Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-24

The Resister's Attempt to make Party Capt. |
tai out Of the Financial Condition Of the |
Country. >-..
The Register Of Saturday last makes a reply,
which is by means in the best temper, to our
tice of the preceding Saturday. in which we exposed
its attempt to make party capital out of the financial
condition of the country. The Register declares
that it obtained its information that the Banks had
suspended dscounting." from no President Direc-
tor, or officer Of Bank in Raleigh We have never
intlmatcd that the Editor of the Register was de-
pendent on the Banks, or that he was in the habit
of seeking information from Bank officers so that he
might act as their organ. We have cast no imputa-
ton on his independence or his integrity, have
We pursued course towards him in this business
which is at all destitute of justice propriety and
delieacy" In our notice of his panic article we pro-
ceeded solely on his authoty which he declared to
be "undoubted" He noD says he procured his in
formation ION the streets of Raleigh" and not from
the Banks. Is street rumor reliable? Is it "un-
doubted?" Was that all the authority which the
Editor had for his panic article ?-an article calcua-
ted to disturb business to excite alarm to destroy
confidence between man and man, and to injure the
Why, We Uere simple enough to believe that the
Editor had obtained his information indirectly from
one of the Directors, Mr.. Badger; and but for the
denial of the Editor, this belief would be confirmed
by the fact that Mr.. Badger referred to this very
matter in his partzan speech in Salisbury, and the
Register in its reply to our first article on the SUBJ
ject brings forward conspcuously this reference by
NJ po,lo fo fbo of h, pool
it IN its views The Register says it takes back
nothing contained in its first article; and yet in its
first article tspoke on 'undoubted authority" while
in its second it says spoke on "street rumor. 1t
takes nothing back yet in its first article it declared
that the Banks had suspended discounting" whilein
its second it admits that the Banks are discountng
1t attempts to reply to in its second article and
at the same time admits and sustains the material
point which we made, to wit, that the Banks had
not suspended dscounting, thus leaving the infer
ence by its own reply that zee were right and that
1t was wrong. But We are not disposed to press
and expose the Register any further.
| So far as the "delicacy" of our course towards
the Register is concerned, beg leave to say that
the Editor has permitted himself to become excited
for the delicacies and prophecies of life as he has,
We have never thought, and have never intmated
that he obtained his information from his connec-
tons who officers in the Bank of North Caro-
lima indeed, we did not think of his junior connection
in that institution when we penned our article. We
believed, above stated, that the Editor obtained
his information from Mr.. Badger. And we submit
that it not more indicate in to reply to an
article of the Register the subject of the Banks
the Editor of that paper happening to have connec-
tions in the Bank of North Carolina than it for
him by an unmistakable ausion to announce what
but few persons knew, that he had connections in
that institution, and that it purpose to re-
fleet on him by intimating that he had obtained his
information from them So far then, as ''delicacy"
is concerned, certainly occupy irreproachable
ground as that voluntarily assumed by the Editor
and far "truth, Justice propriety, and utterly
unworthy motives" on our part are concerned, We
leave them to be judged of by the public.
We repeat our belief that the panic article Of the
Register, to which we replied in our issue of the
18th, was intended not so much to warn the coun-
try of impending monetary difficulties as it was to
influence votes for Bell and Everett and in this be-
lief We are sustained by consderate persons of both
parties The Registers article was therefore, mis-.
chievous. 1t was of the old federal panic order Of
articles which were so numerous during Gen. Jack
sons administration, when the Banks sought e
alarm the people out of their rights. As such we
replied to it and exposed il: The Register will make
nothing by exhibitions of temper on thisor any 9th
er subject. We shall notice that paper in our OWL
way, without being influenced to do it injustice o,
to mislead our readers by any hard words it may ut
ter 1t is one thing, and easy thing to get excited
to utter bitter words, and to take offence where NJ
offence was intended; but it is quite different
thing to be able to keep cool in times like these ant
to speak to the reason and common sense instead o
to the passions of the public
C. H. FOSTER, Eso-Mr Foster, of the Murfrees
boro' Citizen while on visit recently to his rea
tves in his native State, Maine, attended the Brock
inridge and Lane State Convention in Bangor, ant
was called on to address the Convention. The Ban
gor Daily Union says:
"Pending the report of the committees, it havin,
F been announced that Charles H. Foster, ESQ.,, O
North Carolina, formerly of Maine was present, h
was invited, and elOquently addressed the CONVEX
tion. Mr.. Foster was a member of the Charleston
and Baltimore Conventions and gave graphic ae
count of the proceedings that resulted in secession
of the Southern delegations. He gave assurance
that the old North State would roll up big ma
jori.y for Breckenridge and Lane. Mr.. Foster CAV
way for the report Of. the committees, amid enthu
siastic applause"
JUDGE DOUGLAS AND LEcoMpToN. The last N. Y
Herald contains number ofletters written by men
bers Of the Kansas Convention which framed the L,
compton Constitution, stating that Judge Dougla
wrote to John Calhoun, prominent member of tn
: Convention, suggesting the Lecompton Constitutio
as it was framed, and pledging himself to advocat
the admission Of the State under it One of thes
members of the Convention declares that he saw tn
letter. and that he knows it to have been in Judg