Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-05-28
A Word to the Conservatives.

A Word to the Conservatives.
1t is OF the utmost Importance that the govern
ment should be reformed We have good Consti-
tutions both State and Confederate, and the frame
work of the government is all we could desire;
but the administration Of government must be re-
formed and that speedily, or ruin will overtake us
ALL Those who have been in power for the last
twelve months have shown themselves utterly in
competent to manage our public affairs or, if COM
peten they have been so occupied in parcelling out
ofces among themselves, and in prescribing the
conservatives or late Union men, that they have not
devoted their time and their thoughts as they should
have done, to the duties assigned them. Besides,
large proportion of the leading public men of the
ultra secession school, in common with those of the
rank and file of the ultra secessonists, are SO much
under the influence of impulse and passion as to
render them unfit for office. Impulse, passion, in
veterate prejudice, and want of Judgment and fore
CASTE to be natural to them; and it is on this
account as well as because of their selfshness and
greed for place. that they have shown themselves so
unequal to the crisis and so unworthy of the popu-
lar confidence. They have had the control of pub
lie affairs for more than twelve months, and where
are We? The people, if they would save any thing
from the wreck, must rouse up and take their own
affairs into their own hands. They must turn out
the selfish the vena the passionate and the short
sighted, and put the patriotic the upright the
siderate, the clearsghted and the sagacious in their
places. They must do this, and do it at the next
election or prepare themselves for still further trials
and suferings and still further and bolder infrac
tlons OF their rights, under the rule of the who
for the last twelve months have so abused their
tdence. And in order to effect this, there must be
unity and concert of action among the conserva-
tives and no compromises Of any kind soih the de-
structires Let the conservatives hold their meet
ings and nominate their best men for the Legsla-
ture, and let them have nothing to do with the de-
structves ultra secessonists but to cote them don
The State is conservative and opposed to the ruin
Gus mismanagement which has heretofore prevailed,
by at least thirty thousand majority.
The conservatives or late Union men can never
forget the manner in which they have been treated
during this war, by the ultra secessionists. They
made the State unit in April 1861, and they have
contributed more men and more money to the war
than their opponents; and yet their opponents,
happening to have the control of the State and Con-
federate governments, have prescribed them from
all places of honor and trust in the civil and militia
ry service, and have treated them as subject race
in their own country. And not only this, but this
prescription has been coupled with opprobrium and
insult Their best men have been charged with in
fidelity to the Southern cause, and many OF them
singled Que and marked as traitors. They have en-
deavored, by sediton oaths and test oaths, and in
various other ways, to put "hideous mark" upon
them; and they and their children, though they
have given their blood and treasure to the South,
are to be pointed at hereafter enemies to their
native land. There is but one present remedy for
this, and this remedy is to be found at the ballot
box. Conservatives!- late Union men !-''if you
have nature in you, bear 1t not" You have the
| power-use it. You have the votes-cast them
against those who have so mismanaged public af
fairs, and so insulted and revled you. They will
approach you with honied words and propose com
promise tickets, so to avoid party spirit. But il
is thus that the Devil quotes Scripture and affects
to be shocked at sin. Trust them not Of all 9th
ers, they are the fomenters Of party spirit. They
have made the at Raleigh and the govern
ment at Richmond party machines, to advance then
own interests to put honors on their backs and money
in their pockets and crafty their hatred towards
the late Union men. And now, when they see the
handwriting on the WALL they beg. They want te
compromise. Again we say, trust them not.
We trust the Mass Meeting advertised to be hele
in Raleigh Saturday. the slst, will be largely at
tended. Let every conservative be present. A can
dida.e for Governor will be recommended, and 8
ticket will be recommended for the Legislature which
will sweep the County by one thousand majority
Come up, conservatives and stand by your country
in this hour Of trial.