Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-11-27
Party Spirit.


Win or opposed to us in our views. We have OPP
posed this feeling among our own friends, and We
nave appealed to the old secessonsts time and again
10 forget party and think only Of the country. But
tnls appeal has been in vain. The majority Of the
OLD secessionists appear determined to keep up par
ty' to carry out party views, and to reward party
faVortes no matter what becomes of the country |
We know that many who acted with them in Feb
ruary last deprecate this conduct and have refused
and are refusing to act with them longer but the |
majority we repeat, still bent upon course of
policy, the results of which must be disastrous to
the country. ..
An Electoral ticket for example, was nominated
by the ultra secessionsts composed of eight Old Sc
cession'sts and four old Union men; and this ticket
they pressed every where on party grounds, aecar-
ing, as many of them did, that certain gentlemen on
the conservative or "Peoples Ticket" were not to
be trusted. All the clap-trap Of the lowest political
electoneerng was brought to bear against the Ora
ham and Reid ticket. Picayune party hacks who
never owned negro, and who probably never will,
and who have not contributed one dollar in money
or one ounce OF blood to the defence of the South
were running around on election day, nsinuating
that such men as Brown and Graham were not true
to the Southern cause! and as soon as the result
of the election was known, these same picayune
hacks sent up shout of exultatioa, and declared
that 1.-THE friends of Southern rights had achieved
signal victory!" The meaning of which was of
course that the friends of the Graham and Reid
ticket are enemies to the South They polled for
their ticket about $4,000, out of 10000 in the
State, thus showing themselves in a minority of
thousands upon thousands; and of these 81, 900 we
have no hesitation In saying that 1000 at least were
old Union men, who voted with them because they
had no Electoral tickets of their own and because
OF representations made to them that party had
nothing to do with the election, and that it was q
matter of no importance who were voted for for
| Electors
But this is only part of the programme, syste-
matcaly arranged and carried out towards the old
Union men. The presses in the interest of the old
secession leaders not only assa the old Union men
generally unfit for office on account of their an
tecedentS but some of them boldly avow the doc
trlne, while all OF them approve it and act upon it.
that those who made the revolution are alone emit
tied in this crisis to posts of trust and distinction
The effect ifnot the object ofhss to degrade the old
Union men, and to mark them as the interiors of
others in political rights. We now say, once for ALL
that We will not submit quietly to such treatment
There is majority in this State of 90 900 men who
did not prefer disunion, but were opposed to it up
to the proclamation of Lincoln in April last: and
there is majority Of 80 900 who did not prefer dis
union, but were opposed to it until the Peace Con-
ference adjourned without efecting settlement be-
tween the two sections. These men, who are as
patriotic and true to the South as those who thus
insult and put upon them, and who have not chan
ged their minds as to the of the revolution,
have borne just much and as long as they intend
to bear They have the power to control this State,
and they will do it. They have sent more men to
the field to fight Lincoln than their enemies here at
home have sent, and they have generally contribu-
ted two dollars to support the cause to contrib
nted by their enemies. If this gross injustice to-
wards them is contlnued-if the jeer, and the insn.
uation and the insult is still be thrown at them
as unworthy to hold Office to be trusted in this
crisis, they will rally and organize in every neigh
borhood in the State, and party contest will be
commenced and carried on until the last of theil
arrogant traducers and enemies shall have beer
hurled from power. The old Union men are called
traitors by Lincoln and they treated traitors
by many of those at home who should regard then
a brethren. They will fight Lincoln and their enc
mics at home at the same time; and if their right
as equals under common government are still de
MED them and this denial is accompanied in the fu
ture in the past by insinuatons that they
true to their native land they will rise in thei
: might and put under and put down forever thos
t who thus give papable evidence that their care
not for the State for the cause but for place.
= honors, and public plumber at the expense of
t struggling, bleeding country. The old Union me
e will owe it to themselves and to the good name
their children to exact justice for themselves at a
hazards if this systematic course of prescription
4 wards Them and this exclusion of them from a.
f Office on the assumption that they are not true
= the South, be much longer continued The arc
CANT, the impudent, the conceted, and the shallow
Drained and selfish may make light of this but t
the considerate and patriotic among the old sece
sion leaders we say, 6uware! The old Union me
are Just as true to the South as the most ultra s.
n cessonists can be- They will never submit to Lii
coin, ana tney Will he'er conSeIt 10 re-unlte the
l. destines with the Northern government. They ca
suffer and die for their country againsta comma
+ foe, but they oiU not submit to be treated as inf
y riors by those who are only their equals and VIII
S have no greater stake in the country than the
have
e DANv1LLE CONNECTIoN-At a public meetin
II held in Charlotte N, c., on the 22d ins prean
s. BILE and resolution were adopted expressing gre;
Il pleasure at the recommendation of President Dav
in regard to the building of Railroad from Green
5. boro to Danvle, and requesting their delegates
ir present an ordinance to the Convention to autho
ize the construction of the Road.
,r By the way, friend has suggested to US that v
II were mistaken in our remark some days ago,
1T representing the Road by the way Of Leaksville
W be TWENTY five miles out of the way. Our obe