Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-17
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f0f the ot1no3ros
" " Holden, Esa:
DEAR SR:-After few days from home fed,
on my return the Standard discontinued .Ofcourse
I am reminded that my subscription has expired.
Inclosed send you % for 1861 hope the stan
dard will come to hand Without fail. I can pStss
unnoticed many time-serving sheets in the State,
and feel that no harm is done to my friends or to
myself; but not so with your paper, so long as You
stand by the Union, the stars and stripes for ex-
listing causes on the part Of the General Govern
.ment Stand firm, keep, the Union fires in full
blaze expose traitors and encourage patriotic Union
men from. the sea to the tnountains Keep them
we'll informed as to the movements and schemes of
the secession leaders until an honest and confdiog
people, the yeomanry Of State, can have time to re-
fleet and see the true object aimed at by the seces-
sion leaders, and as true the principle Of all good
comes from the throne of God and corruption fl ON
the den Of the unhoy one true will the Catli mes
in America, North and South, have to meet their
merited condemnation at the hands of an offended
free people, In the East we have some few gas
bubbles exploding, and seem to be willing, ready,
and prepared to forget the land of Washington, the
home Of Henry, the grave Of Putnam, and the last
and final resting place of civil and religious free
dom, the Union Of the American States. But these
new lights of freedom have forgotten that beneath
these CASEY sounds there is power, force, that
will come up in time and expel from the land those
beds of political miasma now paning the political
health of this and many other parts or sections Of
North-C Carolina. The true patriot has q stormy
time, high to steer in this day of his countrys
troubles to meet But yet the business Of bis cause
will and must enlist the sympathes and aid Of pa
triots and of God. All great changes in human
affairs have had fore-runners, some right, some
wrong, some honest, some of the devil. Rome had
her Catalina Greece her Philip, France her Napoleon,
and Mexico her Priestcraft, and America has her
traitors and despots. In the midst of such times
as these North Carolina needs no wandering Jew in
the person of a Ruffin to tell her what her rights
are or what she should do to preserve them in or
out of the old Union as formed by the wisdom of
Washington and other patriots Of 1776. Nor do
the true friends to freedom in North carolina feel
themselves honored or complimented by the pre-
scnce or the teachings of Noses coming from the
land of pestience, disorder and anarchy. To such
political missionaries as Rufin and Moses we would
say you following false gods the people of North
Carolina prefer the true living God of Jacob, the
father of freedom and independence North Caro-
lima can manage her troubles without help from the
hands of discomfort and rebellion; and to Moses
and Ruf6n we would say nurse your own house
hold, your children may make false gods, and deny
the true and living Saviour. In this quiet part Of
the State in which we have no Railroads, no tele-
graphic wires and but few office hunters, we feel
much at case and give but little attention to what
the X roads, village and hamlet politicians have to
say knowing that they are but bags of gass, gen.
Grated generally at some whiskey stand.
But to hasten to a close, Mr.. Editor, will say to
Union in all parts Of the State that the Union
sentiment in the first Congressional district is strong
and will rule ip May OF in August. If the dis
union, secession leaders are not satisfied with the
decision of the people the 2sth of Feb, 1861 let
them try it over at the baotbox and they will find
that their schemes and traitorous plotings will be
exposed by more than % 900 true patriots and sons
of liberty. If the baotbox is not to decide the
question, and North Carolina is to be misruled by
minority, then the last and final appeal must be to
arms, to arms. In such a conflict Union patriots
and lovers of true freedom must and will have the
God of battles to strengthen their faith nerve their
arms, and defend the land of their forefathers from
the hand of oppression. "Usurpers shall soon be
cut down like the grass and be withered the green
herb" Again, we say to you, stand firm for the
Union the glories and blessings of civil and religi-
freedom have yet to be measured and valued BY
more than one hundred million of human souls be-
fore band of unjust men North South shall be
permitted to blot out and strike from the pages of
history the great American nation.
A VOTER IN THE 1sT CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.