The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-19

malignity rather exceeds it's usual lucubra-
tions. Had the article appeared in decent
paper We should have been aston'sheo' OUT
nothing that appears in the Southerner q n
at all surprise rs. unless it should he some
thing decent. Its course has stamped IL as
paper whose malignity is only equaiea oy
its lack of brains, and which. degraded IT.
self, would gladly drag down to its own
level all that are above it. 1t one OF those
sheets which injure the State and section OF
State in which they are published and whose
only use seems to be to serve as frlght1ui
examples of what mean thing can be crea-
ted by combination of imbecility, sense
less hate and bad nature. The last stopping
over of this cess. pool of hate was occasioned
by an article in the STANDARD In reply to
the Goldsboro' Messenger, in which We spoke
as follows:
I'VE are glad to see that one Democratic
paper has responded to our wish that the
newspapers of the State should conduct po-
litical discussions in fair and candid man.
mel. We think nearly every paper In the
State will agree with us that the bitterness
and acrimony which has characterized the
tone of the North Carolina papers has not
only operated against the interests of the
State, but has been far from adding to the
good character of the press. How this spirit
came to pervade the press and people 1t IS
unnecessary to state in detail. Suffice 1T to say
that it was one of the results of the war.
That it has too long influenced the press and
society, every thinking man will admit. 1t
then is the duty of the press to use its ut
most endeavors to do away with that which
is known to be operating against every in
terest of our State. We do not expect to
find the whole Democratic press ready to
adopt this mode of action, and know that
some of them will sneer at the idea, but we
think that many of the leading journals will
lie willing to do that which they know will
greatly add to the prosperity of the State,
and promote better state Of political and
social feeling
We now say that we will meet any or all
of the Democratic papers in spirit of fair
ness and good will We will discuss politi-
cal issues, State or National, in fair and
candid manner. If we indulge in personali-
ties it will be in sportive manner, without
one particle of malice. The STANDARD is
willing to do all in its power to give
better tone to public feeling, and, if its over
lures are rejected, will at least have the con-
seriousness that it has acted in the manner
most for the benefit of the State and tine
dignity of the press"
This is the article which the Southerner
calls begging ''for recognition and an en-
tree into the ranks of good society" Our
sole object was to bring about better state
of feeling in the North Carolina press,
which would not only elevate the tone of
journalism, but would materially advance
the interests of the State, aud any man but
one whose obstinacy is greater than his
brains would know it. Many Democrats
have warmly endorsed the same article and
hoped Democratic journals would respond
to it. Many of these gentlemen belong to
better class of society than does the writer
of that article in the Southe,ner. With the
social" relations of Republicans or Demo-
Gratis we have nothing to do. For ourself,
we had rather associate with an honest poor
man who is loyal to the government, than
with the proudest man in the South, if he
be foul traitor. We want nothing to do
with aristocratic traitors, or their pimps, for
they are beneath the notice of true men. As
for the Southerner, itself we did not expect
that it would give up its abuse and ele-
waite the tone of its articles. The finger
marks of treachery are too thick upon it.
The spirit of hatred of the government, and
a mean malignity towards all who are true
to it. has ever controlled the Southerner. We
did not expect it to become high toned
journal. for its whole nature is opposed to
any such idea. Therefore we are not at all
surprised at the senseless TRADE that occu-
pied its first column. The following is the
key to its virulence, and will explain its in
tense hatred of the STANDARD:
ave are glad to know that it does not
expect to find the uhole of the Democratic
press ready to forget the ISLANDERS, false
hoods and calumnies heaped by it upon the
great mass of our people, and canine like,
profess a willingness to lick the rod that
smote them"
Yes, we are the 'rod that smote" you, and
will continue to be, and all your writings,
howlings and impotent curses will not save
you. And rest assured that, however much
we may loathe the filthy subject, we shall
continue to chastise you whenever duty COM
mands US to perform that disgusting opera
ton. As to ISLANDERS and calumnies, we
have never dealt in them, nor do we ever in
tend to. We shall leave that to papers like
the Southerner, which, after splitting its
venom at every man who is true to the gov
eminent, i, base enough to disregard the
sanctity of the grave and to SANDER the
dead. This it did in the case of Senator
Rich, man loved and respected alike by
Republicans and Democrats, and the latch
cts of whose shoes such a man as the editor
of the Southerner would not be fit to un-
loose Let the Southerner go on in the path
it has chosen, but the time will como when
honest men will shun it as they would shun
a plague, and the traitor be hated with his
treason.
The Wadesboro Argus, paper whose
high moral tone and delicacy in language