Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-06
Watch and Wait.

what do you think of that motto noD, gentlemenS
The people have spoken and you must watch and
wait. Mr. Chngman telegraphed to his brother dis
unonists that the State "must secede" or be par
ty to the subugaton of the seeded States but the
people have not ooeyed Mr.. Clingman. They have
said in reply to that most consistent and disinteres
ed patriot-watch and wait They have said the
same thing to Gov. Ellis, and Mr.. Branch, and Mr.
V. q. Barringer, and Mr.. Meares, and Mr. Folk, and
Mr.. Thomas and Mr.. Person, (who endeavored to
deprive them of the right to approve reject the
action of the Convention at the pols,) and to all
others of the precipitators who either despair of
settlement or who would rush the State out of the
Union after Yancey and his co-conspirators; and
they have said it in voice of thunder rolling from
the seaboard to the mountains, proclaiming their
own deliberate Judgment in this important crisis,
and consignng the agitators to that private life
which they much dislike
We originated the above motto in November last,
soon after the election of Mr.. Lincoln Our friends
Of the Fayetteville Observer responded to it and it
soon become stump newspaper and household
word" We were ridculed, VIC were jeered, we
were denounced on account of it We were told
that it was cowardy, submission motto. But we
adhered to it infexibly. We went before the peo-
pie on it We explained it and tried to enforce it.
Hundreds of true men-the followers of Washing
ton, and jackson, and Ciay-united with us in COM
nendng 1t to the people as the only safe ralying
cry in the existing crisis and the people, by immense
majorities, have approved the motto. Wake and
Granville are two of the largest saveholding Coun-
ties in the State. They watching and waiting.
! Orange, and Chatham and Caswell and Person, and
Johnston, and Cumberland, and Harnett, and Chow
an, and Forsyth, and Stokes and Rowan, and Car
| teret and many other Counties that might be
named, are watching and waiting Are the people
Of those Counties submissonists? Are they false to
North Carolina or to the South? No, they are true
to themselves to their State to their section and at
the same time to the Union. They are not to be
moved by orders from Washington, by sensation"
dispatches, or infammatory disunion harangues.
Those who have opposed the policy indicated in
this motto, and who have striven, whether openly
covertly, to commit this State to dsunion, will
have to watch and wait a long while before they
can begin to obtain the peoples confidence. They
have already abused that confidence. That was
their fault but if they should ever be allowed to OBJ
tain and abuse it again. the fault will be the peoples
Yes, watch and tcait The pill may be a bitter
one, but the diSunionists will have to take it.
Yes, ratch and acait The people have said it,
and who will dare object to the peoples verdict
We believed they would say it, and they have said
it. We rejoice because they have We stand be-
hind the people, who have come to our rescue, and
still exclaim Watch and Wait! Henceforth to de-
nounce this motto is to dcnounce the people who
have adopted It as their own.