The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1868-03-11
william e. PeH, the Branded Liass


as a member of the Convention, to give due
attention to the paper. Mr.. Pell was labori-
Gus in his habits, and took pride in getting
out good newspaper. 1t was his habit to
prepare each week column of items of va
rieus kinds tor the Weekly Standard. These
items did not appear in the Semi Weekly
STANDARD. The writer of this, the Senior
Editor, seldom saw or examined the Weekly
pspsr,s ~ it4Nas made up and printed from,
the matter which appeared in the Semi
Weekly @
In 1865 Josiah Turner, Jr., in Circular
issued by him against us, quoted from the
Standard OF June, 1861, the allusion to Mr..
Lincoln and Gen. Scott" plotting for their
heads" &C. We at once examined the Semi
Weekly file of the paper of the date referred
to- and found that 1t contained nothing OF
the sort. We then looked in the Weekly
file of the same date, and there We found 1t,
in the neaos items prepared by William E. PsU.
We had never seen it before in the Standard.
Mr.. Pell denies in the Sentinel that he Sc
lected this item for the Weekly Standard.
There are various grades OF talsehoods. =
There are some that may not damn the sonl.
1t may be that when lie is told from weak
ness or great temptation, and is followed by
twipge of conscience, that the recording
angel let's fall tear and blots it out; but
when protesting Christian tells lie will
fully and wickedly, and then glories in it,
nothing can be left to that creature but
fearful looking for of the fires of torment
That thing William Z. Pell has done, and,
sad to say, he kno,os it. This awful sin, like
that of murder, will follow him. He can
not escape it. He kno0s he has lied. We
tell his friends that he knoics he has lied
When he shall again dare to put his foul
hand on the Sacred Volume, and essay to
expound it to a waiting congregation, we
should not wonder if the hand OF an aveng-
ing Deity should paralyze his tongue. 1t is
written, "all liars shall have their part in
the lake that burneth with fire and brim-
stone" But this will be as nothing COM
pared to the mental tortures which such a
soul must suffer.
Mr.. Pell says he can "prove" that we saw
the article at the time, and gloated" over
it. Sir, produce your witnesses
In April Or May. 1861, William E. Pell
wss ousaot employment. He applied to us
for employment. We advised him to go to
the State House and ask to be employed to
| sign Treasury notes. He did so, and was
refused. on account of his Conservative SEN
timents. We then took pity ON him and
gave him work. During the rebellion, as
times got hard, we helped to put bread in
his mouth. We sent him wood from our
woodward, and salt anG meal from our
smoke-house. By the salary we paid him,
and the amount he drew from his colored
congregation. he was able to live comforta-
bly,. Gradually, however, he went over TO
the Rebels, and thus left our employment.
lie was the first to publish, in his religious
| paper. an Address from the Confederate of
ticers from this State in Virginia. which led
to the mobbing of our office From the
middle of 1868 until the Union troops
reached Raleigh, he welded his religious
paper in the interests of the rebellion, and
spared no efforts to intensity Southern feel
ing against Mr.. Lincoln and the Northern
people. He urged the putting in of the last
man to fight for slavery. He waded in
blood, and called on God, not to forgive,
but to blast his enemies. To hear him pray
for the Confederacy," one would have
thought he was issuing orders to the Eter-
nal Throne to give success to Davis, and
that without delay. He rallied his readers
to the Confederate prayer meetings, to pray
for vengeance and blood, even as the secu-
lar papers rallied their readers to the polls.
He held up Mr.. Lincoln to his readers as a
demon. He held up the Northern people
as ''hyenas" and demons. But when the
rebellion collapsed he fell like an old buck
when shot, and said "God had done it,
1T was Gods work" He admitted every
thing. He begged every body to forget the
unhappy past. and take new start under
the old flag. Even up to within six weeks
OF the candidacy of Gov. Worth in 1865, he
gave seven reasons in his paper why the
writer OF this should be elected Governor.
but niack slavery only had been abolished
IN this State When the big leaders who
own him body and soul gave the word, he
forgot all his pledges and ranged himself
again on the Rebel slde
In 1861, when wesigned the secession ordi-
nance, we were hissed by secesslonsts in the
lobby, because they had no confidence in our
attachment to the Confederacy" Wewere
denounced as Lincolnite" from the mo-
ment we struck for the Union in 1860, up
to the close of the rebellion. We were de.
nounced by the secession papers in this CITY.
during the rebellion, because we said Mr.
Lincoln in our columns, and not " old Abe.p
or the " Gorilla" as they called him. Their
files will show this f. ..I.,.
The very men who bring false charges
against us were parties to the assassination
OF MIR. Lincoln. If he had been assassinated
In April, 1854. instead of April, 1865, these
Rebels who are assaling us would have fred
guns and rung the bells for joy. They put
money in Booths pocket, and capped the
pistol that did the deed. 1t was their work