Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-12-18
"Aid and Comfort TO the Enemy,


& The State Journal of this City, which We notice
only on account of the respectable character Of a
few persons who own and control it, charges that
the State Convention in passing the ordinance con-
tinuing the Boad Of Claims has deposed the Gov
ernor, created Triumvirate to which the Governor
and all military officers in the State made subor
dinate, and struck blow at the root of our whole
military system, Introducing anarchy and confu
sion" into military affairs. 1t also says the or
dinance referred to "supersedes the Adjutant Gen.
eral, Quartermaster, Paymaster, and Commissary
General in all the functions Of their respective Off
ces, and makes these officers the nero powerless
employees of this despotic Triumvirate"
Now this is either true or false. Iftrue, the people
ought to rise up and hull every member Of the Con-
vention who voted for this ordinance from his seat
but if false, and known to be false when it pen
ned the author of the charge deserves to be brand
ed with infamy, and held up as a wicked enemy of
Southern liberty. Is it true2 Read the ordinance,
citizens, and decide for yourselves This howl
is raised because your representatives have put
checks and safeguards upon the disbursement of
your money-checks and safeguards which, when
applied, will no doubt expose some Of the pets for
whom the Journal speaks, and for whose incompe-
tency in Office it has heretofore apologzed
This ordinance, thus denounced as despotic
meaSure-as a measure which revolutonizeS the
State and destroys our military sy stem-was passed
by yeas NINETY SIX, nays eight. This paper has,
therefore, not only aSsaied its enemies in the Con-
yention, but also those in that body who were for
mery its friends. 1t charges all but eight with
houin hv tha o1n of n eLs1
changed the character of the government into des-
potism, and with having rendered our military arm
entirely powerleSs in our contest with Lincoln. 1t
is clear case that if Judge 'Biggs sedition ordi.
nance had been passed, the nominal Editors of the
paper referred to would have been punished under
it persons seeking to excite the people to resist
the State government; for if it be true, they SOL
EMMY declare, that despotsm has been established
in North Carolina then it is the duty of the people
to resist. But it is not true-it is false, and the
tendency of their language is to excite resistance
based false, and maliciously false statements
And not only this, but their language is calculated
to encourage the public enemy, by producing the
impression in the North that our military system
is in a state of anarchy, and that dcSpotsm ha:
been established in our midst
| We still subscribe, even in the midst of revolu
ton, to the maxim of Jefferson, that may b
safely tolerated while is left free to comba
it"-but the above language of the paper referred Il
snotmcrcly erroneouS-HisSe iitioUs. Sucha jourR
al, edited by such men, and uttering language which
libeS the whole people of the State and falsely rep
resents to Lincoln that military system is in
state OF anarchy and confusion, Is not only sor'
but curse upon our body polite. How mucl
longer will patriots and gentlemen give their cOun
tenanCe to such paper?