The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-07-29
Let US have War !!-GEN. BLAIR.


The Democratic platform, orators and
press are fluent in the use of the terms "fraud
and corruption" No party better under
stands the extent and meaning of those
words. There is not heighth or depth
they have not explored; nor a chance of
thieving they have not embraced to the full
lest extent New York city is their strong
hold, the citadel of Democracy, fortified and
defended by all that is Ubiquitous in politics.
Its frauds on the ballot box, its rings for
plumber and its jobs for peculation are noto-
rious and without parallel in any country.
If great cities are great sores on the body
polite, the leeches that thrive in corruption
are invariably Democratic. AS the fountain
does not rise above its source, so party in
power reflects the sentiments and does the
bidding of its most powerful auxiliaries No
doubt it would'be pleasant tor these hungry
politicians to revel on the patronage OF the
next administration, but when they pirate
of superior economy or integrity, their false
hoods are exposed by their records every
where. If it be true that no Democrat is
ever convicted of official misconduct, it is
on the ground that he can do no wrong in
stealing for himself or party. Whenever
they have large majorities, this principle
strengthens and perpetuates their ascenden-
cy, till they look upon every office as their
lawful heritage Many of these selfstyled
puritans who boosted of such virtue in the
New York Convention, are recognized as old
offenders, choked off the public pap by the
election of Mr.. Lincoln in 1860, and when
they saw r,tiracy inevitable, they stole every
thing in their reach from postage stamp
and damaged musket, to whole States. The
recovery of the property was expensive but
successful. Now the rascals lecture US on
honor and economy, and complain that they
did not have less expensive thrcshing.
Had Seymour and other copperheads gone
to their own place at the outset. it would
have been vastly cheaper to the nation.
They prolonged the contest and made it
more complete. With all these facts fresh
in the minds of the people, it is certain they
will not commit their destinies to the hands
of those renegades whose virtues are con-
fined to precepts, and whose vices are as
vast as their opportunities.
Out of power they are profuse in their
VOWS of economy. In power they are the
most graceless scamps that go unwhipt Of
justice,
"When the ID was sick, the ID monk would
be;
When the ID was we'll. ID OF a monk was
he.'
Never was this conglomerate rebel, copper
head, conservative, democratic party more
hopelessly sick than they find themselves in
this campaign. In their deep contrition,
they confess the enormous expense of their
treason. All crime is expensive to the State.
The abiding citizens must, in self de-
fence, impose taxes for its suppression, but
what would be thought of criminal who
plead the existence of these very taxes as an
evidence of his superior fitness to administer
the governments The magnitude of the re-
bellion did not make it an exception to the
general law of crime, nor can its principals
and accessories escape the paternity of the
war with its enormous expenditure of blood
and treasure, a swift witness against their
restoration to power. "Let them live il
they can endure life without an Office
without a NEGRO to wallop."