Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-12-04
The Voice Of the people.


pie are sustaining even beyond our expectations
Our subscription list has never ncreaseda it is in
creasng now, and the Standard establishment was
never SO prosperous is at this time Our Semi
weekly subscription has doubled since the Legisla-
ture assembled and during the same period we have
added between four and Ave hundred to our Weekly
list Our Clerk is almost constantly engaged in en-
rolling new subscriptions. We speak of this in no
spirit of vanity or boasting, but to show that the
people are with us this contest in which we arc
engaged with selfseekers tmeservers, and disunon-
lists ~ AT. t-Gsr
friend writing us from Hartford County says
Democrats here are down on disunion for exist
ing causes, and approve your course South. Caro-
lima tried to drive us into it in 1888 but failed
She will fipd US true to the Onion now" ann,
A friend writing us from Warren County, says:
Sag" You have not heard from me before in some
time But the time has arrived when every patriot
should speak out, and stand by the Constitution,
the Union, and the country. You are fighting
bly,. May God give you strength to fight one of the
good fights, and win! Resolutions have gone out
from this County The sense Of the people has not
been obtained"
A friend writing from Peekskill, New York, says:
at is evident to me that large majority of the
people of this State not unriendly to the nsti
buttons of the South The tide is changing in favor
OF the South and if the South shall determine to
maintain her rights in the Union as | think she
ought she will be sustained here in the most decided
manner. We will fight for the South at the ballot
box. think the South should consult with
us before she takes final step. We will help her
to go out that should be her wish after consultation,
but if she will only stay in think with her help
we can bring the ship to rights. Without her aid
all is lost" .......
A friend writing us from Chatham County, says:
/ think the prevailing disposition in this vicini-
ty is to wait and give Lincoln chance to show his
hand If he respects rights all may yet be WE'LL
but if he assails dsregarris rights, to him
and to this nation. My trust is in the Supreme
Ruler of the universe"
The foregoing extracts are from letters from Dem
ocrats, all of whom supported Mr.. Breckenridge.
Another correspondent whose politics We do not
know, writes follows from Davidson County
You Constitutional Union man. We are
glad to see it We are all Union men in this neigh
borhood Wings and Democrats. GIVE it to the dis
unionists as long as there is one left"
Caswell Democrat who is thoroughly informed
as to the state of public sentiment in that County,
| writes US as follows:
al am glad you have taken the position you have
| in your last issue. The old settled Democrats of
| this County are sustaining you warmly. The peo-
pie at last heartily tired of the yoke which self
ish demagogues, and now it appears disunion dema-
gogues have placed on their neckS. The Democrats
| here disapprove Gov. Els's extravagant internal
| improvement recommendations as well as the dan
gerous disunion spirit of his message. Go on-the
| people will sustain you"
friend writing us from Salem, says:
al am Wing, but say God bless every Consti
! tutional Union Democrat"
| A Wake County Democrat-one of the bone and
sinew of the country-writes us as follows:
"You are for the Uuion You are right. Thou
sands of our farmers will go with you. We farmers
| hardly make enough corn and wheat this year to
support our own families ard how then can sup
| port all the soldiers that dsunion would raise up ?
| Now, Sir, the man who is for breaking up this
| blessed Union without good cause, is traitor to
mankind and is aiding the abotionists in the bar
gain; for mark my words, violent dissolution with
out good cause will destroy slavery, and consequent
ly landed property in the South. Besides who are
| going to fight? The non-slaveholders? Let these
6reeaters then do them justice by taxing negroes
other property is taxed, and the wages of white
| men are taxed Where are our guns? Are we ready
/ for WARP -.-f
| These are serious questions. The Governor Of
! the State slumbered on his post after the JOHN
Brown raid. We advised hun then to convene the
| Legislature, but our advice was unheeded. He pre-
ferred to listen to Others and disrcgarded the warn
! ing voice of his real friends. And now he would
rush the State and the people of the State to the
verge of dsunion without arms in their hands
! Werepeat the questions, "phere are our guns?-
are zoe ready for carr If not, who is to blame
A friend writing us from Wilmington, says:
"Your bold stand for the Union should meet the
| appreciation of all Let the patriotic voice speak
| QUIT will be heard We conservatives of Will
| mington not of the few-we are not outvoted as
! to numbers The cause of our whole country gives
/ nerve and resolution; and while we would not
| see North Carolina submit to unjust power we in
tend to do all to quiet the turbulent waves Of
! disunion. You right and may God speed you
| in the holy work you have undertakenW
| An Opposition friend writes us as follows from
| Fayetteville:
a. have taken particular pains to ascertain the
feelings of our people the allabsorbing question
of the day, and find that outside our town the feel
ing is almost unanimous for the Union, or for con-
| sentative measures"
highly intelligent Democratic friend writes us
as follows from Petersburg, Va:
al have watched with no little solicitude the
! course which journal of so much influence as the
STANDARD would think proper to take under circum-
stances of so great peril This morning was de-
| lighted to read your editorial of Saturday last
nOuncing that for you are unwilling to see your
gallant State "htched" TO the of causeless dis
| union. l tender you my thanks for your manly
course. Here there seems to be an unbroken par
aysis. No one has had the boldness to strike for
Constitutional Union and this in the face of the fact
that Virginia is five to against present secession
Hoping that your wise counsels may prevail, and
| that, il needs be- by North Cardinals mediation
now, as by Virginias mediation twenty eight years
ago. this great Republic may be spared from wreck,
| / am" &c.
A correspondent writing us from Darlington G.
H., South Carolina, says: s- -r, 49,.
az feel that our beloved country is in great peril
/ deplore the present state of things. 1 am no poll
| tician. My only hope is in God. fear designing
men will ruin our country if it is not already done
| I can see no good to result from few Southern