The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-09-07
A CARD.
TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

ro THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Az much asI dislike to appear before the
public in q newspaper ar1cie' ieei con-
s.ra;ned for once. and once only, to do so, In
order IN denounce to the people OF North
Goroi;na as a libel an article in the Sentinel
ra,ysnaner of September first, headed GOT
n ITTs RrwARD.n in which the editor of the
leading Democratic organ in this state IN
sinuates too plainly for misunderstanding
that was bribed to cooperate with the he
publican party by the offer of office.
Among the readers of the Sentinel l feel
quite sure will be found much OF the virtue
and intelligence of the. State, and l feel con-
fident that will receive ready affirmative
response from that portion of its readers to
the axiom "that to state what one does not
know to be true is equally as culpable and
uniustifable as to state what one knows to
be false"
The statement or insinuation that have
been acting with the Republican party for
sake of gain or Office is wholly untrue, and
therefore could not have been within the
knowledge of the editor of the Sentinel.
The charge then, if not false, is certainly not
true to his neutrality-suspicious. 0ia data
IL is of like morality.
Now what have done to cause the liberty
IN he converted into the license of the press
in this way9 Is it done pro bono p,tbLico !?
or is it set down in malice2" It seems that
it is now considered enough by some people
to Justify any manner or amount OF hbelous
vituperation and abuse, that man should
revolt from the CALLING despotism Of the
Democratic Conservative party. Ifhe leaves
| it when the other party is up, he is abused ;
! if when it is do,on, it is Just the same. No
character is respected Does not this look
like set purpose of malice prepense, winked
| at. if not abetted by better men, to hunt
| do,cr ana man who sewers his connection
| with the "modern" Democracy2 Is this
| entitled even to the name of wild justice ~
Does it not look like the outward manlfes'
tatipn of settled conspiracy to brow-Deal
and ruin, if possible, men for mere difference
of opinion9 Does it not look like the aris
tocracy of Kukluxism,"-perhaps the I'm
visible Empire?" -,
Ihope the good people of the State will
ask some one else about me before accept
ing the libel as truth, for we shall haVt
come to sad pass in North Carolina wher
any statement is believed merely because
Mr.. Turner makes it!
b To the chivalrous young men may ado
that Mr.. Turner has, in making this attack
violated all sense of delicacy. We have no
spoken for over twelve years-are bite
enemies, and positively refused to appear
and did not appear, in his habeas corpus cas-
at Salisbury, from sense of delicacy.
No, fellow-citizens, l will not say, but
conjecture, that the decree has passed in tn
Invisible Empire" that every man who, a
a judicial or executive officer, or counse
opposes the Kuklux, is to be slandere
and denounced and socially ostracisec
The cold shoulder is to be givei
and a mans character is to be if pc
sible taken from him by open ibels an
whispered ISLANDERS, but so far as am col
cerned, nothing but the act of God sha
deter me from exerting every power of min
and body possess until the Kuklux sha
pass away to be heard of no more foreve
in the full confidence that Ishall be set rigl
when the ebb-tide of public opinion sha
have set in.
T As for Mr.. Turner, have said enous
here to put him in the dilemma of seekir
: satisfaction or stopping his libels-
say to him now,
7 "You bite file-cease viper"
Il Respectfully,
w n RAJTEY