The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-02
For the Standard.

MEssRs. EDITORS Il saw few days ago
in the Raleigh Sentinel, an article purportin.
to give the character of the Davises of thi
County, on the Conservative and Republican
tickets. Now, I would not traduce the char
acter, neither would do violence to the per
son of anv one, even If 1t were In my powe
to do so. much prefer doing good, relicv
ing the distressed, building up and making
happy my fellow human beings than thi
vilifying ones character on account OF NJ
honest difference of opinion. In fact, the
party to which belong, and to which I an
so much attached, bitterly opposes such {
course, and like the Bible, from which
its principles are taken, it advocates doing
good and melting out justice alike to all men
and not like the Conservative party, and
unlike the Bible, doing good and doing jus
ticc to a part only. can understand how q
man whose heart is in its natural, wicked
state, and loves darkness rather than light
in word, can understand how a sinner
can object and even hate the principles OF
the Republican party. The Bible and reason
make plain enough such character, but
cannot understand how man who has been
spiritually enlightened and IN whose heart
the Holy Spirit abides and rules, can not
only oppose, but bitterly denouncc party
when he knows, or ought to know, that that
party is doing all it can to bring about peace
and reconciliation between people who have
been at variance, and when he must know,
too, it advocates liberty, justice, goodwill
and charity to all men.
The writer of the article in question do
not know, nor have l any idea, neither do l
know his object, except to satisfy passion
and prejudice. l am sure he has not shown
great deal Of magnanimity, for, having
beaten us, he is now telling us and the world
how mean we are. Now. 1 think " Scri6e''
would WELD better influence, and do his
country more good with an axe or hoe than
a pen l will not criticise his composition.
Suffice it to say, it has been sufficiently un-
derstood, and as it might have weight and
credence with some who know no better, it is
best to examine it little and see if Scribe
land he might we'll have added Pharisee)
has not been influenced by improper motives
rather than by justice and truth in scribing
his scribbling in regard to the Davises-
Mr.. Editor, know them and have known
them for many years. l shall say nothing
against neither the one nor the other, but
simply and briefly give statement of facts
and leave it with those Greed from preju-
dice) who know them, to say whether am
Republican ticket are
of No. order, and is said to be by those
who have employed him one of the best
physicians of the town.
I'd. Alexander c. Davis, he is one of our
largest and most influential merchants and
as to matters OF politics and general infor-
nation, he has not his superior in the Coun-
ty. He is, and always have been, Il loyal
man, and tor this especially, and might
add too, that because God has prosperetl him
in business, g Scribe" concludes, he must Ger
tainly be Scalawag of the scaliest sort
Yes, and Scribe might have added in his
effulgent illusions, that all men are mean and
black. who are loyal to the government of
the United States. and disloyal to the South
ern Confederacy. The man that can curse
the hardest and deride the most sneeringly
the flag and laws of his country, is the man
in whom there is no guile and with the
Scribe and Pharisaical class, is the purest
and wisest
Sd. Melvin ]. Davls-he is naturally a
good man of good, practical sense and of
sound judgment He is what some call
self made man, and is certainly the best in
formed and the most influential man east of
this town. This ends what have to say of
the three loyal land on account of their 10y
alty) black Davises. Now for the white
"'uns"
1st. J. Henry Davis the candidate elect for
the House of Representatives, aside from his
foolish political and some other notions, is
right good sort of fellow. He has proved
himself with the assistance of some of his
fricnds) to be a tirst-rate hand at electioneer-
ing. His success was more attributable. l
think, to his friend whisky, than to any 9th
er. Whether he has, or has not had advan-
tages for acquiring an education, will not
pretend to answer the fact is, he has not yet
acquired it. and reading, writing and cy-
phering, are perhaps the total of his educa-
tional possessions, and these, but smatter-
ing. They say he has attempted to make
a speech and will probably attempt to make
his second and last in the Legislature, and
thus he will wind up both his executive and
Legislative career.
I'd. Joel H. Davis, candidate elect for
County Treasurer, is little short of three
score years and ten. He was a Union man
before and during the war, but since, l am sor-
ry to say, he is not. The men who threatened
him during the first part of the war with q
am intormed) imprisonment. are now his
warm friends and was elected by them 1t is
thought that he was either led off by the |
company he kept, or by the influence of one
the candidate elect for Sheriff, is a young
man whose advantages for acquiring knowl- |
edge or the accumulation of money have |
been very limited, and is not much known
This ends what have to say of the three
Clisloyal or white Davises. In regard to
'' Scribe's' postscript, l have only to say that |
VIM. B. Duncan, ]. c. Manson, &c, will com
pare pretty well with the Conservative can
didates for Commissioners as to character
and intelligence. REPUBLICAN.
Beaufort, May %, 1868.
P. ST the Raleigh Sentinel will use one
IF its abusive and contentious columns for |
the insertion of as truthful article as the |
above, a few of its readers will not object.
For the Standard.
ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE AND THE CRIMINAL !
LAW.