Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-05-14
The Carey Meeting.

Our engagements prevent our noticing at length. |
as we designed to do the illnatured and discourte-
Gus attack of the Raleigh Register upon that por-
ton Of the citizens of Wake, who in the exercise !
OF an indefeasible right, met in primary meeting |
in Carey District to express their views and to sug
gest candidates for the next Legislature The at
tack is wholly unprovoked. There is nothing either
In the resolutions themselves the names suggest
cd or in the designs of the people of that district
to call it forth The editor of the Register is as
much entitled to credit or blame for the nominations
made, and had as much to do with them, as the
editor OF the Standard. When the proceedings
were brought to US, unhesitatingly approved the
nominations. The Register did not, and there is
the difference between us.
But what had our declarations in regard to par
ties to do with that meeting? The people who par
ticpated in 1t were alone responsible for it. and
they are doubtless ready to bear the whole burden
The Register says ain spite of the declaration of
the Raleigh Standard, that party lines should not
be drawn at this time, the ticket is composed of old
Union men," &c. It is true that twelve months ago
and for months afterwards, we urged strenuously
and in good faith that all party lines should be OBJ
liberated. We have desired to see nothing so much
very reason that nothing would divide us and dam
age our cause so much, as the prevalence of party
spirit But how were met by those in power
How have the old Union men been treated from the
beginning by those who claimed that they inaugu-
rated the revolution? Have they been allowed,
though the majority in the State, any claim
sellors or managers in this crisis? Have they not
been set down and treated unworthy of conf
dence, and reved as untrue 70 the South, although
the greater part Of the men in the field are old Union
men? Have we not been told that to the victorS
belong the Spols," and have not those in power
acted upon that partIzan maxim down to the pres
ent day? And have not given the deStructiveS
full warnin. that the old Union would not SUBJ
init to it?
1t is useless to disguise the fact there are t,eo
parrties in the State. The famous GoldSboro' Con-
ventiOn which me: for the purpose of inausurating
the scheme of forcing the State out Of the old Union
whether the people consented or not initiated the
Southern rights party, and have persstently kept
up its organization, although the unanimty Of the
State Convention in its action upon the secession
ordinance rendered such an organization wholly
unnecessary, and standing insult and reproach to
the old Union men. In Convention out Of it. in
all its movements, this identical Southern rights
party but fifty called destrUcti1eS, have Ia
bored to beat down, decry and ostracise the
vative men of the State, solely so far as could be
SEEM for the purpose of holding to the perqusites
of Office and from the ambition of managing the
revolution. And how have they done it?
The Register thinks the conservatives must bear
all this with good grace, for if they presume to
bring forward conservative candidates It will be
Calculated to excite strife" The meaning of all
which is, that nasmuch as the destructires are de-
termined to rule, the conservatives must quietly
wait until the party in power dominates candidates
for them of their own choosing; otherwise if they,
the conservatives, dare to move finger it will Gre
ate fuss. The Register knows that that game was
tried In Wake in May, 1861, but the conservatives
were not to be caught then and they can hardly be
so blind now.
The Register says: as this time for men to be
reproached and tabooed for being what is termed
original secessicnists for having had the fore
sight to perceice tie effects of LincoIns election ?"
Let the reader note what we have itacised Strange
foresight! Was 1t not predetermined thing, not
foresight with Them that Lincoln should be elected
OF course we only allude to those Democrats at
Charleston who determined to break up the Demo-
cratic party. But if they had the foresight to per-
ceive the effects of Lincolns election why did they
not have the patriotism to labor to prevent it p
Why did they not have the foresight to prepare for
the war as they were admonished to do, before it
came on? Why not make their plans for carrying
it on more effective since it has come upon us?
But we have not been disposed to ostracse men
because they were original secessonists." The
conservatives have begged and labored with them to
prevent it. They have tabooed" and decried the
conservatives until forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue and they must look for nothing else but
turn Of the tables
One word more. The Register has at length sue
cumbed entirely to the so called Southern Rights
party. If it is resolved upon it, we part with it
without regret revilings. Let it lie on its bed
whether hard or soft.
v Granville County.
We learn that an effort was made few days
since, in Oxford to fuse the conservatives and de-