Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-27
Misrepresentation, corrso,sa.

IONS to which we attached but little Importance at
hrst but which, gathering force by repetition, may at
last be believed by thoughtful and dspassionate per-
sons, to the injury of the Union men of this COM
munity.
The Asheville Ne,cs of the 14th says:
From the following communication which we find
In the State Journal Raleigh bids fair to rival Bal
hmore in drunkenness and rowdyism. Private re-
ports from the capital make the condition of things
there even worse than the Journals correspondent
describes them. How do the people of the State
relish the picture? What do they think of drunk
en- mob surrounding the Governors residence, and
giving three g-oans" for the Governor of the
StateY Let the responsibility rest where it belongs
upon the corrupt demagogues who are seeking to
ride into power by inaamng the passions and pre-
JUDGES OF the ignorant and array ing class against
class the whole intensified by the free of cheap
whiskey."
We now say to the Necs that the public and
private reports" to which he alludes are totally
unfounded. No drunken mob-no mob of any sort
has surrounded the Governors residence and insult
ed that functionary. Glass has not been arrayed
against class in this community, but on the con-
trary, all determined to stand in the last resort
and to stand to the death by the honor and the vital
interests of the State Our people are too ntelli-
gent to be led by demagogues, if we had dema-
gogues among us. "Cheap whiskey" is not in
more common use here than it is in other portions
of the State.
The New York correspondent of the Newbern Pro-
grcss says:
81 was panied at reading of the miserable out
rage upon Gov Ellis and family by the so-called
Unon-men" of Raleigh, and was equally shocked
that any decent newspaper should make attempt,
hon 70 q
tlemen howlerS, who tits claimed are the people"
This correspondent read of miserable outrage
which never occurred.
The Salisbury Banner of the 10th says
"That the good people of North Carolina would
suffer themselves to be cheated out of Convention
and be made humble vassas in the fag end of an
Abolition Government under base negro equality
Administration, by few submission leaders and
disappointed Office seeking demagogues, who have
for their head and front such a man as w. w. Hol
den, whom, we think, the State Journal has shown
to be the most equivocatIng untenable, bundle of
excentrcities that edited public journals
something cannot understand. Mr.. Holden has
occupied every position and been the INSCRIPTIONS
advocate of nearly every issue that has been presen
ted to the people of North Carolina for the last four
| or five years. His Raleigh Clique even dared to
/ offer, on the 2Sth ut the Governor of our State
and his family gross insult by acts that would dis
grace even JOnn brown or montgomery Oanu Oh
| lawless desperadoes Mr.. Holden has been, and is
now, an office seeker and is doubtless writhing
der the influence of foiled hopes He is, we think
| an apoogist Of old Abe, now, and he will ere long,
| very likely, openly advocate the doctrine Of this
murderous Abolition party"
We have reply to offer to the foregoing, except
to say that the whole of it is false.
And the Wilmington Journal of the Goth saws:
| Ioc A.
moderate man, speaks only the truth in the follow
ing remarks which cut from the last issue Of his
| paper. At first we thought he ought to have added
to his closing sentence that those who groaned at
several private residences in Raleigh ought to have
had respect for Themselves but upon consdera-
| ton We took that back, they Eneo themselves best,
and they had none. Recollect nobody but snob
connects the idea of gentleman with good clothes
or bad, with much money, little money, or no money
| at all. The man who demanding respect for his
| own rights, accords the respect to the lights
of Others acts as gentleman the man who does not
do so is not gentleman, and no adventurous crcum-
stances can make him one:-
From the Western Democrat
Gov. ELLIs-The Greensboro Patriot, and other
| extreme Union papers, continue their assaults upon
Gov. Ellis. They abuse him now because he is Sc
| cessionist, but we guess old party and personal
malice has much to do with it Gov. Ellis is pop
ular man in the State, and has been in some mems
way heretofore, and they hope to cripple and njure
hiE with the people, hence the violent attacks upon
him at this time. The scheme will fail.
1t is stated that the Union party of Raleigh, when
| celebrating their victory in Wake on the night oil
or after the election, went to the Governors resi-
dence and gave three groans. Such conduct is un-
becoming gentlemen and disgraceful to the city Of
Raleigh If their malice prevented them from en-.
tertaining respect for the Governor, they should
have had some respect for the Office.
~. Al. IT,
party o! Raleigh, when celebrating their victory in
Wake on the night of or after the election, went to
the Governors residence and gave three groans, "
is untrue The facts are these: As the procession
passed the Governors residence, on its way to the
residence of Hon. S. H. Rogers, few thoughtless
persons groaned either at the Governor or at the
Hon. d. NJ. Barringer, who resides near the Gov
ernor; but we learn that this indignty was instant
ly checked by the great mass of the procession
The groans must have been few and faint for We
were in the procession and did not hear them. The
fact having been mentioned, however, several per
sons went in front of the procession on its return
and conducted it in a different direction from the
one it had taken in going to the residence of Mr.
Rogers thus preventing the possibility of the repe
tition of the insult to the Governor These thu
facts. They can be substantated by hundreds o
persons.
We have been for some time in public life anC
we are accustomed to Misrepresentation of all kinds
We bear it patiently, and often spontaneously, bu
we confess that sometimes are grieved By it,
We have nothing to say to the Salisbury Banner
for his article above quoted is evidently the emana
ton of crazy or a very ignorant person; but W,
do think the Journal and Democrat have treated III
unjustly and unkindly in connecting us with an in
suit to the Governor of the State "Some men!
way heretofore p" was evidently intended for us.
Some three or four weeks since We were hung ir
efigy in Charlotte by four or five men or boys. W,