Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-03-20
The Wilmington Herald.

The Wilmington Herald. 4
Tn noticing the late extraordinary speech o. Wv
Ellis at Wilmington we quoted from the 'ou'""s
,,d Herald to show the character OF the speecu'-
The Herald takes exceptions to the use whcn We
.as Of its article and attempts to produce the i'm
.,.oss;on that we employed it as witness IN or
- ID Injustice to the Governor. 1t quotes our
language but it does not show, as it never can SHOW
.,,V vc said it declared that Gov. Ellis told the peo-
Ii tbev must reconsider their conduct" Inc
f, .must" was ours, not the Heralds, as the ex-
.r,ct referred to proves. So much for that; ana
.,.t &c the Herald well knows, is the only foundaT
finn for its complaint agai'stus quoted that pa
..oorrectlv. Wemadeno "interpolation Thisfact
sboun BY the Herald ITSELF in the very article to
which we are referring; and it was also made pam
to that paper by one its correspondents C'onslow
:, ;ts issue the day after the Herald had done us
.h;S ;n;ustice Yet the Herald persists in leaving
.ho ;rnression on the minds Of its readers that we
had not fairly quoted and used its language
p,,t all this amounts to little. The material point
:; that the Herald is now melting its readers to dis
,n;on and civil war, whereas but few short months
since it was ultra Union, and abused South Carolina
with bitterness which no other paper in this State
has ever exhibited We have never abused that
gallant but misguided State; the Herald has. In
December last some sent to the Editor OF the
Herald an insulting letter. as follows:
"From South Carolinian,
To the Lincoln-submission Editor of the Herald:
South Carolina
despises you, and your copardty count'ymsn, and
hopes one of these days to have al! potroons like
YOU in chain gang to cultivate our rice and cotton
mot from the 1860 association.)
An Enemy to coward"
The Editor of the Herald replied, declaring that
rhis man has told the truth in regard to the sent
ment of the people of South Carolina towards the
people of this State" And he added
"They do despise US, and ho.d US in the most
sovereign contempt; and in that, the masses but
follow. as usual the lead of their rulers. 1t is to
he sure, generally a source of amusement to US, to
watch the peacock-strut of these harmless come
dians but matters have become too serious, now, 10
indulge in the accustomed laugh. We are now on
the eve of bloody revolution. South Carolina,
quite as regardless of theghts and interest of her
sister States as Massachusetts, is has undertaken to
precipitate this revolution upon the country, pro-
claiming to the border States while so doing, that
although she knows they must sustain all the loss
and suffering she does not desire to form any ALI
ance with them for mutual protection and benefit,
but wishes to keep them barrier between herself
and danger This is the language, these are the
very words, contained in the pamphlet above alluded
to, and which is daily circulated by the thousand
among the people Of these same border States
People of North Carolina shall this, programme
be carried out? Will you suffer yourselves to be
spit upon in this way? Are you su6missionists to
the dictation of South Carolina? Are your propo-
sitions and those of the other border States, for
mediation, and cooperation when necessary, to be
met as the Charleston Mercury has met them in all
canoe, with contempt and defiance? Are you to
be called corards because you do not follow the
crazy lead of that crazy State? Where is the spirit
Will it be displayed by exhibiting in your conduct,
not only tame submission to the behests of South
Carolina but also shameless abandonment of your
rights and dutyy Will you lick the hand tina,
smtes you? Do so if you will, but may God save
the State from the nfalny."
We have nothing to add to the above. The Ian
guage is much more bitter than we could think o.
using towards sister Southern State but it is the
language of the Herald, now an ultra disunion, fire
eating, South Carolina sheet Let the .Herald OIL
December answer the Herald Of March.
The Herald of Saturday, which We have just re-
ceved, says:
1--WE would suggest to Mr.. Holden that as we
have INDUCED in no personalities towards him, he
might as we'll omit all such expressions untrue
from his threatened article. That word occurs in
his notice of our Act of Justice to Gov Ellis and
is entirely gratuitous expression. We are willing
to discuss any public question with the Standard in
aproper way, but We cannot handy epithets with
the editor"
At fault again, Mr.. Waddell. You began the per
sonalities by charging that we were influenced il
our public conduct by "personal malice" towards
Gov. Ellis. That is grave charge, Mr.. Waddell-
We simply pronounced it untrue. we have no
banded epithets with the Herald, nor do we inten
to do So We entertain no unkind feelings toward
the Editor. We experienced deep regret when W
saw him go over to the disunion ranks, but we hav
neither assailed him nor done him injustice. Cal
he say as much with reference to US?
The RESULT IN THIS SrATE.-We publish to-day
tabular statement of the late vote in this State fol
and against Convention; also of the member
chosen to the Convention. We think our division
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