The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-03
Stand from Under!


The rickety fabric of the rebel opposition
is fast giving way and going to pieces. The
Conservative party expired on the 21st, 22nd
and 23rd of April, and after the lapseo few
weeks it will be as decently buried as the
circumstances will permit The occupation
of sour Executive Committee will be
gone, and its duties will be thenceforth con-
fined to receiving and forwarding letters of
sympathy and coincidence. Upon this gen.
eral wreck and ruin the unteirited Democ-
racy is emerging like the Phoenix from the
ashes of ages, Respondent with all the glo-
ries of the Virginia and Kentucky resolu-
tions of '9S and '99.
Unfortunate Conservatives who wooed the
fierce Democracy have been abandoned to
their fate. Not only have they been left
forsaken and desolate, but, cruel ingratitude,
the late disaster has been laid to their &C.
count! The Tarboro' Southerner speaks in
this wise
"Thjs Committee" the Conservative Ex-
ecutive Committee 1--WE had supposed per
ished amid the general wreck and ruin ut
the late election, dying with the defeat of
the party that gave it birth, but if indeed
it is still in existence we are strengthened in
the belief of its general desire if not pur-
pose on the part of the Conservatives of
North-Caroiina to permanently establish
new party under that name, as evinccd by
recent calls for reorganization of the Con-
serratire party. Of course all good honest
and patriotic men every where, will con-
nptuOusly frown down any such base and
BILE purpose, 10y uniting heart anil hand,
ame and organization, with the great
time honored Democratic party"
e present deplorable condition of our
bic Conservative friends reminds US
bile of the melancholy history of the
dove that became enamored with the
IN:
cushat would mate above her state,
she futtered her wings round the falcons
beak,
death to the dove is the falcons love,
harpis the kiss Of the falcons beak :"
The Conservative delegations will not be
cognized in National Democratic Con-
9ntion. 1t answered the purposes of the
emocracy well enough to affiliate with the
,nservatives to gain time to rally their
IN organization, and to have some scape-
pat on which to pack the blame in the
tent of their joint defeat. Reconstruction
me and with it the communication of
Conservative sinners Democratic coun-
have pronounced the following sentence,
which, it will be observed, that the meek
Christian Sentinel has not forgotten:
1t has been proposed: by certain able
arnals of the State, that "our executive
nmittee " determine upon the propriety
and call Convention of the people of
tth- Carolina, if such step be deemed adj
lble and practicable. We will not do
distinguished journalists the injustice to
lht their proposition seriously, but arc
rather disposed to regard it as an innocen.
indulgence in their accustomed "polisled
irony" rather than a cool, premeditated in
teniion to insult every Democrat in North
Carolina, which the proposition amounts to,
if made in earnest. The calling of Dem
ocratc Convention by Conservative exec
utiye Committee would be little less prepos-
ferrous and ridiculous than the action of q
Conservative meeting in sending delegates
to Democratic Convention and as regards
"our executive committee dead or alive,
Dcmocr~ts want nothing further to do with
it, and .s a Democrat we cannot in any event
recognize its authority to intermeddle in the
politics # our party"
And tie gentle Conservatives will obey the
Democratic mandate and fall in ut the tail
end of the " time-honored Democracy"