Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-11-02
Electoral ricke,...wiImlny.on Jou,nal.

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: The Wilmington Journal dwells at some length
on recent declaration of Mr.. Seward, that = this
little affair of the Southern insurrection win blow
over few months and takes occasion in connection
with this declaration assail the Graham and Reid
Electoral ticket which, if voted for as whole
elected will give aid and comfort to our Northern
enemies The Journal, after abiding to the belief
entertained by Seward and others of his STRIPE that
they have friends in North. Carolina, says:
But surely it is not unnatural that it should be
entertained that the Lincolnites should be led to
suppose that there yet slumbered some embers of
that Unionistic fire which, few brief month since,
blazed out into such fierce fame of denunciation
against all who even leant to our present position.
May they not be excused for cherishlng the hope,
however unfounded that these embers, supposed by
them still to maintain smouldering vitality might
again be blown into fame when they find pretty
carefully arranged effort on the part of influential
politicians to pull the ropes so to place the power
and prestige of the new government in the hands OF
those who had most bitterly stigmatized it at the
time of its birth, and most yehementy striven to
strangle it during the period of its infancy. When
tickets for electors Of Confederate President are
twisted and changed around in North Carolina
to suit gentlemen Of peculiarly marked anti Con-
federate antecedents who cannot but feel that the
moral effect must be hurtful a5road-must tend to
disseminate and sustain mistaken views leading to
conclusions like those upon which Mr.. Seward bases
his assurance to the diplomatic corps that this little
affair OF the lnSurrection in the South will be over
IN three months etc, etc"
The Journal ther assumes and says that the Ora
ham and Reid ticket does not "carry with it the
full expression of idea full endorsement of
pocy-the policy of definite final, rrevocable sep
aration." Now, the Journal is supporting FIVE of
the same ticket which we are supporting, to wit
MesSrs. Pool, Humphrey, Mckay, Reid, and Foster
He cannot be consistent and at the time apply
the above remarks to either of the above gentlemen
but pray in what particular do Messrs Pool, and
Foster, and Mckay differ from Messrs. Graham and
Brown, and others Of our ticket for whom the re-
marks of the Journal were intended? If even one
of the five gentlemen referred to be unsound, then
is the whole ticket of the Journal tainted and it is
no better according to the showing of that paper
itself, than own. But the remarks OF the Jour
nal were intended particularly for Messrs. Graham
and Brown The "moral effect" of their election
"must be hurtful abroad" They, it seems, are not
fully committed to " final irrevocablc separation
from the North" Such are the charges preferred
against the Graham and Reid ticket as a whole and
particularly against Messrs Brown and Graham.
N''S~'
charges these. 1t is sufficient to say that Messrs.
Graham and Brown, with the whole ticket which
we support, are committed to perpetual separation
from the old government; that they were thus COM
United six months before one of the pets of the
Journal Mr. Breckenridge, resigned his seat in the
federal Senate and that they are as true to the
Confederate States and the cause of Southern indie
pendencc President Davis himself But the
Journal thinks it would be "pGintnL" for such gen.
emen to be called upon to vote Electors for such
a man, for example, as Jefferson Davis. Not at all.
They will vote for him with great deal of pleasure.
Virginia of the last States to secede. She
gave her bosom for battle ground of one and all,
and she has furnished nearly every pound of pow
der and most of the heavy ordinance for the war
She has seventy-ive thousand men under arms. Is
all this "painful" to Virginia? Must she, with
North Carolina, and Tennessee, and Arkansas, the
last States to secede, and who have at least hun
| dred and fifty thousand men under arms, 60 down
upon their knees and place their mouths in the dust,
in order to be permitted to vote to sustain govern
ment which is much theirs it is that of South
Carolina and to whose preservation and perpetuity
| they are devoting all they hayey The Journal
seems to think So And so, according to the Jour-
nal, it was "paintuL" for the twenty thousand old
Union who soldiers from this State, to vote
on Thursday last for Mr.. Davis for President. The
Journal is perfectly willing that old Union men shall
pay taxes to support the war; and fight in the
war on foot, and in this quiet and useful way mani
fest their attachment to the government; but when
honors and offices are to be bestowed and when the
mere act of voting is to be performed these persons
must make themselves very small, and must con-
duct themselves as if under painful" apprehen-
sion that they barely tolerated supporters of
the new Confederacy. And in this way, as in vari-
GUS other ways the Journal is engaged in harmonic
ing the Southern mind, and preventing the impress
sion from going abroad that divided people.
But the Journal in substance charges those with
whom we act, in supporting the "Register-Stand-
arr Electoral ticket as he calls it, with giving aid
and comfort to Seward. If it be true that the cold
blooded end incarnate referred to is receiving aid
and comfort from this State he is not receiving it
from the old Union men or from us. Are the skirts
of the Journal clear in this respect? No doubt Mr..
Seward has emissaries who send him regularly
copies Of the Daily Wilmington Journal The
Journal is known to be an influential paper and it
is published in the leading commercial town of the
| State. Mr. Seward gets it and reads it. He sees
that the Journal intimates that the day is not far
distant when the people of the Western part of the
State, where there are but few negroes will take
steps to abolish those provisions in our Constitution
by which slave property is protected and will es-
tablish the white basis. This white basis is favor
lite policy with Mr. Seward and Andrew johnson.
Mr. Seward is, therefore, encouraged-and the more
So as this intimation proceeds from journal pub
lshed in region where slaves are very numerous.
Again, the Journal proposed recently that New
Hanover, and other Counties near the South Caro-
lima line should secede and join South Carolina