Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-05-29
Uniun Men of virginia.

We commend to the attention of all violent parti-
in this State, the following magnaminous vim
dication of the old Union men of Virginia by the
Richmond Dispatch, one of the first, ablest and
most fiery secession journals in that State What
the Dispatch afirms to be true of the late Union
men of Virginia is also to the letter true Of the late
Union men of North Carolina; and yet vile parti-
zanships treats them and impertinently charges
them with submissionism. Thank Heaven the late
Union men of this State true Steel have patriot
ism lofty, true to principle and duty, that it
scars, unassailed and unassailabe above the veno-
nous shafts of partizan detraction:
1--WE trust that The result of this election viii dis
pei all doubts from the minds Of Northern skeptcs
and cavaliers to the Union sentiment of Virginia
The truth is that from the moment Of Lincoln's
Proclamation there has been but one party in Vlr-
ginia, and that is the party of Southern lndepcn-
dence and Nationality. We inclined to doubt
whether the Northern Journals which denied this
fact, ever had any doubt about it; but if they had
the election of yesterday must have ended their
doubts forever.
Having from the beginning advocated the seceS-
sion of Virginia. free to say that this party
to which we were for time opposed, and which,
previous to LincCln's Proclamation had large ma
iority in the Virginia Convention, commands our
unbounded admiration for the prompt united and
intrepid front with which they unfurled the banner
of Independence the first moment that the real pnr
poses of the military despotsm at Washington were
avowed From that time to this, their whole souls
have been given to the vndIcation OF the honor and
glory of Virginia; they are at this moment in the
front rank of its armies; in every fight, they will
be among the first and in every retreat among the
last Augusta county, the great stronghold of
Unionsm in Virginia, has sent more men to the
field than any other county in the State, aud not
Union county can be named which is not attesting
its devotion by sacrifices as great and courage as
lofty as that which distinguished the most ardent
advocates of prompt action in Virginia"
PRryarEERrSG-The London Times thus hits off
the positions taken BY the Lincoln government and
the Northern press as to the treatment Of privaeers
authorized by the Confederate States, as pirates
telegraphic correspondent of the Wilmington Jour
nat says:
1.-THE London Times speaking of the rejection by
the United States of the proposition to make priva-
teering piracy by the universal law Of nations says
that proposal having been rejected the bellgerents
holds ancient rights, and that commissions from
President Davis are as good as those from President
Lincoln: "As to the resolution adopted by the
New York merchants, to treat privateers from the
unrecognized South pirates the proposition can
not be maintained Every jurist must hold, that SO
long as Mr.. Davis is President of Confederacy OF
sovereign States hehas the same right to issue let
tiers of marqne which any President Of the Repub-
lie of either North or South america has"