Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-05-21

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~; a. sab1ecf IA times Of revoiuton, iAwG
and constitu and the honlsf
lives liberty md sstItes % placed g the
btrsTy and yfADnica decree set up BY Ties
,pepeiesp Kiek III Wsll as an or sstste;is
sufiqsat u AxAls1 10 every lover dstice. liberty
and socisl order, lively INTEREST," the
Who shall reign OYER us who shall be our next Afoys
ernor Ri heed not tel your readers aude 70 theS
decree gone firth fren, Richmends that they aret0
deliver up their guns to Mr. Ashe for q price. If
they will and whether they will or not it must be
done, If Mr.. sAsheswilis it. =
I Another stxetch Of arbitrary andunlimited power.
is the seizing by the Confederate Government OF all
railroads belonging not only to citizens but to soyer
eign States And not to be endured is another.
wrong sezing tiles bodies Of citizens belonging to
the sovereign State f North Carolina and transport
ing them to Richmond for trial +
Certain members of our Convention are trying to-
stigmatise the whole people Of North Carolina by
the passage Of hateful and ever TO be hated sedi
ton act which means the people shan't talk against
the Government or their rulers. Such sentiment
is worthy Of Lincoln. If he could have suppressed
oil talk against hmselfand his government be might
have had more tranquil time. The government is
weak that can be talked down, and il let alone will
tall OF ITSELF Governments are never talked down.
1t requires blood to establish, and blood to destroy
them. Our people work too much and read too lit
tie not to allow full, free and unrestrained discus
sion upon their government laws and rulers. It
was once said in the presence of Mr. Jefferson
Man cannot be9'trusted with the government Of
himself Then, said Mr.. Jefferson, show can
he be trusted with the government of others ?"
II the members OF the Convention are not to be
trusted to talk OF the government and rulers they
please, who will trust them to lay restriction and
penal acts upon the people in this particular? If
they think they snned in too much talking against
Lincolns government let them talk less against the
Confederate government.
II you will have the people reconciled to govern.
ment and not speak evil of it. let them retain their
, guns, let them have their trials at home and BY
their own laws; above ALL let them talk freely and
in their own way, not as the Convention dictates.
But to return to the question of Governor
know nothing better calculated to multiply the
peoples miseries, and to hurry the country into
final and complete ruin, than placing weak, incom
petent, and even inefficient at the head Of af-
fairs. Much as have suffered, we have not seen
or felt the worst The enemy are upon our soil,
threatening US with fire and sword, thirsting for
blood, ready to murder, and then to rob. The fu-
ture is full of triumphs, it is also full of accidents
calamities, dangers and deaths. We cannot afford
to experiment in any such folly as placing unknown
untried men in high places. .-..., -
nv Ill tueSc peThouS litleS aOtS IL Oe0OOVe the
people to elect as Governor? A virthous man
no;-a truthful man? no;-a man of courage
no;-a man of intellectual endowments and great
attainments? no. No one of these qualities will
do. The man for Governor must have not one, but
all Of these qualities.
No man possesses all of these qualities in more
pre-eminent degree than Governor Graham. No
man has given to the people more examples Of dis
interested patriotism. political wisdom, and public
virtue. Every patriotic citizen could think and
speak of his election with an honest pride, feeling
confident that be had committed to safe hands his
interest, honor, country and all. None could feel
rebuked or .subdued save the political inTiguer,
whose patriotism borrows zeal from the prospect of
Office. The soldier, perilling all for his country,
will feel an honest pride in his Governor when he
reflects that he has four who share his hard
ships and partake of his tolls.
Put me down first for Graham, and next for the
man who, like Graham, has steady and permanent
rule for his conduct, both public and private.
HAWFiELDS.
Through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and
New York, the town and city elections appear to
have resulted in q triumph for the Democracy.
+; They will succeed in all these States at the Con-
gressional elections next fall.
THB CoNDucr OF THE WAR-For one long year,
says the Richmond Dispatch, has war, IN its most
vindctive FORM ragged upon Southern territory, and
yet to this hour not a single blow has been struck
upon Northern soil, not Southern musket has been
fired beyond Southern limits, not even the sound
of hostile gun has been heard upon the Northern
air. Not one Northern family has been driven
from their homes, not one Northern homestead