Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-07-02
Spies, Eavesdroppers, and Forgers,


lhere appears to be regularly organized system
among our enemies, by which our private CONVEX
sations, in our office and on the streets, is misren-
resented and perverted in the hope of making CANT
tai Tor their sinking cause. The two Stalled pa.
pe-s of this City are the mediums through which
these conversations are given to the public: and
when the gross injustice which they do US in this
respect is shown, they profoundly silent in re.
gard to the explanations which we make, and are
constantly engaged in starting new perversions and
misrepresentation. cause which requires sncb
agencies to support it, must indeed be desner,to
mat this system of espionage and eavesdroppipp
Is an organized one, there can be no doubt. and
that those engaged in it are pa for their services
or promised either pay or an office, We think moro
than probable The staple of nearly one half tro
Editorials of the two papers referred to- consists o
these conversations of ours, which are, in every in
stance, grossly misStated and perverted.
But our enemies have gone even further than H.
and resorted to downright forgery month -,
two since, vile newspaper in this City copied f,o.
the Philadelphia Inquirer what purported 70 bo.-
article which had appeared in the Standyrd 49,,
which, it was charged. was favorable to Incl,
government. The Wilmington Journal copiod c..
the paper referred to, and the whole body Of or;.:
nal Secessiondom appeared to be borrfod =. e
treason which they had fastened on Us P,.:. "'
time we noticed the extract, which it was emil ~
Inquirer had made and zoe shoued that 10 .,,'r
language had ecer appeared in the StcndorJ
What then? Why the journals that had nnbi.boa
the forgery on US were as silent as the grave
The last Western Sentinel says, "a friend who
has just returned from Old Point bandod no a.,
other day copy of the PHILADELPHIA E,oyj,sr Of
June lSth' and the Sentinel then copies from the
Inquirer an article, which commences as follows:
"A GREAT LIGHT IN NoRrn-C ARoLIy,,-Tba or-
tlcle PuoilSned elsewhere, from the RALEIGH IN c.
Standard of June 9th while DISCUSSING the Frencb
defeat IN Mexico, is pregnant with matter moro
justly cheering than anything We have heard from
that state Since the outbreak of this Infamous 70.
bel,ion" '
And the Inquirer then goes on to argue, and to
| express the hope, that North Carolina will soon re.
turn to the Union Of course the Sentinel is deem.
y grleVed that "any North Carolinan or Southern
man should lay himself liable to be so misrenre.
scented" as we have been by the Inquirer Now
we published no paper on the 9th of June. but in
our issue of the 7th-the date nearest the gtb.-wo
made no allusion to the French defeat in Mexico.
and We have at no time so far as We can recollect
discussed the French defeat in Mexico. The truth
is, the Inquirer had not seen the Stand,rd of the
9th, Tor no such paper ha6 been issued; and we be-
eVe 1t had not seen the Standard at all but that its
article o0s prepared for it in this State and qro6a
bly, in this City, and forrGrded across the lines by
some spy aOho is employed Jy both sides.
Oar readers know that nothing has appeared in
our paper at any time which, by the most forced
construction, could be understood as favorng a re-
construction of the Union.
public man, are, necessarily talks great
deal. We are obliged to do it. or be rude and impo.
lite. Our opinion is asked about almost every
thing, and we generally give it frankly and freely
All we ask is that what say be reported correct
ly. But, at the same time, We regard private con-
versations and street conversations as improper SUBJ
jects for newspaper reports. We never deal in
them. If we were to do so, we might fill our COL
umns with what it is reported aspirants for Office
say on the streets; we might initiate our enc
mics, by sending spies to draw them out in CONVEX
sation, and then garbe and pervert their language
in our columns. Such conduct is mean, and We are
above it.