Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-10-23
The sentinel and Mr.. Dick.

Congress bstveens Measrs. and safcIean, -
taking part pad is giving Sdyantsss ID lis ca 4
umns to Mr Mclean. We do not charge the, SEN
tinsz with disngenuous cpnddct ii this business,
for the Editor no doubt that while favorine
one, he does justice to the other His course is
natural one, and ia keeping with his synpathies
against such old Union Democrats as Nj. Dick Col
Brown, and others wbe might Se named
Now, it is not our purpose to attempt to injure
Mr.. McLean's prospects, for we have always es-,
teemed him as gentleman and party associate.
Besides we want che people Of the 9th District un
embarrassed by ontsideinAuences and by insideinu.
ences of factous partizan character, to decide
for themselves and therefore it is that as friend
of fair play, and as a former party associate Of
Messrs. Dick, Mclean. and the Editor of the Senti-
mel, VIC feel bound to enter our protest against
the course the Ssntinelis pursuing.
The Sentinel admits that g Mr.. Dick is certainly
a man Of splendid talents-an eloquent and accom- :
plished orator." But this is not ALL Mr. Dick has
been prescribed and injured by the State govern
ment and the Confederate government and that too
in the midst of war, when prescription should not
be thought Of except as against our common en-
emies Mr.. Dick was appointed a Director of the
North-C Car DINA Railroad by Gov. Reid, and reap
pointed and continued by Gov. Bragg. He filled
this place to the satisfaction of ALL but he was re-
moved in July last, because he had been q Union
man. 1t was in vain that he had defed and resisted
Lincoln, when his own. State, and Virginia, and
Tennessee and Arkansas de6ed and resisted him;
and it was in vain that in May, as a member of the
State Convention, he had voted for and signed the
ordinance of secession,-he was prescribed from an
Office which had connection with politics, because
he was not swift to involve the country in war
Who prescribed him? We do not believe it was
Gov. Ellis for he died only few days after the act
was committed. No doubt when he left for the
Virginia Springs, he placed in the hands of those in
charge of public affairs blank commissions signed
by himself to be filled with the names of such Dr.
rectors might be appointed and it was thus that
some petty tyrant here in Raleigh took vengeance
on Mr.. Dick by removing him from ofice-the first
removal Of a director, by the way which had taken
place during the existence of the Road We feel
also that Mr. Dick was not prescribed from his
place of District Attorney by or with the knowledge
of President Davis; Or ifso that the President was
imposed by false statement of the facts, or was
not fully informed of the facts. Mr.. Dick was Dis
trict Attorney under the old government He ten
dered his resignation in February last, but it was
not accepted He was and is as loyal to the State
and to the South the gentleman yho was appoint
ed to succeed him, the gentleman who was
appointed District Judge, and who, by the way, did
hold office under Lincoln as Mr.. Dick did not, and
did pocket Federal gold under Lincoln, as Mr.. Dick
did not. And it is singular coincidence that all
three of the gentlemen referred to-Messrs. Dick,
Biggs, and Strong-were members of the State Con-
ventlon and signed the ordinance of secession side
by side; but, by some malign influence here at
home, brought to bear on the government at Rich
mond, Mr.. Dick was singled out and marked and
prescribed. We do not, however, charge any i'm
proper conduct in connection with this case of pro-
scription. on Messrs Biggs and Strong.
The Western Sentinel has not one word to say
about this gross injustice to true man but the
people of the 9th District will be very apt to
Der it at the polls on the 9th day of next month.
The Sentinel has Inexperienced our remarks in
relation to the authors of the present revolution
We shall correct this misapprehenson in our next,
and shall convince the Editor of the Sentinel from
the record that we have been entirely consistent in
our views on the subject of secession.
HENRY W. MILLER EsQ.-This gentleman, hav-
ing been urged by number of his friends to declare
himself candidate for Congress IN this District has
declined to do so; and we publish to-day letter
from him addressed to friend, in which he informs
the people of the District of his purpose not to be
candidate, and briefly dsines his position in the
present crisis. This letter is worthy of the eminent
orator and patriot from whose pen it has proceeded.
He casts all past differences and all past issues to
the Winds and advises his countrymen to rally as
one man to the party Of the country, and to know
no divisions of any kind among themselves until the
invader is driven back and the independence of the
| South secured. These are the sentiments not only
of Mr.. Miller and the great body of the people of
this State but of Davis, and Stephens, and Beaure-
gard, and Brown Of Mississippi, and of nine tenths
of the leading statesmen and influential public jour
nails of the Confederate States The selfish, narrow
hearted, Swiss doctrine that those who made the
revolution" are entitled to monopoly of the Off
GERS and honors was rejected by the seven Confed-
crate States when they called Mr.. Stephens to the
Vice Presidency, and by President Davis in both
his messages and in his late letter to Mr.. Nelson, of
! Tennessee The sentiment which animates every
true man in the Confederate States is every thing
for the country, and nothing for party. This is
the touchstone by which to try public men at this
time. He who seeks to build up party now, and
thus divide and distract the people, and who would
degrade any portion of his countrymen by assigning
them an inferior position in this great struggle, is
an enemy to the cause of independence, and is,
practically, friend to the tyrant Lincoln whe is
striving to enslave US.
WILLIAM LANDER Eso.-This gentleman has the
field to himself for Congress in the 9Th District.
He does not appear however, to be acceptable to
such ultras as the Charlotte Bulletin. Though Mr..
Lander was among the first to secede at Baltimore
yet the fact that he abored at Charleston and after
he returned home, to preserve the national Demo