Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-05-25
The Raleigh Register. !.

The Editor Of this once respectable and conserya-
tive journal issued an extra on Monday last, the
first day of the Convention, and had copies laid on
the desks Of members. This extra contained among
other things low personal attack on U.s. We per-
ceived its object at once to w.t. to secure the prin-
ting of the Convention. Sure enough on Tuesday
the State Journal was repudated, and the Register
was elected Convention printer. We had the pleas
of voting against both of them, and in doing so
we entertain no doubt represented large major
ity of our constituents.
Our prediction made in an address or circular to
the people of Wake the 18th instant, has proved
true. We then said the Editor of the Register is
anxious to sgnalize himself in his new position by
extra display of zeal and the height of his amb
ton now is to supplant John Speman as the mouth
piece of the Squad referred to-" We'll, the ambition
of the Register is gratifed. Happy Register !-un-
happy Spelman!
The coarse attack made by the Register on us, to
which we have referred was based on an article in
the Standard of the 18Th deprecating party spirit
in this crisis, and urging true to perform their
whole duty to the country, Notwithstanding the eff
fects of party spirit thus referred to and depored
The Register pretends to believe that our article
was designed to make mischief" and calculated
to produce dsafection in the ranks of the soldiers"
Malice, and nothing else led the Editor to this
cusiOn. We wrote that article deliberately, and
stand to it. 1t is true. The object we had in view
in penning it good one, and we are not surpri
sed therefore, that the Register does not appreciate
the article or its object
Our amable contemporary is pleased to regard us
as unworthy of his notice as gentleman, because
in response to polite ntimation from him, we refu
sed to recognize the "code of honor" This assump
ton on his part is well understood here. We can
afford to regard this assumption and the man who
makes it, with calm scorn. True courage consists
in performing ones duty faithfully and fearlessly,
without regard to consequences; and the fact that
fights duel, or says he will fight one, unless
arrested or unless the difficulty is "amicably ar
ranged" gives him right to put on airs and assume
to be drawer or better than other people. But for
our position public journalist the Editor would
"n future decline to take any sort of notice of" us
latter what has recently taken place between" him
and u.s. Verify as Mr.. Van Buren, once said, Tour
sufferings is intolerable" But trust shall be
able to bear them, and in doing we take leave to
say to our amiable contemporary that are his su-
peror in political position, his equal gentleman,
and that moral character is at least as good as
his. We take leave also to inform our amable neigh
bor-whose benignant disposition would thaw an
iceberg in January, and who uniformly considers
himself patriotic when he is only bilious-that on
the 18th of May, 1861, we elected to the Con-
ventiOn from Wake County by just five majority
We will also add that if the Convention elected in
February had been held, we should, according to
promise, have voted for our contemporary for Con-
ventIon printer but that the sudden and most &C.
centric somersault performed by our contemporary
between February and May, placed it out of our
power to do so on Tuesday last