Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-10-19
pah;d Shirt of the Yankee Press on -thesf Pres
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Rabid Spirit of the Yankee Press on -shesf res
identiaE4asssaon.a !
The Herald has lopg afticle gpon, n hitterss
spirit at the North uponauhl1t Of the Ps5osntiai
the party press. We copyS portion Of the edto'
Iial .,,
The manner in which the rival claims of Mr.. Lin
coin and Gen. Mcclellan are being pressed is dis
grace TO the enlightenment of onr country and a
source OF serious peril to the public peace The
Lincoln papers assail the character Of Gen. McCle
Ian with every epithet Of obloquy He Is denoun.
&c. while all the many thousand loyal and gallant
men who support him come in for q liberal sprihk,
ling of the same abolition dirty watersllEeaA Nc.
Clellan papers are not behind in the same uR~hoe-
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 ;insinua-
tons to the discredit Of Mr. Lincoln's wife, charg
ing her. in instance with accepting three brides,
and IN another with some paltry peculation in 2
crockery bill. - u
Unless these abomlnable practices Of the parti,
Fan press are checked in time, we shall most as
suredy have scenes of violence before the first Of
next November. This is revolutionary period,
and the minds of men are inHamed bysKAwonted
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 gentleness, the
ISLANDERS with which secession sympa hzers at lash
ington assailed her on her advent to the " hite
House Let US fight it out as men" says Gen.
Sherman, in his recent pthy 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 frst lady
of our land We feel confident that Gen. McClel-
: Ian must dsapprove this style of warfare in his be-
half, and however reluctant he may be to interfere
in such matters, would suggest to him The proprie
ty Of giving his psrtizans hint to improve their
manners. .... &C.,,
AS to the attacks upon General Mcclellan, made
by the Lincoln organs, they arc foul and disgrace
yond any parallel in partizan warfare Is ikrsaly
the wish Of the Lincoln papers to persuade the
American people and the world at large that every
citizen who supports Gen. McCle'lau's claims to
tie Presidency is at heart traitor, desiring. the
disruption of our Union and the success sGf The
Jeff. Davis conspiracy? Or how long do the chief
organs of this Lincoln faction believe that thay can
with IMMUNITY pursue the work Of villifying Gen
Mcclellan as a "cowa I" "poltrooh," traitor"
&C., in city which will, beyond any peradveuture,
cast from sixty eighty thousand votes in his "a
vOr at the next election .,-.,..
In the present inflamed and revolutionary condi-
ton Of the public mind, any spafk may serve to
kinde conhagration that will not be extinSushed
without boodsheJ There will we fear, be attacks
Upon tae 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 at bis corner. while the editor
Of another Lincoln organ keeps him company OH
the lamp post opposite. Every act Of violence thus
committed in thu Democratic metropolis will be re
taliated in one or other of those rural districts
in which the Lincoln men strong, and, as the
upshot Of the whole scandalous quarrel, the loya
States will be plunged into riot anarchy and ndis
criminate lynchiug. These conseque, ces we regard
as inevitable unless greater moderation Of tone be
immediately evnced by the partzan writer's Of The
Lincoln aud Mcclellan press.