The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-08-18
The Disbanded Democracy Pretend ~
be Republicans.


be Republicans.
The Tarboro' Southerner announces that
It adopts the platform of universal sunrage
and general amnesty. This is the platform
of the Republican party of North Carolina.
But the southermer says it is opposed to
Gov. HOLDEN and his party. Every true
Republican in the State acknowledges Gov.
HOLDEN as the leader of the party in this
State.
Without declaring allegiance to the true
Republican party, the SOuthermer cannot use
the name Republican, (which" it thinks,
amay be more effective in its workings" than
any other.
We say candidly that we do not believe
in the purity of the sudden conversion OF
the SoutAerner It is too sudden. 1t and
others of the Democratic papers only de-
monstrate the truth of the adage "Rats de-
sert sinking ship"
The Democratic party is dying. So far
as being able to contend against the Repub-
licans is concerned, it is dead now.
The Democratic papers know this, and
are leaving it to its fate They wish to form
new party, with which they hope to be
able 10 cope with the Republicans. Hence
their cries for new party.
The STANDARD told the people of this
weeks ago. The Democratic papers denied
it, and sought to deceive the people. The
people can now see that the STANDARD told
them the truth.
We now tell the people that new effort
to betray them is being made by their old
enemies The Democratic leaders, beaten as
Democrats, are trying to play the same old
game under different name. No matter
what the new fusion is called it will consist
mainly of the same treacherous sham-De-
mocracy that the people of North Carolina
have despised, and which the Republican
party has so numerically beaten.
The unjust treatment of the Wing ele-
ment of the late sham Democracy did much
to occasion its disruption. The old Wings
could not endure the insolence of their old
foes and left the party in disgust. Many of
them are now Republicans, and nearly all
of them soon will be.
The socalled NEW movement has no
terrors for us, for it will never be a success.
All the petty demagogues in the State can
not form new party. They have reckoned
without their host.
Parties. are not formed by editors nor by
mere wire-pullers. They are formed only
from great national causes, and by the PEG
PIE. Prominent men may take advantage
of the popular feeling to put themselves in
the van of a new popular movement. But
they simply join the new party, they do not
creatait
This our Democratic friends do not seem
to understand, or have forgotten in their
greed for office. We shall watch their move
ments with great deal of amusement. They
have plenty of time to perfect their new
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES three years and half.
This will give them an ample opportunity
for reflection. We hope that their ragged
recruits will not starve before the new con-
Germ gets fully organized.
In the meantime the Republican party
will pursue the even tenor of its way, daily
receiving additions from best portions of
the disban led Democracy. 1t is not the
Radical Republican party. 1t is not the
Conservative Republican party. 1t is the
REPUBLICAN party, and its motto is, now
as before, Universal Suffrage and General
Amnesty.
If the disbanded Democracy wish to
to adopt Universal Suffrage and General
Amnesty they can do so, but if they do they
will be taking it at second hand, and the
people will not believe the sincerity of their
professions until they practice what they
preach.
Let the disbanded Democracy twist and
squirm, and seek new alias. There is but
one National party-the REPUBLICAN.
The people know this and will not suffer
themselves to be deceived by the transpa-
rent trickery of the played.out Democracy.