Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-12-19
The Voice Of the People.


We continue our extracts from letters received
from friends. friend writing from Greensborough
says: Be ,z1s:f.,.
81 am pleased with your views on the present
alarming and exciting state Of the country. We
not ready to be precipitated out Of the Union after
South-Carollna; but we should look we'll to our own
interests and be prepared for any and every emer-
gency." '-'
friend writing from Ashevle says:
"You deserve the thanks Of every patriot in North
Carolina for the bold and fearless stand you have
taken for the Constitution and the Union. Allow
me, among the many in this community who are
applauding your course to communicate to you the
assurance that SO long as you maintain the heroic
stand you have assumed, you may regard me as one
of your strongest friends. You are right in your
views in relation to the crisis in which are in
volved and believe the people Of the State will sus
tain you. The great mass of the people opposed
to secession and disunion for existing causes. do
not believe there fifty disunonists in Buncombe
County,"
A friend writing from Robson County says:
"Your Union sentiments will do much to save
the country from civil war and revolution. Stand
firm, and all will yet be WELL"
friend writing from Brunswick County says:
Allow me to add my name to the numbers who
have approved your course and admire your indie
pendence in speaking out for the Union 1t is with
much qualification that have read your articles on
that subject l do not see how we follow South
CAROLINA in her mao leap of dsunion. When she is
about to commit an act which will cost many no
ble e she does not look at it in the slightest prac
tical light Iasked South Carolinian day or two
since rather practical question about the result OF
secession: "Oh," said he, tive havnt arranged
those things yet. Our sole desire is to get out-we
will arrange those things afterwards" The people
| are with you, Mr.. Holden You ar right. The
great body of the people will not risk their lives and
property, and involve themselves in anarchy unless
for very good causes"
| A friend writing from Yadkinville says
| Permit me to express my qualification at your
course. l know the people Of this County, almost
to man of all parties are with you on this ques-
ton. Yet there is danger unless the friends of the
Union speak out, that good men will be led astray.
Such documents as the message Of Gov. Ellis unless
met boldly you have met it, is we'll calculated to
sow the seeds of discord among our people"
friend writing from Rocky Mount Nash Coun-
ty, says:
1.-The people, if uninHuenced by party leaders,
would prefer your motto of" Witch and Wait"-
Go on in your adherence to Constitutional Union
You may be called a submissionlst and other hard
names, but rest assured you have the support and
| sympathy of those whose interests will be most
deeply involved the crash which must follow dis
union. Yours for the Constitution and the Union.
| friend writing from Richmond County says:
81 am near the South Carolina line, and am per-
haps little cockadish than you are, but never
theess / am an ardent admrer Of your paper and
wish you and it abundant success-and in me you
will always find an unfinching Democrat"
friend writing from Randolph County says:
1.-The Democracy in this section are much dssat-
isfed with that portion of the Governors message
relating to federal affairs. They are to man op-
posed to disunon, and highly gratifed with the de-
clded stand you have taken against it."
We have many other letters in hand, from which
we will give extracts hereafter.