Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-07-03
Plain Facts.

FIaln Facts. II Vi
!. When the precipiaters or secessionists Of this
State last fall took the position that the election of
Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,
according to the forms of the Constitution, would
be sufficient for the secession of North Caro-.
lima from the Union, the Standard and its editor
opposed it, believing that such was not the sober
sense of the people of the State.
2. The Standard, and its editor at that time,
acting upon his own convictions of what was due
to patriotism and to the people of the State, boldly
took the position that the bare election of Mr. Lin
coin because of his party affiliations, not JUS
tySabte cause for secession but, that whensoever
Mr.. Lincoln, the President of the U. S., by any
ocert act violated the Constitution, or committed
other unfriendly outrages upon the rights of the
South, then, and not until then would North Caro-
nina be justified in seeding. The people ratified
and sustained the position of the Standard S'-H
8. At later period, when the question arose, the
Standard took the ground, that if Mr. Lincoln at
tempted to cosrce the seeding States into subms-
sion, that then North Carolina ought to separate
from the Union and resist to the last extremity
The people endorsed that position Also
L. When Mr.. Lincoln issued his Proclamation,
making an unjust and unconstitutional war upon
the South, Just so soon as the Proclamation was
known to be authentic, the Standard denounced it,
and declared that the time had arrived when North
Caronashould make common cause with the South.
The people again endorsed the Standard
8. When the proper time arrived, the Standard
and its editor declared that the true position of
North Carolina with the South, and with the
Southern Confederacy. The people ratified that
position, also.
that the late Union men were not submissionists-
that when the proper time arrived to act North
Carolina would act promptly-that if war came, the
late Union men would be found in the thickest of
the fght-forgetting the past, they would rush to
repel the invader with equal alacrty with the Sc
cessonists. The facts prove the correctness of the
Standards declarations
Z. Ifany newspaper or man alleges that in any
thing, from first to last the Standard has been in
consistent or untrue to any of the above declara-
tions, or has backed doom from its positions, the
allegation is false, without any shadow of proof
! 8. The Standard and its editor took the position
after the Proclamation, that by cones should be BY
gones-that former party differences should not
during the war, affect any man-that all should
unite as one man, to oppose and beat back the
mon foe-that capacity, honesty and fitness alone,
should control appointments to ofice-that the good
of the State alone should be the aim of all If any
paper or man afirms that the Standard or its edi-
H.
sitions, the affirmation is false, and cannot be
proven.
. 9. Ifin the efforts of the Standard or its editor
protection for the State against successful
invasion; to point out abuses which ought to be
corrected to oppose the revival of old party feeling
and to labor to defeat the aims of those who seem
to seek still to press partyism into every measure
any paper or person says that it or he has been in
fuenced by purpose to make factous opposition
to the State authorities civil military, to carr
at mere tres for the sake of fuss, seeks to pu
itself at the head of party organization, to divide
and disturb the State at time when all should b.
united or with the view of fvoring reconstruc
ton of the Union: VIC say, unhesitatingly, that al
such allegations false, and the party parties
making them simply LIE.
10. We affirm, that all we have said or done, ha
been with single eye to the good of the State
which we prefer above self-above party; to war,
the people against the strides Of the oneman pover
in North Carolina, and faithfully to guard their in
terests. This we have tried to do, while we have
preserved our sefrespect, by repelling or exposing
the attacks or the tricks of our enemies
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