Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-15

sorts of kilograms after another in rapid success
sion, purportng to be from Washington and Charles
ton, to excite the popular mind and precipitate dis
union. = Business here is stagnant-no cotton
selling, debts paid. 1t is thought the Legisla-
ture at its called session, will pass stay law. Hon.
esty forbid it"
Our Alabama correspondent is no doubt native
NorthCaronian. He has no doubt observed that
the disunonists in this State are playing the same
game with the telegraph which has been played in
Georgia and Alabama, but we can assure him that
the game is understood here. We can also assure
him that no Convention bill can be passed through
our Legislature without provision for submitting
the action of the Convention to the people. North
Carolina may be slow, but she is sure. She plants
her feet carefully on firm ground, and she takes
steps backwards.
sterling Democratic friend writes as follows
from Norwood's, Stanly county:
81 am glad to see that you are standing by the
Union. Let us not peril in an evil hour, and in
excitement and passion, this noble structure of
charlottesville happest and the best, with all its
faults, that the sun in its course looks down upon.
Ours Is an experimental government. If liberty
fails here, it fails throughout the world-monarchs
and tyrants in all coming ages will point the adyo
Gates of free republican forms to divided and fallen
America! Let us demand of our Northern brethren
to repeal their obnoxious laws and do US Justice
and let US give them time to do this. = | be-
lieve that an immense majority of our people are
opposed to present disunion. Democrats here who
voted for Ellis and Breckenridge, and who have al
ways stood firm against a large opposition, say
Watch and Wait"
A correspondent writes US as follows from Wo-
burn, Massachusetts,:
Enclosed please find 81, for which send me your
conservative Democratic paper. In my judgment,
if the South and the conservative men of the North
will act wisely, the dScordant elements of the Re-
publican party and the sober second thought of the
people will cause that party to crumble in less than
two years"
Another correspondent writing from Boston, Mas
sachuSetts says:
Your course in opposition to headlong and pre-
cptate secession has called forth many expressions
of approval from the lovers of the Constitution
and the Union. The South has thousands of deter
mined friends here, who would unite to uphold her
constitutional rights and to resist any attempt to
deprive her Of them. We hope by dgnifed and
honorable resistance to oppression, and manly de-
termination to assert and maintain all the privileges
to which you entitled, we may long live to
flourish together under the protection of this go-
rious Union"
A friend who sends club of subscribers from
1--WE are all Wings, and strong Union men. Go
on in your course; you are doing much good in a
good cause"
friend writing from Harnett county, says:
"Harnett County is almost to a man for the
Union, provided the North will repeal her personal
liberty laws. At the same time we are for State
Convention"
friend writing from Bloomington, GufOrd
county, says:
Don't give up the ship. We are all with you
for the Union about this place"
friend writing from Wilmington says:
1.-The course of your paper is such should meet
the approval Of every true patriot In these times
of false rumors evidently set atloat to excite and
misguide the public mind, it is well for our State
that we have seme good and true men as Editors
who are not easily moved from their course The
true state of feeling here has been egregouSy mis-
representative secessioniSts requiring continual
excitement to keep their followers from thinking
properly of the consequences which must follow i'm
prudent action. Our State is acting wisely, and
trust she will continue to do So.
We have many more letters in hand from which
we will give extracts hereafter