Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-06-04

and approval an article from the Raleigh Standard
OF April 18th, against the CONSUMPTION act The
Standards not the only paper in the State which is
giving laid and comfort" to the enemy by denoun-
eng the Consumption act and vhfying President
Davis and his .Cabinet.-Ashe0ilte Neus
We defy the Nei0s to produce any article from
the Editorial columns of the Standard, villifying
President Davis and his Cabinet We have never,
on any occasion, vlliied the President, or mpeach
ed his honesty and integrity. Wei have disapproved
his policy in several particulars, but we have done
so in mild and respectful language and with no pur-
pose to injure or embarrass his administration. 1t
is true, we denounced the CONSUMPTION act both be-
fore and after its passage, and objected in the
strongest terms to the attempt Of the Presidents
agent Major Ashe, to take from our people their
arms by force; Sut our language has on no occa-
sion been half as strong as that used by the Rich
mond Examiner the Montgomery Advertiser, and
the Charleston Mercury towards President Davis.
But they are original secession papers, and hence
they are never lectured or taken to task by their
party friends. Some of these journals have even
gone so far as to threaten a revolution with the
view Of casting President Davis out of Office They
have called him an imbecile mule, a seltsuffcient
tyrant rejecting never hearing the advice of his
best friends, and have declared that if his whole
conduct and that of the Provisional Congress at
Montgomery had been fully known to the people,
he would never have been elected President; and
in addition to this, Gov. Rector of Arkansas, has
declared his State out of the Confederacy and Gov.
Brown of Georgia, has nuUifed the CONSUMPTION
act; and yet all these assaants of the President
are permitted to pass unrebuked simply because
re rpina apds Uho have
only expressed views in plain terms, as we al
ways do, Of public measures, are singled out and
charged with being false to the country.
So far as the Newbern Progress is concerned we
have this to say: The Progress is a Lincoln, and
ours is Southern paper We have number of
subscribers, -Carolinians and true men, with
in the enemy's lines; but we are careful not to d.
rect any of our papers to any person beyond those
lines. If the Standard reaches Newbern, it is not
sent by us. 1t may be that parties who profess to
be true to the South conrive to send the Standard
to the Progress office, with the expectation that
that paper will copy from it, and thus party capital
will be manufactured against US and we incline to
this opinion, for the that there original
secessoniSts in this State base enough to act in this
way, and for the further reason that never hear
gress is receiving laid and comfort" from the Exam
liner, the Mercury the Adrertiser from Governors
Brown and Rector. Now, it makes odds what
the Progress says or what the Progress does, so
long as we know we are true to our State, and so
long as a vast majority of people regard us as
true. But if, by handing round the Newbern Pro
gress in Raleigh containing extracts from the Stand
ard-and if by publishing extracts from the Pro
gress or by comments thereon, Editors in this City
or elsewhere persons in this City or elsewhere,
mean to insinuate in the remotest that are
not true to State and to the South then say
that these Editors and these persons, one and ALL
are infamous calumnidtors and liars.
But we understand all this, and so do our friends.
The Standard and its Editor in the way of those
who would make this party war. The cormorants
who are battening on the spoils-who are enjoying
| "shade" offices with their combinations, aud ra-
tions; and perqusites while thousands Of late Union
men are in the ranks, on foot fighting their bat
tles-who drawing rations for horses never used
in the public service and purchasing sugar. coffee,
molasses, bacon salt and the like from the govern
ment at prices five times less than are paid for these
articles by the soldiers and the people-and who
are determined at all hazards to hold to the Of
fees and the spoils, and to administer the govern
ment for their benefit, and not that Of the peo-
! ple,-theSe cormorants fear the influence Of the
Standard, and, not daring to lay their hands upon
it and suppress it by physical force, they seek
ing to destroy its character by all kinds of charges
hurled from their magazine of lies and ISLANDERS.
| But the people with US, and defy our ene-
mics. We shall triumph over all our revilers and
maligners, and shall live, trust, to the day
when our country will be independent and when
these cormorants, partizans, and money changers"
shall be driven from positions in which, for months
past they have been an incubus on the State and
| on the cause.
I In our next, or as soon as we can find space we
will reply to an article in the Richmond Enquirer
| of Saturday last headed 1.-THE North-Carolina
Press" The EHquirers article is courteous and res
pectfu Its articles always So because its Edi-
tors are gentlemen. 1t is rather a pleasure than
otherwise to discuss public affairs with such a
| journal