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

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We continue our extracts from letters received
from friends. A friend writing from Greepsborough
says
u am pleased with your views on the present
alarming and exciting state of the country we are
not ready to be precpitated out of the Union after
oouth-Carollna; but we should look well to our own
gency."
A friend writing from Asheville 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 we are in
volved and believe the people of the State will sus-
tain you. The great mass of the people are opposed
to secession and disunion for existing causes do
not believe there are 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 do not see how we can follow South
Carolina in her mao leap of disunion. When she is
about to commit an act which will cost many no.
BILE life she does not look at it in the slightest prac-
teal light. Iaskeda South Carolinian day or two
since rather practical question about the result of
secession "Oh," said he, tive hav'nt 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 wilnot risk their lives and
property and involve themselves in anarchy unless
for very good causes"
friend writing from Yadkinville says:
Permit me to express my qualification at your
course. 6nOts the people of this County, almost
to man of all parties, with you this ques-
tion 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, as 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:
THE people, if uninfuenced by party leaders,
would prefer your motto Of " Watch and Wdit"-
Go on in your adherence to a Constitutional Union.
You may be called submisSionIst 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"
a friend writing from Richmond County says:
al am near the South Carolina line, and am per-
haps little cockadish than YOU are but never
theleSs am an ardent admirer of your paper, and
wish you and it abundant success-and in me you
will always find an unfilnching Democrat"
A friend writing from Randolph County says:
1.-The Democracy in this section are much dissat-
isfed with that portion of the Governors message
relating to federal affairs. They are to a man OPP
posed to dsunion, and highly gratfied with the de-
cded stand you have taken against it."
We have many other letters in hand, from which
we will give extracts hereafter