Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-02-23
Lock out for Roorbacks !--UnIon Men be moi
misled or deceived!

misled deceived!
We have before us pamphlet printed at the dis
union Office in this City, containing letter from
Hon Thos L. Clngman addressed to James r. Love,
Jr., Esq, and letter from W. H. Thomas Esq, to
his immediate constituents of jackson county.
Mr. Clngman says in his letter that
Lincoln and the great body of his followers
have taken TIE ground that no compromise can be
made with rebels and traitors, they call the States
that have seeded and that until they have been
reduced to obedience, or in fact su6ugated no terms
Of Cancellation can be listened to-
The above is totally untrue. Mr.. Lincoln has
taken no such ground. He has not said one word
about "subjugating" the seeded States or q" reduc
ing them to obedience" On the contrary, he has
Gently spoken of the South with great respect and
has declared in one of his late speeches that he will
labor for the good both of the North and the South
of this country-for the one and the other, and all
sections of the country" And in the speech
he said 81 still have confidence that the Almighty
Maker of the universe will bring us through all our
difficulties" Does that look like war and subjuga-
ton?
But Mr. CIingman, after repeating the slang about
white and negro equality, and predicting that in
certain event the South will be reduced to the
dton of Jamaica or St. Domingo, says
Il repeat, that the only question which now re-
mains to US is whether we will join the abotionists
in making war on the rights of the South, including
our own or whether shall take stand with
those who are fighting for rights we'll their
own None but those who are at heart for UNcoR8i-
tiaaaI Submission to the black Republicans, can de-
nv that this the issue that rises above all others
4 cote for submission to Lincoln IS a vote for cicil
sttr and negro equality"
Such is the language used by an intelligent SEN
ator three fourths of whose constituents Union
men. We pronounce the foregoing statements Of
the Senator totally untrue He has misstated the
issue, and he would misead and deceive the honest
people of the State We repei with indignation the
gross insult which he has offered to the Union men
of North Carolina. They no more for - uucon-
ditional submission to the Black Republicans" than
he is,-thcy are as true to the South he is, but
thank God they are still true to the Union, and
they are not false he is, to the glorious memories
Of the revolution and the banner Of the stars and
stripes.
We warn the honest people of the State against
this letter from Mr.. Clingman. Believe it not 1t
is not true 1t was written with the view to hurry
the State out of the Union and thus involve our
people in civil war. We apologist of Mr..
Lincoln. We are as much opposed to his principles
as Mr. Clingman is; but fellow-citizens in a crisis
like this the truth mast be tod and falsehood must
be exposed no matter who utters it
Mr. Thomas states in his letter that the so-cailed
peace Congress in Washington has proved I'M
successful and he refers to Mr.. Clingmans letter
to prove this! And Mr.. Thomas adds
And the bill to commence war upon the seced-
O. ~ H. ,IacHr al
journed; and thereupon the Virginia Convention
prepared for secession which will no doubt be con-
summated in few days"
Now fellow-citizens, the Commissioners are still
in seSsion-the Peace Congress has not adjourned
and the prospect is that they will agree on some
plan which will be satisfactory to Virginia and
North Carolina. Nor has any bill to Commence
war upon the seeding States" been passed. Nor
has the Virginia Convention prepared for secession;
nor is it true that secession in that State will abe
cOnsummated in few days" Indeed, if the Nr-
ginia Convention were to pass an act OF secession
which that body is not at all likely to dot could
have no effect until ratified by the people, who
voted in the late election of delegates by fifty
thousand majority that no act of the Convention
shall be binding until submitted to and approved by
H'eh. ANA yet virginia VIII seSouo az oii-o, anu
her act of secession will abe consummated in
few days."
We warn the people against unfounded reports,
bogus teegraphc dispatches and all sorts OF stories
which will be circulated in order to influence votes
Pay no attention to these stories. Their object is
to misead and deceive. The disunionists are despe
rate, and they will resort to desperate means to ac
complish their ends.
Union men, rally to your flag Virginia, Ten
nessee and Kentucky have recently spoken by i'm
lnense majories for the Union; and the latest in
tegence is that Missouri and Arkansas haUe elect
ed large mGorities Of Union delegates to their Con-
rentiOns. If Arkansas and Tennessee, and Virginia,
and Kentucky safe in the existing Union, surely
North. Carolina is Arkansas is cotton State, and
Arkansas refuses to follow the unwise examples of
South "a oDd Alabama Rail then Union