Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-12-11
For the Standard.
"a HIDEOUS MARK" se,gs~>.,

stleh people in the world as we-n0t Altogether ree
from faults y wants, but, as cqtnpafed with the
greaepeop'eI Our government <as unlike any 9TH
er and We proudly thought it the best If there
was any real evil in ii, it was, that every mans
surroundings superior that he cloyed in the
use of them, and felt more like monarch to be
mnstered unto, than as a citizen among equals.
Bat b crisis CAME a faction triupphed Oar
strength was weakness. And this great country
divides il and them. For time, there were those
on both sides the line who thought the government
equal to the crisis; that the faction was but one
to two, and that two were stronger than one that
the evil would last but for the night and that Joy
would come in the morning that this, the farest
experiment Of free government had not proved
failure, and ought not to fail who loved the coun-
try for its grandeur and the government for its ex
cellency; who were ashamed of the worlds taunt,
that we had boasted for nothing; who loved peace
and its blessings and feared and its calamitles.
But, when the line was drawn and there were two
countries, these same hesitated not moment as to
their position or duties Trne to the whole while
it was one as true to the half which fell to them
patriots them patriots now. With the division
came war: what they expected, what they dreaded,
what they would have avoided. But when it came,
no check blanched, no muscle relaxed, no nerve an-
strung, no heart tainted. No, they face the foe
ter-fight the battles are joyous in victory, and
undaunted by reverses. Generous people! patriot
citizens brave soldiers!
For time, on both sides this line there were
those who said they loved the Union, but il could
not be preserved, and should not be preserved ex-
cept in such manner as they, in anger, chose to
preserve it. And they, one side and the other,
were enemies, and neither would preserve it as the
other chose so they rent it asunder. For neither
,oas tho true mother! That each of these factions
should hate the other, excites no SURPRISE except
with such philosophers as suppose that fellows in
mischief ought to love another. But that the
faction this side should hate their neighbors
this side-who, although they loved the old Union
once love The new Union now, and have consecra-
ted themselves to its preservation-isa matter of
astonshment to every vrtuous mind and can only
be accounted for upon the hypothesis that just as
they loved faction better than the old they love
faction better than the new Union--party better
than country--falsehood better than truth-nalig
nifty better than amabiity-vice better than virtue
am led to these remarks by the leading editorial
of the State Journal in its issue OF Nov 16th 1851
If the editor had said the same outside the Journal
will not undertake to say to what consideration it
would be entitled. But it is in the Journal and
the Journal is -, but what the Journal is, you
must learn from the Journal ITSELF 1t says:
The State journal came into existence under
peSuiid SuSuuStduSCS, u luc StOIultSt pcTlOu
of our country'S existence. -
The party Che State who strove to stem the tor
rent of Northern aggression from its earliest incep
ton to this moment brought the State Journal into
existence Except in the failure
to call Convention Of the people to take North
Carolina ort of the old Union, and unite her desti-
MES with those of her Southern sisters the princi
pies which we advocate have received no popular
| reverse during our short existence"
It is then with the Journal as party organ that
We have to do-a party that has the possession of
the government, which claims to have met with but
one reverse, and to have the popular confidence
What, therefore, is said by the Journal, is said by
that party-by the government-by almost every
| officer i'll the gov ernment-and is whimpered by
every one seeking Office, as means of success and
is believed by many who.do not know its fasehood.
Still, if thought the PARTY were ashamed of it,
one of those things which lmpudence dares in those
employ, would not notice it. But, it is apparent
enough that what the Journal says is but what the
party feels and sanctions
The editorial to which alude calls the opponents
to the early secessionists 1.-THE watch and wait par
ty," and says:
Watch and wait handed over the South in tears
and chains to the mercy of the North"
Again it says:
"All now see that we had prophets of Baal among
covered their counsels with confusion and shame
and set hideous mark upon their brow by which
they may hert after be known by the people. Lei
them no longer aspire to speak in the name Of peo
pie whom their teachings have deceived or of
country whose present sufferngs must in grea
measure be ascri5ed to their wicked counsels"
Again it says
ut Is strange but pleasing coincidence, tina
the first number of our new volume should be tn
| Ioru1A fn O,,rra nf IL,
umph of the electoral ticket advocated by this pa
rer and its political confreres victory by no mean
insignificant of the popular will or fraught witt
mexgre results"
This is specimen of the editoria! which is col
umn and halt long
Now from this find it charged that North Care
lima has been handed over to the North bound an
in tears, BY the wicked counsels Of somebody, an
that these wicked counselors have now "hdeou
marks on their brows," by which they are know
and are to be known. And further, that these sam
} persons are still at their mschievous work, and
new victory has just been achieved over them in til
electoral vote.
Is it true then, that there has been mischievor
party in North Carolina; and that that party,
February last, numbered two to one majority P
e (For such was the conservative majority at tn;
time) And that such party still exists, and h:
to be conquered, and marked on the brow as vi
r worthy of confidence? That is what the govern
: ment organ says! Now if Lincolns organ had sa
; it, it would have been set down to gross deusion
e wicked ialsehood. But why may not Lincoln's o
gan say it and believe it too? Does not the Jour
J, VI say it! And is the government organ so
truthful that Lincoln should not believe I?
;, Maligniy it may have, enough to dscredit dozt
L journals; but how does Lincoln know it? If it hi
+ age enough dare say its malignity would be know
u further Oft than Washington; but can it have t
y come SO notorious in year? Why, the enemy W
!, rely upon the testimony of spy, a deserter
u traitor-s the Journal meaner than these? \
J. wonder then that Lincoln now charges, that he
l. large party of friends in North Carolina, and
y over the South. The government organ here sa
l. it is So and Lincoln ought to be excused (hardly
I, for believing it.
D. Now the question which submit for the cons
Grafton Of twothrds of the good people Of Nor
r Carolina is, whether they will submit to such
n, imputation! An imputatio2 which is not simp
- made in the nrran of the Marty hnt which is We