The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-08-04
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MEssRs EDIroRs The great indigna-
ton meeting came off to day. as advertised,
1t was well represented with the war
J spirit wing of loco fo-co-ism. There were
some few citizens here in this county, and a
few doctors, lawyers and preachers who
still continue to disgrace themselves by
trying to run the war spirit over a peaceabe
and well behaved community.
The meeting was addressed by DR.. C. J.
O'Hagan, who walked behind old Jeff4s
ranks and sawed off the legs of the poor
conscripts whom he lo-cO-fokcd into an I'M
lawful rebellion. This doctor has .'een
playing the orator for his Democratic friends
fifteen years, and has never yet worked him.
self into their good graces far enough to be
nominated one time We would be glad to
have him canvass the county this fall f +
his party AS soon rs all peaceable citi-
zens saw where he was they would 90 the
other way, knowing he has ALWAYS been
wrong: but they say he is a perfect gentle
man, and bis political friends like him, he
is so familiar and can take such social
drinks with them, although to represent
them in the Senate they want man who is
more patriotic They want DR.. Taft, who
staid at home all through the war and ia
vored putting in the last man and last dol
lar. who ran as candidate upon the plat
form of suspending the ha6eas corpus act,
has been before his country three times be-
fore, and has not yet found out the people
do not want him. He was nominated and
has accepted the nomination. So l hear.
He never disgraces himself by making long
speeches. He says fellow citizens, | am a
candidate 10 represent you in the Senate,
and if you will elect me | will serve you to
the best OF my skill and ability. I am no
speaker. am the same as DR.. O'Hagan-
you know all about him, he'll tell you.
Then here comes G. w. johnson, orator
of orators of F. f. VS., far more indignant
than he was when he used to preach, until
the evidence was so plain that he preached
for money. women and fat chickens that he
could no longer face apulpit, and turned to
the bar to practice the learned profession,
which was highly gratifying to him but
when Offices of honor and profit were to he
filed having found himself kept out in the
cold, he became very indignant at the taxes,
officers, finances and the treasury generally,
because they are in somebody else's hands.
He plays the lawyer well, Is a good hand to
gain a bad case; he would be so indignant
to lose case you could hear him and his
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yet notwithstanding this great eloquence he
breaches the war spirit to the best of his
skill and ability. When the people of this
county all get mad at one time he will be
the regular nominee for seat in Jef's lost
cause.
Then comes up one other fellow who has
played the part of his preaching brother
who preceded him, up to the money. women
and fat chicken part of it and will, soon APP
pear at the bar, but with far less eloquence
than his brother, and equally as muca in
dignation and wrath poured out upon a
people who are now so much in favor of
peace that they are as much disguised at
such speeches as they ever were at secession
and its leaders. And yet they have not
sense enough to know the war is over and
the time for peace has come. I think they
called his name Wallace. A stenographer
would have made something by catching
his speech. He could have caught the
words but the devil had the spirit before he
did. He preached the same hell-ire and
birthstone he used to in the pulpit. Shall
they be arrested, or not noticed? The Lu-
matte Asylum is already full of such fellows.
Let them run, they have never been known
to fight. They will though, if you don't
give them Office
Next comes Axiom, who has shown him
self well pleased with the spirit of the great
Indignation meeting. He lost the nomina-
ton, and went off disguised with indigna.
ton meetings, taxes. 10 Turner, Holden and
every thing else that wouldn't elect a man
in the Senate
Then, after the fire has cooled down and
the smoke blown away a little, here comes
another young man named Bob Joyner,
good fellow who never made but one poiti-
cal blunder il his life, and that was when
he went with the war spirit wing of the
Democratic party, and voted for Seymour
and BLAIR. What IL pity it is that good
old line Wings will do so, when they have
been abused so much by them, and lead to
destruction by them, when we have true Re
publicanism here which rewards every man
according to his merits. Bob has never
been red bone loco fo-co. Come back
Bob, yon have never been rewarded accord
ing to your merits because there are some
fire eating aspirants in the party who must
always have the preference because they
hate equal rights worse than you do All
you who labor and are heavy laden, come to
the Republican party, and we will give you
rest. All good conservative men. all old
line Wings, come to u.s. your principles have
come to you Now why not vote with us