Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-10-23

tsiSse4ie W Ocf bektlal III tne cVhtt~sh t9I
Congress between Messrs Dick and Mclean, Is
taking part and is giving the advantage in its col
umns to Mr.. Mclean, We do not charge the Sen
tiaet with sdisRgenoous conduct in this business,
for the Editor no doubt thinks that while fasoring
one, he does justice TO the other. dis course lisa
natural one, and in keeping with his sympathies
against such old Union Democrats as Mr.. Dick, Col
Brown, and others who might be named. : ~ ~
Now, it is not our purpose to attempt to injure
Mr.. AcLean's prospects, for we have always es-
teerned him as gentleman and party associate
Besides We want Tie people of the 9th District, un-
embarrassed by outside influences, and by inside inf
ences of factious partzan character, to decide
for themselves; and therefore t is that as friend
of fair play, and, as former party associate of
Messrs Dick, Mclean and the Editor of the ISenti-
nek we feel bound tosenter our protest against
the course the Sentinel is pursuing
The Sentinel admits that Mr. Dick is certainly
man Of splendid talents-an eloquent and accom-
plished orator" But this is not ALL Mr.. Dick has
been prescribed and injured by the State govern
ment and the Confederate government, and that too
in the midst Of war, when prescription should not
be thought of except as against our common en-
$50
North Can DINA Railroad by Gov, Reid, and reap
pointed and continued by Gov Bragg He filed
this place to the satisfaction of ALL but he was re-
moved in July last because he hal been Union
man. 1t was in vain that he had defied and resisted
Lincoln, when his own State, and Virginia, and
TENNESSEE, and Arkansas defcd and resisted him;
and it was in vain that in May, as member of the
State Convention, he had voted for and signed the
ordinance Of secession,-he was prescribed from an
Office which had no connection with politics, because
he was not swift to involve the country in war.
Who prescribed him? We do not believe it was
Gov. Ellis for he died only few days after the act
committed. No doubt when he left for the
Virginia. Springs he placed in the hands of those in
charge of public affairs, blank commissions signed
by himself to be filled with the names of such Dr.
rectors as might be appointed and it was thus that
some petty tyrant here in Raleigh took vengeance
on Mr., Dick by removing him from ofice-the first
removal of Director, by the way, which had taken
place during the existence of the Road. We feel
sure also that Mr. Dick not prescribed from his
place of District Attorney, by with the knowledge
of President Davis; or ifso that the President was
imposed on by false statement of the facts OF was
not fully informed Of the facts Mr. Dick was Dis
trict Attorney under the old government He ten
dered his resignation in February last, but it was
not accepted. He was and is as loyal to The State
and to the South as the gentleman who was appoint
cd to Sacceed him, as the gentleman who was
appointed District Judge, and who, by the way, did
hold office under Lincoln, as Mr. Dick did not, and
dill pocket Federal gold under Lincoln, as Mr. Dick
did not And it is q singular coincidence, that all
three of the gentlemen referred to essrs Dick,
Bggs, and Strong-were members Of the State Con-
yenton, and signed the ordinance of secession, side
by side; but by malign influence here at
home, brought to bear on the government at Rich
mond, Mr. Dick was singled out and marked and
prescribed We do not however, charge any i'm
proper conduct in connection with this case of pro-
scriptiOn, on Mcssrs Biggs and Strong. ....
The Western Sentinel has not one word to say
about this gross injustice to true man but the
people of the 9th District will be very apt to reme-
Der it at the polls on the 9th day of next month.
The Sentinel has msapprehended our remarks in
relation to the authors of the present revolution
We shall correct this misapprehensOn in our next,
and shall convince the Editor of the Sentinel from
the record that We have been entirely consistent in
our views on the subject of secession.
HENRY W. MH.LER, Eso.-This gentleman, hav-
ing been urged by number of his friends to declare
himself candidate for Congress IN this District has
declined to do so; and publish to-day letter
from him addressed to friend, in which he informs
the people of the District of his purpose not to be
a candidate, and briefly defines his position in the
present crisis This letter is worthy of the eminent
orator and patriot from whose pen it has proceeded
He casts all past differences and all past issues to
the winds, and advises his countrymen TO rally as
one man to the party of the country, ard to knox
no divisions of any kind among themselves until the
invader is driven back and the independence of the
South secured These are the sentiments not only
of Mr.. Miller and the great body of the people of
this State, but of Davis and Stephens, and Beaure
gard, and Brown, of Mississippi and of nine tenths
of the leading statesmen and influential public jour
naiS of the Confederate States. The selfish, narrow
hearted Swiss doctrine that "those who made the
revolution" entitled to monopoly of the Off
GERS and honors, was rejected by the seven Confed
crate States when they called Mr.. Stephens to the
Vice Presidency, ard by President Davis in both
his messages and in his late letter to Mr.. Nelson of
Tennessee The sentiment which anmates every
true man in the Confederate States, as erery thing
for the country, and nothing for party. This is
the touchstone by which to try public men at this
time. He who seeks to build up party now, and
thus divide and distract the people, and who would
degrade any portion of his countrymen by assigning
them an inferior position in this great struggle, is
an enemy to the cause Of independence, and is,
practically, friend to the tyrant Lincoln who is
striving to enslave us.
WILLIAM LANDER, Eso.-This gentleman has the
field to himself for Congress in the Sth District.
He does not appear, however, to be acceptable TO
such ultras as the Charlotte Bulletin, Though Mr..
Lander was among the first to secede at Baltimore