The North Carolina Standard

FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD.

Mr. Loring:

Your step neighbor, the Editor of the "Star," seems to have fallen into hysterical fits since Mr. Branch has consented to run on the democratic ticket for Governor, and labors with a death-like struggle, to show that Mr. B. was opposed to Gen. Jackson's Administration, and of course to the leading policy of Mr. Van Buren's; to prevent, if possible, the democratic republicans from uniting upon him. Why this mighty effort to withhold the republican vote from Mr. Branch? Is it because the Editor has a "nigh personal respect for him," and wants no republican votes to elevate his friend to office? Is he afraid that himself and whig friends will be contaminated, if they unite with the democrats upon the same man for Governor? Or is it because he is not altogether certain in his own mind (notwithstanding the clear conclusion he arrives at to the contrary, in his long chapter in the "Star" of the 25th ult. upon this matter) that Mr. B is not friendly to the leading measures of Mr. Van Buren's Administration, and is opposed to Henry Clay for the next President.

Ah, that is the rub! And I think he need have no doubt on that point; for Mr. B. says in his letter to the Wake Committee, "that I am now as I ever have been opposed to incorporating a United States Bank. I will go further, I am equally opposed to the exploded deposit Bank system—nay more so. Hence you will perceive that I must be in favor of a Constitutional Treasury." These are the very things that the Administration is aiming at, and for which it is so much abused by the opposition; and this too is the only hinge upon which turns the destinies of the Whigs; for if they fail in getting a United States Bank and the use of the public revenue to trade and speculate upon, to strengthen them in their wicked purposes, they know full well their hollow pretensions cannot long deceive, and they must go where they long ago ought to have been—to the wall. As a party their corruptions and nefarious purposes have become visible to the people, and when seen and understood, they will be held in contempt and derision; in disgrace and abhorrence; by all true friends to republican Government. Hence we see this veritable Editor of the "Star" stirred up almost to frenzy, when a long tried and uncompromising republican tenders his services to battle against their wicked designs, and to assist in restoring a healthy action in our republican institutions.

This Editor has a "high personal respect for Gov. Branch." He shews it, with a vengeance, when he labors, in an article three columns long, to make Mr. B. ridiculous, in the eyes of the public, to prove him guilty of trying to practise a base fraud upon the people, by running for Governor, (as the Star falsely asserts) when he is not a citizen of the State. If I mistake not, this Editor has heretofore been on terms of intimacy with Mr. B; and I here put it to him to say if he did not know, when he penned that article, that Mr. B. was in fact and to all intents and purposes a citizen of North Carolina, and that he had no idea of transferring his citizenship to Florida? Yes, he knows full well, there is not a man in this State that is less capable of practicing fraud, or would hold in greater contempt and abhorrence any individual that would, than Gov. Branch.

This Editor says Gov. Branch has condemned almost every measure of Gen. Jackson's Administration, and how can the Van Buren men consistently support him? Did Gov. B. disagree with Gen. Jackson in his opposition to a United States Bank? No they were both equally opposed to it. and Mr. B. only disagreed with him in the strong measures he adopted to cripple its influence and to lessen its chances for a recharter.

Mr. Branch is as much opposed to an institution of this kind as Gen. Jackson or Mr. Van Buren; hence the Van Buren men may very "consistently" vote for him on that score. Gen. Jackson was in favor of reform and retrenchment in the expenses of the Gen. Government; so is Mr. Branch; so are the Van Buren men; and if reform and retrenchment were not carried by Gen. Jackson to the extent desired. by Gov. B. the Van Buren men are not the less "consistent" in voting for him—nay they will do it with the greater pleasure, because they know there. is little or no danger of erring on that side. These are the only two things which this Editor has brought to notice, to prove that Gov. Branch "condemned almost every measure of Gen. Jackson's Administration."

Is the evidence adduced by him conclusive? Yes, so far as it goes, it proves that Gov. B. is with the democratic republicans in his political opinions, and that they could not trust the office of Governor in better hands.

In conclusion, I. would say to the republicans of North Carolina, be ye not deceived; let not the fiery appeals of editors of newspapers make you doubt Mr. Branch's republican principles. "There is not a man in the State who is a more thorough going republican of the Jefferson school than Mr. Branch, and the Editor of the "Star" knows it full well. Hence you see his soul stirring appeal to the. Whigs to be at their post, and every man of them to vote against him. If you desire to curtail the influence of the Banks and bring them more under the control of law; if you want economy in the Administration of the Government; if you want an impartial Governor, who will attend alike to every section and to every interest, then vote for Mr. Branch.

It is your privilege—it is your duty, every man of you, to go to the election, and I do hope none will be indifferent to the occasion; but let us rally our whole force, and vote for the fearless independent republican and disinterested patriot, John Branch.

EPHRANOR.