Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-08-03
A Case OF eros. Proset,n,,osD.

by Gov. Reid director in the North Carolina Rail-
road at the time the State was first represented in
the Road. Hewas continued by Gov. Bragg, and
on two occasions appointed State proxy by Gov. B.
No director was more attentive to his duties than
Mr.. Dick, and no officer of the Road took
deeper interest IN its and prosperity than he
did. He gave to Mr.. Fisher the late lamented Pres
ident an active and jealous support on all OCCASIONS
and especially did he do this under the assaults
made upon his management of the Road some three
four years since.
IL was the custom with Governors Reid, Bragg,
and Ellis, to reappoint the State directors. No
but Mr.. Dick has been turned out since the State
had representatives in the Board but in every case,
if we are not entirely mistaken the new State direc-
tors that have gone in have been appointed to fill
vacancies occasioned by designations Mr.. Dick has
been, is now, and was when he was turned out, as
good Democrat as the State contains. Why, then,
was he alone omitted in appointing the present
Board? 1t was not charged that ne was incompe-
tent or that he indifferent to the prosperity OF
the Road. 1t was not alleged that he had been
longer in the Board than others, and ought there
fore, to give place to another; for other members
had been on the Board as long as he had Why,
lLfct1 "dS &c OuI pIOSCllOSu! w Will
tell you, good reader. 1t was because he resisted
at Charleston and Baltimore the attempt which
made, and which was consummated at the latter
place, to destroy the national Democratic party
which vas then the only bond that gave promise of
continued peace and concord. 1t was because, like
Barlow, and Stephens, and Graham, and Bell, and
Badger, and Brown he was Union man as long
he could be so consistently with his regard for the
rights and honor of his section; and it was especial
" because he soGs Union Democrat Vengeance
was taken upon him even in the midst of war, at a
time when party strife should be hushed and all
past divisions forgotten. Vengeance was taken up
on him because with seventy thousand of the voters
of this State in February last he labored the
old Union on an honorable basis; and because also,
in Convention in May last after he had struck for
dissolution and for to the last extremity for
rights he thought it his duty to crlticse the partizan
appointments of the Governor and Military Board,
and to give votes showing his confidence in the Ca
paclty Of the people of this State to govern them
selves. This is the secret of this prescription of
faithful public servant He was prescribed oy
miserable faction accidentally in power and which
has used its power in nine out Of ten, for the
promotion Of selfish and 4artzan ends. But Mr..
Dick is honored by soch treatment. 1t is honor
for him, civilian suffer prescription in common
with brave men ia the army, who have been exclu-
ded frcRl chief positions account of their political
opiaioUS, by this same miserable faction.
Again: Mr.. Dick resigned his place as District
Attorney Of the United States for this State in Feb
ruary last being determined not to under Mr..
ERcola- Judge Asa Biggs did not resign until the
last momcnI but served under Mr.. Lincoln and
pocketed his federal gold; but behold, Mr.. Dick is
prescribed under the new government, and Judge
Biggs is re appointed District Judge! We are sat
isfed that President Davis was imposed on to
these appointments We believe, aside from what
must be his ideas of good policy, that he has too
much masuanimity 20 prescribe the old Union men
ef the Confederate States; but respectfully tel!
him that in the of Mr.. Dick, he appears to have
done SO. We know he would not deliberately put
under the ban that portion of the people of this
State, who, up to the proclamation of Mr. Lincoln
in April last were anxious to preserve the Union
honorable terms, but who as that prociama-
ton appeared, spraug man to arms, and thus
made this State the must united and unanimous in
its determination to resist, of all the Confederate
States In Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and 9TH
Of the Confederate States where the original Sc
cessio0Sts have control and where high gen.
emen direct and make the appointments both civil
and military no party feeling is exhibited, but
the contrary, the old Union men are recognized as
patriots and honored with chief positions. There
fore we repeat President Davis must have been IN
posed in relation to Mr. Dick for he unquestonably
concurs with the States above mentioned in the
policy in this respect which they have adopted.
Our object is simply to vndicate Mr.. Dick, who
has been most unjustly treated and to enter again
and again earnest protest against the indulgence
and the exhibition of party feeling in the midst of
war. 1t is not our purpose or our wish to reflect
personally on Judge Biggs or Mr.. Strong. The
former, We believe gave satisfaction Judge under
the old government; and the latter will no doubt
| make an able anG efficient District Attorney But
it as purpose to protes: against the prescription
of old Union men, whether they formerly
Democrats or Wings and we shall continue to raise
| our voice against iniquity, which receives add
tional blackness from the fact that the country is
now at war; and requires the united efforts Of all
men of all the old parties to beat back the invader
and reconstruct on enduring foundations the fabric
of demolished government What can those who
have inaugurated this policy of prescription in this
State, promise themselves? The offices? That is
| all. What can they promise the people, whose
power is thus used for selfish purposes? Is the
| order of a certain hreling organ to be carried out
that the original Secessoniss shall have precedence
in the army, as we'll in the civil Offices? We do
not believe this order will be carried out hereto
fore, if Gov. Clark can prevent it; but he is
rounded, to great extent, by clamorous and vim
dictive partizans, and can oppose only his will
to the demands and the will of hundreds We tell
these cormorants who surrounded the late Governor
and who effected their selfish ends through a SUBJ
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