Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-09-25
PartYl PaItY!I

,PartyI PaTty!I
Why is it that in the midst Of bloody war
waged for the very existence of the State-a war in
which, if We fail, all is lost; and at time, when
every heart should pulsate as one heart-that many
OF our best and wisest men rgidly and constant
ly excluded from the councils Of the State and ma
ton, and by our State authorities from the public
service!
Mr. Branch and Mr.. Davis and others-men sur
feited with office, it seems are very proper persons
to be sent to confer with the Confederate govern
ment at Richmond, or to fill other important posi-
tions-petmen, sometimes filling two or more off,
ces of trust and profit at the same time, but the
State, now in imminent hazard, stands in no need
OF the services of such men as Ruffin or Badger,
Brown or Graham Reid or Morehead, Walter F.
Leake or Rayner, Edwin G. Reade or R. P. Dick,
Jesse It. Shepherd or John Pool, Gimer or Will
liam Eaton Jr., and host Of others Indeed the
tried men Of the State-men whose ability, wise
fore-caste and great prudence, have secured them
the confidence of the people, like the abovenamed,
and such men as Thomas Btagg, David Outlaw, AL
fred Dockery, Anderson Mitchell, John R Gmer,
and others, are put under the ban to give place to
others.tdster men we suppose, mere politicians or
rampant original secessionsts of far less weight
who are to sit in the high seats of the synagogue.
And is it true that the late Military Secretary of
the late Military Board the head and front of the in
efficiency and insecurity of our seacoast defences,
is to be of the trusted counselors of Gov Clark
Is the ship of State to be steered by men whose
pilotings will scarcely pass muster smooth water
in good soundings, when she is in danger of Scya
on the one hand, or of Charybdis on the other p
We trust not. ..-
What is the reason of all this We will tell you,
fellow-citizens. 1t is party! Party when war is
upon us, and when our brave men OF all parties and
all positions suffering and dying for their coun-
try? Yes, the depraved oracle of the destructves
in this city, clamors for the spoils-must have all
the fat Offices for the original Observation-Disclosures
yawns and growls like a dog with sore head, if
the original Yancy men, the democratic secessionsts
don't get them all Yes, the men who were un-
willing to break up the old government until every
effort was made to restore and preserve it-those
who in February and April preferred peace to war,
but who rose in their might as one man to resist
the first indications of coercion and tyranny, as
promulgated in Lincoln's proclamation, they are
the men who may pay their money to support the
and shoulder their muskets to drive the invader
from our soil, but general rule, there Of
fees for them. And forsooth, if zoe dare complain
of the corrupting damaging course of the destruc-
tves, because of its manifest injustice and impocy
during the war, we are charged with personal or
partizan venom.
The principle upon which this miserable policy
is based, is rotten to the core-when put in action
it is damaging to the peace and the harmony and
the efficiency of the State in this war; and this is
the sole ground of our complaint. Who darcs stand
forth and charge with raising an objection against
the appointment of fit mana man fully qualified
for office? We contend that Forth Carolina at this
juncture needs her purest wisest ablest, most re-
liable men, matter what their politics are or have
been. We want the Office to fit the man and the
man to fit the oflice-let him have been q whig or
democrat, Union man or a secessionst, we care
not groat But when we see original secessonists
planning and scheming and plotting to fill every
office, military or civil, with original Yancey men,
are alarmed for the safety and perpetuity of the
new government and for the prosperity and success
of the South in this war. And why, not because
we doubt the personal integrity of all of them
Certainly not. But because their action is based
upon principle which is destructive to the perpe-
tuty of Constitutions, and law, and order, and a
permanent government. Men may be potent to pull
down and impotent to build up, not because they
don't try to build, but because they build with hay
and stubble, and not with the imperishable ingre-
dents Of truth, and justice and right
Let us say to those who thus carry on, the day is
coming when the people will take vengeance for
all this.