Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-01-03
IMMEDIATE RETURN OF LEGISLATORS TO
THEIR POSTS!
WILMINGTON, Dec. 31-SI P

WILMINGTON, Dec. 31-8f P. NJ.
The following is the substance of dispatch re-
ceiyed here this evening"" Cabinet broken up in
row: FLOYD Thompson and Thomas have resign
Cd. the President has gone over to the North
Federal troops on their 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.
The above produced great excitement in COM
munitv As soon as we saw it we telegraphed to a
wellinformed and reliable friend in Washington
City, whose reply is as follows:
NO TROOPS ORDERED SOUTH. NO NEW
GROUND FOR EXCITEMENT KNOWN"
Several gentlemen from Wilmington visited Ra-
leigh yesterday, and the report on the street was
that they came obtain the advice of the Governor
as to the propriety Of at once Selling 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
that advice was. The fort referred to is the prop
erty of the United States. Any attempt to take it
and hold it at this time by citizens of this State,
could be treason against the United States.
We again the people of this State against
the designs of the disunionists 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
pancS and alarms. These panics and alarms
part Of the system set foot by the disunon lead
ers to hurry you out of the Union against your
will Your native pride and your courage arc 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 calamities 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
abundantly able to protect herself Let us be calm
and firm. Brave men not moved by sudden
panics and alarms.
The foregoing was issued from this Office yeSter-
day. We will now add that the rumors current in
our 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 dictatorial powers-that ten thou
sand troops had been ordered to Charleston-that
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,
contradictS all these statements. " No troops hare
been ordered South, and no neu ground for excite
fneat knoun'
We take this occasion to say that every statement
made in the papers as to new movements III this
exciting crisis should be carefully analysed before
they are believed. The telegraphic dispatches ema-
mating from Washington City and other points
North are in many instances of the sensation order,
and implicit confidence should not be placed in them
Foremost in this unworthy effort to inhame the
public mind may be found the Wilmington Journal,
and the State Journal of this place. The last Will
mington Journal mas flaming heads to its telegraph
ic dispatches, and among them the statement that
the President takes sides aciM the North" This
intended to produce the impression that the
President had determined to wage war against South
Carolina, and to prccipate troops from the North
on the Southern States; whereas the truth is, the
President is only standing by and sustaining the
government against its enemies North and South,
and is only doing his duty as President of the whole
country as he understands that duty. Ifhe were to
do less he would break the oath he has taken to
support the Constitution of the United States. The
President is entitled in this crisis to the and
active support of every loyal citizen; but instead
fgivng him this support and instead of doing JUS
tice to his motives and his acts the Wilmington
Journal is engaged in slandering him by charging
him with having taken sides against the Southern
portion Of the Union And yet the journal PROBES
SEES to be a Democratic paper! Save us from such
Democracy! The truth is, the Editor of that pa
per-whe he would like to be an oligarch, and not
the servant of ogarchs-and while he would like to
be an arstocrat, if he knew how, is nevertheless
any thing but Democrat. He has yet to learn the
rudiments of the great doctrines which our free
institutions are based.
We again say to the people, 6eocare Of panies and
false alarms! Sift every rumor to the bottom. Let
no rumors from Washington City, and no "Solon
Larkns" stories influence you to hasty action
Every step you may take now, in whatever direc
ton, will be fraught with the most important conse
quences There is no purpose entertained by the
government at Washington to coerce South-C Carroll
ma, or to over the people Of North Carolina
The American flag still floats this State. North
Carolina still commands us to obey the federal laws
and to respect the federal authorities Up to this
moment these laws and these authorities have breath
ed nothing but respect for State, and have offer
ell nothing but protection to our citizens 1t will be
time enough to talk about evyng war and capturing
frts when the State shall have dissolved her relations
with the Union. She has not done so yet. and we
trust that no such step will be required She is toe
brave to run out Of the Union under temporary
panics and she is too wise to commit herself to rev.
olution for the purpose merely of initiating the
amples of other States. As long as she remains in
the Union she will be faithful to all her Constitu: