The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-27
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The Newbern Commercial says that the
following notice was posted in the town of
Beaufort on Saturday last:
NOTICE. There will be a meeting of the
Unnsistaka6ky Loyal ifen. of the Town of
Beaufort in the Court House, on Saturday
evening, at "a O'Clock. 10Th inst Our Col
ored Brethren are cordially invited to attend
MANY CITIZENS.
1t further states, that it is informed, that
the mover in this matter is a certain jack
g-lawyer,' not a native of Carteret. We
observe by the proceedings of the Loyalists
Convention i'll this city, that one W. j.
Doughty, one of the Secretaries, represented
Csrteret. Is Mr.. Doughty the author of the
above2 If he is not, he ought to tlisclaim
1t, as the remarks of the Commercial look
rather pointedly at him -Sentsacl.
The above is mean and cowartllv attemut.
by reconstructed traitors, to injure worthy
and loyal young man. Mr.. Doughty never
posted any such Card. He had previously
issued a call for a meeting in Beaufort to an
point delegates to the meeting in Raleigh.
whereupon some b1achguard posted the
above Card, as reflection on the Union men
of that place.
But it is all the same to the ConaneycioZ
and Sentinel They would hesitate at moth
ing to effect their ends. They riot in calum-
ny, slang, and vituperation. Any one WHO
will act with them, no matter what his prin-
ciples may be, is all right; and those, no
matter how pure or upright, who refuse to
act with them, are slandered and Whitfield
The Commercial and Sentinel would jump at
negro suffrage tomorrow, if they could re-
tain power in this State in no other way
They would do anything, or submit to any
thing, for the sake of Offices and spois-
Men who feel in their hearts, as they do, that
they have deliberately ruined their country
that by their conduct they have freed the
slaves and made them the equals of the
whites before the law, do well to talk about
dignity aAd further humiliation All these
troubles about the negro are to be traced to
just such persons If they had not set him
free by their secession, and by fighting the
United States when there was no hope for
success, but merely to crafty the vengeance
and hatred which boiled in their hearts, the
people would have had none of this trouble
above negro testimony and negro suffrage.
They did not intend to do this-oh no -
But they did it, and now they want to rule
and ruin the people againl What voter,
with q thilnble full of brains, will trust them
Since the above was prepared and put in
type, we have received the following conl-
munication from Mr. Doughty, exposing
this an,ler against him by the Commercial
and Sentinel -
Messrs Editors Of Standard Il ask a
small space i'll your paper to repel the foul
aspersions and disgusting fasehoods con-
tanned in q Card published in the Newbern
C0nlaaercinl and Raleigh Sentinel signed e
Many Citizeus."
The above notice was posted up at the
time and place, as stated by the Cona6eerctal-
1t is we'll understood by the citizens of Beau
fort that it was done by some unknown
as an attempt to ridicule the
Union men.
If the Sentinel and Commercial have any
regard for truth, or any respect for them
selves, they will correct this matter. am
slow to believe they are so lost to every sense
of Justice and shame, as to have deliberately
concocted the above for the purpose of in u-
ring uncertainty not the Sentinel
l expected, by attending the Convention
in Raleigh, on the Goth inst, to incur the
Of those supporters OF DIR.
Worth who are so intolerant as to- wish to
force their opinions ON Others but did not
expect them, in their zeal for the election of
Mr.. Worth, to undertake to asperse the
private character of any person in that Con-
vention.
As to the sentiment contained In the
notice referred to, which the
Commercial and Sentinel wish, by Il system
of hocus-pocu to ascribc to mel consider
it beneath the dignity of Il gentlemaR to re-
quire answer. I am {. native of North
Carolina, resident in Carteret county three
years, and / am we'll known to the peo-
pile in the Eastern part of the State.
The Editor of the C0HnaeTcsHJ calls me n
iackleg lawyer, and says [ am not a native
of Carteret county. 1t is strange how this
learned Apollo should have gained SO much
wisdom. He must know facts by intuition.
I never had any business with him, nor do l.
expect any from him, as quacks never en-
pioy each other. As to the latter PROPOSE
ton, presume l have much right to
speak for the Union men OF Carteret, rs he
has to speak for the secessionists OF Craven.
I thank you, MessEs. Editors, for this OPP
portunity to answer an unjustih;tble attack
upon me, and humbly begging the pardon
Of the public, promise hereafter to notice
nothing that these. secession papers may say
about me, unless they should be compliment
airy, and, i'll that event, must exclaim g What
have done, that the enemies of my country
should praise me 2"
w. ]. DOUGHTY.