Weekly standard., 1861-03-27
OBJ Stanbar1.
RALEIGH: SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1861.
Resistance to the Will of the Majority.

RALEIGH: SATURDAY, MARCH %, 1861.
Resistance to the Will of the Majority.
The Union party of this State is liberal and toe
rant party and has respect for the rights of minor-
ties In this it differs from the disunion faction,
which has respect for maorities, and no great de-
gree of respect for ITSELF For ITSELF we say, for at
one time it threatens to "punish" all who will not
submit to the will Of the majority; and at another
tme being in minority, it goes to work to resist
the majority, and to place the moose of "punish-
ment" around its own neck.
We call the particular attention of the people to
the fact that the disunonists Of Wake, in their meet
;nu held to nominate candidates for the State Con-
vention, declared that
"Whenever majority of the people of North
Carolina shall solemnly resolve that they cannot
safely remain in the Union it is not only their right
but it is their duty to secede and to punish such Of
her citizens as refuse submission to her soceregn
uM"
This was the language not only Of the dsunionists
of Wake, but of leading members of the Legislature
of the dsunion party. Well the people of this State
have "solemnly resolved" to remain in the Union,
and the disunionists, now in minority, and who
threatened in certain event to "punish" minor-
ties are now engaged in resisting the sovereign will
of the State Witness their recent meetings, and
their great meeting now in progress in Goldsboro.
If the Union men were disposed to do as they said
then would do in certain event. they would have
their hands full in furnishing" malcontents and
traitors But our disunion friends need not be
alarmed. The majority will not "punish" them
unless they shall proceed to some overt act of ress
lance and rebellion Still warn the people to be
on the alert If ever, by neglect inattention on
their part these disunionsts shall obtain the power
in this State they will Immediately proceed to
"punish that is, to hang and shoot-every man
who shall attempt what they are now attempting,
to w.t. resistance to the will Of the majority They
have said it, and of course they only want the op
porunity to carry out their bloody purposes.
The majority of the people Of this State having
spoken, it is the duty of every friend Of law and Or
der and of every man who respects the principles Of
popular representative government to submit to the
will of that majority. Resistance implies treason,
and treason will result in anarchy and bloodshed
Did the Standard ever make amends to the Hon.
W n.
upon that gentlemans character p Wilmington
Herald.
The Herald seems determined to be personal
towards US. We have never committed any outrage
on Gov. Graham's character. During the last six
months we have borne cheerful testimony to Gov
Graham'S patriotism as Union man. We regard
him as gentleman and patriot
The Herald talks about our manliness. What
has Mr.. Waddel got to do with that? Who
authorized him to interfere between Gov. Graham
and ourself? If we have had personal differences
with Gov. Graham, Mr.. Waddell has not been asked
to step in and settle those differences and if he
wishes to aggravate and proong then he at least is
not entitled to the character of "peace-makcr. !"
We commend the eleventh commandment to Mr.
Waddel which, being interpreted, reads as follows:
Mind your own business. -..
We have no disposition to be rude towards the
Editor of the Herald and if we have been little
so in the foregoing, he may blame himself for it.
The Herald says we have convicted him of
"having been strong Union man. and Of having
bitterly denounced the precipitancy of South Caro-
lima" That we have But sos have been Union
man from the first, and we are SO now.
The Herald says it will endeavor to answer cer-
tain questions "at another time for the benefit Of
the Standard" That time will never come. If
the Herald will explain its own inconsistency it will
have much work as it can do until all the seeded
States shall have returned to the Union.
Will the Standard support Mr.. Branch when he
receives the nomination of the Democratic party OF
n0ra 81 - IL -
know.-HiItsborough PLdihdealer. na..r
Every man who insists on strict construction Of
the federal Constitution, and who believes in and
practices the principles of Jefferson and jackson, is
a Democrat; but no man can advocate or favor dis.
union for existing causes and be Democrat There
is no Democratic party, and there is no Opposition
party in this District There is Union party, and
there is Disunion party. . g. r-ss.. -.
We shall not support Mr.. Branch for Congress,
because he is disunionist. We shall not be bound
by the action of caucuses, cliques or conventions
We have appealed to the people against the dis.
unionists and oigarchs and we intend to continue
this appeal until these disunionists and all their
machinery for evil shall have been thoroughly put
down. -a
We will support Henry W. Miller, or Quentin
Busbee, or Moses A.. Bledsoe, or ]. w. B. Watson,
or Alse J. Taylor, or George N. Lewis, or James s.
Amis, or Josiah Turner, Jr., or Kemp P Battle, or
Sion H. Rogers, or Robert B. Gillian, or Capt Ed.
Lyon, or William A. Graham, or Capt John Berry.
or any other good Union man for Congress; but we
will not support Mr.. Branch: p -. !. H..
~ We have recently had considerable fall Of
snow, accompanied with cold weather. We fear
that the peach crop has been cut off, The apple
trees had not !" put out, and it may be that We
will have apples in abundance