Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-05-01
The War Feeling in the North.

lead to other conclusion than that vast MAORI
ty of the Northern people endorse Lincoln's pro-
clamation, and are prepared to wage war upon the
slaveholding States to hold them on to the old
Union. It is true the proclamation is not often re-
ferred to and specifically endorsed, but the purpose
to coerce and subjugate the South is cloaked with
professions of devotion to the government and the
flag of the stars and stripes. We must stand
by the government is the universal cry. We must
stand by the government right or wrong, is the
universal determination. OF the leading public
men who have taken ground with Lincoln and Scott
in their determination to force against sovereign
States to preserve the government, we may mention
Franklin Pierce, Senator Bigler, Stephen A. Doug
las, Mayor Wood, Hiram Ketchum, Washington
Hunt, Edward Everett Willard Fillmore, James
Buchanan, John Cochrane, John A. Dix, Daniel s.
Dickinson, Richard O'Gorman, George Bancroft,
Greene c. Bronson, Edwin Croswell, Hamilton Fish,
Robt. j. Walker, Gen. Cass and Archbishop Hughes
These names are familiar to our readers Many of
them have been trusted and honored by the South,
but now they join the many against the few in
cowardy war, inaugurated by the proclamation of
Lincoln, and to be carried forward by Gen. Scott,
who, it seems, has at last shown himself a traitor
to the soil that gave him birth.
At meeting of the New York bas held few
days since, s25 900 were promptly subscribed in aid
of volunteers, and speeches breathing the utmost
bitterness towards the South were delivered. On
the goth of April the largest meeting ever held in
New York City took place in Union Square At
least one hundred thousand people were in atten-
dance. Resolutions looking to the re- establishment
of the federal government and "peaceful obedience"
in the slavehodng States were adopted, and strong
war speeches were delivered. Among others Sena-
tor Baker, of Oregon, said:
sin thissense. then, young men of New-York we
are not for war of aggreSsion but in another
sense-speaking for myself as man of honor, who
has been a soldier, and as Senator-I say in an
other sense, am for a war of aggression propose
to-day, now as we did before in Mexico-to conquer
peace. Cheers. propose to 60 to Washington,
and beyond. [Cheers.] do not design to remain
entirely supine, Inactive, fearful, till the war is
brought to our midst. TCheers will meet them
on the threshold of their gatherings cheers T.
there in the very seat Of their power and dictate to
the rebellious terms of peace. [Cheers.l 1t may
take $50, 900 OOo-it may take $500, 900, 00O-what
then? We have it. Cheers. Loyalty, nobly,
grandly, do the merchant princes of New York re-
spond to the ardent appeal of the United States
Government. 1t may cost us 1900 lives; it may
be 10000 lives; it may be 100000 lives what
then? We have them. [Great cheering The
blood of every loyal citizen of this Government is
dear to me ; my sons and theirs-young men grown
up beneath my eye and care are here-they are all
dear to me; but If the organization, the destiny,
the renown the glory, the freedom of Constitu-
tional Government, the only hope of free people
demand it. let them all CO. Tremendous cheering.
I am not now speaking timorous words of peace. l
speak to kindle a spirit of manly, determined war.
THhaarc I in mid ocf
State amid of past suffering and past glory
with the defences of the Hudson above me- the
scenes of the struggle on Long Island before me-
CHEERS, the statue of Washington in my very face,
[cheers, the tattered unconquered flag of Sumter
[great cheeringl waving in the hand which can al
most now imagine trembles with the excitement of
battle, cheers and when / speak ! say my mission
here to-day is to kinde the heart of New York for
war. Great cheering.] War, sudden, bold, deter
mined forward war from thisday. [Renew'd cheering
The Seventh Regiment has gone. Three times
three deafening cheers. Let seventy and seven
more follow. TCheers and cries of Bravo"I "Of
old" said the great historian, beneath the banner
of the Cross Europe preciptated itself upon Asia
beneath the banner of the Constitution let the
of the Union precpitate upon the disloya Confed-
crate States. Immense cheering. A few more
words and | have done. [Cheers and cries of
Good. Let no man underrate the dangers Of this
controversy. Civil war for the best of reasons
upon the one side the worst upon the other always
dangerous to liberty-is always fearful, bloody
Yet, citizens there worse things than fear
doubt, dread danger or blood Dishonor is worse.
lCheers. States continually and forever severing
IS worse. Traitorous secession everywhere is worse
and to be bemeanded and belittled in the eyes of
the Old World-perhaps star after star blotted out
[cries of "Neverl stripe after stripe obscured or
dlmmed, to have men blush for shame throughout
generations to come-theSe are worse than blood
Enthusiastic and long continued cheerlng.] Peo-
pie of New York on the eve of battle, allow to
speak as soldier. Few of you know of me; my
career has been obscure ferries of mo and distant
but 1 can say that have seen you tried. 1t was
once my fortune to lead the gallant New York regi-
ment in the shock of battle | was then leader up
on the bloody heights of Cerro Gordo [cheers, and
know well that New York can do when her blood is
up. Prolonged cheering.l Again and once we will
march, but not for reverge. We have nothing to
avenge. 1t is not much that that tattered flag
lowered [pointing to the Sumter flag the
statue of Washington when guarded by 70 against
10000; it is not much that starvation effected what
the enemy could not compel. CHEERS. We have
something to punish-as yet little or nothing to
revenge. The President himself hero without
knowing it. cheers, says there wrongs to be
redressed, enough endured to march to battle and
to victory, because don't choose to endure these
wrongs any longer. They wrongs not merely
against us they are not wrongs against US in one
sense, but against Union, [cheers, against the
Constitution, against human hope and human free
DOM"
Mr.. Dix, Mr.. Dickinson, Mr.. Walker, and others,
spoke in the same strain.
One OF the objects of this war of aggression is thus
stated in the New York Tribune:
1--WE hold traitors responsible for the work upon
which they have preciptated us, and we warn them
that they must abide the full penalty. Especially
let Maryland and Virginia look to it for they are
greater Sinners so their punishment will be heavier
than that of others. Virginia is rich and beautiful
State, the very garden of the Confederacy. But it
Pied and its paths, its BEDS and it's boundaries are
likely to be pretty completely oblterated before we
have done with it. 1t has property in houses, in
lands, in mines in forests, in country and in town.
which will need to be taken possession of and eout