Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-06
Disunion Meeting in Raleigh.


the cause of Union"
Disunion Meeting in Raleigh.
A disunion meeting was held IN this City on
Wednesday night last, which was addressed by Mr..
Senator Bragg, Mr. Senator Cliugman, and Mr..
Branch.
We learn that Mr.. Branch took ground with the
disunionsts out and out We told the people of
this District but short time since that he was
disunouist; and the proof that he is is nOW before
tEem We told them in November last that Gov.
Ellis was disunionist and that fact was proved in
due time.
Mr.. Branch, we learn, said that he had despaired
of preserving the Union since the 4th of March,
and that he ,cas nOw for dissolution.
The people of this District now know where to
find Mr. Branch.
We learn that Mr. Clingman in his zeal for dis
union, and in attempt to justify the action OF the
leaders in the seeded States mutated the truth of
history in relation to the action of the people OF
this State in adopting the federal Constitution, and
omitted or concealed the fact that they voted at the
baot-box to accept the amendments to their Con-
stitution in 1885. He also repeated the old decar-
alton that the issue is one of negro and white equal
ity in North-C Carolina and charged that Mr.. Lincoln
and his party are in favor of such equality tie
also said, we understand, that if North-Carolna
should refuse to secede he could leare the State
The gentleman, then, being wiser than all North
Carolina, will carry with him when he goes stock
of wisdom before whose size and whose lustre the
wisdom of Socrates Seneca, and Solomon will at
once be diminished to less than nothing. Mr.. Cling
man may "leave his country for his country's
good"-but, in doing so, he will deliberately tram
pie under foot the great principle of the right of
the majority to rule. This, we presume, is speci-
men of Mr. Clingmen's Democracy.
We learn that Gov. Bragg also made disunion
speech but more moderate in It's tone than those of
Messrs Clingman and Branch.
"The secessionists in despair, increase their noise
as their numbers decrease"
So says a Virginia Contemporary, in alluding to
the outside pressure endeavored to be enlisted and
brought to bear upon the Convention sitting
in Richmond. Is it not equally true with US? The
recent disorderly gathering at Goldsborough an
swers the question emphatically. Never in the po-
litical history of our State, has there been born
such ridiculous mouse" from the labor of such
a mountain.
We desire to call the attention of our readers to
another fact. The secession captains-those who
are admitted into their secret societies. and have
signs of recognition, and passwords and all that
knowing full we'll that their adherents will fall off
as the leaves do in Autumn unless they continue to
agitate the public mind with misrepresentation and
sensation falsehoods, keep it up with pertinacious
ingenuity worthy of better cause Certain Sena-
tors have made themselves particularly conspicuous
in giving circulation to rumors of what the admin
istration was doing and intended doing; and we
have yet to where of their sensation predlc
tons has proved true or any item of their inform
alton intended to I" fire the Southern heart" but
what turned out to be all CANNON. The fire eating
press keep it up and unreliable as to what is
really taking place. and the true situation of affairs
they were before the election and that is saying
no little. We warn our readers of all such.
THE TWO LoANs-The eight million loan recently
offered by the U. S. Government has been taken in
New York City at "a, or Whereabouts. These figures
indicate returning confidence in peaceful solu-
ton of the present troubles-the bids, not only be-
ing made for treble the amount offered, but being
also per cent above the sums offered in February
last How will it be with the five millions a. eight
per cent, offered by the Montgomery Government?
As yet, we have heard of no sales; and the following
extract, taken from the money article in the New
York Herald very eectually precludes any reliance
upon foreign capitalists. The Herald says:
The London Times of the 10th of March, in no.
tcing the fact that the Confederate American States
are in market with loan of $l5, OOOO OO which they
wish to phase at eight per cent for ten years, re-
marks =
"Asthe new confederacy includes in its total popu-
lation of 100000, no less than 100000 who are
pledged to reputation, it is difficult to understand
the possibility of such amount being raised either
in home or foreign markets This feeling is increas-
ed by the fact that indirectly the entire population
may be considered to have slgnifed their approval
OF reputation principle by having selected
Colonel Jefferson Davis as their first President
This parsonage has long been regarded the apostle
of repudiation and the holders of Mississippi bonds
have to remember his celebrated speech, dev-
cred within the Legislative hall built by British mon
ey, in which he ridculed the crocodile tears" of
the dupes who had ventured to petition for payment
of their claims"
When we have any reliable information as to the
sale of the five millions by Secretary Memmingcr,
our readers shall be put in possession of it
gB George Little, ESQ.,, of this City, has been
appointed by President Lincoln Marshal for the
District of NorthCarolina. Wesley Jones, Esq, the
former Marshal resigned, his resignation to take
effect on the 4th of March last