Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-05-01


mention the Post Office from we'll the to, which
they desire the change to be made.
The War Feeling In the North.
A careful reading Of the Northern papers can
lead to no other conclusion than that vast MAORI
ty of the Northern people endorse Lincoln's pro-
slaveholding States to hold them on to the old
Union. It is true the proclamation is not often
ferred to and specifically endorsed but the purpose
to coerce and subjugate the South is cloaked with
professions of devotion to the government and the
flag of the stars and stripes. We must stand
by the government is the universal cry. We must
stand by the government right or wrong, is the
men who have taken ground with Lincoln and Scott
in their determination to force against sovereign
States to preserve the government, may mention
franklin Pierce, Senator Bigler, Stephen A. Doug
las, Mayor Wood Hiram Ketchum, Washington
Hunt, Edward Everett Willard Fillmore. James
Buchanan, John Cochrane, John A. Dix, Daniel s.
Dickinson, Richard O'Gorman, George Bancroft
Greene G. Bronson, Edwin Croswell, Hamilton Fish,
Robt j. Walker, Gen. Cass and Archbishop Hughes
These names are familiar to our readers. MANY of
them have been trusted and honored by the South
but now they join the many against the few in a
cowardly war, inaugurated by the proclamation of
Lincoln and to be carried forward by Gen. Scott
who, it seems has at last shown himself traitor
to the soil that gave him birth.
At meeting Of the New York bar, held few
days SINCE $95 900 were promptly subscribed in aid
of volunteers, and speeches breathing the utmost
bitterness towards the South were delivered. On
the Goth Of April the largest meeting ever held in
New York City took place in Union Square. At
least one hundred thousand people were in atten.
dance Resolutions looking to the re-establishment
of the federal government and peaeeful obedience"
in the slaveholding States adopted and strong
war speeches were delivered Among others Sena-
tor Baker, of Oregon, said:
In this sense, then, young men of New-York, we
are not for a war of aggression; but in another
sense-speaking for myself as man of honor, who
has been a soldier, and as Senator-I say in an
other sense, am for war of aggression. propose
today, now as we did before in Mexico-to conquer
peace. (Cheers.l propose to go to Washington,
and beyond. [Cbeers do not design to remain
entirely supine, inactive, fearful, till the war is
brought to our midst Cheers. I will meet them
on the threshold Of their gatherings cheers] +
there in the very seat of their power and dictate to
the rebellious terms of peace CHEERS 1t may
take $50, 000, 00O-it may take $500 000 0OO-what
then! We have it. [Cheers.] Loyalty, nobly,
grandly, do the merchant princes of New York re.
spond to the ardent appeal of the United States
Government 1t may cost US $500 lives; it may
be 10000 lives; it may be 100000 lives; what
then? We have them. [Great cheering. I The
blood of every loyal citizen of this Government is
dear to me; my sons and theirs-young men grown
up beneath my eye and care are here-they are all
dear to me; but If the organization, the destiny,
the renown, the glory the freedom of Constitu-
tional Government, the only hope Of free people
demand it. let them all 60. Tremendous cheering.
I am not now speaking timorous words of peace.
speak to kindle spirit Of manly, determined war.
CHEERS. l speak in the midst of the Empire
State, amid scenes of past suffering and past glory;
with the defences of the Hudson above me, the
scenes of the struggle on Long Island before me,
[cheers. the statue Of Washington in my very face
[cheers,] the tattered, unconquered flag Of Sumter
[great cheering] waving in the hand which can al
most now imagine trembes with the excitement Of
battle, cheers, and when / speak / say my mission
here to-day is to kndle the heart of New York for
war. [Great cheering] War, sudden bold, deter
edforward warfrom thsday. [Renewd cheering]
The Seventh Regiment has gone Three times
three deafening cheers. Let seventy and seven
more follow. [Cheers and cries Of Bravo."] -"Of
ole" said the great historian, beneath the banner
of the Cross Europe precipitated itself upon Asia
beneath the banner of the Constitution let the men
of the Union precipitate upon the disloyal Confed-
crate States. Immense cheeringl A few more
words and I have done. CHEERS and cries Of
"Good. Let no man underrate the dangers Of this
controversy. Civil war for the best of reasons
upon the one side the worst upon the other always
dangerous to liberty-is always fearful, bloody
Yet fellow citizens there worse things than fear
doubt dread danger or blood Dishonor is worse.
Cheers. States continually and forever severing
is worse Traitorous secession everywhere is worse
and to be bemeanded and belittled in the eyes Of
the Old World-perhaps star after star blotted out
cries Of Never stripe after stripe obscured or
dlmmed,-to have men blush for shame throughout
generations to come-these are worse than blood.
Enthusiastic and long continued cheerng.] Peo-
pie of New York on the of battle allow me to
speak as soldier Few of you know Of me; my
career has been obscure ferries of mo and distant,
but can say that have seen you tried It was
my fortune to lead the gallant New York regi-
ment in the shock Of battle. was then leader up
on the bloody heights Of Cerro Gordo CHEERS, and
know well that New York can do when her blood is
up. Prolonged cheeringl Again and once we will
march, but not for reverge. We have nothing to
avenge It is not much that that tatiered flag was
lowered [pointing to tho Sumter flag over the
statue OF WaSnlngtonI when guarded by 10 against
10000; it is not much that starvation effected what
the enemy could not compel. (Cheers. We have
something to punish-as yet little or nothing to
revenge. The President himself hero without
knowing it [cheers] says there are wrongs to be
redressed, enough endured to march to battle and
to victory, because We don't choose to endure these
wrongs any longer. They are wrongs not merely
against us they are not wrongs against us in one
sense, but against our Union, [eheers against the
Constitution, against human hope and human free
DOM"
Mr.. Dix, Mr.. Dickinson, Mr.. Walker, and others,
spoke in the same strain.