Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-04-09

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The above we clip from the Raleigh Register It
was not our intention to allude again soon to the
Governorship; and certainly we would not have
noticed the above, but for its evident endorsement
by the Register. The paper from which it is taken
We do not read, nor should we know anything of its
contents but for occasional allusion to it by our
friends, and for extracts from it in other papers
How much of lsehood there is in the above extrac:
we do not undertake to say, so far as the other
papers named are concerned. 1t is their own bust
ness to determine whether they are following the
lead of the first named paper or not But for once,
since our acquaintance with that paper it has told
the truth in the above extract in regard to the
Standard, when it says the Standard does not stand
on the same platform that it does
But when the above paper says that the Standard
is opposed to unity Of action with the respectable
press of the State, tsimpy lies outright and down.
right. When it says that 1t is opposed to party
ism and that the Standard is in favor of party ism
during this war; it only duplicates its fasehood and
lying.
The Standard has labored necessarily since the
beginning of this war; to discourage every species of
party ism, until it became evident to every intelli-
gent person in the State, that those who own and
control the aforesaid taper and those who support
it, were determined at any and every risk to the in
terest of the State, to follow under the old party
banner which that paper raised to the victors be-
long the spoils." That paper in the outset insisted
that Those who inaugurated the revolution should
conduct it"-that they were entitled to the offices
OF trust profit and honor in the government and
the government in Raleigh and at Richmond have
carried out the programme punctliously to this day
This course has been pursued in North Carolina
to the great detrimen of the State and the cause of
the South in the face of the known fact that prior
to Lincoln's proclamation there were 80 900 MAORI
ty of the peo pie of this State who were not even
tainted with original secessionism. When the pro-
canation was issued, Lincoln forced upon the State
the alternative of secession for revolution.
Strictly speaking at that juncture people were
uni!. With at least equal alacrity and iervor the
old Union men, Wings and Democrats, sprung to
arms, with the original secessio.ists, v higs and
Democrats. Now, We ask all candid men, who were
the first to disturb that unity'
The conservatives or old Union men, at once pro-
posed that all should forget the past that all dvis-
ions and party strifes should end, and our whole
people should throw themselves into the cause of
the country, as equals and brethren. The STANDARD
took the same position and maintained it. At first,
the original secessonists talked in similar strain
But the patronage OF both governments, State and
Confederate in the hands Of the original
sionists At the above named paper, raised
the old partizan standard ITO the victors belong
the spoils." The governments acted upon the prin-
ciple and continue to do it to this day, unblushngly
and shamelessly. Now the extent Of the Standards
party-sm, soemnly aver, has consisted in moth
ing but opposition to the parysm Of the two govern
ments and their partizan managers.
But it is we'll known that this partizan faction
which controls the government, processes to be the
no-party party. They aver, as the aforesaid paper
falsely alleges, that they opposed to par,yism.
Can any one be SO blind or SO corrupt to believe
| it? How do they make ont the to at
tempt to blind the people? Why, simply by point
ing to the old Wings and old Democrats in Office !
| What difference do the people discover between a
per sc secession Wing or per Sc secession Demo
craft There is no such thing now as Wing or
Democratic organization; hence, if they are not all
of the same stripe our optics are not keen enough
to discover difference. But in this State there are
10000 old Union Wings and at least $4,000 old
Union Democrats, both equally conservative, and III
essential points the same Now the simple ques
ton is, have they no claim to representation or in
auence either in the State Or Confederate govern
ments? Must they be content to do the drudgery
of the war, and simply follow in the lead of those
who have no higher claims than they upon the pub
| lie confidence?
The comserratioes were willing to bear all the
burdens and all the honors of the war, equally with
those who inaugurated the war, but this simple JUS
| tice has been denied them from the beginning.
What now? Those who claim to have inaugu
rated the war in this State, after all the coopera
ton and support given them by the conservatives
/ have sipnaly falled-broken down in managing thu
| government. They have lost US Hatteras, Roanoke
Island, ane Newbern-they have filled the STATE
with complainings, until their own partzan friends
are disguised with them; bu. now, unwilling to risk
any one before the people who has been prominen
in the administration of the government, they bring
forward gentleman unknown to fame, but one full
" committed to the same policy Of action. They ash
the people of North Carolina quietly to submit ant
let them put no-party man into the Office of Gov
ernor, whose only recommendation is, that he is I
respectable gentleman Of good business habits, is
good manager of Railroad; and, whispering il
the ears of the old Wings "you see We are nopart!
men We offer you Mr.. Johnston, an old line Wing
clever man, &c. But the old Union Wings viii
say, "Mr. Johnston was once Wing, but by be
coming per SO secessionist he has ignored all hi
former conservative principles. Moreover we be
lieye Mr.. Branch was a good Railroad manager, bu
he makes poor General. Mr.. Johnston is goo
Railroad man, but 400 s0ant a good Governor" s.
The above article is designed to deceive the pee
, ple It triesto make the impression that all tn
above named papers except the Standard, are read.
to support Mr.. Johnston for our next Governor. n.
The attempt is IN keeping with the baseness an
falsehood Of stce whence it emana,es. III
10, IN -aty