Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-12-05
The Voice Of the People.

pie are sustaining US even beyond our expectations
Our subscription list has never increased as it is in
creasing now, and the Standard establishment was
never SO prosperous as it is at this time. Our Semi
Weekly subscription has doubled since the Legsla-
ture assembled and during the same period we have
added between four and Eve 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 boastng, but to show that the
people are with us in this contest in which we are
engaged with sefseekers time-servers and disunion
ists
A 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 find us true to the Union now" =
IA friend writing US from Warren County, says:
"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 no.
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:
ut is evident to me that large majority of the
people of this State not unriepdly to the nsti
tutons 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 l 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 fthat should be her wish after consultation,
but if she will only stay in We 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:
81 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 assas dsregards our rights, woe to him
and to this nation. Ny trust is in the Supreme
Ruler of the universe"
The foregoing extracts arc from letters from Dem
ocrats all Of whom supported Mr.. Breckenridge.
Another correspondent, whose politics we do not
know, writes us as follows from Davidson County:
"You are Constitutional Union man. We are
glad to it. We are all Union men in this neigh
borhood, Wings and Democrats Lve it to the dis
unionists as long as there is one left"
A Caswe Democrat who is thoroughly informed
as to the state of public sentiment in that County,
writes US as follows:
~ 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 are at last heartily tired of the yoke which self
ish demagogues, and now it appears disunion dena-
gogues have placed on their necks. The Democrats
here disapprove Gov. Ellis's extravagant internal
improvement recommendations, as we'll as the dam
gerous disunion spirit OF his message. Go on-the
| people will sustain you"
A friend writing us from Salem, says:
~ am Whig but say God bless every Consti-
!utional Union Democrat"
A Wake County Democrat-oae of the bone and
sinew of the country-writes us as follows:
"You are for the Uuon. You are right. Thou
sands of our farmers will 60 with you. We farmers
hardly make enough corn and wheat this year to
support our own families, ard how then can We sup
port all the soldiers that disunion 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 abolitionists 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
treeaters then do them justice by taxing negroes as
other property is taxed, and as the wages of white
men are taxed. Where are our guns? Are We ready
for warp
These serious questions. The Governor OF
the State sumbered on his post after the John
Brown raid. We advised him then to convene the
Legislature, but our advice was unheeded He pre-
ferred to listen to Others and disregarded the warn
ing voice of his rea! 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 ",'here are our guns'-
are ace ready for oar" 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
mngton are not of the few-we are not outvoted as
to numbers. The cause of our whole country gives
US nerve and resolution; and while We would not
see rth-Carolina submit to unjust power, We III
tend to do all VIC TO quiet the turbulent waves
disunion You are right and may God speed you
in the holy work you have undcrtaken!"
An Opposition friend writes us as follows from
Fayetteville:
81 have taken particular pains to ascertain the
feelings of people on the allabsorbng 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:
81 have watched with no little solicitude thu
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 an
nouncing that for one you unwilling to see you,
gallant State "hitchcd" TO the of causeless dis
union. l tender you my thanks for your manly
course. Here there seems to be an unbroken par
alysis. No has had the boldness to strike for
Constitutional Union and this in the face of the fac
that Virginia is five to against present secession
| Hop hot
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
| an" &c.
correspondent writing us from Darlington G
H., South Carolina, says:
IL feel that our beloved country is in great peril
deplore the present state of things. am no poll
tician. My only hope is in God. fear designing
will ruin our country, if it is not already done
/ can see no good to result from few Southern
States going out" -..