The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-02
Stand from Under!

is fast giving way and going to pieces. The
Conservative party expired on the 21st, 22nd
and 23rd of April, and after the lapse of a few
weeks it will he as decently buried as the
circumstances will permit. The occupation
of "Our 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 unteIrificd Democ-
racy is emerging like the Phoenix from the
ashes of ages, respondent with all the glo-
ries of the Virginia and Kentucky resolu-
lions of '9S and 80.
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' S0utherner speaks in
this wise
This Committee the Conservative Elk
ecutive Committee " we had supposed per
ished amid the general wreck and ruin at
the late election, dying with the defeat OF
the party that gave it birth, but If indeed
it is still in existence w0are strengthened IN
pose on the part of the Conservatives OF
North Carolina to permanently establish
new party under that name, as evinced by
recent calls for reorganization of the Con-
sercatice party. Of course all good, honest
and patriotic men every where, VIII con.
temptuously frown down any such base and
iunoble purpose 10y uniting heart and hand,
in name and organization, Will, the great
and time honored Democratic party"
The present deplorable condition OF our
amiable Conservative friends reminds US
forcible of the melancholy history OF tue
poor dove that became enamored with the
falcon:
| The cushat would mate above her state,
And She futtered her wings round the falcons
beak,
But death to the dove is the falcons love-
o sharp is the kiss of the falcons beak
The Conservative delegations will not be
recognized in National Democratic Con-
vention. 1t answered the purposes OF the
Democracy we'll enough to affiliate with the
Conservatives to gain time to rally their
own organization, and to have some scape-
goat on Which to pack the blame In the
event of their Joint defeat. Reconstruction
came and with it the communication OF
the Conservative sinners. Democratic colIn-
ellis have pronounced the following sentence,
in which, it will be observed, that the meek
and Christian Sentinel has not forgotten:
at has been proposed by certain able
Journals of the State, that "our executive
committee " determine upon the propriety
of. and call IL Convention of the people OF
North Carolina, if such step be deemed adj
yisable and practicable. We will not do
the distinguished journalists the injustice to
treat their proposition seriously, but are
rather disposed to regard it as an innocent
| INDULGENCE in their accustomed "pollshed
irony" rather than cool, premedltated IN
tention to insult every Democrat in North
Carolina, which the proposition amounts To,
If made in earnest. The calling OF Dem
ocratic Convention by a Conservative exec
utiye Committee would be little less prepos-
ferrous and ridiculous than the action or
Conservative meeting in sending delegates
TO a Democratic Convention and as regards
our executive committee" dead or alive,
Democrats want nothing further to do with
it. and as a Democrat we cannot IN any event
recognize its authority to intermediate In the
politics of our party.
And the gentle Conservatives Will OBEY the
Democratic mandate and fall IN at the tall
end of the " time-honorcd Democracy"