Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-06-18
For the Standard

For the Standard.
Mr.. EDITOR The manly and straight forward
course you have pursued since and before the COM
mcnccment of this bloody war, has won for You
many friends You have proven yourself to be the
unwaverinc and unceaSing friend of the soldier,
seeking and contenl;ng for his rights in every ener
cency You have never failed to contend most car
nesty for the rights of the States, and the liberties
Of the people, whenever they have been aSSalled
In short the independent and conservative course
of the Standard Is much admired by men of all
parties possessed Of any reason or common sense.
The futile attempts to prejudice the minds oil the
honest people of North Carolina against the Sand
ard and its Editor, by such men as control the
Stale Journal, is looked upon with scorn and con
tempt by sensible of their liberties, as all true
North Carolnans are. For men just from under
the yoke of British bondage, not knowing the value
of liberty and caring less, to to North Carroll
MI and charge as being disloyal and traitors to
their country, for endeavoring to maintain and per-
petuate intoct orr blood bought privileges and lib
critics to our posterity, is simply ridiculous. Let
such men rant and roar, and resort to every effort
their fevcred brains can prompt to deceive the peo
pie and array them against the Standard-they Will
never do it. The people know you are right, and
knowing, they Will stand by you until convinced by
better men, and men with purer motives than those
who sit and do nothing but abuse the Editor of the
Standard.
There are no truer inen to the South ana 10 the
of the South than those very men whom Ger
tain Editor wished to have bideous mark placed
upon. Yes, these very men are now in the tented
field, suffering all the miseries incident to camp
life, ready and willing to drive the invading foe from
our soil, and without whosc help such men as arc
now prosecuting them, would have long since been
pulling Yankee hemp else snugy nestled in
Abrahams bosom. The latter, expect.
We are in the midst of a great revolution,
fraught with serious consequences to us all-and if
it has come to pass that the people are not free to
express their opinions in regard to the conduct Of
their public officers without being branded trait
ors, then indeed, have fallen upon evil times.
would suggest to those Seeming blood. thirsty hyp
ocrites who talk SO loud about choking the life out
of some of their fellow. citizens because, for
sooth, they don't choose to initiate their desperate
examples, that the field is open for a free fight
There is place where their services are very much
needed place where they can smell blood to their
hearts content The war you so much craved has
been raging for sometime. The cloud of battle is
fast gathering and threatens to lay waste every
thing before it. The rattle of musketry and the
crash of artillery are saluting your ears The
groans of The dead ard dying plead to you in thun-
der tones to come Innocent women and children
it is said are falling prey to the hellish passions of
the brutal soldery, and are being brutay and in.
humanity murdered In fact, every thing that is
near and dear to you, calls aloud for your help
and yet you will not 60. Why is it? Come, prac.
tice what you prcach-buckle your armor and
haste away to 9c'p those degraded wretches that