Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-12-05
Our Assailants.

We shall devote more space in our next to our
inscriptions assailants. We shall show the people
Of the State, and especially the Democratic people,
who these men are. We shall lash these :" hounds
Of power" and their masters who are setting them
on until they howl under the infiction Weintend
to teach them what Democracy is, and then drive
them out Of the party which they are seeking to
destroy for the qualification of their own base pur
poses. .9 - .'-.7
The Salisbury Banner, under the control of the
State printer has opened upon us, "as in duty
bound" We shall not devote much space to this
concern, or to the unknown scribbler who now con-
ducts it. The Banner speaks of US as "submais-
sonist." The Banner in thus speaking of us Sian.
ders us We will be found as far in front in the
day Of danger as the valiant himself
or the unknown scribbler for the Banner. 1t is not
every man who fumes and threatens who will fight
when the time comes. No high Office gltters beforeu
tolure us on to disunion and civil war. Wsmake no
calculations looking to epaulettes and high salaries,
and commissions to consult with other States. We
are seeking to serve and to the country and we
are not thinking as others are Of their own promo
ton. Inc WORST men III tillS COuuliy suOoC WuOs
like the Salisbury Banner, and the State Journal,
and the Wilmington Journal, and certain fireeaters,
are attempting to hurry North Carolina into dis
union and civil war. In the name of every thing
sacred and dear to man. we call on the people to
come to the rescue-to rebuke these agtators, and
to preserve their own liberties from the pers of
archy and military rule. s.
1t seems that Mr.. John Spelman, the State print
er has purchased the Press establishment and turn
ed it into /" The State Journal" Where did the
money come from that has paid that is to pay for
this concern? Was it not raised by set of disap-
pointed ire-eatng politicians? And is it not their
object in thus purchasing the freedom of the press
to destroy because are true to the people? Is
not the Governor of the State party to this comb
nation? pretty press truly, to speak for the peo-
ple The organ, or rather the slave Of clique!-
the mouth piece of scheming and mousing poti-
clans the sewer into which all bad passions, and
all hatreds against us are to be emptied, and that
too and that only because we are true to the people
and their rights.
We shall pay our respects hereafter to this clique
concern, and thoroughly expose tin all its doublings
and wlndings
But the most refreshing picture in this moving
panorama is the aspect presented by our aniable
friend, R. Harper Whitaker in retiring to the shades
of private life. In executing this purpose, the
effects of which will be indeliby inscribed in history,
he says:
ain taking leave of the editorial fraternity l do
so with more than ordinary regret. My intercourse
with them has been extremely pleasant, aoith bare
| erception | wish them all we'll"
v ith ga bare exception" This this is cruel.
Our retiring Achilles would shoot Parthian arrows,
but they are only broom-sedge shafts. Farewell
Harper! May the sharks of the sea, the lions Of
the wood and the evil Of this evil day leave thee
unbitten and undisturbcd! !.
| The Pres is dead, it has been said
We leave it in its glory:
| Twas brave and bold but now tits "sold,"
| And this doth tell the story
He raved and wrote and showed his boat,
| With much " untried Democracy,
| But now he sleeps in darkening dceps-
But reque-s-c-a-t in puce!"