Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-01-09

ey''ea Is Does not Meet the Point. i@i'ss !s'ai
The State Journul in reply to our question as to
whether the Governor advised certain gentlemen to
seize the fort below Wilmington, says: haa /:
10 I'm reply the Governor REFUSED his CONSENT and
aa0'sed against such q step, telling them that in
bis opinion, the garrsoning Of Fort Caswell was not
contemplated by the Administration at this time, and
that there was mistake as to the troops being
sent South and telegraphic dispatch, from gcII-
tlc'nan III Washington, econtradcting the ruiIor
was shown to- them. "!.7'h:5 ~ q 5Ilt~A;fff&
That is as it twas not contemplated by the ad.
mrnistration this time to garrison Fort Caswellr
aud Is stherc was GONE mistake as 'te the troops
being sent 'sonth," the Governor advised against
taking the fort There it is, in plain English But
suppose the government of the United States should
think proper to garrison Fort :Caswell, what would
the Governor say then? ',Treason against the
United States shall consist in levying against
them," &c. The taking of Fort Caswell, or any
other fort in this State at this tme at any time,
would be an act Of war; and such act of war at
this time would be treason .'@- 80:
Some papers in this State that used to be connect
ed with the Democratic party, are greatly concern
ed because some of the Democratic papers in this
State are edited by citizens of foreign birth. These
papers and their editors ask odds of those who
thus object to them-they owe them for no favors,
they are their debtors for no courtesies. They are
really willing to trust the people, and not, like the
snarers against them, sycophants for power dis,
grunted seekers after pap. - .. ....i2
We do not speak as mere partsans, nor because
we care personally about such things but because
We wish to enter our protest against such mode of
warfare upon great cause, and this warfare too,
the ebution Of personal excitement springing from
disappointed ambition Wilmington Journal. i'll.
The whole the foregoing was intended for the
Editor of this paper, though the Editor of the Jour
nat did not have the manlness to say so.
We observe that the Editor of the Rough Notes.
in retiring from his connection with that paper in
dulges in the same strain,-and Mr.. Robinson seeks
to produce the false impression that he has retired
from the Rough Notes, and given place to a native,
in order to break the force of our attacks such
"naturalized" disunonists as he is.
Now, the readers Of our paper know, and these
gentlemen know that we are not concerned because
some of the Democratic papers in this State edi
ted by citizens of foreign birth" In our paper Of
the sth December we distinctly defined our views
in relation to naturalized citizens; yet the Will
mington Journal the State Journal and the Rough
Notes we're very careful not to lay those views be-
fore their readers. They were determined not to
do us justice. Those views, thus set forth in the
Standard Of the sth December, are the views we
have always entertained in relation to naturalized
citizens and entertained and expressed too in 1854
in defence Of these very gentlemen when the "Ame-
rican" party was assailing and bearing down upon
them. But the idea of justice to never enters the
heads Of these gentlemen if it does it is at
banished under orders from high quarters; and so
they persist in misrcpresentng US in relation to
naturalized citizens and every thing else
The Wilmington Journal impeaches our metves
by characterizing us as 'sycophants for power" y
"disgruntled seekers after pap" &c.
"Sycophants for power!" Where is the "syco.
phant" who has toadied more or toadicd longer than
the Editor Of the ourndL' It is notorious that he
has twice sought the nomination for the Commons
in Now Hanover; that he has hccn twice sct aside
by the leaders and that he has since been tho most
obedient servant Of the very leaders who thus slight
cd and whistled him down the wind. 1t is also no.
torios that he hates these leaders while lIc
them. We remember we'll how VIC were amused al
Charleston, when the Editor OF the Journal began
totalk about leaving the Convention. and when VIC
knew that he talked only as the echo of others,
If he remained in the Convention, he remained be
! cause Others did; If he went out he went out be
cause others did. Every body knows that And
| yet he prates about "sycophants for power! -
But we are a "disgruntled seeker after pap
| This is not true Wehsve never sought " pap. -
We could easily have beaten John Spelman for State
/ Printer, if We had made an effort So far as ou,
opinions concerned, they were the same before
! We were defeated for State Printer that they are
now. Our files will prove that, and the truth is
We were defeated by the freeaters because We wers
I then, as we are now, in favor of Constitutions
/ Union and opposed to secession and civil war. Gu,
defeat therefore, is the best proof Of our corsis
tency. -. ..fe....,. ...... ts.,:s.,;, ..,: 80.
But the Journal impeaches our Democracy w,
are better Democrat than Mr. Fulton is. He has as
sailed every Democratic administration in this Sat
since Gov. Reds day and he would certainly hav
assailed Gov Ellis if the latter had not placed bin
on the Internal Improvement Board But Cerberu
has the sop, and Cerberus has ceased to growL Tn
i Governor is shrcwd one, He knew Cerberus, ant
50 he stopped his mouth with a nice chunk Of hon
or, with s. per day, consequence, consideration an
travelling expenses to boot u S.''st 's'1 "''e t'
y Why, Mi. Fulton assaiied Gov. Reid in bite
terms in 1850 or 1851, and We defended the Cove,
nor We, t...cafred the into Africa and 70
some time afterwards the journal, having learne
I its place behaved itselfrespectabfy But the sam
paper, also assaled Coy. Bragg --and fog what d