The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-05-18
Republication.

AS there has been some demand for GER
tain article, which recently appeared in the
Standard, we republish it, and hope that our
friends will not again insist upon its appear
ance, as twice is certainly enough:
For the Sentinel.
This journal of Saturday takes occasion
to make an attack upon the editor CT this
paper and the Governor, because the STAN
dard saw fit to publish card from Charles
d. Snead, of johnson county, without edi-
torial comment.
This man has been charged with horse
ytealing, but the charge is not conviction;
and, though he were guilty, there is no mean
ness so great as the meanness to deny him
access to the public ear. But Mr.. Snead
sees tit to live under the imputation that he
is horse-thief He ought to kick Turner,
or he ought to be silent. 81
B Now as to the statements in the Sentinel,
that he saw US in buggy, which was reel
ing and zigzagging, we pronounceit another
lie. The ihsinuation is that we were drunk.
Josiah Turner, keeps his bottle in his Office
He has been and is public drunkard and
a public coward, caluminator and poltroon.
to his face to-day by Senator Gwyther of
Martin, upon the floor of the State Senate,
before the war, and he took it. Col. Moore
of Chowan has charged the same thing upon
him, and he took it. We charge it upon
him, and be will take it.
He is slanderer and caluminator. He
is coward, and although he said in Green
vile, Pitt county, that he would not submit
to being called a coward, he will submit to
it now. Hfa ~ b.
We tell this inflated bag of venom, that
we will prick him of his malignity and
meanness before this campaign. is over
That we shall edit him, and lay the lash on
him until his churlish back winces from the
infiction.
Last Friday night when we saw him, he
was going into grog-shop. He takes din
ner in grogshop, and his supper too, for
he left one such place, very late one night
with some boon companions, as we are in
formed IRi
He is poltroon. When match explo-i
ded under bis. foot in the Courthouse, he de-
sired to know who was shooting at him
and he showed his cowardice in that retreat,
when fence rail hit him on the head and
made him ten days hero. 81,
He said he was kicked out OF the Union
after the cats and dogs left. The only way
to get him back is to kick him in again.
So far as we are concerned, all that he
says of us makes no difference, because he
has said his worst, and that has been but
little. But he has walked up the wrong pas
senger. and we shall make it even with him,
| and that, too, without calumny or SANDER
| or lying.
He is mean man. He sneaks around
| the grog holes of Raleigh for items from
| grog sellers, and publishes journal which
would be an honor to any bankrupt drunk
| ard amid the slums of New York.
| We congratulate him on his gradual
| change OF tone, up to last Saturdays issue,
since some few weeks past. But amurderer
at heart, coward in action, poltroon in
| spirit and calumniator and slanderer in
tongue, cannot conceal his true character
from the public gaze. 1t comes out lnvol-
UNFAIRLY, and the semblance of the virtues
displayed for a time seem only only to breed
vices like heat breeds lice.
We have looked him in his eve and if
quivered. We have seen him on the streets
and he was nervous. He knows that he is
guilty of suggesting more crimes than any
horse-thief in North-Carolina, and that his
hold on public respect is the same hold that
any othe, matchmaking scoundre has upon
his victim. People are afraid OF the rascal
His assurance passes for courage, and hii
lying for truths, amid crowd Of men who
scorn his vile utterances and regard his bast
breeding with contempt
The campaign is opened. We shall fght
this devil and the devils behind him witt
fire. There is no Conservative or Democrat
in this City whom we fear to expose, and
we shall make the fur fly from them fol
| their drunkenness, &C., &C., so long as thei
hired man and white negro here at the cen
ire keeps up his line OF battle. We tel
them and him that all over the State, W,
shall carry them before the public in thei
true attire, and pour the fires of justice upol
them from ladle which is being heated
Just now. They deserve it. They shall
have it; and we will give them groan 70
every laugh they have had at our expense
or the expense of our friends. A Rolanc
for your Oliver is good motto, and tn,
one which Is to succeed in this campaign
Send us the facts, Republicans, and "faitt
we'll prent 'em."