Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-03-29

Inc wilmington J0uTRHt seems disposed TO quail
fy and explain its remarks, made few days since,
in favor of change of the civil and military heads
of this revolution. The Journal intimateS that a
material change has already taken place, and as
sumes that the changes in the Cabinet at Rich
-mond, which are thought to be for the better have
been made since its article appeared. This is a
mistake. The Cabinet was re-organized before the
Journal called for great change" in the military
heads of this revolution, land civil ones too Its
demand for change was general, and appeared to
embrace the whole government at Raleigh and at
Richmond but willing to give the Journal
the benefit of its explanation, which is that it did
not mean President Davis, Gov. Clark, or Gov.
Clark's advisers but only changes in the Cab
met which took place before the Journal made its
demand We may add, also, that the Journal is
now disposed to assume that one of the changes it
asked for was in the Convention, which body, in
the judgment of that paper, has dragged its slow
length along and behaved very naughtily, ever
since by deaths, resi- gnations and elections, it be-
came conservative in its character.
The Journal is very careful to- correct any i'm
preston which might have gone out from its arti-
cle that it had called for the displacement of Presi
was certainly sweeping and general enough to in
clude the President but the Editor says he did not
intend to include him, as supposed he did not.
We voted for Mr.. Davis for President with as much
cheerfulness as the Editor of the Journal did but
We do not concur with the Journal that Mr.. Davis
enjoys the confidence of the people Of the South to
an extent to which no other man approaches
| That the President has meant veil, and has done
the best he could, no one doubts; bat he has not
displayed that foresight, forecast energy and
dom which were expected of him. Nor has he
steered clear Of partyisIn. The very instances in
the reorganization of the Cabinet TO which the
Journal refers as proof that he is above the nHu-
of party spirit afford the strongest proof to
the contrary. All the members of his Cabinet but
one are from the cotton States; and all of them
but one, Mr.. Watts, of Alabama were original Sc
cessi0nists. 1t is true, he was Bell and Everett
Elector but one of the Richmond papers boosted
when he appointed, that he and Mr.. Yancey
were chosen by a compromise and without opposI-
ton to represent the same County in the Conven-
ton of Alabama which seeded from the Union not
for good cause but at will and also that as soon
as Lincoln was elected, he struck with Mr.. Yancey
for the destruction of an "abotionized govern
ment." MT. Watts is, therefore, no representative
in the Cabinet of the old Union men of The border
States He was engaged in taking Alabama out of
the Union at the time when vast majorities of the
border States were endeavering to prevent disu-
MON. The truth is as the Journal knows, the old
Union men of the border States have been and are
still rgidly prescribed by both the governments at
Raleigh and Richmond. Now and then they are
appointed to subordinate Offices; but they have no
voice in the Cabinet and voice among Gov.
Clark's advisers and friends at Raleigh. We do
not say aoAy this is So nor do we venture to pre-
dict the consequences that may flow from il. We
merely refer to the fact as it exists