Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-05-10
For the Standard.
TO THE CONVENTION OF n CAROLINA.

TO THE CONVENTION OF N. CAROLINA.
GENTLEMEN: perceive that your honorable body
has resolved to adjourn on Tuesday next 1t must
be gratifying to every SOBER tn oughtu mind in the
State, which now dimly omprehends the diff
fcultes and dangers which env iron us that you did
not resolve to adjourn sine die that day.
The hopes of the future of North Carolina, as
sure you, rest with much weigh upon your honora-
BILE body, and it is much to be deprecated that
senseess clamor has been raised against the Con-
vention, by windy, hair-braned politicians, who
cannot or will not do any thing for the State them
selves, but who, like the dog in the manager, seem
determined that the Convention shall do nothing.
1t Is moreover to oe regretted, that honorable
bers OF your body, taking the trail upon something
worse than a cold scent, should have pandered to
this morbid phrenzy by consuming so much of your
valuable time by motions to adiourn and other yex-
atlous proceedings, very much resembling the tricks
OF the gamester, to interfere with the cool and dis
passionate consideration and the proper dispatch of
important business
All this by the way. There are two important
considerations however, which demand your earnest
and serious attention at this crisis short your
present session must now be, to which | beg your
notice.
One of them alluded to in a short article
addressed to the editor of thG Standard some few
weeks ago. 1t is this: the possibility that by the
nrSt thursday IN August next, the people of North
Carolina will be in no condition to elect Governor
or Legislature. Since that article was written,
the possibility has not been weakened Almost
daily events render the prospect more doubtful.
Should our large army about Richmond fail of
signal victory over the enemy, it must fall back"
Our State in that case will become the battle-ground,
unless the retreat to the Cotton States be effected
In that event North Carolina must be overrun by
the enemy. This might occur early as the 4th
of July next If so, it must be apparent to every
one that the official terms of the present executive
and Legislature must expire before an election by
pln ho had oo1xy 49, hot
occur. trust in God that we may defeat the enc
my at Richmond, and that State may be saved
the ruin and humiliation of such catastrophe. 1t
Is for the Convention as wise and conservative
body to provide against or for such contingency.
Again. The passage of the CONSUMPTION law
seems to render the continuance of the expensive
| Military Department you have at Raleigh almost
! wholly unnecessary. When present regiments
| now in process of formation are complete, and
turned over to the Confederate States North Caro-
lima will have nc further need of such establish
| ment The work of enrolling conscriptS, for the
| Confederate Government, can be effected as readily
and more cheaply without all that apparatus either
! by the Secretary of War or by more simple State
agency. The business of the Adjutant General will
bt confined almost entirely to the enrolment of the
militia over So years Of age
There will no longer exist solid reason for Quar-
| termaSter COmmisSary Paymaster Ordinance
| Departments of the State with long list Of Clerks
| and subordinateS For year the State has borne
this enormous expenditure If the people should
ever get glimpse OF the expense it will Sho k them
Besides it has served to keep number of fight
ing men who have been painting for the field out of
the war. Loose them and let them go! Such a re-
suit so devoutly desired by the people, would soon
! render the Board Of Claims unnecessary and the
State would return nearly to her ordinary expend-
| lures, in short time. Were this accomplished
! many would bear with better grace the Conscrp-
ton, as bringing some good out of evil. The peo-
| pie, judge would bear much to be rid of the enor
mously expensive Military Department at the Cap
! ita. CASTOR.
Nav 9Th 1862