Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-05


other fort in this State at this time or at any time
would be an act Of war; and Such act of war at
this time would be treason
Some papers in this State that used to be connect
ed with the Democratic party are greatly concern
ed because some of the Democratic papers in this
State are edited by citizens of foreign BIRTH These
papers and their editors ask no odds of those who
thus object to them--they owe them for no favors
they are their debtors for courtesies. They are
really willing to trust the people, and not like the
snarlers against Them sycophants for power or dis
gruntled seekers after pap.
We do not speak mere partsanS nor because
we care personally about such things but because
we wish to enter our protest against such mode of
warfare upon great cause, and this warfare too,
the ebulition of personal excitement springng from
disappointed ambition Wilmington Journal
The whole Of the foregoing was intended for the
Editor of this paper, though the Editor of the Jour
nat did not have the manness to say so.
We observe that the Editor of the Rough Notes,
in retiring from his connection with that paper, in
dulges in the same strain,-and Mr.. Robinson seeks
to produce the false impression that he has retired
from the Rough Notes, and given place to native,
in order to break the force of our attacks such
naturalized" diSunonists as he is.
Now, the readers of our paper know, and these
gentlemen knOU that we are not concerned because
some of the Democratic papers in this State are ed
ted by citizens of foreign birth" In our paper of
the Sth December we distinctly defined our views
in relation to naturalized citizens; yet the Will
mngton Journal, the State Journal, and the Rough
Notes very careful not to lay those views be-
fore their readers. They were determined not to
do us Justice Those views, thus set forth in the
Standard of the Sth December, are the views
have always entertained in relation to naturalized
citizens, and entertained and expressed too in 1854
in defence Of these very gentlemen, when the Anne
rican" party was assaing and bearing down upon
them. But the idea of justice to enters the
heads of these gentlemen if it docs it is at
5anished under orders from high quarters; and so
they persist in disappearing in relation to
"naturalized citizens and every thing else.
| The Wilmington Journal impeaches our motives
| by characteriZng "sycophants for power "
| "disgrunted seekers after pap" &c.
"Sycophants for power!" Where is the "syco-
plant" who has toadied more or toadied longer than
the Editor Of the Journal? 1t is notorious that he
| has twice sought the nomination for the Commons
| in New Hanover; that he has been twice set aside
by the leaders and that he has since been the most
obcdent of the very leaders who thus slight
ed and whiSted him down the wind. 1t is also no
tornuS that he hates these leaders while he
! them. We remember well how were amused at
! Charleston when the Editor OF the Journal began
| to talk about leaving the Convention and when
knew that he talked only the echo of others.
! If he remained in the Convention he remained be-
cause others did; if he went out, he went out be-
cause others did. Every body knows that And
! yet he pirates about "sycophants for powerl"
| But we are a " diSgruntled seeker after pap
/ This is not true. We have never sought "pap."-
We could easily have beaten John Spelman for State
! Printer, if we had made effort. So far as our
! opinions concerned, they the same before
! we were defeated for State Printer that they
| now. Our files will prove thai, -and the truth is,
! we were defeated by the fire-eaters because
! then, as we are now, in favor of Constitutional
| Union and opposed to secession and civil war. Our
defeat therefore, is the best proof of our consis-
! tency.
/ But the Journal impeaches our Democracy. We
arc better Democrat than Mr. Fulton is He has as
sailed every Democratic administration in this State
since Gov. Reds day; and he would certainly have
aSSailed Gov. Ellis, if the latter had not placed him
on the Internal Improvement Board But Cerberus
has the sop and Cerberus has ceased TO growl. The
| Governor is a shrewd one He knew Cerberus, and
/ SO he stopped his mouth with a nice chunk of hon.
or with So per day, consequence, consideration, and
| travelling expenses to boot
| Why, Mr. Fulton assaulted Gov. Reid in bitter
! terms in 1850 or 1851, and we defended the Cover
nor We "carried the war into Africa" and for
| some time afterwards the Journal having learned
its place. behaved itself respectfully But the same
paper also assailed Gov. Bragg-and for what do
you suppose, good reader? Why, Mr. Fulton as
sailed Gov Bragg because the Governor declined to
! give him more for publishing the Common School
advertisements than was allowed to other Editors!
Behold, all We people, with what force, with what
propriety, with what dsinterestcd disregard of dol
lars the Editor of the Journal assails disgrunted
seekers after pap" We would have defended Gov.
Bragg also, but he suggested that it would be best
/ to let the attack upon him pass without notice.
| When will our pious, undiSgruntled, disnter-
ested, and most affectionate friend hold forth
| again!
! Mr.. WISsLow's ADDREss.-We shall publish in
next Mr.. Winslow's address TO his constituents, in