The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-08-04
The Democrats proved to be Walkers
EnauniaS

STANDARD. The new quill driver is evident
ly not an editor. and equally evidently as a
lawyer. From the character of his effort it
is plainly to be seen that he is a protesting
lawyer. Always willing to be accommoda
ting we shall not raise any objections to the
the new recruit, and will proceed TO notice
the points which he attempts to make. After
| giving some detached extracts from one of
our articles the writer lays down the follow
ing extracts as the platform of the STAN
DARD:
1. The STANDARD, NOW, whatever may have
been lis former proclvities, claims assimilation
with the Walker Conservatives of Virginia.
2. 1t deprecates and opposes prescription for
| opinions sake.
=. 1t desires the success of the principles and
! policy of the Walker Conservatives in Virginia
| throughout the country.
4. 1t takes its stand squarely for universal suf-
frage coupled with general amnesty. ~
We decline to accept the rules so kindly
laid down for us by the Sentinel writer,
preferring ourself to have the privilege of
framing the rules by which the STANDARD
will lie guided Therefore we will take up
his assertions separately:
1st. The STANDARD docs not "claim as
similation with the WALKER conservatives
of VIRGINIA" On the contrary, it is the
WALKER party which claims to belong to
the STANDARDS party. The STANDARD
stands now where it has always stood-on
the platform of the National Republican
party. To this patty Gen. GRANT owes
his election, and by its principles he is
bound. General GRANT is the head of the
National Republican party. The STANDARD
is the NORTH CAROLINA organ of that party.
The WALKER party, before in opposition
to General GRANT, now supports him and
declares itself to belong to the Republican
party. This is the declaration, not only of
WALKER himself, but of all the WALKER
papers. 1t is then evident that, SO far from
the STANDARD claiming assimilation with
WALKERS party, the WALKER men claim
assimilation with the STANDARDS party.
So much for statement number one.
2. 1t deprecates and opposes proscrip-
tion for opinions sake" The writer is en-
tirely right in this instance. The discovery
of the fact, however, does not entitle him to
much credit since it has long been apparent
to every fair-minded man in the State.
g. "It desires the success of the princi-
pies and policy of the WALKER conserva-
tives in Virginia and throughout the coun-
try" Here, again, as we'll as we can judge
from his rather confused statement, the
writer makes the same mistake as he did in
his first proposition. The STANDARD does
not desire the success of the principles and
policy of the "WALKER Conservatives" for
there is no such party. The writer forgets,
or affects to forget, that the so called WAL
KER party of Virginia is By ats ooom declara-
ton but small portion OF the great Ma
tiona1 Republican party, and that, though
conservative in principle as is the Repubi-
beat party,,i it does not claim the name Con
4 :scssativc " but Republican Hence, al
1 though the STANDARD desires the success of
the principles and policy favored by WAL
KER, in so doing, it desires the success of
the National Republican party, and also,
but as sequence, thejsuccess of the WAL
kerr sf EIRGISIA That the STAND
ARJsAesifes the success of these principles
throughout the country is true, for these arc
the principles of the Republican party OF
every State in the Union. In MAINE, for
instance, the platform of Governor CHAM
BERLAIN, the Republican candidate, is &C.
actly similar to that of WALKER, and is
supported by the Republican party of that
State Thus it will he seen that in approx
ing the platform of WALKER the STANDARD
is only reiterating its approval of principles
it has supported for several years past
4. at takes its stand squarely for universal
suffrage coupled with general amnesty
Here again the great sa gacity of the Sentinel
writer is strikingly displayed. As the STAN
DARD took this stand" several years ago
and has defended it ever since, lis to be pre-
sumed that it takes it now That Statesman
like the Sentinel writer, even though pool
one, could be SO long in making the discovery
is rather damaging to his reputation for states
manship. But then it didn't take much O.
81 man for Governor during the war. Ii
order to reassure the writer, however, we viii
tell him that the STANDARD does stant
suuarely for universal suffrage and genera
amnesty.
The Sentinel writer having exhausted hi
stock of ideas in the production of the fore
going, has but one theme left. The rest .
his rather verbose article is entirely confined
to the subject of secret political societies
He endeavors to show that the statement
of the STANDARD and the WALKER part
must be untrue, because WALKER in hi
Binghampton speech spoke of being or
2 posed by the "organized ignorance" of VIZ
GINA This the writer, by great stretc
of the imagination, pretends to think mean
the League, and regards this as conclusiv
evidence that the WALKER party is not Re
publican This assumption is clearl
: wrong, and is SO proved by the fact tina
WALKER and his supporters have declare
themselves to be true Republicans. Ce
: tainly WALKER and his friends should kno
! to what party they belong much better tha
~ the writer in the Sentinel, and any assuml
ton to the contrary by that writ
: only tends to make him appear ST
moro ridinnloua Aoain the w A1KI