Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-06-11
"Aid and Comfort, to xhe Enemy,

"Aid and Comfort, to xhe Enemy.
Every one processes to disbeeve statements made
BY the Lincoln papers or their correspondents, in
regard to Southern affairs or Souther men and their
acts and yet there is class Of newspapers in this
State that give currency and endorsement to false.
moods published by Lincoln papers, by reproducing
them In their columns without one word of contra
dicton. The Lincoln paper at Newbern has pub
llshed some Of the most unblushng misrepresenta-
tons in regard to the views of the Standard, of
Gov. Graham and others; and yet the ultra seces-
sion party presses of this State are republishing
them without denial The Register and another
press in this City, first start these things from the
Newborn Progress and they are then taken up and
repeated by such papers as the Wilmington Journal
The object of these presses and of those who con.
troll them, is to inure and destroy the influence of
the Standard, and to wreak personal spite on its
Editor, and at the same time so to damage the con-
servatves of the State as to ensure to themselves
a quiet monopoly of the Offices and spoils This is
about all they care for Other men may fight, but
they intend to remain in the shade out of the way
of danger, abusing better men than themselves,
This is emphatically true of the ablebodied Irish
man who owns the Wilmington Journal, and the
able-bodied Englishman who is owned by those who
own the State Journal These men are engaged
about half their time in abusing the Standard and
impeaching the loyalty of its Editor. Vow, so far
as the Wilmington Journal is concerned, we will
say, that If me had belonged to organization
formed to break up the government, and if we had
broken faith with our constituents, as he did. and
commenced the work of disuniop at Charleston and
Baltimore even under the belief which was certain
y very silly one that secession could be peaceably
accomplished We would at once have shouldered
our musket as the Editor has not DONE and gone to
the battlefield That Editor denounces Gen. Rut
Ter, who commands the Lincoln forces at New Or
leans and Gen. Isaac E. Stevens, who commands the
Lincoln forces in South-Carolina Every South
ern man feels that these men deserve to be de-
nounced; but they both seeded with the Editor of
| the journal from the Democratic party at Balti-
| more They were so intensely Southern that they
would not sit with the Douglas men, and the next
thing we hear Of them is, they Generals under
L'ncoln They wanted to break up the Union, be-
cause they knew that as long as it endured they
would be in minority in their own States, and
would never obtain Office; and the Editor of the
journal went with those who preferred to break it
up, because they were about to lose the offices.
Butler, Stevens and Fulton-brother boilers at Bal
timore!-not boilers in Difference to the views of
their delegations but because they preferred it. and
labored to accomplish it.
Again, the Editor of the Journal, when he i'm
peaches our fidelity to the cause, ought to remem-
Der that after the proclamation of Mr. Lincoln in
April, 1861, he finished the publication Of the ed-
eral laos IN his paper, and applied for the Lincoln
gold in payment and that too, after this State was
virtually out of the Union; whereas we, as soon as
We the proclamation, refused to continue and
finish the said laws in our paper And yet the Ed
itor of the Journal has the assurance to brand
Isaiah Respess as a traitor, who, being inside the
enemys lines tried to sace his property; while the
Editor himself tried to get his property-that is,
Lincoln gold which he had earned after his State
was virtually out of the Union. The amount is one
hundred and eighty dollars, which we trust this
State or the Confederacy will one day pay to
the Editor, with interest of his heary losses
incurred by this revolution.
We allude to these things, not with the hope Of
reforming the manners the morals of the Editors
whose conduct We are noticing but to show that
they are giving laid and comfort" to the enemy
If the enemy believes what they say, and what they
insinuate-tbat the Standard and Gov. Graham
and thousands of our people untrue to the
South-tben indeed may he take comfort, and pros
ccute the war with redoubled vigor
We learn from friend that late number of the
Newbern Progress contains article in relation tc
the action of the Convention of this State at its late
session, which does not contain one word of truth
and which is calculated grossly to mslead all unrn
, formed persons who may read it. The Progress
, says it obtained its information from member o
the Convention. That of course, is false. Ant
yet we shall not be surprised to see this article
copied into several of our State papers, without de
NAL! Such is the mad spirit of party, and of per
sonal vengeance towards US, which is doing more t,
{ divide our people and to inure the cause than al
the Yankee forces on our coast