Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-04-20

As regards the distribution of rewards to Union
men in North Carolina, we do hope that Lincoln will
not forget them. Give Holden control Of the print
ing. send Wilson to Charleston, S. c., as collector,
and drill the balance to enter the army to subjugae
the people of the Gulf States. They ought to be
made martyrs of il not military heroes.-C Charlotte
Bulletin.
The Editor of the Bulletin talks of "martvrs"
and military heroes" The time has come for him
to show his pluck. He has done all he could to
bring on the war; now let him do his full share in
fighting it out. If he is indeed hero" let him
show the fact to the world not by words, but by
deeds.
So far as "rewards" and patronage are concern
ed, we repeat what we said IN the Standard of the
26th September last:
{" 1t is not for to say that it would be dishonor
able in citizen of North Carolina to accept Office
under President who had been elected according
to the forms of the Constitution. We can answer
only for ourselfin this respect and we say we would
not in any event, or under any circumstances &C.
cept or hold office under Mr. Lincoln But while
say this, we do not think that the mere election
of black Republican according to the forms Of the
Constitution, especially under present circumstances,
would be sufficient cause for dissolving the Union
We of the South believe in and intend to maintain
the Constitution. With us the words the Constitu-
ton are synonymous with the words the Union-
They one and the same. Let u.s. then, exhaust
all the powers of the Constitution in selfdefence
or Extensively if necessary, before we proceed to de-
stroy the existing federal government and set up
new governments"
We are now publishing the laws of the United
States under contract with the former adminstra-
ton. Some of our friends here know that we had
determined to refuse any printing that might be Of
H. Il.
printing and no Office has been rendered u.s. If they
had been, they would certainly have been declined
We have deceived no one. We told the people
last fall that Lncolns election would not Justify dis
solution, and those with whom we acted said the
same thing. The Bulletin said so in supporting the
Breckenridge Electors. We have labored honestly
to preserve peace and to avert war. But if the
worst must come ne ,oiU stand By North Carolina
at all hazards and to the last extremity We have
never uttered word nor entertained thought
inimical to her rights or her honor.
We have devoted more space to the Bulletin to-
day than perhaps the subject deserves We desire
no controversy in this crisis with any one We
shall not stop to defend oursef or our motives when
the country is in peril. We ask nothing-we want
nothing but peace for the country and if that can
not be had on honorable terms, we are ready for
war No public man in North Carolina has ever
been so much or so unjustly abused we have
been. The short-sighted, the ignorant the envous
the malignant and the ambitious have assailed and
traduced US, and poor shivering towards have sent
US insulting letters through the mails. Let it all
pass and perish. We are sustained by sense of
our own integrity. We look to the people, and to
time and events to do US justice. In the crisis now
upon us we say, with our contemporary of the Will
mington Journal, that if "the people of the North
calculate upon the people of the South being para
yzed by intestine divisions they will act upon most
mistaken notion. We will all be as one man when
the day Of trial comes Those who held strongest
to the Union will equally resent the imputation of
submissionism Shoulder to shoulder we must all
stand, and aoiH stand and we cannot be conquer
ed or coerced."