Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-07
Northern News.

friend has handed US several copies of the New
York Tribune, Times, Herald and Post, of recent
dates from which we learn that Lincoln's procla-
nation in regard to slavery is generally approved
and that the war spirit is as rampant in the North
as ever. There may be and there no doubt is a
strong under current in the Northern States against
Lincoln and his measures but, so far as we can
Judge by the papers before us the people are gen.
orally sustaining hin IN his despotic conduct Yet
the Tribune, in the midst Of its fierce and wicked
assaults the South seems to fear that liberty is
not safe in the Northern States. In his issue of
the 4th September Greedy says:
In times of great public peril like the present,
it seems necessary to wink at official acts farbitrary
power which would not be endured for moment
in state of peace We do not surrender our hber-
ties, but we hold them in allegiance while the Ma
TONS fate trembles in the balance. We are living
under regime not of Law but of Force In war,
the Law is silent" is the gist of a very old maxim
Any of Us may be snapped up at moments notice
and immured in prison indefinitely, without other
warrant than some functionary's order. And who
ever is must make the best of his fate knowing that
all this is casual and transitory. In poor judg-
ment nne-tenths of the arbitrary arrests thus far
had far better not been made; but we would not
deprive the Government of the power to make them
in crisis like the present Let it be distinctly
understood, however, that each arrest will be made
the subject of rigorous and dispassionate inquiry
after Peace and that while no one should suffer for
his innocent mistakes in honestly endeavoring to
serve and save his country, it will go very hard with
any one who is proved to have grati6ed his own
malice or his love of exercising despotic power,
without the warrant of public necessity.
What we mainly apprehend, however, is not that
individuals shall sufer-they always do and must
suffer in CONFUSION like this-6ut that the sGtu-
tGry popular instinct which regards wih Jealousy
euery infringement of constitutional safeguards for
Liberty may be debGuched and broken dOUR. We
fear there are too many patriots this day who, II
their hearts were laid upon, would be willing TO
reward with an imperial crown the Military genius
who should speedily and utterly crush out the
Rebellion. In view of this tendency, it is in one
sense fortunate that struggle has yet develop
ed no Cromwell, Napoleon nor even an Andrew
jackson. Corrupted as public sentiment has become
by forty years trucking to the Slave Power, too
many might be ready to evnce their gratitude to the
saviour of our Nationality by making him present
of our Liberty"
Terrible visions, it seems, of military power and
imperial crowns are floating before even the aboli-
tionists of the North. If they are alarmed at the
concentration of all power in the hands of one man,
what must be the dread for the future of the
thoughtful and conservative portion Of the North.
ern people. !
The Herald Of the 9th August contains shock
ing accounts Of the murders and ravages committed
by the Sioux Indians the frontiers of Minnesota.
Whole towns and settlements had been exterminat-
ed by the Indians The most active military pre-
parations foot to check the ncursions of the
Indians. The attack is attributed to the failure
the part of Lincoln's government to make the an
nual payment to the Indians in time.
These papers teen with accounts of the raising
of batalions and regiments, and statements of what
the different States and towns and counties are do
ing in this respect 1t seems to be highly probable,
Judging by these accounts, and by the tone of the
leading presses of the North that Lincoln will be
able to raise as many troops as he wants.