Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-09-14
The Examiner on Gov. Vance.

We copy 10 day an article from the Richmond
Esominer, which is not at all complimentary to
Gov. Vance. We did not expect even justice from
that paper, and We do not desire it at its hands.
We snap our fingers at it, and ask it no odds. Its
libes on US excite no emotion but that of contempt
But really, We had thought it would treat Gov
Vance more tsnderly than it has It has discovered
that he is . vulgar dsmagogue-s mere clap.trap-
politician and it says SO. 1t puts on its spectaces
and looks at him in the most favorable light to sec
if can discover anything like statesmanship in
him and having failed to make the discovery, it
casts him away with gesture of contempt, declar-
ing that he owes his reelection to fortutous cir
cumstances, and not to any real merits Of it's own
1t is not for W to defend the Governor against these
charges, even to say that they are not true. He
has two organs in this City, and if they do not de-
fsnd him and excoriste the Examiner, then that
paper must have its own way, and the inference
must be that its reflections on the Governor are
just. We do not say they are. We do not say
they are not In this respect We are in situation
to return the compliment the Governor bestowed
on US, when he declared in the campaign that he
did not know whether We were traitor or not If
he had said we were traitor the people would have
asked him why he had not arrested US and if he
had said We were . true man, he would have lost
the votes of the blue Destructives, who when they
cannot answer our arguments or defend their un-
worthy conduct ~ selfish partzAns, invariably close
tn. discussion by calling traitor. No, We can
not defend the Governor We wish We could. He
leeds it. We do not say the charges ofthe Ezam-
iner are true-we do not say they are not true
We leave this to those who humby masticste the
crumbs that fall from the Executive table.
The Eraminsr lied upon US during the campaign,
and it continues this unpleasant habit. 1t seems
natural to it 1t wallows in defamation and false
hood ~ hog wallows in the mi.e. 1t seems to
like it. In its issue of the 27thJuly it said:
zone cannot afford to be mealy. mouthed upon
this occasion tho soldiers of North Carolina are
asked by the candidate who calls himself Peace
man to give their voice for the submission Of North
Carolina and subugation of all the rest of the South
10 declare that they themselves have been in rebel
lion against their lawful sovereigns-that they now
repent of it, and will do so no more; to brand as
traitors and criminals those Virginia brgades that
STOOD on their right hand and those South Carcn-
ians that charged upon their left upon every field
from Manassas to Cold Harbour nay, to dsnounce
died for their native land-to gibbet them to the
| world IS brigands and murderers who have met
/ their Just doom, and to hold them UP not ex-
ample, but as warning to North Caronans yet
Unborn. This is precisely and'accurately, the vote
they are solicited to give to morrow to the cand!-
, date who calls himself Conservative
The above is horribly false. 1t is lie, as liVid
with the malice of hell any lie that came up
from the bottom of the pit But this is specimen
of the manner IN which we were assaled during the
campaign Tho newspapers groaned under such
f.lsehoods-and tho people, did they believe them
No. But they voted, ~ the Examiner says, "ou
sompulsion," but very different compulsion from
that imagined by the Esam;nsr 1t was the com
pulsion Of force and fraud.
1t is our opinion that the attack Of the Examine'
on Gov Vance was prompted in this State. Lei
us watch and wait" and see what the. object is
The object may be seen during the approaching
session of our Legislature. The Richmond paper.
have heretofore undertaken to control and shape
popular elections; and it may behaving been
prompted to the work by certain parties in thii
Stas-that they will attempt to elect Senator 70,
US in place Of MI. Dortch it may be that tho re
election of Mr.. Dortch himself is at the bottom o.
this attack on Gov. Vance.
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The Program of yesterday states "that Gov
Vance is q candidate for Mr.. Dortch's seat in the
Senate, and an asplrant for the Presidency at the
close of Mr.. Davis term" This is an item of new,
we have not seen before. Is the Progress author
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