Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-17
The Western Democrat.-.GSSv. Ellis.

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The Democrat does justice in one breath and takes
it back in the next First it acquits US personally
of all participation in the groanng and then traces
the conduct of the socalled "rabbe" to the course
of the Standard. Now it is not true that we have
" abused =" the Governor We have spoken freely
and severely, as we had right to do of his public
conduct; but our readers know that we have not as
sailed him personally and that 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 "justifable
cause" for our course towards the Governor. How
does the Democrat know what 'cause" we have :?
We have assaied 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 on the stump-true
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 jefferson and jackson we turned
on him. That is ALL
y The Democrat aludes to portion of our people |
as the ra66le"-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 oithout cause in the most opprobrious terms?-
that he told gentleman to say to Mr.. Pool that
when he met him again on the stump he would de-
nopnce certain worthy and respectable persons in
Raleigh in terms more severe than had ever been
used towards criminals in Courthouse? If the
Democrat has forgotten these things the people have
not; and this may account to a very great extent
for the marked unpopuarty 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 own act Gov. Reid and Gov.
Bragg were strangers to our community, as Gov.
Ellis was when they came to occupy the Office of
Governor. They both retired from office with in
creased popularity, 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 no man in North
Carolina more popular with tie 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
disunion against his recorded pledges. They have
lost the confidence they once reposed in him. We
admit he ispopular among the dsunonists 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 1s49,
up to last Fall, we were his faithful friend We
supported him cheerfuny in 1858 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 principles
He wronged us deeply last Summer and last Fall
He broke faith with us as 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 assailed and exposed him. Our
motto always has been and is now-count,y before
| party, and party before SELF
!; The Democrat says, 'as far back as 1859 we dis
tncy stated that we intended to stand by the South
in whatever position she might take and the declara
ton emphatically endorsed by the Raleigh Stand
ard at the tme which paper, We are 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 or ignoring its federal govern
ment and avishing all its confidence and all its af
fections what it considers foreign government!
Strange, but true. Now zoe stand by the South
the whole South, not part of it; but we are just
where we were in 1860, and just where the Demo-
/ crat 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
joined the wild dance of secession, will be whired
about so 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 fall was
there, my countrymen" ~t
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