Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-12-07
For The Standard.

= For the Standard.
g MR EDIroR ~ am only one among the hundreds
of thousands in the Southern army who are peril
ing life and estate for the common cause, and who
either have forgotten if permitted ,,Ruld forget
that parties ever divided the Southern people. J.
with Others have put up with bad rations, INSULT
cient clothing, and the most exposed and sicklest
location for a regiment the Southern borders
cheerfully, gladly, and goried in being able to do
So But there is one thing am not disposed to put
up with quietly. 1t is this thing l wish to ask
about
The State Journal, paper published in your
city, is filled from day to day with the bitterest
party editorials, reeking with vulgarty and Islander,
and laden with but one idea, viz: that no man OF
the late Union party is fit to be entrusted with Of
flee or position. Now this has Importance only in
one respect The State Journal per sc, can neither
give itself responsibility, nor uneasness to any one
else. But Spelman has master: he is the accred
tied organ and mouthpiecc of the Governor of
North Carolina. Nay more he is the paid and Jed
organ of the State Government Viewed in this
light It becomes important to know if these doc.
trines of the Journal are "by authority" North
Carolina has nov in the field some 10000 soldiers,
two-thrds o. whom, at the very lowest calculation,
were Union men so late as last February Now if
these men are to fight and bleed for the establish
ment OF government in which they are TO be pro
scrioed and outlawed it is time they were made
aware Of it. Its either true or untrue, and some
body that can speak by authority ought to say
which. If true, the revolution ought to begin at
home; if not true, then Gov. Clark ought to disa
VOW these illusions of Spelman, cut the ours ears
off, and conine him to his kennel until the country
is out of danger
We all know the Governor to be an excellent
gentleman, full Of the best intentions we all know
too lat lest the proverb says so that hell is paved
with good Intentions. ACTION, action action" as
Demosthenes said is bet er than ali these fire.
proof paving stones.
see also paper published in Richmond, called
the Examiner, which is understood to be the official
organ Of President Davis. This paper too, in a
style somewhat oftier and more gentee, devotes an
occasional column to the same busness-denounc-
ing the Union men of Virginia-some of The wisest
and purest men of the times. Surely this is a bad
way to preserve harmony and sustain the war
Surely this is exceedingly unbecoming the mouth
piece OF a man who has just received the unani-
nous vote of the South for the Presidency If such
feelings animate President, (Which trust is not
the case,) l submit they arc wrong in policy and
unpatriOtic And yet no Cabinet officer has ever
been chosen from the ranks of his political oppo-
nents in former days-whoe patches of Commas
sloners and BrigadierS turned out almost week
ly, and not man among them but proves demo
Graf and secesSioniSt. Jno c. Breckenridge goes
into Lincoln Senate, takes oath to support Lin
coins Constitution, receives the baboon's gold
whilst his actually overrunning the
South; he is made Brigadier General John Bell
came out early, stumped his State like trooper,
and carried it overwhelmingly for the South. Who
hears OF John Bell now? despotisIn than
Lincolns will be required to keep the people from
enquiring into these things.
A VOLUNTEER