Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-07-23
Mr.. Bledsoe and Col, Vance,

We learn that Moses A. Bledsoe, Esq, one of the
party candidates in this County, attempted to rdi
Guile Col Vance, in his speech at Auburn on Thurs
day last, by calling him Col. lizard Vance. No
doubt Mr.. Bledsoe thought this exceedingly witty,
but we learn that no one besides himself was in
clined to laugh at it. We adEit that COL Vance's
name begins with the last letter of the alphabet,
bat he was among the FIRST to shoulder his musket
to Sight for his country He has been for more than
twelve months in the service, exposed to snow and
rain, and living for the most part on hard bread and
fat bacon, while Capt. Bledsoe and his candidate for
Governor, COL Johnston, have been ENJOYING profit.
able offices in the shade, cut of the reach of camp
disease and Yankee bullets.
We learn that Mr.. Bledsoe also edited himself
very much by reading extracts from the Standard
of former years against Col. Vance, thus seeking to
revive old party feeling among the people. Now,
what is it to Mr.. Bedsoe if COL Vance and the Ed.
iter OF this paper are now friendsY For the last
eighteen months Col. Vance and the Editor of the
Standard have eschewed party for the sake of the
country; and they have been together during this
period as they are now, in all honorable efforts,
first to avoid war, and secondly to conduct the war
peace They differed in past time as partsans, but
there is no difference between them when the coun-
try itself is at stake. Is Mr.. Bdsoc incapable of
rising to position of this kind? Docs he still con.
slider himself party Democrat? Why, he disor-
gsnizcd his party two years and it was our duty
as the organ here at the centre read him out of
it. When did he get back to the party? Who
took him in againa He arraigns us for nconsis-
tency, and yet his only hope of respectable vote
In this contest is based on the fact that he is sup
ported by men who two years ago declared that he
then made ncendiary speeches. and that his election
would be injurious to the slavcholding interest
What has he done to curry favor with these men
Has he renowned at ralorem and expressed his
sret that he dsorganized his party! We adviset the
gentleman when he attempts again to make out
case of inconsistency, to take up his record
and that of his present friends. He will find enough
in that to occupy his attention. He was either en-
incendiary and an enemy of slavery in 1860, or
many of those who now support him wfully SLAM
dered him at that time. We did not regard him as
either, though we voted against him; but what
must be the humiliation Of feeling in those who so
shndered him in 1850, and who now knucke down
to him and support him mot for the sake of the
country, but to crafty their hatred towards the old
Union men, whom he has deserted, and to sustain
the Stallfederates in power.
Capt. Bedsoe is mistaken in the name of his party.
He IS not Confederate nor Confederate like his
friend Mr. Syme; he is only Stal!tederate. 1t is
true, he has not had opportunity like his friend
Co.. Johnston, to hold four offices at the same time
but he has held tuo-that of Senator and Quarter
master. He could well afford while standing in his
stall, enjoying bis clover and oats to ridicule Col
Vance, who has of late been subjected to the hard
ships of the untented field and whose diet for the
most part has been fat bacon and hard bread.