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

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with this exception the Register has constantly as
saled US for the last twelve months; and, though
we have done as much for the war and for the South
as the Editor of that paper any of his friends he
mas, time and again. impeached our integrity
Southern man, and endeavored to make party capital
against us and our friends by charging that We are
opposed to the government of the Confederate
States. Meanwhile we have acted strictyxon the
defensive, and have shown ourselves the best friends
OF the government and of the cause, by insisting on
reform where we believed reform was needed, and
by rebuking that disposition which exists both at
Raleigh and Richmond, to make this party war by
ignoring for office, general rule, all those who did
not prefer to break up the old government, and who
agreed to do so only when the proclamation of Lin
coin called on the border States for troops to be used
against our Southern brethren.
This We beg to assure the Enquirer, is the ex-
tent Of our party feeling; and this is the manner in
which have been treated by the Register and the
socaed Southern rights party of this State. Let
that paper decide for ITSELF Upon the facts who is
to blame.
But to the Enquirer's counsel. Our respected
cotemporary grayely advertises us, that our friends
outside of North Carolina concur in the Justice of
the structures passed upon of our recent art-
cles. Our contemporary must allow us to say that
no friend of ours in or out of the State, can for
moment believe in the justice or fairness of those
presses in this State which abuse u.s. or in their dis
position even to be just and fair towards any one
who was an old Union man or a conservative. In
this regard North Carolina is an exception to all the
States of the Confederacy. No where else are ultra
secessonists proscriptive abusive and unjust to
the old Union men, as in North Carolina
1t is not enough, in North Carolina, that man
who was formerly Union man shall declare his
fidelity to the Southern cause by going into the
army sending his son, by contributing hismeans
to the support of the war; but we are required-to
ignore all former principles-to admit that the
ultras right at first, and have been right alto
geher-to think and talk, and do, precisely as they
do-to give our unqualified sanction to all the acts
of the State and Confederate governments. and to
the acts of every officer, big little in those gov
ernments-to yield silent and willing submission
to, and an active support Of every measure they
propose-to withhold all proper scrutiny into the
conduct Of our legislators and public oficers-to
submit without a murmur to the violation of laws
ana constitutions, and to the encroachnents of the
military upon the civil power. This is the cup pre-
sented to us, and if do not drink it, and drink
it to the dregs, we pronounced untrue to our na-
! tive land
We voted for the separation Of North Carolina
from the old Union not because were converted
to the dsorganizing doctrines of Yanccy and 9TH
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other cotton States right in their precipitate
course, but because of Lincolns unconstitutional
| and tyrannical coercive policy. We have urged a
separation Of the South, and vigorous prosecution
of the war, because of the assumption by MIR. Lin
coin of despotic power-his overthrow of the liber
erty Of speech and of the press and of the writ of
! habeas c0rpus-hs arrest of men and women, and
|. imprisonng them without hearing. because they
! claimed the great American right of thinking and
! speaking for themselves, and his disregard of the
rights of the States and of the rights of property
in the Southern States Opposition to all such acts
! of tyranny is nborn with the people Of North-Car-
t ona. They have never submitted their necks will
! lingy to the yoke of any tyrant, and they never
will. Wherein, then have We offended? We have
given the administration of President Davis hear
ty support in the vigorous prosecution Of the war
we have aided in raying the people oft this State to
arms-we have encouraged our brave soldiers in the
midst of their toils-we have soted, in the Con-
! vention, men and means to carry the war !;
and if we could have been of more service to
the cause BY shouldering our musket we would
have done it. But while we have opposed tyranny
without we have labored to maintain liberty with
| in. Hence, when partyism has prevailed instead of
patriotism the government and the cause it
self have been claimed the property of party, the
offices divided out among original secessionists and
the late Union men put under the ban, suspected,
and told to fight on foot-when sedton oaths and
test oaths have been proposed, for the purpose Of
putting "hfdeous mark " ore the late Union men,
and on their children and their chldrens children
when the military has been made paramount to the
civil power, and when the laws and the Constitu-
ton have been violated. on the Seward pretext that
we must violate part to save the whole,-we say,
in view of all this and in the face of it. we have
raised our voice in protest, remonstrance, and de-
nuncation and we have called on the people to
come forward and reform their governments, and
save their liberties from the encroachments OF pow.
er. and from the polluting poison of pareyism and
favoritism in the midst Of war. Would the En-.
qui,sr censure US for this? Ought we to laud in
Mr. Davis what we condemn in Mr. Lincoln? Must
we glosfy the Confederate Congress for doing what
we detest in the Northern Congress? But the New
York Herald and the Newbern Progress are copy
ing articles from the Standard Because the Stan.
dard utters plain truths which in many respects ap
ply as we'll to the South as to the North, and be-
cause these papers copy and distort what the Stan
dard says, we must desist. Now, in all conscience
we ask the Enquirer who is to blame? Is the
Standard responsible for the false and unjustia5le
construction placed upon its language by the Lin
coin papers? Nothing is more common in the
South than for the entire press to denounce the
Northern papers as lying sheets in every respect
How comes it. then, that in the estimation OF ou'
contemporaries they always tell the truth when they
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