Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-08-07
VOL = XXVII.-No. SO.
A Case of Gros. Fermentation.

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No director was more attentive to his duties than
Mr. Dick, and no officer of the Road took
deeper interest in its and prosperity than he
did. He gave to Mr. Fisher, the late lamented Pres
ident an active and jealous support all occasions
and especially did he do this under the assaults
made upon his management Of the Road some three
or four years since. n+ H'
II was the custom with Governors Reid, Bragg,
and Ellis, to reappoint the State directors. No one
but Mr.. Dick has been turned out since the State
had representatives in the Board but in every case,
if we are not entirely mistaken, the State drec
tors that have gone in have been appointed to fill
vacancies occasioned by designations Mr.. Dick has
been, is now, and was when he was turned out, as
good Democrat as the State contains Why, then,
was he alone omitted in appointing the present
Board? 1t was not charged that he was incompe
tent or that he was Indifferent to the prosperity Of
the Road twas not alleged that he had been
longer in the Board than others, and ought, there
fore, to give place to another; for other members
had been on the Board as long as he had. Why,
then was he singled out ana prescribed? We will
tell you good reader 1t was because he resisted
at Charleston and Baltimore, the attempt which
made, and which was consummated at the latter
place. to destroy the national Democratic party,
which was then the only bond that gave promise OF
continued peace and concord. 1t was because, like
Barlow, and Stephens, and Graham. and Bell, and
Badger, and Brown he was Union man as long as
he could be so consistently with his regard for the
rights and honor of his section; and it especial
| ly because he soas Union Democrat Vengeance
was taken upon him even in the midst of war, at a
time when party strife should be hushed and all
past divisions forgotten. Vengeance was taken up
him because, with seventy thousand of the voters
of this State in February last he labored to the
old Union on an honorable basis; and because ALSO
in Convention in May last after he had struck for
dissolution and for to the last extremity for our
rights lie thought it his duty to crtcise the partizan
appointments of the Governor and Military Board,
and to give votes showing his confidence in the Ca
pacity of the people of this State to govern them
selves. This is the secret of this prescription of
faithful public servant He was prescribed 0y
miserable faction, accidentally in power, and which
has used its power in nine out Of ten, for the
promotion of selfish and partizan ends. But Mr..
Dick is honored by such treatment 1t is an honor
for him, civilian to suffer prescription in common
with brave men in the army who have been exclu-
ded from chief positions on account of their political
opinions, by this same miserable faction.
Again Mr. Dick resigned his place as District
Attorney of the United States for this State in Feb
ruary last, being determined not to serve under Mr.
Lincoln. Judge Asa Biggs did not resign until the
last moment, but served under Mr.. Lincoln and
pocketed his federal gold; but behold, Nj. Dick is
prescribed under The new government, and Judge
Biggs is re-appointed District Judge! We are sat
isfied that President Davis was imposed as to
these appointments. We believe, aside from what
must be his ideas of good policy, that he has too
, much magnanimity 20 proscribe the old Union men
, Of the Confederate States but respectfully tel!
him that in the of Mr. Dick, he appears to have
3 done so. We know he would not deliberately put
J under the ban that portion Of the people Of this
| State who up to the proclamation Of Mr.. Lincoln
in April last were anxious to preserve the Union on
honorable terms, but who as soon as that proc'ama
ton appeared sprang as one man to arms, and thus
made this State the most united and unanimous in
its determination to resist, of all the Confederate
! States In Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and 9th
of the Confederate States where the original Sc
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temen direct and make the appointments both civi
and military, party feeling is exhibited, but or
the contrary, the old Union men are recognized as
: patriots and honored with chief positions. There
fore, we repeat President Davis must have been IN
posed on in relation to Mr. Dick for he unquestonabl
concurs with the States above mentioned in tn
b, policy in this respect which they have adopted.
Our object is simply to vindicate Mr.. Dick, VIII
has been most unustly treated, and to enter agail
and again our earnest protest against the ndulgenc
and the exhibition of party feeling in the midst o
J. war. 1t is not our purpose or our wish to rehec
personally on Judge Biggs or Mr. Strong. Tn
former we believe, gave satisfaction as Judge unde
e the old government; and the latter will no doub
e make an able anG efficient District Attorney. Bu
it is our purpose to protes: against the prescription
, of old Union men, whether they were formerl
d Democrats or Whigs and shall continue to rails
h our voice against iniquity, which receives add
tional blackness from the fact that the country
now at war, and requires the united efforts Of a
r. men of all the old parties to beat back the invade
cs and reconstruct enduring foundations the fabr
of demolished government. What can those VII
er have inaugurated this policy Of prescription in tn
s. State, promise themselves? The etices' That
all What can they promise the people, who's
;, power is thus used for selfish purposes? Is. Il
e. order of certairhireling organ to be carried ou
i'll that the original Secessionsts shall have preceden
d. in the army, we'll as in the civil ofices9 Wet
to not believe this order will be carried out as heret
en- FORE if Gov Clark can prevent it, but he is su
or rounded, to a great extent by clamorous and vi
at dictive partizans, and can oppose only his own
be to the demands and the will Of hundreds. We t.
these cormorants who surrounded the late Governt
b. and who effected their selfish ends through su
he servent partzan Military Board, that the blood
= the old Union men was poured out as freely on t
;, fields Of Manassas any blood that flowed in tn