The North Carolina Standard

HOW FAIR

The "whig" press, generally, have copied the Hillsboro' Recorder's article in which he censures Mr. Henry, for deceiving the people about the additional loan of Five millions in the Treasury Note Bill. Not one of them has yet been candid enough to correct the very discreet Editor or his mistake. "Mistake" is a lenient word for one who falsifies a recent fact and a record too, and upon that basis alone dares to impute wilful deception to another. Catch Mr. Henry in such a mistake as that, and see how the "dogs" will bark at him. Now we suspect that "dog" story was another "mistake" of the Recorder. A dog that barks up the wrong tree, is a very sorry dog to go hunting with. At least it was thought so when we were a boy. How was it in your earlier days Mr. Recorder? We happen to be in the vein for joking, and will tell you of an anecdote that was told in our hearing not many years ago.

A certain candidate for county, informed the people that his competitor was not exactly consistent with himself, and he (a whig) reminded him of a little dog he used to carry out for hunting squirrels. The lying little rascal (the dog) would run off out of sight and bark, all in a mighty hurry, and just as sure as he went to him, he could not find the squirrel. He did not know where to look for him, for the dog barked up one tree and shook his tail around another. That his last resort was to cut off the dog's tail and then the thing quit barking.

Perhaps Mr. Henry had heard of this anecdote, or some like it, and amused the crowd by repeating it, and the Recorder, being in a grave mood, and not relishing fun now as he did in 1840, took it all for correct. Perhaps the Recorder thinks a dog can bark as well without as with a tail, because whiggery can make up a story as well without as with a fact!