The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1868-09-30
Safe at Last.

Safe at Last.
Driven from hole to hole, from corner to
corner, hemmed in on all sides, Bro. Pell,
like jeff Davis, when he sought protection
under his wife's Water Proof" has at last
found peace and quiet under cover of South
ern virtue. We are glad you are there at
last, Bro. Pell. We had rather have the ladies
of the South at our back than all the legions
of Wade Hampton Or all the hot-bloods of
Forrest, and we can assure you that so long
as you remain where you are We shall not
disturb you.
In the times of the cavaliers men used to
come up to the defence of women, but now
we find great historical characters like jeff
Davis and Bro. Pell, in their last extremity,
rallying around them all the spirited females
in the country and calling upon them to do
what the sterner sex failed to do for them
But what wonderful difference there is
in women. Two-thirds of the rebel-Demo-
cratic press in speaking of the women of the
North who came down here for educational
and missionary purposes, have used the vilcst
epithets in the English language-ep epithets
that we will not soil our pages with, and
that make us blush even to think of-and but
few words of retort have ever been heard
from the Republican press in the South or
in the North. The pure in heart and the
pure in life need no defence, and ladies who
came here for the best of christian purposes,
and who, when at home in the North, moved
in the most cultivated circles, have been
treated like and called common tramps, be-
cause their Savior told them to go out into the
world and teach the Gospel of Christ to poor
as well as rich, to black as well as white, to all
who were hungering and thirsting after light
and knowledge.
The La Crosse Democrat, the most popular
Democratic paper in the country, is filed
with the vilest abuse of Northern ladies who
have taken up their residence in the South,
and the owner of the La Crosse Democrat has
grown rich upon his Southern subscribers =
it would sink into loathsome obscurity but
for them.
The writer of the article "Work," which
has alarmed the Sentinel so much, has lived
many years in the South, is well known in
some of the best States, has mingled and
aUmingles IN Society in the South the Senti-
mel cannot show its head in unless it can pre-
sent in its face card of invitation from
decency, breeding and culture. That he will
lose his status he has no more fear of than he
has Of going to perdition on the mandate
Of Bro. Pell. He never goes where he is
not wanted, and whether the good people of
Raleigh like him or not is a matter of little
concern to him. That they are good people
is all he wants to know and no one is more
glad to hear it than he. He never said they
were not good and he will make wager
with Bro. Pell that he may take the most de-
cent looking man employed upon his paper
and place him beside the "libidinous wretch"
of the STANDARD, introduce them both to
the best first families in Raleigh, without
and the 'hbidinous wrctch' will hold his
own and keep it as long as it suits his pleas
ure to do so, and in not less than week, read
the whole of the article "Work" without
being ostracised or having the purity of his
character Or his motives questioned.
Persons now sitting beside us say that the
Sentinel under the management of Bro. Pell,
has been guilty of the same base charges
against Northern women that so disgrace the
columns Of the La Crosse Democrat We
have not seen them and therefore do not
assert positively that they have ever been
made. Ifit should be true, however, and
Bro. Pell can be proven a 'libidinous wretch"
as well as. those awful scamps N. Paige
& Co., what an dreadful place Raleigh will
be- with not single paper under the control
of a virtuous man 1t is fearful to contem-
plate and we hope for the credit of our fair
city, that no one will look through the
columns of the Sentinel.