The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-07-21
The Radical Democracy Dying.

The moral obliquity of the Sentinel is
only equallcd l,y its obtnseness. There are
some heads into which an idea cannot be
driven and it is evident that such head
furnishes the articles which Gil up the col
umns of the Sentinel What gentleman
has the felicity of being the posscssor OF
of this thick -shelled Uranium we do not
know, and we are bound to confess, don't
care We understand that the one idea
which furnishes the sole editorial theme Tor
the editor of the Sentinel has been dashed
and rehashed so often that the Democratic
leaders have feltit their duty to demonstrate
against its future infection upon the public
Therefore the legal talent of Wake has been
levied upon to furnish editorials for the
Sentinel. Such, however, is the effect of the
recent big scare they experienced at the
hands of the Supreme Court, that their lee
BILE minds are unequal to the task OF under
taking the difficult job of writing fora Dem
ocratic paper. Therefore it is that the read
ers OF the Sentinel have become Disguised
with thar paper and are rapidly deserving
it. Whether the new Democratic paper,
which is to be started on account of the
weakness of the Sentinel, will succeed any
better is difficult to tell. Editing Demo
cratic papers is a difficult job now. The
Democratic party advocates the most pro-
scriptive and radical measures, yet
Democratic Editors are expected to be
able to cheat the people into the belief
that its prescription was conservatism and
its radicalism true liberality. Aided by the
passions resulting from four years of war,
and the bitter feeling caused by the aboli-
ton of slavery, the democratic press have
been able to deceive the masses OF the people
and have caused them, by voting the Dem
ocratc ticket, to vote for the proscriptivc
and radical measures they detested. The
Democrats have endeavored to prescribe
every man who does not vote with them.
The prescription is not confined to politics
alone, but extends even to social life. A
proscrptive policy is denounced by every
conservative man in the country. The DEM
.cratic papers themselves have denounced
it, even while they practiced it. Therefore
out of their own mouths are the democrats
condemned. That the policy and measures
of the Democracy have been radical in the
extreme no man of sense can deny. Their pol
| icy towards all who have differed with them
| politically has been to use the most radical
means to bring them back, or, failing in this,
to iniurc them The people have found this
| out. and have also found out how basely they
have been deceived by the Democratic lead
ers, and are willing to be deceived no longer.
The people have opened their eyes to the
fact that the conservative men of Virginia
are opposed to the Democracy because Of its
qalacalism, and are in favor of the Republi-
can party because Of its liberatity. The
people are also aware that the radicalism OF
the Democratic party has greatly injured
the State and has operated against the well
fare of the people, and they will no longer
support party which is SO regardless OF
the welfare of the people. Condemned by
every conservative man in the South, and
found out by the people they have betrayed,
it is indeed an unenviable task to edit So
called Democratic paper in North Carolina.
Soon, however, there will be no Democratic
papers for the sham Democracy will be dead
and the people will rejoice. The Repub-
lican party, the PEOPLES party, now
stands as the only liberal party in the South.
1t proseribes no one for opinions sake, but
accords to all every right of Thought and &C
ton not subversive of the government, or OF
the liberties of the people. Its platform is
Universal Suffrage and General Amnesty. 1t
imposes political disabilities upon no one
Those who have been tistranchised and dis
allied from holding Office by engaging in
rebellion against the government, have only
TO apply for pardon and their disabilities are
removed. Thus the Republican party is
undeniably the only liberal party in the
South. The psople now comprehend this
and are joining it by thousands. The cry
is, "Down with the radical Democracy p