Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-12-11
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most favored, it may be truly said that we werea
great people. Our government was unlike any 9TH
er, and we proudly thought it the best If there
was any real evil in i, -it~wasS every mans
surroundings so superior that he cloyed IN the
use Of them, and felt more like q monarch to- pc
ministered Unto than as citizen among equals ~.
But crisis came. A faction triumphed Our
strength was weakness. And this great country
and happy people were severed in twain. line
divides il and them! For time! there were those
both sides the line, who thought the government
equal to the crisis; that the faction was but
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 fairest
experiment of free government, had not proved n
failure and ought not to fail who loved the coun-
try for its grandeur, and the government for It's ex
ceilency; who were ashamed of the worlds taunt
that we had boosted for nothing; who loved peace
and its blessings, and feared war and its, calamtes
But, when the line was drawn and there werc 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 then, patriots now. With the division
came wars what they expected, what they dreaded,
what they would have avoided. But when it came
no check blanched, muscle relaxed, no nerve I'M
strung no heart tainted. No, they face the foe
spring to arms-run to the tield-dare the Iencoun-
ter-hght 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 it could
not be preserved, and should not be preserved,
ccpt in such manner as they, in anger, chose to
preserve it And they, on one side and the other,
were enemies, and neither would preserve it as the
other chose so they rent it asunder. For neither
the true mother! That each of these factions
should hate the other, excites no surprise except
with such philosophers as suppose that fellows in
Of fo Lava thor Q,ff hat ha
faction on this side should hate their neighbors on
this side-who, although they loved the old Union
once, love the new Union now, and have consecra-
ted themselves to its preservation--iS matter of
aStonishment to every virtuous 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-malig-
nifty better than amiablity-vce better than virtue.
! am led to these remarks by the leading editorial
of the State Journal in its issue Of Nov. 18th, 1851
II the editor had said the outside the Journal
Twill 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: al
1.-The State Journal came into existence under
peculiar circumstances and at the stOrmieSt period
of our cOuntryS existence. y
The party i'll the State who strove to stem the tor
rent Of Northern aggression from its earliest ncep
ton to this moment brought the State Journal into
existence Except in the failure
to call Convention of the people to take North
Carolina out of the old Union and unite her desti
MES with those of her Southern sisters the prnci
pies which We advocate have received no popular
reverse during our short existence"
II is then with the Journal as a 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-oy almost every
officer in the goyernment-and is whimpered by
every one seeking Office, a means Of success and
is believed by many who do not know its falsehood
Still, if thought the party were ashamed of it. as
Of those things which Inpudence dares in those
interiors which supeIiors are sometimes obliged to
employ, would not notice il. But, it is uOparent
enough that what the Journal says is but what the
party feels and sanctions.
The editorial to which allude calls the opponents
to the early seceSsionstS 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
us but the true God has re, called their wickeduesS,
covered their counsels with confusion and shame,
and set hidcous mark upon their brow by which
they may hert after be known by the people. Let
them longer aspire to speak in the name of peo
pie whom their teachings have deceived, or of
country whose present suiferiDgs must i'll great
measure be ascri5ed to their wicked counsels."
Again it says
1t is strange but pleasing coincidence that
the first number of our volume should be the
herald to readers of q new victory by the tri.
umph Of the electoral ticket advocated by this pa.
per and its political confreres victory by no means
insignificant of the popular will or fraught with
meagre results"
This is specimen of the editoria! which is a col
umn and half long. ..
Now from this find it charged that North Caro-
lima has been handed over TO the North bound and
in tears, by the wicked counsels Of somebody, and
that these wicked ceunselors have now "hideous
marks on their brows," by which they are known
and are to be known. And further, that these same
persons are still at their mischievous work, and
new victory has just been achieved over them in the
electoral vote.
Is il true then, that there has been mischievous
party in North Carolina; and that that party, in
February last, numbered two to one majority p
For such was the conservative majority at that
tme.) And that such a party still exists and has
to be conquered, and marked on the brow as un-
worthy Of confidence? That is what the govern
ment organ says Now il Lncon's organ had said
it. it would have been set down to gross delusioD or
wicked falsehOod. But why may not Lincoln's or
gan say it and believe it too? Does not the ourn-
al say 1t? And is the government organ I'M
truthful that even Lincoln should not believe it p
Malignity it may have enough to discredit dozen
journals; but how does Lincoln know iii If it had
ageenough, dare say its malignity would be known
further of than Washington; but can it have be-
come so notorious in year? Why, the enemy will
rely upon the testimony of spy, deserter or
traItor--is~ the Journal meaner than these? No
wonder then that Lincoln now charges that he has
large party of friends in North Carolina, and all
over the South. The government organ here says
it is so, and Lincoln ought to he excused (hardly y
for believing it.
Now the question which submit for the consid-
Grafton Of twothirds of the good people Of North
Carolina is, whether they will submit to such an
imputation sAn,imputatioI which is notsimply
made in the organ of the party, but which is seri-
fled in the practice Of the government Not only
does the Journal say they not to be trusted but
the government refuses to trust them. 3! -,s. 81.