Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-11-27
Party Shirt.

preeaed IT'S exhibition by Others whether agreeing
with or opposed to US in our views. We have OPP
posed this feeling among our own friends, and we
have appealed to the old secessionsts time and again
to forget party and think only of thecountry. But
this 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
fayorites, 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 secessonists, composed of eight old
cessionists and four old Union men; and this ticket
they pressed every where party grounds, declar
ing as many of them did, that certain gentlemen on
the conservative or Peoples Ticket" were not to
be trusted All the claptrap of the lowest political
eectioneering 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 ounce of blood to the defence of the South,
were running around on election day, insinuating
tudl SuCu uuen as DTONu anu UTaOam were HOI True
to the Southern cause!-and as soon the result
of the election was known, these same picayune
hacks sent up shout of exultatlon, and declared
that /" 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 112, 900 in the
State, thus showing themselves in a minority of
thousands upon thousands; and of these ~ 900 we
have no hesitation IN saying that 1000 at least
old Union men, who voted with them because they
had 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-
maticaly arranged and carried out towards the old
Union men. The presses in the interest Of the old
secession leaders not only assail the old Union
generally unfit for office on account of their an
tecedents, but some Of them boldly avow the doc
trne, while all of them approve it and act upon it.
that those who made the revolution alone emit
tied in this crisis to posts of trust and distinction.
The effect fnOt the object ofths 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 will not submit quietly to such treatment.
There is majority in this State of 20, 900 men who
did not prefer diSunon, 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 effeciing settlement be-
| tween the two sections These men, who as
patriotic and true to the South those who thus
| insult and put upon theAI and who have not chan
ged their minds to the causes of the revolution
have borne just much and as long 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 to contrib
uted by their enemies. If this gross injustice to-
wards them is contnued-if the jeer, and the nsin-
uation and the insult is still be thrown at them
as unworthy to hold office or to be trusted in thi;
crisis, they will rally and organize in every neigh
borhood in the State, and party contest will be
commenced and carried until the last of their
! arrogant traducers and enemies shall have been
! 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 them
brethren. They will fight Lincoln and their enc
mics at home at the same time; and if their rights
as equals under a common government are still de-
MED them and this denial is accompanied in the flu.
ture in the past by nsinuatons that they
true to their native land, they will rise in their
might, and put under and put down forever those
who thus give palpabe evidence that their care is
not for the State for the cause, but for place, and
honors, and public plumber at the expense of a
struggling, bleeding country. The old Union men
will owe it to themselves and to the good name OF
their children, to exact justice for themselves at all
hazards if this systematic of prescription TO-
wards them, and this exclusion Of them from all
office on the assumption that they are not true to
the South, be much longer continued. The arro-
CANT the impudent the conceited, and the shallow
Drained and selfish may make light of this; but to
the considerate and patriotic among the old seces
sion leaders We say, 6UUare! The old Union men
are Just as true to the South the most ultra Sc
cessionists can be. They will never submit to Lin.
coin, and they will never consent to reunte their
destines with the Northern government They can
suffer and die for their country againsta
foe, but they aOU not submit to be treated as inGe
| riors by those who only their equals, and who
4 have no greater stake in the country than they
have.
DANv1LLE CoNNECTIoN.-At a public meeting
held in Charlotte n, c., on the 22d inst pream.
BILE and resolution were adopted expressing great
Measure at the recommendation of President Davis