Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-13
The western Democrat.--Gov. Ellis.


"unjustly and unkindy," and adds that certain Ian
guage used by it was not meant for US. This is in
relation to the "groaning" at the Governor so fire.
quently referred to in the papers. But the Demo
crat goes on to say:
g The Standard has been denouncng and abusing
Gov. Ellis without any justfable cause and
doubt the rabbe of the procession thought it would
be considered all right if they publicly insued him.
they were Initiating, on q larger scale, the example
set by Others"
The Democrat does justice in one breath and takes
it back in the next First it acquits US personally
of all participation in the grooming, and then it traces
the conduct of the so-caed "rabble" to the course
of the Standard. Now it is not true that we have
"abused" the Governor. We have spoken freely
and severely, had right to do, of his public
conduct; but our readers know that we have not
sailed him personally, and that We have said nothing
calculated to bring the Office he holds into contempt
We defy the Democrat to produce line from our
columns, the tendency Of which is to lead any one
to insult the Governor.
But the Democrat says we have no "justi6sbIe
cause" for course towards the Governor. How
does the Democrat know what cause" we have?
We have assaulted that functionary because, elected
as Union man, he has done all he could since he
penned his last message to "preciptate" this State
out of the Union. If he had remained true to the
Union-true to his own pledges OH the stump-sTue
to the teachings of Jefferson and Jackson and Of the
party that elected him, we would have stood by him
and defended him. But when he turned his back on
his pledges and on Jefferson and jackson we turned
on him. That is all.
The Democrat alludes to portion of our people
as 81 the rdbJle"-and the State Journal copies and
endorses this language of the Democrat. Has the
Democrat forgotten the fact that last May Gov. Ellis
denounced portion of the people Of this communl-
ty soith0ut cause in the most opprobrous terms p
that he told a gentleman to say to Mr.. Pool that
when he met him again on the stump he would de-
pounce certain worthy and respectable persons in
Raleigh in terms more severe than had ever been
used towards criminals in Courthouse? IEthe
Democrat has forgotten these things the people have
not; and this may account to a very great extent
for the marked unpopularity which Gov Ellis enjoys
in this community. 1t was not necessary that the
Standard should denounce" and "abuse" the
| Governor to render him unpopular here. He was
so already, by his Oun act Gov Reid and Gov.
Bragg were strangers to our community, Gov.
| Ellis was when they came to occupy the office of
| Governor. They both retired from office with in
creased popularity as shown by the fact that in their
second contest for Governor they received an in
creased vote at this box and in this County These
are facts which cannot be successfully met.
The Democrat says There is man in North
Carolina more popular with the people than John
| W. Ellis" Precisely the reverse is the truth. Gov
Ellis never was popular among the people, and he
| is especially unpopular with the masses now The
| people feel that he has deceived them in going for
dsunion against his recorded pledges. They have
lost the confidence they once reposed in him. We
admit he is popular among the disunionsts and cock
ade boys, but among men and patriots he is very
unpopular, if not odious
1t gives pleasure to write in this strain about
Gov Ellis. From the time we first met him in 1S43,
up to last FALL we were his faithful friend We
supported him cheerfully in 1853 and 1860, and did
all we could to secure his election. We stood by
him as long as we could, consistently with our own
selfrespect and our attachment to our principles
He wronged us deeply last Summer and last Fall
He broke faith with us Democrat and he broke
his word and violated his own contract made with
US in relation to printing Emmons' Reports He
laid the plans to defeat for State Printer and lent
his influence to those opposed to us for that post
But we bore every thing until he turned against the
Union. Then we assaulted and exposed him. Our
motto always has been and is now-cOuntry before
party, and party before SELF
The Democrat says, "as far back as 1859 we dis
tnctly stated that intended to stand by the South
in whatever position she might take and the declara
ton was emphaticaly endorsed by the Raleigh Stand
ard at the time, which paper, we sorry to say,
has since backSlided" The Democrat is not redeem.
ing its pledge. 1t is standing by only part of the
South. 1t is standing by the Confederate States
1t is forgetting ignoring its federal govern
ment, and lavshing all its confidence and all its az
fectons what it considers foreign government
Strange but true Now ace stand by the South
the whole South, not part of it; but are just
where we were in 1860, and just where the Demo
crdt was in 1860, when we both said that Mr.. Lin
coins election would not justify dissolution of the
Union We have not changed, but the Democrat
has, and the Editor of that Journal having at length
\joned the wild dance of secession, will be whireG
kbout during the next twelve months that at the
end OF that time he will hardly know himself Let
the Editor reflect at his leisure upon what it is to be
follower of the Bulletin. "Oh what a fall was
there, my countrymen!"
HiIIsborough Military Academy.
We are indebted to the politeness of the Princi
pal, Col. Tew, for copy of the annual Register
of the Officers and Cadets of the Hllsborough Mil
itary Academy November 23d, 1860"