Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-07-17
Call them Out.

There are perhaps, from $50 to 200 men from this
city in The three Companies raised here, viz: the
Raleigh Rifles Oak City Guards and Ellis Light
Artillery. They are bearing patiently the priva-
tons of camp life, living hard, drilling hard, and
some of them sick from it. Yet we hear no COM
plant from them. All they ask is to be fed, and let
them fight for the South.
1t has struck us recently very forcby, that there
are at least $50 of us here, who not a whit
better than they are, if so worthy, who have no
stronger reasons to keep us here, than they had
What are we doing? Some are looking closely to
selfinterest, making what they out of the war;
Others are doing nothing that the public
Others are holding on to the oflices-many Of them
young men, who ought to be in the field Some
two three and four months ago, many of these were
dying to fight for the South. 1t was difficult for
cool, sober man to get along with them. They were
ready to pitch into late Union man. if he said peaSe
They were hardly willing to wait for the war to
come they would, it seemed, meet it more than
half way, and were ready to jump in head and Shout
ders Now they seem to be as cool a cucumber.
Is it not strange! What is the matter with them
Are they too cowardly to fight to get ready
for it?
Call them out we say, all Of them who ought to
be ready. Put them into the Militia if they won't
volunteer. Drill them until their legs get timber.
Stir them up. Blow the fife, beat the drum, do
something to their latent courage if they have
any. Many of our brave boys are in the fight.
Coax and urge or drive all out who ought to so.
We wish not to be nvidious personal, but we
can't forget some things Last February when we
were in the canvass, for the Convention, remem-
Der our friends Branch and Lewis were especially
fiery; the former, if reports be true fiery on both
Sides They could not brook Union man. Mr..
Branch then feared that the Union men as spoken
for by the Standard, were verging to unconditional
submission to Lincoln" We have not forgotten it,
nor quite forgiven him for it yet. Had he staid in
the ranks when he in, put himself at the head
of column to fight we should have forgotten it
long ago. Our friend Lewis "spilng" for
fight then. Every day he was ready to fit, bleed
and die for the South. We could hardly hold him
in, he was so bent upon whipping Lincoln. Our
friend Gen. Hoke has shown that he practices what
he breaches. He took Office when there was but
little prospect for fight; but for some weeks he
has been ready to go to the field of blood He takes
fighting commission and throws up his aoriting
one. He is the kind of man for the times. But we
do not hear such good news from friends Branch
and Lewis. When we get Coloners or Majors
commission it shall be fighting one Well not
hesitate then, about fighting, however much we dis
countenance and ignore, from principle the duello
Our well tried hickory will then be laid aside, for
the implements of deadly warfare
By the way, speaking of our friend Major Lewis
it reminds US that the other day when in Virginia
the boys were looking for him and his bag. Their
purses were nearly empty, ano they had looked and
looked for the Paymaster until they were ready to
give him out. We hope to hear soon that he has
been down and settled off with the brave fellows.
~ On Cur way to Suffolk we had the pleasure
of travelling with Chief Justice Lumpkin, of Georgia,
who has sons in the army in Virginia. The
venerable and honored man was going in vacation