Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-06-04

ino NewoeFh !ToyreSS, puofisned by some OF LIN
coins hirelngs since the land pirate Burnside has
held possession of that place. quotes with great ioy
and approval an article from the Raleigh Standard |
Of April 18th, against the CONSUMPTION act. The
Standard is notthe only paper in the State which is
giving "a,d and comfort to the enemy Uy denoun-
eng the Consumption act and villfying President
DAVIS and his Cabinet-Aaheoills News
We defy the Nesos to produce any article from |
the Editorial columns of the Standard, villifying
President Davis and his Cabinet We have never, |
on any occasion, vilfed the President OF impeach-
ed his honesty and integrity. Wehave disapproved
his policy in several particulars but We have done
SO IN mild and respectful language and with pur
pose to injure or embarrass his administration It
is true we denounced the CONSUMPTION act both be-
fore and after its passage, and we objected IN the
strongest terms to the attempt Of the Presidents
agent Major Ashe to take from our people their
arms by force; but our language has on no occa-
sion been half as strong as that used by the Rich
mond Examiner, the Montgomery Adpertiser, and
the Charleston Mercury towards President Davis.
But they are original secession papers, and hence
they are never ectured or taken to task by their
party friends. Some of these journals have even
gone so far as to threaten a revolution with the
have called him an mbecile mule, selfsuficient
tyrant rejecting or never hearing the advice of his
best friends, and have declared that if his whole
conduct and that of the Provisional Congress at
Montgomery had been fully known to the people,
he would never have been elected President; and
in addition to this, Gov. Rector, of Arkansas has
declared his State out Of the Confederacy, and Gov
Brown of Georgia, has nuujfed the consumption
act and yet all these assailants of the President
arc permitted to pass unrebuked, simply because
they arc original secessionists, and zoe, who have
only expressed our views in plain terms as we al
ways do, of public measures, are singled out and
charged with being false to the country.
So far as the Newborn Progress is concerned we
have this to say: The Progress is Lincoln, and
ours is Southern paper. We have number of
subscribers North Carolinians and true men, with
in the enemys lines; but are careful not to d.
rect any OF our papers to any person beyond those
lines. If the Standard reaches Newbern, it is not
sent by us. 1t may be that parties who profess to
be true to the South contrve to send the Standard
to the Progress office, with the expectation that
that paper will copy from it. and thus party capital
will be manufactured against u.s. and we incline to
this opinion, for the reason that there are original
secessionsts in this State base enough to act in this
way, and for the further reason that never hear
on the streets, or from any quarter, that the Pro-
gress is receiving laid and comfort" from the Eram-
iner the Mercury the Adrertiser, from Governors
Brown and Rector. Now, it makes no odds what
the Progress says, what the Progress does, so
long as we know are true to our State, and so
long as vast majority of our people regard us as
true. But if, by handing round the Newbern Pro-
gress in Raleigh containing extracts from the Stand
ard-and if by publishing extracts from the Pro-
gress, Or by comments thereon, Editors in this City
or elsewhere or persons in this City or elsewhere
mean to insnuate in the remotest sense that are
not true to State and to the South then we say
that these Editors and these persons one and all,
| are infamous calumniators and liars.
But we understand all this, and do our friends
The Standard and its Editor in the way of those
who would make this party war. The cormorants
who are battening on the spoils-who are enjoying
| "shade" Offices with their communications and ra-
tions and perqusites while thousands Of late Union
men are in the ranks, on foot, fighting their bat
tles-who drawing rations for horses never used
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molasses, bacon, salt and the like from the govern
ment at prices five times less than paid for these
articles by the soldiers and the people-and who
are determined at all hazards to hold on to the Of
fees and the spols and to administer the govern
ment for their own benefit and not that of the peo-
ple,-these cormorants fear the influence Of the
Standard, and not daring to lay their hands upon
it and suppress it by physical force, they are seek
ing destroy its character by all kinds of charges
hurled from their magazine of lies and ISLANDERS.
But the people are with us, and we defy our enc.
mics. We shall triumph over all our revers and
magners and shall live trust, to see the day
when our country will be independent, and when
these cormorants, partizans, and money changers
shall be driven from positions in which, for months
past, they have been ar incubus on the State and
on the cause.
In our next, or as soon as we can find space, we
will reply to an article in the Richmond Enquirer
of Saturday last headed "The North Carolina
Press" The Enquirers article is courteous and res.
pectful. Its articles always so, because its Edi
tors are gentlemen. 1t is rather pleasure than
otherwise to discuss public affairs with such a
journal.
"SroNEwALL" JAcksoN.-It seems to be gcner
ally believed in Richmond that at last accounts Gen.
Jackson's advance occupied Williamsport, in Mary
land, several days ago. The belief is that he will
advance still further If he has sufficient force, he
is the man for the work.
AssALING THE GovERNMENT.-The best friends
Of the State and Confederate governments are those
who, while they support them with their treasure
and blood, at the same time insist that they shall
he nroperIv administered Every one feels anC
knows that public affairs have been grossly mis-
managed, and that reform is exceedingly important
The framework Of government is all that could b.