand - : memsnto of our fol-.
Il q at..ef AL