Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-12-11
For the standard.

si.ssly zen .aas. nt For the Standard.
g Mr. ED1oR:-l 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, or if permitted could forget
that parties ever divided the Southern people ],
with Others have put up with bad rations, insufi'
clent clothing and the most exposed and sickliest
location for regiment on 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 wish to ask
about. . .-..-s,s. 81
&. The State Journal, paper published in your
city, is filled from day to day with the bitterest
party editorials, reeking with vulgarty and SANDER
and laden with but one idea, viz: that no man Of
the late Union party is fit to be entrusted with Of
nee or position. Now this has importance only in
one respect The State journal, per Sc, can neither
give itself responsibility, nor uneasiness to any one
else. But Spelman has master: he is the accred
tied organ and mouth piece of the Governor of
North Carolina. Nay more he is the paid and fed
organ of the State Government Viewed in this
light, It becomes important to know if these doc
trnes Of the Journal are "by authority" North
Carolina has now in the field some 10000 soldiers,
twothlrds o. whom, at the very lowest calculation,
were Union men so late last February. Now if
these men are to fight and bleed for the establish
ment of government in which they are to be pro.
scribed 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
of, and confne 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 Cat lest the proverb says so that hell is paved
with good intentions. faction, action, action" as
Demoshenes said is better than all 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 lofter, and more gentee devotes an
| occasional column to the same business-denonnc-
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 unbecomng the mouth
| piece of a man who has Just received the unani-
nous vote of the South for the Presidency. Ifsuch
feelings animate President (Which trust is not
the case) l submit they are 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-whole patches of Comms-
sioners and Brgadicrs are turned out almost week
| ly, and not q man among them but proves demo-
Graf and secessionist. Jno. G. Breckenridge goes
into Lincoln Senate takes oath to support Lin
1 coins Constitution receives the baboons gold
whilst his armies are actually overrunning the
South; he is made Brgadier General John Bell
came out early, stumped his State like trooper,
and carried it overwhelmingly for the South Whu
hears of John Bell now? despotsm worse than
Lncon's will be required to keep the people from
enquiring into these things
! VOLUNTEER