Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-06-25
A Vile SANDER Exposed.

attacks which are made upon us in the papers, on
the stump, or on the streets, by blackguards anu
demagogues; but blackguard paper in this city
having msrepresented US in certain particular
and respectable paper in this City. the Register
having copied this Misrepresentation it due to our
friends, and perhaps to oursef, that we shouia no
tice it The charge is, that Holden declared, 10
the presence of two reliable gentlemen thatn less
than three months the Yankees will have possession
of every CAPITAL in the Southern Confederacy."
Now, it is impossible 70: US to recoect all we say,
or what we saw in our numerous conversations with
friends and sometimes with enemies. No doubt
policy of backing down before the enemy be con.
tnued, and if troops are not permitted to fight
when they ought to fight and if the ineficiencS in
the management Of our affairs which has lost US the
coast of this State and the Mississippi Valley did
not does not give place to more vigorous policy,
then in few months every State, or the capital of
every State viii be in the hands of the enemy.
7aat is what zoe said. But, b. giving one-half of
what we said, our enemies are striving to produce
the impression that had given up the contest,
and that we uanted the Yankees to take the coun-
try In the same way, by garbling the Scriptures,
it could be proved that there is no God For exam
pie THE fool hath said in his heart, there is no
God" Give the latter part Of the sentence, and
omit the former, and we have it as follows: "There
is no God
These and other charges are made against us,
solely because We were not an original secessionist
and because our enemies fear the influence of the
Standard. By lying they hope to injnrc US and to
break the influence Of the STANDARD among the peo-
pie If we had been an original secessonist, or,
not having been so, if we had made our peace with
the spoi!s party, and agreed wifi them to combine
against the people in order to hold office and enjoy
the spoils, we might have used the strongest Ian
guage against the government, and gone unrebuked
by the Stallfederates For example, the Charleston
Mercury of May Is, 1862, speaking of President
Davis, said:
His miserable and weak defensive policy-a de-
fensive policy acithout any adequate means Of de-
.teacs-is now exploded; but it has brought down
the Confederate States into defeat and blood. Some
may call it policy Of surrender"
Is our garbled language, above given, half as
strong as that: No. but the Mercury is not COM
planned Of because it is one of tine Stallfedcrates.
Again. the Richmond Examiner, in an article
which copied into our issue of the 2Sth of last
month"; e:nphatcaly declared that if the government
at Richmond should abandon the Chickahominy
and Richmond as it had other places, the "conse-
qiences" would be not only military, but civil
national" And it added
They are 1.-THE consequences decentralization and
DISCRIMINATION out Of which the army and the
country will endeavor to save itself, by a new crea-
ton Of leaders md rulers; adding thus to all our
calanties and difficulties, that of resolution"
But the Examiner is an original secession paper,
and, therefore, no Stalliederate has complained Of
the Examiner.
Again, Gen. Pillow delivered speech in this City
some two months since, which was highly eulogized
by the Register in which he declared that the fate
of Richmond and perhaps of the cause depended
upon the Confederate army holding Corinth. Well,
Cornth has been abandoned, and yet no one GEN.
sures Gen. Pillow Is he traitor for uttering such
language? No, he is only an original secessionist.
Again, Mr. Rayner said in the Convention, and was
soreporteG in the sheet which started this alsehood
against US, that the administration of the govern
ment at Richmond had been marked by gross i'm
becility." Now, an imbecile is destitute of
strength. either of body or mind and if what MIR.
Rayner said hal been true, there would have been
no hope for the cause for such a government could
not be expected to meet the Yankees successfully.
But Mr. Rayner did not mean that He only meant,
by the Of very strong expression, to m'nlfest
his opinion of the manner in which our government
had been conducted; and he said this, not for the
mi fh.
ment, but in the hope that good would come of it.
And yet no one censured Mr. Rayner. Why? Be-
cause he has generally acted with the original Sc
cesSonists.
We now say once for all, That all our hopes, CAL
culations, wishes. and expectations are with the
South and that any man who charges that we have
ever, in thought word, deed, acted dsloyal
part towards our State the Confederate States is
a calumniator and liar. These are harsh terms,
but the times and the nature of the charge against
us call for them.
The same vile sheet which originated this lie, and
legions of others against US, charged some months
since, that we had said en- the streets of Raleigh,
that all the leaders (incudng, of course, President
Davis and his Cabinet in the S ,uthern movement
which dissolved the Union were politically and NOR
ally corrupt We paid no attention to this false
hood at the time and should not have noticed it now
but for the latest one which we are exposing. We
have our ow, opinion about William L. Yancey,
Mr.. Wigfall, Mr.. Toombs, j. P. Benjamin, Gov
John Milton, and others, who were active at Char
lesion in breaking up the government; but VIC have
never thought and we have never spoken of such
men as President Davis, Mr.. Reagan, Mr.. Memmin
GER Mr. Mason, Mr.. Russell, or Mr.. Haynes as NOR
ally or politically corrupt. The truth is, in the un
certainty and scattering of votes which prevailed al
Charleston, we were the eve at one time of vo
ting for Jefferson Davis for President, and would
most probably have done so, for few times least
but for the fact that understood that the single
vote he was receiving cast ty Caleb Cushing W.
could not 20 with Caleb. We regarded Mr.. Davis
as man of ability and national Democrat, espe
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