Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-17
For the Standard.

For the Standard.
W " Holden Esg.:
DEAR SR:-After few days from home l find,
on my return, the Standard discontinued Of course
am reminded that my subscription has expired
Enclosed send you 81 for 1861. Ihope the Stan
dGrd will come to hand without fail. | can pass
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-
isting causes on the part of the General Govern
ment Stand firm, keep the Union fires in full
blaze expose traitors, and encourage patriotic Union
from the to the mountains. Keep them
well informed as to the movements and schemes of
the secession leaders, until an honest and confdng
people, the yeOmanry of State can have time to re-
fleet and see the true object aimed at by the
sion leaders, and true the principle of all good
comes from the throne of God, and corruption from
the den Of the unholy one, so true will the Catines
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 paining the political
health of this and many other parts or sections of
North Carolina The true patriot has a stormy
tme high sea to steer in this day of his country's
troubles to meet But yet the business of his cause
will and must enlist the sympathies 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
tbn rof Rufi fo bar rhotb or hfc
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 complimented by the pre-
Sence or the teachings of Moses, coming from the
land of pestilence, disorder and anarchy To such
political missionaries as Ruin 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 Rufin 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 tee-
graphic wires, and but few Office hunters feel
much at ease, and give but little attention to what
the roads, village, and hamlet politicians have to
say, knowing that they are but bags of gass, gen.
Grated generally at some whiskey stand
D'I W ndSNcu W ClOSe, MI. VIII SAY u
Union in all parts OF the State, that the Union
sentiment in the first Congressional district is strong
and will rule in 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 at the baotbox and they will find
that their schemes and traitorous plottings will be
exposed by more than %, 900 true patriots and
of liberty. If the ballotbox 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 n conflict Union patriots
and lovers of true freedom must and will have the
God Of battles to strengthen their faith 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-
Gus 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.
VOTER IN TIE 1sT CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.