Year: 1866

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The Newbern Commercial says that the
following notice was posted in the town of
Beaufort on Saturday last:


NOTICE. There will be meeting of the
Unmistaka5ly Loyal Men of the Town of
Beaufort, in the Court House, on Saturday
evening, at n o'clock, 10Th inst. Our Col
ored Brethren are cordially invited to attend.


MANY CITIZENS.


It further states, that it is isinformed, that
the mover in this matter Is certain "jack-
leg-lawyer," not native Of Carteret. We
observe by the proceedings of the Loyalists
Convention in this city, that one W. J.
Doughty, one of the Secretaries, represented
Carteret. Is Mr.. Doughty the author of the
'above2 If he Is not, he ought to disclaim
1t, as the remarks of tie Commercial look
rather pointedly at him-Sentinel.


The above is mean and cowardly attempt,
by reconstructed traitors, to injure worthy
and loyal young man. Mr.. Doughty never
posted any such Card. He had previously
issued call for meeting in Beaufort to ap-
point delegates to the meeting in Raleigh,
whereupon some blackguard posted the
above Card, as reflection on the Union men
of that place.


But it is all the same to the Commercial
and Sentinel They would hesitate at moth
ing to effect their ends They riot in calum-
ny, slang, and vituperation. Any one who
will act with them, no matter what his prin-
ciples may be, is all right; and those, no
matter how pure or upright, who refuse to
act with them, are slandered and villified.-
The Commercial and aSentine, would jump at
negro suffrage tomorrow, if they could re-
tain power in this State in no other way
They would do anything, or submit to any
thing, for the sake of offices and spoils.-
Men who feel in their hearts, as they do, that
they have deliberately ruined their country
that by their conduct they have freed the
slaves, and made them the equals of the
whites before the law, do well to talk about
dignity and further humiliation All these
troubles about the negro are to be traced to
just such persons. If they had not set him
free by their secession, and by fighting the
United States when there was no hope for
success, but merely to crafty the vengeance
and hatred which boiled in their hearts, the
people would have had none of this trouble
above negro testimony and negro suffrage.
They did not intend to do this-oh no -
But they did it, and now they want to rule
and ruin the people againl What voter,
with thimble full of brains, will trust them


Since the above was prepared and put in
type, we have received the following COM
munication from Mr.. Doughty, exposing
this SANDER against him by the Commercial
and Sentinel:- -


Messrs Editors Of Standard ask
small space in your paper to repel the foul
aspersions and disgusting falsehoods con-
tained in a Card published in the Newbern
Commercial and Raleigh Sentinel, signed
Many Citizens"


The above notice was posted up at the
time and place, as stated by the Commercial.
1t is we'll understood by the citizens of Beau
fort, that it was done by some unknown
secessiOnist, as an attempt to ridicule the
Union men,


If the Sentinel and Commercial have any
regard for truth, or any respect for them
selves, they will correct this matter. I am
slow to believe they are so lost to every sense
of justice and shame, as to have deliberately
concocted the above for the purpose of inju-
ring me-certainly not the Sentinel


expected, by attending the Convention
in Raleigh, ON the Goth inst, to incur the
disapprobation of those supporters of Mr..
Worth who are SO intolerant as to wish to
force their opinions on others; but did not
expect them, in their zeal for the election of
Mr.. Worth, to undertake to asperse the
private character of any person in that Con-
vention


AS to the sentiment contained in the
anonymous notice referred to, which the
Commercial and Sentinel wish, by system
of hocus-pocus, to ascribe to mel consider
it beneath the dignity of a gentleman to re-
quire an answer. l am native of North
Carolina, resident in Carteret county three
years, and 1 am well known to the peo-
pie in the Eastern part of the State.


The Editor of the Commercial calls me
jackleg lawyer, and says am not native
OF Carteret county. 1t is strange how this
learned Apollo should have gained SO much
wisdom. He must know facts by intuition.
never had any business with him, nor do I
expect any from him, as quacks never en-
ploy each other. As to the latter PROPOSE
tion, presume have as much right to
speak for the Union men of Carteret, as he
has to speak for the secessionists of Craven


thank you, Messrs. Editors, for this op-
portunity to answer an unjustifable attack
upon me, and humbly begging the pardon
of the public promise hereafter to notice
nothing that these secession papers may say
about me, unless they should be compliment
ary, and, in that event, must exclaim "what
have l done, that the enemies of my country
should praise me2"


W. J. DOUGHTY.