Weekly standard., 1861-02-27
FALSEHOODS.

1t is difficult matter to be parliamentary" and
at the same time to denounce IN deserved terms the
batch of fasehoods and Misrepresentation contained
in article in the last State Journal purporting to
be report of the Union meeting held here on the
9th. 1t is headed Reported for the State Journal"
We neither know nor care who the reporter was.
but the four hundred Union men, or thereabouts,
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 q skilful
engineer to have threaded his way through the Ia
byrinth of falsehood without stumbling upon one
solitary veracous statement Ifsecession fires thus
burn all truth out of man, we thank God we are no
secessonist If the measures of dsunion are to be
bostered up and sustained by perversion of facts
and wilful deliberate falsificatons, 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 he denounced as
containing falsehoods by every Union man in the
meeting:
1.-THE advertisement which convened this meeting
informed the public that it would be meeting Of
all parties This meeting, ITSELF turned out as we
expected it would, to be movement upon the part
of some of our Raleigh wire-puers, to have them
selves nominated for seats in the Convention, and
was not as advertised, mass meeting of the peo-
pie of all parties
Inc foregoing Is "Hopper, out tue iONowitS
is whoppcrer:
"The meeting was called to order by federalist
presided over by federalist and its resolutions
were reported by federalist As to it's nominees
the public may better judge of their politics, when
we tell them that one 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.
oroS hat ho vv;Il;p0 tn c,,I-
nit to the reign Of Abraham Lincoln two years be-
fore voting to take North Carolina 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 classcd among the
worst MISUNDERSTANDING 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 a
better Democrat than the man boy that wrote the
article IN the Journal Messrs. Badger and Holden
are both msreprcsented 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 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:
| 1--WE suppose there were some twenty or thirty
country people who participated in the meeting
the rest we've the Raleigh clique, as may be justly
supposed from, the nominations made all the cand-
dates being taken from the city. The names Of
country gentlemen put in nomination, but they
did not suit the views of city friends, and con-
sequently voted out to give place to the city
candidates.
Thus it appears and it is true that the Raleigh
clique, composed of all the odds and ends of op7osi
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
Caniidly We do not believe there were more thar
twenty or thirty of the citizens Of Raleigh who tool
part in the meeting. Every thing was left to tn
people of the country as the people of the countr,
we'll know 1t was suggested to them that if all tn
ticket was taken from Raleigh the humbug cry o
Raleigh clique" might he raised, and their repl!
was, IF we nominate Raleigh men citizens of Ra
leigh have no right to complain. We intend t.
have men of our choice"
We tell Mr.. Reporter" the people of the countr.
are not the egregious fools he seems to think them
They know he has wllully and deliberately misrer
resented them-Ad Falorem Banner.