Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-03-07

steps backwards in relation to Mr. Smith The lit
tie piece Of advice which the Southron gives to the
Register is both opportune and spicy. When will
our neighbor "lecture" again? The Southron says
"Thc Raleigh Register regrets that his cotempo-
rary, the Albearle Southron has thought proper to
hold up to censure the Hon. w. N H. Smith,
whilst he was being voted for for the Spcakcrship
I'VE feel very well assured" says the Register that
if our contemporary had been convcrsan with all the
circumstances attending that most exciting occasion
that SO far from cenSuring it the S0uthr0a would
have approved of Mr.. Smiths conduct" The Regis
ter will allow to say that We fully "conver-
SAINT" with all the minutia of that memorable con-
test and the article we wrote in regard to Mr..
Smiths during the balloting for the Speaker
ship referred to, written under full knowledge
of all the circumstances far as Mr.. Smith himself
could throw light upon it and we have not one.
word to rctract.
Mr.. Smith may have acted in perfect concert with
the "South Americans" during the baloting for
Speaker, but that vast majority of the American
Wings in the first Congressional District asserted
by the Register approve Of his course, in authoriz-
ing Democrats to make statements in Congress- that
he did not and would not make himself on the stump
while he was q candidate for Congress, we know
from our own personal knowledge not to be fact
Whilst the sclfsacrificing patriotism Of the Ancri-
cans and their high regard for our Representative
Mr.. Smith as man, may induce them to overlook
his course they do not approve of and they regret
that he felt it necessary to have authorized such
statements to be made and sent out to the country.
| Now, in conclusion, we would remind our cotem-
porary the Regster, of that old adage which reads
1 thus "Those who live in glass houses should
mind how they throw stones" The Register has
assaed an old veteran in the Wing cause, the Hon.
j. NJ. Morehead more vehemently than we have Mr..
Smith, and therefore we think that lecture to US
| n had from
and therefore we would simply suggest to our State
Organ that it would be well for him to attend to
matters which more intimately concern him, and
allow us to do the same without being dictated to
~ Our neighbor of the Register IS still cngag.
ed in denouncing renegade Wings" Our neighbor
swears at other people in his last ISSUE and in thus
dcnouncing renegade Wings" he is swearing at
himself 1t is we'll known that one day or one night
in old Virginia, he "renegaded" from the Whgs
into the Know Nothing ranks. And what is more
he suore that he was Know Nothing, and there
fore no longer Wing. He is no Wing. Who be
lieycs that he is? He is "a renegade" and Know
Nothing There can be no doubt about that. So il
John Pool renegade Wing" and Know Moth
ing Mr.. Garner of the Murfrecsborough Southron
, says that he is mow "thrd degree Know Nothing
Is Mr. Pool less faithful to his obligations as Know
Nothing than Mr.. Garner?
The Wing party soas, but is not 1t rose, -four
ished, prospered in minority, and died with Henri,
Clay. The Know Nothing party resembles it il
this that it too is in minority. The leaders q
the former party are, for the most part the leader
of the latter,-we say for the most part for som
t of the best men of the old Wing party are nov
Democrats These Know Nothing leaders, lik
those of the old Wing party. flourish most in mi
T nority. They cultivate patience, and keep thei
temper best when in minority. They say NOR
sweet things of each other and of their opponent
when in minority. We confess we admire them
indeed the country admires them when in a minor
: ty. We are in favor Of their being in minority
s They suit minority and minority suits then
: Our word for it, they may renegade from Kno'
Nothingsm as they "renegaded from Whiggery
but they will never renegade" from minority.
: ALAMANcE County. proceedings ofthe Den
+ ocratic meeting in Alamancc came to hand too lat
to be published in to-days Standard. We Civ