FOR THE N. c. STANDARD.
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Mr.. CHARLES SHEPARD-4th DISTRICT.


can scarcely find words to express the lndlgna-
ton which felt on reading this morning printed
sheet addressed {" To the Freemen of the 4th Con-
gressional District" and containing what purports
10 be extracts from prirate letters written some
two years ago by CHARLES SHEPARD, Esq. the Re-
publican candidate for Congress in this District,
to JAMES w. HowARp, Esq. of Jones County, Ran
som Sanders, Esq. Col. Mel Leod, and Maj Husted
of Johnston County. To say the least OF these
"extracts" they bear upon the very face OF them
the impress'' of Forgery-I am personally ac-
quainted with three of the gentlemen to whom 1t
is pretended these letters were addressed, and
am egregously mistaken if they are not gentle
men of too nice and too scrupulous sense OF hon
or, and have not too much of the spirit and "prde
of manhood" to be guilty of so dshonorable, so