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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-20

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may 1e that secret Organization exists in this
State under various names, the object of which is
to "precipitate" the State out Of the Union.
1t may be that this organization pervades the en-
tire South, and that it actively instrumental,
through Mr.. Yancey and others, in breaking up the
Democratic party at Charleston and Baltimore.
1t may be that this organization exerted potent
influence in the late Legislature of this State as
shown by the disunion action of majority of that
body, and especially in one Of its last acts towit
the election of one of its own members to the Office
of Adjutant General, who had openly insulted the
American flag -
1t may be that this organization pervades every
neighborhood in the State; and that it is now en-
gagged, through its Juntos, in firing" the hearts
of the people against the Union, and in making ar
engagements at Goldsborough, Charlotte, and else
where to commit the State to disunion against the
deliberately recorded will of the people on the 2Sth
Of last month.
1t may be that this organization is known among
its members as Knights Of the Golden Circle; or
rs an Alliance its suballiances in the various neigh
borhoods being called Juntos.
By whatever name called, it is Substantially the
Yaneey League, and its objects of the most ne
farious and dangerous character
Let every patriot be on the alert Eternal Wig
lance is the price of liberty"
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In the category of Lincoln apoogists, with the
Standard we find the Fayetteville ObserUer, the
Salem Press, and the Raleigh Bdnner.-RGleigb
State Journal
We hope that the above was written in ignorance
of the meaning of the word "apologists" for it is
not true that we have made or attempted any apollo
gy for Lincoln or his inaugural. We have express
ed opinion of its meaning and events are show
ing that our opinion is correct, and that the clamor
over its "war meaning" is pure humbug.-Fdyette'
UilLe Observer.
The Observer has given the truth in few words
in reply to the Governors newspaper. We will GO
further and say that that newspaper knew that it
lied when it charged that we had apologized for
Lincoln. We are as much opposed to Mr.. Lincoln
and his principles as Republican as any man in
the State, but we are not in favor ofqeyoutio2 on
account of his election, and will do him justice
in every effort he may make to avoid bloodshed
and to preserve the Union. Mr.. Lincoln is Tho
President; and as long as he acts in accordance
with the Constitution and the laws, and as long as
North Carolina remains in the Union, it will be the
duty of loyal citizens to respect his authority John
Spelman, the Governors man Friday, was law
full subject of Queen Victoria up to April last and
yet he insults gentlemen by charging that they are
apologists for black Republican! 1.-The were worth
purchasing, some agent of the British government,
with "secret service money" in his pocket, would
buy him back from the Governor, provided that
functionary could afford to part with him.
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Official Vote of SurrY.

We publish below the official vote of Surry COun-
ty. The disunionists of that County, under the
active lead of our old friend Dick Reeves, "thun-
dered up Olympus" only "tollable," as Simon
Suggs would say; and then they ''thundered" down
again at "two forty" speed We again appeal to
our friend Reeves not only to watch and wait,
but to pause and ponder. We have survived his
meeting and the publication of the proceeding there
of in the Journal and Mercury; and we now freely
forgive him for "auld lang syne,", and wish him
many years of undisturbed political serenity.
Official Vote Of Surry County, Feb. %, 1861:
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The Black Republicans are rejoicing over the -.
suit in this State They say that North Carolin. !.
with them and that the border States will st,v in
NeU6ern PrCgress
Well the border States ,oiH stay in lust as Inn,
as their people choose to do so. They are neither 70
be driven nor dragged out of the Union. They .rs
not afraid of either the North or the South. Tbsv
will watch and wait" with the hope Of restoriD,
the whole Union for themselves and their posteritv
and if this hope shall fail they will then take care
of themselves the best way they can. It can
make no difference whether the black Republicans
rejoice or mourn over the result in North CarolD,
Nothing which they can say or do can alter that re-
sult. The people of this State have no sympathy
with nor confidence in the black Republicans; but
at the same time they do place confidence in ma.
jority of the Northern people, and they look to
them, and to the conservative people of the whole
country to the country from the vortex of ruin
into which it is being hurried by demagogues and
designing politicians.
We beg leave to remind our friend P Of the Pro-
gress that Judge Douglas also rejoices over the re-
suit in North Carolina and Judge D. is particular
favorite with the Progress
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Yadkin County.

The firm and determined manner in which the
Yadkin country stood by the Union in the late strug
gle is matter for generalization and rejoicing A
friend writing US from Hamptonve says:
"You are fully endorsed in the course you have
purSed 10y ninetenths Of the Democrats in this
County and by all the Union men. had the pleas
ure of voting along side of your old friend James
Sheek, ESQ.,, for Puryear and no Convention"
James Sheek is one of the most reliable and con-
sstent Democrats in the State He offered the first
Free Suffrage bill in the Legislature, in 1885,
Hosts of Democrats like Bedford Brown, and j. W.
3. Watson, and c. R. Thomas, and John Berry and
R. P. Dick, and Thomas Settle, and James Sheek,
and Ed. Lyon, and James S. Harrington, and R. L.
Patterson, and John Hi and L. j. Merritt stood by
us and encouraged us in the conflict with the enc.
mics of the principles of Jefferson, Madison, and
jackson and yet ice are no Democrat while the
new recruits Of yesterday set forward the only
embodiments of true Democracy Principles are
eternal but the old parties have ceased to exist
Good men in all portions of the country have united
to save the country. We shall act with the Union
men by whatever name heretofore called, and we
shall oppose disunionsts and disturbers of the pub
lie peace by whatever name heretofore called. This
is our position, and we shall maintain this position
without regard to caucuses, cliques conventions,
self constituted leaders. We neither assume to lead
nor shall any one lead us. We speak for the peo-
pie; it is for them to lead and to put up and pull
down whom they will.
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Mr.. Barrinser Compliments.

The Columbia loath- Cdrolinian, a rabid d;...
paper, says: ss.'..s ''O"'On
1t is now conceded that Convention h..,
voted down in North. Carolina. As soon n'S oeen
came satissed that majority of Un;on;.,"' De.
oeen elected to the ConDenton zoe erpre.,sd ~ mad
ION that defeat Of the Dhole Contention cp'n-
oe't thing that could happen for the eaua. NJ ~es Inc
saon We will guarantee that if county ,Ha, seee'-
are now called and efforts made to get anotbor "
vention, the Southern party will rout the No., SOh-
Onionsts from one end Of the State to tba o,tern
The following, from letter recently writes
Charlotte Democrat by the Hon. D. M Raj, 10 tne
takes the right view. Keep the UnioIistS , n
the power to make sale and surrender" 'u' OF
The CarOlinian then copies a portion of N, D.
ringers violent attack Contained in late letto.
his to the Charlotte Democrat on the plan nr,. '"
sed by the Peace Conference, of which Mr.. w.p
member. The Carolinian is greatly pleased -.
the course Mr.. Barringer has pursued and it ,dr;.
that the "Unionists" of this State shall ~ ,.NN'
"out OF the power to make sale and surr.nd..n ~
the State to the black Republicans. We cono,,.S
late the gentleman on the company in which he sns.
himself. But he will never be able to conv;r,. :,
people of this State that Judge Rufin and coN
Morehead are capable of Consenting to and Vs.,
for plan as bad he represents the Franklin .n,
stitute to be.
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The Result in New Hampshire.

The New York Nesos, soundly Democratic and
well-informed journal, says:
"Thc State election held yesterday in New Hamp-
shire proves nothing that the Republicans gain
a loss They carry the State, but by some five or
six thousand majority less than was given to Lin
coin last Fall Lincoln's majority over Douglas was
Il, 6S8; over Douglas and Breckenridge, 9, ll5I
Now the majority is reduced to about four thousand,
and, under other circumstances might have been
overcome" 49,
In addition to this, the Democracy of New Hamp-
shire were divided up to within four days of the
election, part of them being ranged with Ex-Pres
dent Pierce and part with Edmund Burke, the au-
thor of ABundecund" They united, however, but
their union was effected at too late period to en-
able them to carry the State
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~ We stated in our notice of Lincoln's Inau-
gural that the President had authority to collect
the revenue except at the Custom Houses-that he
could not collect it on shipboard This news is con-
irmed by the following from Geographic dispatch
from Washington to the Richmond Enquirer:
1.-The Attorney General is now engaged in ascer-
tanning if there is any law to collect the revenue
outside of port and his labors thus far have been
abOrtive He however, is said to have satisfactorily
ascertaned that no legal means exists BY which to
enforce the collection of the The ultimate
result of his researches cannot be otherwise than
gratifying to the Administration"
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-20

A CAPITAL REBrKE.-When Capt. Ingraham re-
turned, few days since, from the command of the
Richmond steam sloop in the Mediterranean, GER
tain Senator from Louisiana, though born and raised
in New York city, and late member of the Naval
Committee of the Senate, said to him substantially
as follows:
Sir, why did you not retain your command and
bring your ship into New Orleans, or some other
Southern port when the States seceded?" To which
Captain Ingraham replied: "Sir, you are mistaken
in your man, and in Southern naval officers, if you
suppose they or l could forget our oaths of office
theft! When South Carolina calls for her sons to
leave the general government and return to the
bosom Of her parent State she expects them to do
so with honor untarnished and regulations without
the slightest spot their escutcheons; there's and
traitors she will never acknowledge.
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SPEECH OF SENATOR CRrTTENDEN.-Senator Crlt-5
tenden received the compliment of serenade in
Washington last night and. delivered a patriotic
speech. After q few Introductory remarks he said
5"Our people do not want 10 separate. 1t is the
little petty politicians that about from cross
roads to crossroads. It is they that lead and mis-
guide the people, and Il is they that try to make us
believe that we hate another 1t is false, false!
yes, ii must be We do not hate one another
For petty little schemes, for party purposes and
party politics. it is found convenient and profitable
to these little politicians to force that impression
upon the minds of the people have been in the
North, | have been in the West have been with
you and from part of the country to the other,
see no such feeling exhibited and do not believe
it exists have seen nothing and received nothing
but kindness wherever l have been. The people
are rightly disposed 1t is only the leaders that
dissatisfied. Leave the people to themselves, and
we should live in Union, in fraternity, in freedom
and in greatness all the days of our life and our
childrens lives. hope it yet in reserve for US
to understand one another from section to section
That as day speaks unto day, night unto night Sec
ton will speak unto section, and that shall come
to understand from one end Of the country to the
other that there will be question as to the per-
petuity of the Union. There is not a mortal man,
there is not country in all the United States that
can derive in my Judgment any benefit from separa-
ton or dsunon. To stand together is to strengthen
oLrselves-is by our united might to work out each
others greatest possible good. The vision of dis
union is anarchy, disorder and ultimate war; Then
comes despotism, and instead of Congresses and
free representation, shall have some monarchy,
or some despot to tax and burden and rule the
people.
at is in the constitution and the Union that your
safety your success in life and your prosperity de-
ponds. Be not deuded from that. 1t is the ark of
your safety; therein are your real hopes and your
real fortunes treasured up. Seventy years has
proved this to you. Was there ever country
which has grown like this ever a people multiplied
and prospered like We have in that seventy years
No. You now one of the greatest nations of the
world and will you consent to break up this Union
and be scattered like the potsherds of the earth p
Is there one of you but that would be ashamed to
be questioned in foreign lands about the present
condition of your country? Not one of you. l
have had some thought myself some little curiosity
to look abroad upon foreign lands. | am native
born man from the western woods but so help me
God if any should offer to bear my expenses
l would not 60 to any civilized nation of the
world to be questioned about the condition of my
country. would he ashamed to answer" Laugh
ter.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-20

THE GREAT EASTERN Coming to NORFOLK
Among the items of news brought by the steamer
Brenen, at New York, from Southampton we find
the following highly interesting piece of intelligence:
The London Daily Ne,cs says, 1.-THE Great
Eastern IS TO leave England the first week in March,
for Norfolk, Va, where she has been guaranteed a
cargo chiefly of cotton for England"
TINS announGem rent os correct we may suppose
way hitherWard with all speed, and NAV be again
looked for in our roadstead before many DAVIS. We
are not prepared to say what has been promised her
lint We know that with the rapidly developing faci,
ties and resources of port for the supply of the
great staple Of the South. cargo con be furnished
e. .s nromntly as from any other on the whole
ssabosrd Of either the United or Confederate States
.-NorfolE Herald
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from the National Intelligencer, 9th. !

A SLIGHT MIsTAKE-We find the following para
graph in a recent number Of the Charleston Courier
accompanied with brief comment, meant to be
facetious, but which failed to be SO for want of
wit:
"Mr Lincoln has selected the National IntelH-
gencer as his organ. This is temporary arrange
ment, but we have no doubt will be made perma-
nent one"
We are sorry to find that our once conservative
and reliable contemporary, in making shipwreck Of
its long cherished political principles has also lost
some other qualities which once marked its conduct
Its statements of alleged fact las in the case above
cited) now often inaccurate as its secession
logic is unsound.
For Mr. Lincoln's own sake we should hope that
he will have the good to profit by the sad ex
perience of his immediate predecessors so far as to
eschew all "organships."
For ourselves, not being in the habit of declining
invitations until they are received, we have only to
say that the Intelligencer has been asked to
assume any official relations towards the Admins
tration of Mr.. Lincoln and our regular readers need
no assurance to convince them that it will hear no
relations towards the new Executive different from
those it has borne towards his predecessors
Whether we shall find in the Administration Of Mr..
Lincoln more or less to praise than We have found
in the latter will depend entirely upon our candid
construction Of his aets-acts which we shall be
free to judge as he to originate
While our hand is in, it may not be amiss to nip
in the bud another sensation item which we OBJ
served in an evening contemporary yesterday and
which will probably 60 the rounds-to the effect
that one Of the propretors of the Intelgencer had
been or would be appointed Postmaster Of Washing
ton-a story quite as unfounded, though more rdi-
culous, than the Charleston assertion about the
organshp.
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Freedom of Speech Denied.

We learn from the last Beaufort Banner that w.
W. Guess, Esq, formerly of Orange, but now resi-
dent of Morehead City, was waited upon by COM
mittee in Goidsborough few days SINCE and threa-
tened with coat of tar and feathers. The Banner
says:
what the alleged offence was, we know not;
but it is safe to assume that Mr. Guess was charged
with unsoundness on the slavery question. This
charge has become so common, and has been so Oh
ten repeated against the very best men of the State,
it is not astonishing it should be brought against
any man."
Mr. Guess is a native of the State and savehold-
er. He is no doubt as sound upon the question of
slavery as any person in Goldsboroush. We agree
with the Banner that
"All who love law and order should frown upon
these outrages committed in the name OF Southern
Rights. No Southern Rights can be strengthened
or perpetuated by such means and those who resort
to them are the worst enemies the South and her
institutions have. ...
The institution of slavery needs no such defence.
1t be justified by the constitution of the United
States by principles of philanthropy, by public laws
and by the word of God
The press at Godsboro', and the people of that
Gown owe it to themselves and the good name Of
their town to denounce such gross violations of law
as were attempted to be perpetrated upon Mr.. Guess
We apprehend from what we have seen and heard,
that entire freedom of speech is not permitted in
many portions ofNorth. Carolina We are threaten
ed with the same reign of terror which prevails in
Carolina All have to say is that the first
overt act of this kind will bring down on the heads
of the actors the most signal punishment a.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-20

The Permanent Constitution is daily considered
in secret session How far they have got in it. and
when it will be finished, your correspondent cannot
ascertain We heard, however, a member of Con-
gress say, that he thought that it would be finished
this week. Your members are fighting hard for
Constitution such as the people of South Carolina
will approve of but it is doubtful if they will
coed. If the frontier States were in the Congress-
their failure would not admit of doubt. By all
means let the Black Republicans keep them until
your Constitution is made and adopted. Boris,
ANDY JOHNSON & Co., are unwttingY doing Qike
their kindred spirits, the Abolitionists) the South
immense service.-Ertract from the Montgomery
Correspondence Of the Charleston Mercury.
From the foregoing, the frontier Stats will see,
that if they were members of the Southern Confed
eracy, they would be under the necessity Of oppos-
ing and voting down some proposed provisions OF
South Carolina, very beneficial to her and preudica
to them What these provision are we do not
know, but have no doubt that among them, there is
one which gives the same representation on blacks
as is given whites, or in other words, that 10G,-
900 blacks to be counted and represented just
100, 600 whites would be- South-Carolina has no
idea of submitting to three-ffths representation in
the Southern Congress on her cuffees. Such a re-
presentation would not give her the weight to which
she thinks she is entitled in the new govern
ment-Register.
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EXPORT DUTY ON CorroN.-The Congress at Mont.
gomery has passed law to borrow fifteen millions
of dollars, and levied export duty of &c pound
cotton, to pay the interest and reduce the debt
this is 40 cents per bag-somebody pays it who Is
itf If the cotton planter, it is unfair and unjust
If the foreign manufacturer pays it, let us put on
five cents pound and that will bring us hundred
million of dollars-enough to support the whole
government in magnificent style; and by putting on
ten cents, we will make the whole country rich at
once.-O Corner StoHA
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G. Guard" that Gen. Person, Of Northampton, il
eminently fitted for the place of Major General Of
the 7th Division. We trust the General will con-
sent to be candidate for this position 1t is true
he cannot be "the" candidate, but then he can be
elected, and that will be sufficient
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w The Winston Sentinel intimates that the

W- The Winston Sentinel intimates that the
Standard made "violent attack" on Mr.. Waugh,
the Senator from Forsyth and Stokes during the late
session Ct the Legislature. We need not say that
the Sentinel is mistaken. We made no attack at
ALIVE simply informed Mr.. Waugh's constituents,
and Mr.. Kalum's constituents that they were not
standing up in the cause of the Union as they should
have done. The sequal has shown that these gen.
temen have been repudiated BY their constituents.
We have been sustained by the people Of Forsyth
and Stokes, while the Sentinel and Messrs. Waugh
and Kallum have been put under the ban.