Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-01-09
IMMEDIATE RETURN OF LEGISLATORS TO
THEIR POSTS!

ceved here this evening nc Cabinet broken up in
row; Floyd Thompson and Thomas have resign
ed; the President has gone over to the North
Federal troops on ther way South Our fort at
mouth Of Cape Fear will shortly be- occupied by
troops for coercion" -.
The citizens of North Carolina call upon their
Legislature for advice and assistance. s.'..,'
The above produced great excitement in our COM
munity. AS soon as we saw it We telegraphed to a.
well-informed and reliable friend in Washington
City, whose reply is as follows: ..4-'-- s- ,.-.
mo TROOPS ORDERED SOUTH. NC. NEW
GROUND FOR EXCITEMENT KNOWN" ~. -t
Several gentlemen from Wilmington visited Ra-
leigh yesterday, and the report on the street was
that they to obtain the advice of the Governor
as to the propriety of at once seizing the United
States fort below Wilmington. The advice given
by the Governor is not known. We call on his or.
gan the State Journal to let the people know what
erty of the United States, Any attempt to take it
and hold it at this time by citizens of this State,
srould be treason against the United States. g.
We again warn the people of this State against
the designs of the disunionsts. A persistent effort
is being made to commit this State at this time to
revolution, and to attach her to the car of South
Carolina, and thus drag her violently out of the
Union Be on your guard, fellow citizens, against
panics and alarms. These panics and alarms a
part of the system on foot by the disunion lead
ers to hurry you out Of the Union against your
will. Your native pride and your courage are ap-
pealed to, not with the view of protecting you
against impending dangers, but those noble quail.
ties are sought to be used to involve you in the
troubles and calamties which must result from the
immediate rupture which these leaders are so anx-
ious to produce North Carolina is in no Immediate
danger If the worst should come, she will be
abundanty able to protect herself Let US be cain,
and firm. Brave men are not moved by sudden
panics and alarms. '-'''
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The foregoing was issued from this office yesteri
day. We vii! now add that the rumors current in
streets were, that the President had abandoned
his post and disappeared from Washington City
that Gen. Scott had been made Secretary of War
and clothed with dctatorial powers-that ten thou.
sand troops had been ordered to Charleston-tha
the President had taken sides with the North-and
that the Impression was that the government was
utterly broken up. Our dispatch, it will be seen,
been ordered South, ind no nep ground for ercits
: nent knoun" -,tt 7.~. .-g.sz@,. =
We take this occasion to say that every statement
made in the papers as to new movements in this
exciting crisis should be carefully analysed before
they are believed The telegraphic dispatches ema
mating from Washington City and other points
North in many instances Of the sensation order
and impicitconfdence should not be placed in them
foremost in this unworthy effort to inhame th'
public mind may be found the Wilmington Journal
and the State Journal Of this place. The last Viii
mngton Journal mas flaming heads to its telegraph
ic dispatches, and among them the statement tina
"he President, takes sides tpith the North" Thi
was intended e. produce the impression that tn
President had determined to wage war against Sontl
Carolina, and to preciptate troops from the Nortl
on the Southern, States; whereas the truth is tn
President is only standing BY and sustaining tn
government against its enemies North and South
and is only doing his duty President of the Who'll
country as he understands that duty Ifhe were t
do less he would break the oath he has taken t
support the Cobstitifouo of fke United Shtes, Tn
President is entitled in this crisis tothe warm an
active support Of every loya icitizen; but instea
fgying hinarths support, and instead of doing jut
tice to his motives and His acts, the W7lmingto
Journul is engaged IN slandering. him by chargin
him with having taken sides. against the Souther
portion Of the Union, And yet the Josrmal Profs'
sestonbe Democratic paper! Save us from sue
Democracy! The truth is the Editor of that ps
persAwhile che would tSe to be an oligarch, and ne
the servant Of oigarchs- while he would like