The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-19
The REGISTER.

Inc lt0sJSteIs
The Register has been picking at us for sew
eral weeks past, and we have borne it in 81
lence. But its persistent and insidious at
lacks on the Republican party require some
notice.
In the first place, the Register intimated
some time slice that an article we copied from
the Washington Chronicle denouncing Mr..
Goodloe, had not appeared in that paper. The
Register knew, or might have known that
this article ha d appeared in the Chronicle.
In the second place, the Register insinua-
ted that when the Republican State Com
mittee held its meeting recently in this City,
the Chairman had us many proxies in his
side pocket as he might deem necessary
This injurious reflection the Register has not
corrected, though the Editor docs not believe
it we'll founded.
In the third place, the Register intimates
that the Senior Editor of the Standard went
with the New Hanover delegation in the late
State Convention, as the price of his being
retained as Chairman of the State Commit
tee, and Mr.. Hood is quoted to sustain this
charge We did not know of any "compro-
mise" on this or other matters until the
fact was stated by Mr. Hood. The state
ment that we were party to any such ar
rangement is utterly unfounded. Nor is it
true that "the Northern delegates from
the nine Counties came to Raleigh
with feelings anything but friendly. po-
litically, to the Editor of the Standard"
They came here as our friends, as we were
authoritatlvely informed before they left
Wilmington. Nor is it true that they were
"Northern delegates" They have as much
right to be here, and us deep an interest in
the welfare of our people as the Editor of the
Register.
The Register publishes "An Address to the
People of North-Carolina," the object of
which is to bring discredit on the late State
Convention and break down the organiza-
ton of the Republican party. That paper
charges that a copy of this Address came
into our (the Standards possession through
the treachery of one of the parties to whom
it was sent in the spirit of honorable conf
dence which obtains among gentemen."-
This copy of the Address, with a letter from
Mr.. Pool, the author, and a printed slip con-
taing the names of some forty leading Re
publicans claimed by Mr.. Pool as with him
in his movement, were sent to us by a mem,
Der of the State Committee, to whom they
had been addressed. We conceive the gen.
tleuan rafarro6 tO Gil narfnrna6 hic Din
ty as member of the Committee by so do
ing. He was possessed of information of
secret movement against the party, and he
felt that the committee, of which he is a
faithful member, was entitled to this infor
nation. If there was treaclery" in this
business it was certainly not on his part.
The Register also "hopes' that we are not
indifferent" to Il charge of horsc-stealing
preferred "against political associate"
The gentleman referred to is as guiltless of
DEMONSTRATING as the Editor of the Register
He is prosecuted because he is Republican
by set of graceless, wicked rebels, and the
Editor of the Register shows has sympathy
with the Republican party by joining in this
persecution.
The Register is concerned because two
thirds of the Republicans in the late State
Convention were colored. The March Con-
vention was composed of two-thirds white
and one-third colored. The Editor and
owners of the Register were so displeased
with that Convention that they agitated IN
til they got the September Convention
They did not like the March Convention be-
cause it was not sufficiently radical, and
they do not like the September Convention
because it is too radical. They are hard to
| please.
The Register says that in the late State
Convention "the colored delegates, with a
few exception, shouted their appreciation of
every threat of confscation and disfranchise-
ment which was made by the speakers" In
the first place, this Is not true. There was
no shouting in the Convention. And in the
second place, it is strange, as the colored
people numbered two-thirds of the body,
and if they are SO enthusiastic for confsca-
ton and Acknowledgement, that they did
not pass resolution to that effect.
The Editor of the Register does not want
the colored Republicans to outnumber the
white Republicans. We would be glad to
see all the whites Republicans, but we shall
not complain, as the Register does, that
there are too many colored Republicans
The colored people of Warren would do
well to remember this complaint by Mr.
Goodloe when they come to vote for men,
bers to a Constitutional Convention.
The Register keeps Mr.. Pools address -"
standing in its columns. There Is M name
to it. We think, of the forty gentlemen
claimed as approving it, there might be one
name to it. Let US have one name. But it
seuds a waif on the sea of politics, no one
deigning to call it his own. 1t has fallen
stiR-born. Were it otherwise we might
reply to it, and show, as we easily could,
that ali its assumptions about Northern u
politicians and the colored people controlling
the Gsavention have no foundation what
ever in truth