Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-09-25
Party! Partyll

Party! Party!l
Why is 1t that in the midst Of a bloody war
waged for the very existence of the State-a war in
which, if we fail, all is~lost; and at time, when
every heart should pulsatc as one heart-that many
OF our best and wsest are rgidly and constant
~ excluded from the councils of the State and ma
ton and by our State authorities from the public
services?
Mr. Branch and Mr.. Davis and others-men sur.
feited with Office it seems are very proper persons
to be sent to confer with the Confederate govern
ment at Richmond, or to fill other important posi-
tlons-pet-men, sometimes filling two or more off.
ces of trust and profit at the same time, but the
State, now in imminent hazard stands in no need
OF the services of such men as, Rufin or Badger,
Brown or Graham, Reid or Morehead, Walter F.
Leake or Rayncr, Edwin G. Reade or R. P. Dick
Jesse G. Shepherd or John Pool, Gilmer or Will
liam Eaton, Jr., and host of others! Indeed the
tried men of the State-men whose ability, wise
fore-caste and great prudence, have secured them
the confidence Of the people, like the above-named
and such men as Thomas Bragg, David Outlaw, Al
fred Dockery, Anderson Mitchell, John r. Gilmer
and Others are put under the ban, to give place to
others-taster men We suppose, mere politicians or
rampant original secessionists of far less weight
who are to sit in the high seats of the synagogue.
And is it true that the late Military Secretary of
the late Military Board the head and front of the in
efficiency and insecurity of our sea-coast defences,
is to be of the trusted counseors of Gov Clark
Is the ship of State to be steered by men whose
pilotings will scarcely pass muster on smooth water
in good soundings, when she is in danger of Scylla
on the one hand. or of Charybdis on the other?-
We trust not.
What is the reason of all this? We will tell you,
fellow-citizcns. Tt is party! Party when war is
upon us and when our brave men OF all parties and
all positions are suffering and dying for their coun
try? Yes, the depraved oracle of the destructves
in this city, clanlors for the spoils-must have all
the fat offices for the original secessonists- indeed
yawns and growls like dog with sore head, if
the original Iancy men, the democratic secessionsts
don't get them all. Yes, the men who were I'M
willing to break up the old government until every
effort was made to restore and preserve it-those
who in February and April preferred peace to war,
but who rose in their mig ht as one man to resist
the first indications of coercion and tyranny, as
promulgated in Lincolns proclamation, they are
the men who may pay their money to support the
and shoulder their muskes to drive the invader
from soil, but general rule, there no Of
fees for them. And forsooth, if zoe dare complain
of the corrupting, damaging Of the destruc-
tves, because of its manifest injustice and impolicy
during the war, We are charged with personal or
partzan venom.
The principle upon which this miserable policy
is based is rotten to the core-when put in action,
it is damaging to the peace and the harmony and
the efficiency of the State in this war; and this is
the sole ground of our complaint. Who dares stand
forth and charge with raising objection against
the appointment of fit mana man fully qualified
for Office? We contend that North Carolina at this
uncture, needs her purest wsest, ablest, most re-
liable men, matter what their politics are or have
been. We want the Office to fit the man and the
man to fit the oftice-let him have been whig or
democrat, Union man or secessionist, we care
nota groat But when We see original secessionists
planning and scheming and plotting to fill every
office, military civil, with original Yancey men,
are alarmed for the safety and perpctuty of the
new government and for the prosperity and success
of the South in this war. And why, not because
! we doubt the personal integrity of all of them
| Certainly not. But because their action is based
upon principle which is destructive to the perpe
tuity of Constitutions, and law, and order, and a
permanent government. Men may be potent to pull
down and impotent to build up not because they
don't try to build but because they build with hay
and stubble, and not with the impcrishabe ingre
dents of truth, and justice and right.
Let say to those who thus carry on, the day is
coming when the people will take vengeance 70,
| all this.