Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-02
The Stanoato.
Truth well Expressed.


We make the following extracts from commu-
nication Just received from one of the most eminent
citizens Of Caldwell County. In addition TO the
pointed and truthful observations which our cores
pondent makes on the state of parties and the coun
trv he avails himself Of the occasion to correct an
error into which Col Wheeler fell in his recent well
written notice of tie lamented Stokes:-
$50 many Of our men arc in the army tnst the
vote in this County will be comparatively small out
Of the number given we expect to give CoL vance
two-thirds or threefourths. Or Colonel Johston,
know nothing personally. He may be- and as far
as | know IS, very worthy gentleman. If he is
defeated as think he will be by large majority,
he may set it down to the course pursued oy the
State Journal and the authorities at Raleigh, who
have steadily pursued and advocated the policy OF
prescribing the old Union men from all participation
in the honors places of trust or proht IN the gov
ernment now henceforth and forever. party
that has supported the earnestly and vigorously
since it's commencement by a liberal constitution
of the lives of its members their blood their treas
ure and other mt ans, and which it must be admitted
has done as much, if not more, for its successful
prosecution thus far than the original secessonIsts
will not submit to be thus unjustly treated, and
base attempt made to fix upon them the odium at
tachcd to the tories of the first revolution, without
a proper rebuke This trust will be given in the
approaching Gubernatorial election. There never
was farer opportunity presented for an amaigama
ton of all parties, and perfect harmony and unity
Of action in every thing that concerns the welfare OF
our good old State, than presented by the exis
tence of the present war; but the original secession
lists would not have it so. True to their political
instincts of rule or ruin if the latter should be the
alternative left them they will have nobody to blame
but themselves. The old Union party in North
Carolina will not submit to be robbed of their just
rights either by the tyranny OF Lincoln and his
minions, or by the tyranny of powers nearer home
have already written much more than intend
ed | wish, however to correct an error into which
Col j. II. Wheeler has fallen in the complimentary
notice he takes of Col NJ s. Stokes in his letter to
DIR. g. w. Blacknall, published in the Standard OF
the 9th inst. He states that the mother of Col.
Stokes was the daughter of the late Colonel Henry
Irwin, who fell at Germantown in l777 This is
a mistake. The first wife of the late Gov. Stokes
was a daughter of Mr.. Irwin, by whom he had
only one child, a daughter, who first married Mr..
Henry Chambers, OF Rowan County, and after his
death, the Hon. Wm L. Lewis, of Nashville, Tenn,
who appointed one of the Auditors Of the United
States Treasury, by General jackson. The second
wife of Gov. Stokes and the mother Of the amented
Col NJ S. Stokes, was. Miss Rachel Montgomery,
the daughter of Mr.. Hugh Montgomery, merchant
of Salisbury, n q. A long acquaintance with Col.
Stokes enables me to endorse most cordially every
thing that Col. Wheeler has said in his praise in the
notice before referred to- and | should not have
taken the trouble to correct the unimportant error
of Col. w. had it not been for the fact that he has
made the mistake IN his historical sketches OF
North Carolina. Nothing but desne toVindicatc the
truth Of history even in a small matter would have
induced this communication"