Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-03-27

Misrepresentation Corrected,
We come forward to correct some misrepresenta.
tons to which we attached but little importance at
hrst but which, gathering force by repetition, may at
last be believed by thoughtful and dispassonate per-
sons, to the injury of the Union men of this COM
munity.
The Asheville Ne,,s Of the 14th says: r
From the following communication, which wefnd
in the State Journal Raleigh bids fair to rival Bal
timore 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 groans" for the Governor of the
Slater Let the responsibility rest where it belongs
upon the corrupt demagogues who are seeking to
ride into power by in6aming the passions and pre-
JUDGES of the ignorant and array ing class against
class the whole intensified by the free use of cheap
whiskey"
We now say to the News 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 arrnyed
against class in this community, but on the con-
trary all are 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 inteli-
gent to be led by demagogues, even if we had dema-
gogues among us. "Cheap whskey" is not in
more common use here than it is in other portions
of the State '- ..
The New York correspondent of the Newbern Pro-
gress says:
Ivroc a. -
| rage upon Gov. Ellis and family BY the so.called
"Union-men" of Raleigh, and was equally shocked
that any decent newspaper should make an attempt
however lame to justify the course of these "gen-
tlemen howlers" who It's 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 Vassals 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 man as W. W. Hol-
den, whom, We think, the State Journal has shown
to be the most equvocatlng, untenabe, bundle Of
excentricites that ever edited public journals
| something We 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 28th ult, the Governor of our State
and his family gross insult by acts that would dis
| grace even John Brown or Montgomery band Of
lawless desperadoes. Mr. Holden has been, and is
der the influence of foiled hopes. He is, We think,
an apologist 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 SAYS:
"Our friend of the Charlotte Democrat, always 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 some respect for Themselves but upon consdera-
ton We took that back, they knew 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 same respect to the rights
Of others, acts as gentleman the man who does not
do SO is not gentleman and no adventtous circum.
stances can make him one:-
From the Western Democrat
Gov. ELLls.-The Greensboro Patriot, and other
extreme Union papers, continue their assaults upon
Gov. Ellis They abuse him now because he is a 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 inurt
hin: with the people, hence the violent attacks upor
him at this time The scheme will fail
1t is stated that the Union party of Raleigh, wher
celebrating their victory in Wake on the night o
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 o
Raleigh. If their malice prevented them from en-
tertaining respect for the Governor, they should
have had some respect for the Office.
Now we repeat, the statement that "the Union
party o. Raleigh, when celebrating their victory il
Wake the night of or after the election, went t.
the Governors residence and gave three groans
is untrue. The facts are these: As the procession
passed the Governors residence, on its way to tn
residence IF Hon. S. H. Rogers, a few thoughtles
persons groaned, either at the Governor or at tn
Hon. D. M. Barringer, who resides near the Gov
ernor; but we learn that this indignity was instant
ly checked by the great mass of the procession
The groans must have been few and faint for "
were in the procession and did not hear them. Th
fact having been mentioned, however, several pei
sons went in front of the procession its return
and conducted it in different direction from tn
, one it had taken in going to the residence of Nj
Rogers thus preventing the possibility of the rep'
ttion of the insult to the Governor. These are tn
q facts. They can be substantiated by hundreds
a persons
We have been for some time in public life, an
we are accustomed to Misrepresentation of all kind
We bear it patiently, and often spontaneously, b,
we confess that sometimes we are grieved by it
y We have nothing to say to the Salisbury Banne
for his article above quoted is evidently the eman
= tion Of crazy or very ignorant person; but v
y do think the Journal and Democrat have treated I
: unustly and unkindly in connecting us with an ii
r. suit to the Governor Of the State. "Some men
. way heretofore " was evidently intended for US.
y Some three or four weeks since We were hung