Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-06-12
For the Standard.
POLICY OF THE SQUADS.

Mr.. EDITOR: As public journalist and patriotic
conservative man, l desire to submit to you the
question whether not the issue that has gwen rise
to the present unhappy and disastrous condition of
our once happy and prosperous country is likely to
be settled, and how ? whether by negotiation or by
an appeal to arms? If SO, why attempt to divert
the public mind from the momentous question by
the twaddle about minor matters? .. Let US raise
bread and meat and manufacture fire arms, powder
and balls for our patriotic soldiers and end this I'M
fortunate strife FIRST needs be, by an appeal oarms.
This must be done first, and then We may afford to
talk about matters of less moment.
We have an implacable enemy to rcpel from South
ern soil. The huge Anaconda Of the North has
spread its ponderous folds on the soil of Virginia.
Alexandria and many other points within the Dor
ders of that State in the possession of the federal
army Why is this Is it because the Attorney
General has decided that Alexandria rightfully be-
longs to Mr.. Lincolns government by virtue Of the
deed of cesson made by Virginia to the general gov
eminent? If that Lc the excuse for submitting to
the indgnity, then why not yield the issue at once,
for the public functionary has decided that no
State has right to secede from the federal govern
ment?
If those who have the destinies of the South in
hand disposed to abide the decision of Mr.. Lin
coins Cabinet officers the people ought to know it ;
if not let us awake from our letbargy. We are now
LII TIE COllS Ol the Mucous monster anu unless we
eject him from soil and that speedily the result
will be magnificent farce; conquest without resis-
lance or bloodshed. But say those who have the
direction of public affairs, we are acting purely on
the defensive; we will not wage a war of aggression
upon our Northern brethren; all we ask is to be let
alone in the exercise of our constitutional rights
we have thrown ourselves back upon our reserved
rights; we stand there and intend to defend our
selves at all hazards. This the talk have they
done it? If not, and men are honest there is Ger
talnly good reason for it, and that is what those
have right to know who stood in the breach and
fought fanaticism and secessonlsm until they were
overwhelmed by the treachery and usurpation Of
our constitutional rights by President Lincoln; who
bucked OH the armor Of war and staked their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor in defence Of
the rights of the South, their resides their wives
and little ones, who ready now at moments warn
ing to march either to victory or DEATH
If the views held and the representations made by
the precipitators be correct that Lincolns myrmi-
dons craven-hearted, soul-less, heaven-daring
and hel-defyng set of scapegraces, in the name OF
high heaven give honorable death, rather than
unconditional surrender into the hands and at the
mercy of such fends in human shape Why such
state of inactivity? Is it the result of fatal hal
lucinaton of mind on the part of those who have
the direction of public afars3 ESQ., the sooner the
destines of the South are transferred into the hands
of more competent men the better. 1t will be not
only for her good but for the whole civilized world.
Such vascillating, bragadocia, gasconading, twad
ding course won't do. We want men adequate to
the emergency. We want common sense, compe-
tent, discreet, energetic, patriotic men that know
their duty and dare do it. and not the men that have
been clamoring for war and bloodshed, but who now
very graciously refuse to shoulder the implements
Of death and breast the raging pillows of civil war
but are seen skulking about high places, seeking
office at the hands of men who are making the ap.
pointing power political engine. In the language Of
the exotic Editor of the State Journal "they ought
to be remembered" but in very different light,
not as patriots but towards and traitors to the
best interests of the South If the complexion
of the times is good index to the future, the exotic
Editors not the only man in the South that believes
they ought to be remembered, not by the emolu.
ments Of Office but by the execratons of our injur
ed and indignant people,
The freemen of North Carolina will not brook the
insults offered her most distinguished and patriotic
citizens and soldiers as has been done BY those
high in authority and their agents and serf, whose
brainless heads and souless bodies know no highe,
aspirations than that of party prescription and par
ty promotion. MIDDLE CREEK.