The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-14
A Vile Calumny.

That the Conservative journals of the
State should attack the Constitutional Con
vention elect. was to be expected from the
character of the opposition which they made
during the late campaign. We do not ex-
pect laudations for our candidates from no.
litical opponents. When, however, journal
making professions to journalistic proprie-
ties, condescends to defame and libel the
private character of men who differ with if
upon political issues, its conduct becomes
fit subject for the criticism and scorn of all
honest men.
In a long article upon the Convention the
Raleigh Sentinel uses the following language
"Craven was represented. in the Convention
Of 1885, by William CASTOR and Richard
Dobbs Speight. 1t is misrepresented in
1867, by one negro, and two men who have
hardly acquired domicil in the State. and
whose only prominence, SO far as we know.
consists in the fact that they have " feather
ed their nests pretty aoeU as Federal officers
We are not aware that the Conservatives
of North Carolina presented none but Gas
tons, Speights and Macons, as their candi-
dates, in the various counties in which thew
have just suffered defeat.
The white delegates from Craven are gen.
tlemen of collegiate and professional educa
ton, and we defy the Sentinel to produce a
respectable Conservative in this County, who
will not admit that these gentlemen are in
tellectually the superior of the late Consery
ative candidate in the County. The colored
candidates is an intelligent man. Our pres
ent object is not to discuss the qualifications
of our delegates that question was decided
by majority of our electors.
When the Sentinel says that two of the
delegates g feathered their nests pretty well
as Federal officers" it utters a malicious cal
jimmy against two gentlemen. whose char
acter has never for a moment been i'm
pugned by friend or opponent in the COM
munlty in which they have lived for the last
five years, nor in States where they formerly
resided. The washer woman qualification
of $50 far as we know" comes with i'll grace
from a journal the senior editor of which has
been minister of the gospel. 1t might
with equal propriety be said, by a person
with no more regard for truth than the wri-
ter in the Sentinel, that the editors of that
journal -" so far as he hmoacs' are escaped Con-
victs.-Neecbern Republican.
Our friend of the Republican has properly
resentedand thoroughly exposed the menda-
cious and INSCRIPTIONS organ of the Rebels,
in this City, in its assaults on the members
elect from Craven; but to point out and ex-
ptSc TIC lalSenOOuS OF these rGDeI sheets
would be the perpetual work of rolling the
stone of Sisyphus. Fooled in their selfish
aims-defeated by an honest and virtuous
people at the polls, and that after full and
fair hearing, they have no other recourse
than to mlsrepresent. malign and viIlify
their opponents, and especially those whom
the people have honored. They have lost
their temper with the elections; and their
hopeless condition in the future is well ex-
hibited by their disregard of decency and
truth. They feel that if they can not sue
coed before the people, and thus retain their
ill-gotten power they can at least have a
" good time of it'' by abusing and making
faces at their opponents all of which We
have no objection. 1t is much more harm
less employment than that in which they
have been engaged for the last four or five
years.