Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-02-21
FALSEHO0DS

IL Is ullDcult matter 10 De parliamentary, and
at the same time to denounce IN deserved terms the
batch of alsehoods and misrepresentation contained
in article in the last State Journal purportng to
be report Of the Union meeting held here on the
9th It is headed Reported for the State journal"
We neither know care who the reporter was
but the four hundred Union men, or Whereabouts,
who participated in that meeting will agree with us
that the writer must have taken special pains to
avoid the truth, and must have also been skilful
engineer to have threaded his way through the Ia
byrinth of falsehood without stumbling upon one
solitary veracious statement If secession fires thus
burn all truth out of man, we thank God we are no
secessonist If the measures of disunion are to be
bolstered up and sustained by perversion of facts
and wilful, deliberate falsifcations, we thank God
the people have intelligence enough to see it. and
honesty enough to trample under the foot Of indig
nation all who pursue such a course.
But we will give some extracts from the article in
question, every one of which will be denounced as
containing falsehoods by every Union man in the
meeting:
THE advertisement which convened this meeting
informed the public that II would be meeting Of
all parties This meeting, itself, turned out, as we
expected it would, to be a movement upon the part
of some Of our Raleigh wire-pullers. to have them
selves nominated for seats in the Convention, and
was not advertised mass meeting of the peo-
pie of all parties"
The foregoing is "whopper," but the following
is a whopperer:
"The meeting was called to order by a federalist
presided over by federalist and its resolutions
were reported by federalist. As to its nominees
the public may better judge of their politics, when
tell them that Of them said in the course Of
his speech of acceptance that certain Southern States
had robbed the treasury of all the money, and now
they were trying to dissolve the Union. That man
was Geo. E. Badger.
Another one declared that he was willing to sub
nit to the reign of Abraham Lincoln two years be-
fore voting to take North Carolina ont of the Union,
even if the South had no additional guarantees
That man. we learn, was W. W. Holden. Then, as
to the nominees they may be classed among the
worst submssionists- such men as would
suffer disgrace before resenting an injury"
We will wager chesnuts that Maj. Weatherspoon,
who presided over the meeting is older and
better Democrat than the man boy that wrote the
article IN the Journal Messrs. Badger and Holden
are both misrepresented, as all know who know the
men,.
Here is another Roorback
"a word about the "mass meeting" and its COM
ponent parts. With the exception of a very few
some three or four persons-the said "mass- Union"
meeting was made up of the old enemies of the Dem
ocratic States Rights party, with few deserters
from the ranks of the old guard"
And here is family group" of Roorbacks:
I'VE suppose there were some twenty or thirty
country people who participated in the meeting
LIle rest were Lne do may justly
supposed from the nominations made, all the candi
dates being taken from the city. The names of
country gentlemen put in nomination, but they
did not suit the views of our city friends and con-
sequently were voted out to give place to the city
candidates. e.. a.# I'D. .
Thus it appears, and it is true, that the Raleigh
clique, composed of all the odds and ends of oppos-
ton to Democracy and Southern rights, have dicta
ted to- and overruled the voice of the voters in the
country, by imposing upon the people candidates
who have no sympathies with the masses, but who
use the masses for their own promotion and with
the intent to bring North Carolina to her knees to
Black Republican ruler"
Candidly we do not believe there were more than
twenty thirty of the citizens of Raleigh who took
part in the meeting. Every thing was left to the
people of the country the people of the country
well know 1t was suggested to them that if all the
ticket was taken from Raleigh the humbug cry OF
Raleigh clique" might be raised, and their reply
was; =. If we nominate Raleigh men citizens of Ra-
leigh have no right to complain. We intend to
have men of our choice"
We tell Mr. Reporter" the people of the country
are not the egregous fools he seems to think them
They know he has willfully and deliberately pisrep-
resented them-Ad Haloren Banner.