Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-07-23
Mr. RIedsoe and Col. Vance.

MT. BledSOe and Coll vance,
We learn that Moses A. Bledsoe Esq, one of the
,arty candidates in this County, attempted to ridi
cule Col. Vance, in his speech at Auburn on Thurs
d,v last, by calling him Col. lizard Vance Nc
doubt Mr.. Bledsoe thought this exceedingly witty,
Int we learn that no one besides himself was in
clined to laugh at it. We admit that Col. Vance's
r,o begins with the last letter of the alphabet,
hut bc was among the first to shoulder his musket
20 8cbt 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 BleGsoe and his candidate for
Governor, COL Johnston, have been enjoying profit
able offices in the shade, out 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. Bledsoe if Col Vance and the Ed
itor of this paper are now friends? For the last
eichteen 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
neriod, as they are now, in all honorable efforts
first to avoid war, and secondly, to conduct the war
successfully to the establishment of an honorable
peace They differed in past time as partizans, but
there is no difference between them when the coun-
try itsel is at stake. Is Mr. Bledsoc incapable of
rising to position of this kind Does he still con-
slider himself party Democrat? Why. he disor-
ganiEed his party two years ago and it was duty
as the organ here at the CENTRE to read him out Of
it. When did he get back to the partyP Who
took him in again? He arraigns us for inconsis
tency, and yet his only hope of respectable vote
in this contest is based 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 slaveholding interest
What has he done to curry favor with these men !?
Has he rcnounced Gd Calorena, and expressed his
Cret that he diSorganized his party? We advise the
gentleman, when he attempts again to make out
case of inconsistency, to take up his own record
and that of his present friends. He will find enough
in that to occupy his attention. He was either an
incendiary and an enemy of slavery in 1860, or
many of those who now support him wilfully SIAN
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
slandered him in 1880, and who now knuckle 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. BledSoe is mistaken in the name of his party
He not Confederate nor Confederate like his
friend Mr.. Syme; he is only a StaIlfederate 1t is
true, he has not had opportunity like his friend
Col Johnston, to hold four offices at the time
but he has held tuO-that of Senator and Quarter
master. He could well afford while standing in his
STALL enjoying his clover and oats, to ridcule 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.
WHEAT.-A Granville County farmer informs US
that our informant was mistaken about the good
wheat crop in Granville. He says it is decidedly
the poorest crop ever saw IN the County. II will
be exceedingly short and of very inferior QUALITY"