Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-10-29
Letter fsom Gov. wi,e 4. y !:

speak out in reply to, and By way of rebuke Of, 1
corrupt and mendacious press which had charged
him with having visited North. Carolina for unwor.
thy and dsloyal purposes. His reply upon the
facts is conclusive. his rebuke Of Southern trait.
ors is whitening and overwhelming We have moth.
ing to add to this admirable and eloquent letter 1t
is the uterance of high toned, fearless unconouer
able patriot-ofa man who has served his State and
the Union for quarter of century, and whose
bright escutcheon no breath of SANDER from any
quarter can dim or tarnsh. Henry A. Wise has no
concealments. He never walks in suspected places
by the light of a dark-lantern: ~s#
" He would not aatter Neptune for his trident
Or Jove for his power to thunder.
H. hedrfs lbs mouth :-schat hi breast foryes ~
That his tongue must cent."
We trust that this is not his last visit to North Car.
DINA. He has thousands of enthusiastic friends
within her borders, who would be glad to take him
by the hand-to honor him as he deserves to be
honored-and to listen to his trumpet voice in be-
half of State Rights and Constitutions, Union
But we OBTAINING our readers from the letter:
RICHMOND, Va, Ocr., 1885,
GENTLEMEN: I have duly received yours of the
l4th since my return from your capital and respond
to it most cordially at my earliest convenience. 1
regret that it is entirely out of my power to meet
you as you PROPOSE at Henderson in your State on
the 18th inst regret this the MORE because was
obliged, when in North Carolina, decline similar
requests from political friends, grounds which
made it imperative that l should abstain from any
public address.
lately, for the first time in my life, had the graf
ificaton Of visiting your noble good old State; and
since my return to my post, have been called upon
by the Raleigh Register of Oct. l5th to answer
"1st By whose invitation came these gentlemen
! "(Gov. Adams, Of S. c., and Wise of Va) to North
"Caro!na? End. Why did they meet here just in
"time for the returns of the Pennsylvania election?
"3rd. 1t calls on the Standard to answer What
"does it say to this attempt to hitch our conserva
"tive, Union-lovng old State of North. Carolina to
"this Of disunion?'"
Now these questions Of equity or not guilty."
are put after indictment in due newspaper form
for g Dsunon," for applying an "incendiary TORCH"
"actins without authority" madness, Heather and
"prunela," in alternative, or treason" in the
next.
On the authority of mendacious Know Nothing
paper in Virginia it takes the acts and motives of
the acts charged to be true pronounces sentence
of guilty, and condemns to public inquistion, and
then and thereafter asks the accused-two gentle
men, whose ostensiblc offence is the misdemeanor
of going to North Carolina-arc you guilty or not
guilty Of disoyaty to the Union and of treason to
the country? Now these are extraordinary times,
gentlemen, when such rudenesS can be pcrpetratcd
by public journals upon private life, with other
excuse for it than a jealousy which will not allow
of the suspicion even Of consultation by Southern
men among themselves for their social safety, and
the conservation of the Constitution and union of
their country. The New-York Herald, the Tribune
any Black Republican newspaper north of the Pc.
tomac might have been expected to violate all laws
of comfy and hospitality by putting such interro-
gatories. pregnant with fasehood insult and impu-
dence; but did not expect such outrage from
metropolitan paper in Southern slave State. But
it is par with the treason to the South which
nj 4 II Il n.
which raises a pole and flag to Frcmontism in
Portsmouth, and which corrupts the mind of Pro-
fessor even in your University The indications
all of piece, and show to what the enemies of De-
mocracy and slavery are tending. They, indeed,
call upon those who have care of our social safety
to meet and consult upon the best means of ,nscrv
ing property, our peace, our rights and honor.
say to you, my friends, that went to Raleigh on
my motion, desiring to go there, and feeling, by
affection to North Carolina that had right to go
there Does Know Nothing or Blue Fedcralist de-
nv my Constitutional right to do so? God help
him IL mean to do so again. and will answer to the
grand jury there any other lawful tribunal, or to
any private individual who will make the demand Of
my right as citizen of one State of privileges in
another. The time, too. is not appointed by the
Constitution, whether shall 60 to North Carolina
"just in time for the returns OF the Pennsylvania
election" or not. Nultum tempus occurrit popuL in
this free country Locomotion is free as The
highway, free " aer ct tur ct aqua Profuens"
Heaven defend Gov. Adams his State may punish
him for leaving her limits, but mine leaves me I'M
limited ingress or egrcss, and it is made even my
official duty to conduct either in person or by an
agent all intercourse with foreign governments or
another State and there is no limit of the time and
| place and manner of so doing But it was unpar-
donabe for US to 60 Raleigh about the time of the
! returns of the Pennsylvania election. Unhappy al
fusion these returns have come in since our de-
parture and how gloriousy they have scattered ev-
cry for converting for any treason, stratagem
| or spoils" They show that the Democracy has saw
ed the country and dscom6tted those who would
| have brought upon it swift destruction. Indiana
and Ohio have joined in the guarantee OF our peace,
! for the present at all events, against the bosom
which the Isms of the times were sweeping over US.
10 Pgan J! 10 triumphe This allays the gorgons
dire which haunt the hypocrisy Of knaves who are
the worst enemies Of the Union, because they are
forever huckstering off their political errors upon
| the pious attachment of the people of the United
States to its perpetuity. The camor against State
Rights State Equality, State Individuality and In
dependence and the sneers at Southern chivalry or
| at Democratic Nationality, are becoming about as
stale and as we'll understood as is every idle threat
| to dissolve the Union, the cry OF wolf f! wolf!
when there is no wolf Indeed, that cry has been
made SO often without cause, that now when the
wolf is at the door, many fail to believe it, and
| there are too many in our very midst who would,
If thew could conceal it. To this class belongs this
| Editor who denounces every movement, known or
unknown in its design and object, On adoanee OF
any overt act Advance of any positive aggression
in a1uonce of any invasion OF our guaranteed rights
And this comedies to our assaiants that they nave
as vet done no overt act have committed no positive
| aggression, have been guilty of no invasion: A
concession like this from metropolitan press OF
slave State, not only justies all wrongs OF the past
| but hanks on the enemies who would do us every
wrong in the future. It is insidious submission to