Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-10-18
Rabid Spirit of the Yankee Press the Pres
idential question.

10entldl question:
The Herald has long article upon the bitter
spirit at the North upon SUBJECT of the Presidential
election and the 6erceness of the cenunciatons of
the party press. We copy portion OF the edIto-
Iia:
The manner in which the rival claims of Mr.. Lin
coin and Gen. Mcclellan are being pressed IS dis
grace to the enlightenment of enr country and
source of serious peril to the public peace. The
Lincoln papers assail the character of Gen. McClel
Ian with every epithet of obiequy. He is denoun.
ced as "gunboat general" coward " traitor"
&C., while all the many thousandloyal and gallant
men who support him come in for liberal sprlnk
ling of the same abolition dirty water. The Nc
Olellan papers are not behind in the same unwhole
some and disgraceful activity. Not content with
challenging the personal honesty Of our national
Chief Magistrate, they have, of late, both through
their daily and weekly organs, put forth lnslnua
tions to the discredit of Mr. Lincoln's wife, charg
ing her. in instance, with accepting three bribeS
and IN another with some paltry peculation In
crOckery bill.
Unless these abomlnable practices of the parti
IAN press are checked in time we shall most as
suredly have scenes of violence before the first OF
next November. This is a revolutionary PERIOD
and the minds of men infiamed by unwonted
passions. As to the attacks upon Mrs. Lincoln,
they only inure and that seriously, the side from
which they emanate. She has outlived and lived
down, by her modest courtesy and gentlcnesS, the
sianders with which secession sympa hlzers at NaSh-
I ingtOn asssiled her on her advent to the White
House Let us fight it out as men," says Gen.
Sherman, In his recent pithy and characteristic let
ter to Gen. Hood; and so will say all decent cIti-
zenS in reference to these attacks upon the matron
and wife, who is, by national comfy, the first lady
-cE- nrr land We feel confident that Gen. McClel
J. must disapprove this style of warfare in his be-
malf, and however reluctant he may be to interfere
in such matters, would suggest to him The prOpre-
ty OF giving his parLizans hint to improve their
manners.
As to the attacks upon General Mcclellan, made
by the Lincoln organs, they are foul and disgrace
You'd any parallel in partizan warfare. Is it really
the wish of the Lincoln papers to persuade the
American people and the world ut large that every
citizen who supports Gen. McClcllan's claims TO
the Presidency is at heart traitor, desiring the
disruption of our Union and the SUCCESS Of the
JEFF. Davis conspiracy Or how long do the chief
organs Of this Lincoln faction believe that they can
with IMMUNITY pursue the work of viliifying Gen.
Mcclellan rs coward" "poltroon," traitor"
&c, in a city which viii, beyond any peradventure,
cast from sixty TO eighty thousand votes in his IA
vOr at the next election?
In the present intimed and revolutionary cOndi-
ton Of the public mind, any spark may serve to
kInde cohdlgrAhOn That will not be extingushed
without bloodShed. TLere will, we fear, be attacks
upon the offices of the newspapers in these scurril
Gus outpouringS, and we shall have the misfortune
to See the editor Of one Lincoln organ suspended
on lamp post al his own cUner. while the editor
Of another Lincoln organ keeps him company on
the lamp post Opposite Every act Of violence thus
committed in the Democratic metropolis will be re
taliacd in some Or other of those rural districts
in which the Lincoln strong, and the
upshot of the whole scandalOus quarrel, the loyal
States will be plunged into riot anarchy and indiS
crimlnatc lynCaiJg These Consequences We regard
as inevitable unless greater moderation of tone be
Immediately CvirceG by the partizan writers Of the
Lincoln and Mcclellan press.