Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-11-06
Electoral Ticke,-.-wilminston journal.

tney Ha'e Tiehus IN North Carolina says:
"But surely it is not unnatural that it should be
entertained or that the Lncontes should be led to
suppose that there yet slumbered some embers of
that Unonlstic tire which, few brief month since,
blazed out into such fierce fame of denunciaton
against all who even leant to our present position
May they not be excused for chershing the hone.
however unfounded, that these embers supposed by
them still to maintain smouldering vitality, might
again be blown into fame, when they find pretty
carefully arranged effort on the part of influential
politicians to pull the ropes to place the power
and prestige of the new government in the hands of
those who had most bitterly stgmatized it at the
time Of its birth, and most vehemently striven to
strangle it during the period Of its infancy When
tickets for electors of Confederate President are
twisted and changed around even in North Carolina
to suit gentlemen OF peculiarly marked anti Con-
Tolerate antecedens, who cannot but feel that the
moral effect must be hurtful a5rosd-must tend to
disseminate and sustain mistaken views leading to
conclusions like those upon which Mr. Seward bases
his assurance to the diplomatic corps that this little
affair of the insurrecton in the South will be over
in three months, ETC., ETC."
The Journal then assumes and says that the Gra-
ham and Reid ticket does not "carry with it the
full expression Of an idea the full endorsement Of a
policy-the policy of definite, final, irrevocable sep
aration." Now, the Journal is supporting five of
the ticket which We are supporting to w.t.
Messrs. Pool, Humphrey, Mckay, Reid, and Foster
He cannot be consistent and at the same time apply
the above remarks to either of the above gentemen
but pray in what particular do Messrs Pool, and
Foster, and Mckay differ from Messrs Graham and
Brown, and others of our ticket for whom the re-
marks Of the Journal were intended? If even one
Of the five gentlemen referred to be unsound, then
is the whole ticket of the Journal tainted and it is
no better, according to the showing of that paper
itself, than own. But the remarks OF the Jour-
nal were intended particularly for Messrs. Graham
and Brown. The "moral effect" of their election
"must be hurtful abroad" They, it seems, are not
fully committed to " fnal irrevocablc separation
from the North" Such are the charges preferred
against the Graham and Reid ticket as whole, and
particularly against Messrs. Brown and Graham.
We shall enter into no argument in reply to such
charges these 1t is sufficient to say that Messrs.
Graham and Brown, with the whole ticket which
we support, are committed to perpetual separation
from the old government; that they were thus COM
United six months before one of the pets of the
Journal Mr. Brecknridge, resigned his seat in the
federal Senate and that they are as true to the
Confederate States and the cause Of Southern inde
pendence as President Davis himself But the
Journal thinks it would be .pantml" for such gen.
emen to be called upon to vote Electors for such
man. for example, as Jefferson Davis. Not at ALL
They will vote for him with great deal of pleasure
Virginia one of the last States to secede. She
gave her bosom for battle ground of one and ALL
and she has furnished nearly every pound of pow
der and most of the heavy ordinance for the war
She has seventy-fve thousand men under arms Is
all this "paintul" to Virginia? Must she, with
North Carolina, and Tennessee, and Arkansas, the
last States to secede and who have at least one hum
dred and fifty thousand men under arms, go down
upon their knees and place their mouths in the dust
in order to be permitted to vote to sustain govern
ment which is as much theirs it is that of South
Carolina and to whose preservation and perpetu!ty
they are devoting all they have? The Journal
seems to think so. And so, according to the Jour.
nal it was "painful" for the twenty thousand Old
Union men who are soldiers from this State to vote
on Thursday last for Mr.. Davis for President. The
Journal is perfectly willing that old Union shall
pay taxes to support the war, and fight in the
war on foot, and in this quiet and useful way mani
fest their attachment to the government; but when
honors and offices are to be bestowed, and when the
mere act of voting is to be performed these persons
must make themselves very small, and must con
duct themselves as if under "panful" apprehen
sion that they barely tolerated as supporters
the new Confederacy. And in this way, as in vari
GUS other ways, the Journal is engaged in harmonic
ing the Southern mind, and preventing the impres
sion from going abroad that VIC are divided people
But the Journal in substance charges those with
whom we act, in supporting the Register Stand
ard Electoral ticket he calls it, with giving ait
and comfort to Seward. If it be true that the cold
blooded fend incarnate referred to is receiving ali
and comfort from this State he is not receiving
from the old Union men or from us. Are the skirt
of the Journal clear in this respect? No doubt Mr.
, Seward has emissaries who send him reguarl
copies of the Daily Wilmington Journal Th
Journal is known to be an influential paper, and
is published in the leading commercial town Of tn
State Mr. Seward gets it and reads it. He see
that the Journal intimates that the day is not IA
distant when the people of the Western part Of tn
State, where there are but few negroes, will tax
steps to abolish those provisions in our Constituto
by which slave property is protected, and will e'
tablish the white basis This white basis is favo
: ite policy with Mr.. Seward and Andrew johnson
!. Mr. Seward is, therefore, encouraged-and the MOI
SO, as this intimaton proceeds from ajournal pull
lished in region where slaves are very numerou
Again, the journal proposed recently that Ne
Hanover, and other Counties near the South Car,
lima line should secede and join South Carolina
: Mr. Seward no doubt saw this proposition, and n
garding it as a proposition which, if carried OH
would produce civil war among us, he took cou
i age, and went forward with new vigor in his wa
r like movements against u.s. Again, the Editor
the Journal and ourself were publishers under tt
s old government Of thelaws Of Congress. When II
r proclamation of Lincoln came in April last, Il
Journal and the Standard had about half complete
the publication of the acts of the last Congress
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