Year: 1868

Whoever repeats libel is equally guilty
with the person who first uttered it. Worse
than this, if the person should unguardedly
make use of an expression without any wick
ed intent, and that expression should be
wrested from its proper connection and con-
strued into libel, then the parties so doing
are guilty, and the original utterer is inno-
cent


But be this as it may; we are credibly in
formed that the Rebel Democratic party are
circulating what they consider to be an OBJ
scene document among the family firesides of
North Carolina. If the said extract was
such that it could not be read by chaste
minds even while in the connection in
which it first appeared, how can these same
chaste minds dare to peruse it when wrested
from its connection and made to appear
merely as piece of obscenity? How does
it come to pass that the rebel Democracy
may circulate with impunity the boldest OBJ
scenity while anything which will even bear
an indelicate construction in the STANDARD
is enough to strike terror and alarm into
the minds of the custodians of the public
virtue9


The whole thing is merely for political eff
feet. When the rebel Democracy circulate
these obscene writings and say that the Re
publican party is responsible THEY LIE IN
FAMoUsLY AND THEY LIE WnFUILY. The
Editor who keeps an obscene extract stand
ing at the head of his columns and charges
or insinuates that the Republican party is
responsible, LIES and he knows it. The
rebel stumper, when he repeats the charge is
WnFUL LIAR WITHOUT STINT.


Miserable hypocrites Unclean and filthy
birds! What do they care for virtuea Who
would circulate an obscene engraving or
picture in the home circle and excuse it up
on the ground that they merely wish to show
one of the fruits of human wickedness? |?
Who would present volume of libertine
poems and excuse it upon the ground that
"to be hated' they 'need but to be seen."
Or who would scatter broadcast among the
families of our people, document, which
they themselves say is too licentious to be
placed, for moment, before chaste imag-
ination? And yet, as we learn, the rebel
Democracy are doing this very thing! They
are corrupting the imagination of the young
and virtuous by ibidinous ''word pictures" !"
They are exciting passions of poor weak
human nature to vice and crime They are
sowing the seed wholesale and creating a
taste, which if not corrected, will result in
ruin to the individual, and if extensive
enough, in ruin to society. If this taste does
not become widespread, it will not be be-
causerebelm lmoneyandt the rebel press have been
remiss Gin circulating the documents" 1t
will not be because the rebel publishing COM
mittees have not done their "whole duty"


Poor fools Do they think that they can
draw off the public attention from their own
infamous crimes and from the life and death
issue of peace or war which is before us by
any such miserable subterfuge? The peo-
pie of North Carolina are too wise to be
such silly dupes.


All that they can do or can hope to do
will be to undermine the foundations of
chastity to the degree that they gave publ
city to lecherous publication. Most vir-
tuous Democracy! "Only this and nothing
more"