Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-10-26
Hasshoads OF Tears.
"Trust not those cunning waters Of bis eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum;
And he, long traded in il, makes 1t seem

Hogsheads OF crocodile tears have been shed over
those whom mercenary political scavengers declare
have been forced out of the public service by the
mo party men. 1t appears to be weeping time
with these scavengers. The very filth with which
they bedaub the tombs of their imaginary martyrs,
is saturated with their tears One them speaking
Of the prescribed" enumerates the following:
"Ruffn and Craige, Clingman and Avery, Bragg
and Reid, Winslow and Person. Saunders and Erwin,
Ashe and Shaw, Branch and Venable Shepherd and
HILL and host Of others"
These gentlemen will not thank these nourners
for burying them before they are dead. Who PRO
scribed" Rufin and Craige? Many Of their friends
preferred them for seat in Congress, but Mr.. Crage
voluntarily declined reelection. So did Mr.. Ruff
fin, who would most probably have been elected to
Congress if he had desired it but he preferred to
enter the army, and thus occupy more enviable
place than in the civil councils. Who "proScrbed"
Clingman and Avery? Did not their own ultra
party friends do it? Mr.. Clngman was elected to
the Senate and defeated for the Senate by the
Legislature. The "no party men neither elected
nor defeated him. for they were in minority in that
body. And Col. Clngman may well thank his ul-
ira party friends for this treatment for his present
position at the head of his regiment is honorable
as any he ever aspired to.
Nor have Governors Bragg and Reid been "pro-
scribed" by the mo party" men. If they have
been displaced from high Office, or thrown in the
back ground for the present it is altogether owing
to the fact that they not ultra enough for the
ultra men with whom they have been acting. The
cry of these men has been on, on, and those among
them who have hesitated, or who have paused for
moment to contemplate dangers or to take new
reckonings on the perilous sea Of revolution have
been jostled aside, or run ard disabled. This
has been, to extent the fate of these two gen.
tlemen and now the very who set them aside,
or run over and damaged them, shed crocodile tears
over them, and charge others with having "pro-
Scrbed" Them
Mr.. Winslow was "proscribcd" by Hatteras and
the coast, which he pOO.pOOd at when called on to
put in state of defence
And what has Nj. Person deserved, that he has
not had at the hands of friends? Though young
man. and not very brilliant older and ADLER men of
his party were set aside for his benefit to give him
a Judgeship, which he voluntarily resigned. He
has since served in the Legislature, and recent
ly, if he is not now, Quartermaster with the rank
of Colonel The faction with which he acted in the
Legislature put him forward their leader but he
failed in this position their modification if not
his own. We have made many great men in our
day GU: of small materials, but we acknowledge we
should fail in such work with such timber as Mr.
Person What has he ever done for the State or
the people, to entite him to special consideration
prosecuted" indeed
1t will be news to every body that Saunders and
Erwin have been "proscribed." Gen. S. has been
bountiuy fed for 10 these forty years from the pub
lie crib and even now he is filling an honorable of
fee which affords him good pay and but little work.
owing to the stay law which has tied up the Courts.
He elected to his present office by dsorganizing
his party and on two memorable occasions, when
his party ndulgei the hope that it had planted it.
self on firm grOund-to wit, in 1912 and 1S52-he
disorganized and injured it in his efforts to obtain
Office. The statement that Gen. S. has beeh pro-
scrbed" is one of the best jokes of the day Such
thing is impossible. We will, however, do Gen.
Saunders the justice to say that he has filled his
numerous Offices creditably to himself and with use
fulness his country and that his long and ardu
Gus labors in the cause Of internal improvements
alone, should entitle him to the thanks of the pub
lie. What we mean to say is, that be has not been
is not now, and never can be "proScribed." Mark
Erwin like thousands of other brave spirits, is in
the army. He did not hang round Raleigh for a
commission, as others did, but he raised companies
of his own gallant mountain men and Joined the
Wise legion.
And Messrs. Ashe and Shaw are classed among
the prescribed" Where is Mr.. Ashe? Does he
not of choice renquish civil office for the better
paying one of Railroad Presidency ?-and is he not
now Quartermaster in the service of the Confeder-
ate States, with the rank of Major? DIR. Shaw is a
member of the State Convention and Colonel in
the State troops Do you call that prescription?
And Messrs Branch and Venable are also among
| the "proscribed" Mr.. Branch has been almost
constantly in office since he to this State
from Florida. He volunteered in April last in the
Raleigh Rifles private, but did not go in that
capacity. He relieued of this duty by being ap-
pointed Quartermaster General, with the rank of
Colonel and as soon as this Office expired he was
appointed Colonel of State troops by the Governor.
Another case of prescription weep, oh yc croco-
dies! Mr.. Branch wiU go on horseback, whoever
goes on foot
And there is Mr.. Abram W. Venable-he too, it
seems, is prescribed" Who did it? The people
of Granville, by electing him to the Convention, and
the Convention by electing him to Congress J.
Weep oh ye crocodIlcs, over this crying injustice
! We rather suspect however, that Mr. Venable, like
many other promising old gentlemen, is in the lean
and slipper'd pantaloon" of political existence
He has served his day and generation with much
noise, and with much advantage to himself; and,
for one with many others, expect to vote on the
9th day of next month to permit him to retire to
the shades of private life. He can then visit the
soldiers in camp, he is doing without incur
ing the unchartable mputaton that he is only seek
| ing votes, and not the welfare of the soldiers