Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-01-15
erase calumnv Branded and Exposed.

correspondent of the Richmond Examiner OF
tho 18th instant who processes to be traveller
INDUCES in some very gross and unjust reflections ON
,,r,;on Of the people of this State. This cores
pondent says:
"There is a strip of country in North Carolina !
which is largely disloyal Beginning with Randolph
ond Gulord, it extends through Davidson, Forsyth,
Davie. Yadkin, into Wilkes. But the hothed of
tortyism is in Forsyth county, This county votes
about $500 and has furnished but about $50 to 500
men. rhe town of Salem is Moravian settlement |
and while the people are honest and worthy in the |
ordinary affairs of life politically they are rotten 10
the core No one can read the Press a weekly pa
per published in this settlement without discover
ns under the editorials on "ConserVatislh' LUG
spirit of dsloyalty to the South. This paper Is
the advocate Of a candidate to supply avacancJ IN
the present Convention of the State, who is running
IN the Conservative" issue What he or the editor
means by Conservatism" in the present crisis, no
one is able to learn unlsss it means ''reconstrac
item, or Unionsm n A leading citizen OF this
town, who was appointed one OF the commissioners
to receive subscriptions to the Confederate loan
publicly rdicues the whole thing. and declares he
would not give dime for basketball OF Confederate
bonds | should like 10 know how many thousand
dollars are invested in this town in the confederate
bonds In the adjoining town OF WINSTON the tailor,
who has received large contracts from the govern
nent is known to be a most bitter enemy OF the
Confederacy. But it is not worth while to menton
these little instances of the unpatrotic spirit OF TINS
people The small vote that was polled Tor Jefi.
DAVIS. in all this region, shows the condition OF the
pubGc mind. And so we'll satisfied am | that this
dsloyalty is growing holder mot by gaining IN num-
hers but by being uMnoleSted that, unless there Is
sleepless vigilance that section, or some ac-
tive measures taken to bring to justice these loyal
citizens you NAV look out for another East Tennes-
1ooy IN NJ
tempt ANYTHING more than secret organization out
it is these conclaves which do the mischief Il le"
months ago merchant in Saen in controversy
with leading citizen of that section, confessed tnat
he knew of persons in the community who were IN
correspondence with the Lincoln Government For
various reasons believe that this same correspon
dence is still going on, and at the proper time some
sort of demonstration will be made 10 lurlher
the interest of the enemy. But, before such an
event, it is to be hoped the government Will not
ignore this condition of things as 1t did similar
one in East Tennessee and others by its neglect,
encourage these traitors bring into the very
heart of the Contedcracy. Let detachment be
| sent to Salem or Winston and arrest all suspected
person at once and then scour the whole OF this
disova region. A few thousand dollars thus eX-
| pended by the government will save millions. " An
of prevention is worth pound of cure
Here is charge that portion Of this State, en-
loval" The charge is not true We do not know how
many troops the Counties named by this correspon-
dent have sent to the war, but opinion is that
the number reaches four or five thousand. Hun
dres of the citizens of these Counties scattered
from the coast of this State to Manassas; and SO
far as Forsyth (whose people seem to have been
specially singled out is concerned, she has sent five
tn fold
S nee stricken and greatly decimated by disease,
were under fire at Manassas Her vote is not $500,
as stated by this correspondent but only about
1900 and of these she has onefourth In the field
In addition to this, the people of Forsyth have con-
tributed thousands of dollars to furnish and sustain
their troops in Virginia, one of whose leading pa
pers is thus made the medium of the grossest in
Justice towards them. The other Counties mentioned
have done quite as well in this respect as Forsy th,
One of the first companies that went in May lastto
the defence of Fort Macon, was from G,ilford-all
Of them persons who had abored to preserve the
Union as long it could be done on honorable
terms and this same company, if we have not been
misinforned left behind them four five original
seccSSonsts who belonged to it, and who, it seems,
had no stomach for the fight" One of these sub
sequently came to Raleigh, and was rewarded with
horseback Office. We, know, too, that two or
three Captains Districts in Randolph, from which
at least company volunteered sent for" ard one
time through Richmond, to this and other companies
from that County in Virginia, not less than $4,000
worth of supplies for their comfort and support in
CAM
The basis of this charge that "Salem is politically
rotten to the core" and that Randolph Guilford
Davidson Forsyth, Davie, Yadkin, and Wilkes art
largely dsloyal," is to DE found in the fact thai
the Counties referred to were, by large majority
opposed to disunOn up to the proclamation in Apri
last They did not labor, as some did, to dissolve
the Union. and then skulk like towards, SOM
did, from the bloody conflict which, in secondar,
sense, they were instrumental in producing. They
were for peace long peace was possible OF
honorable terms but hen the seeded States wer
4 threatened and when the sword was drawn by Lin
coin against the South, the people of these Counties
sprang with unaninity unexamped i'll the history
g of the world, to the defence of their rights ANT
W if the original sccessionsts in that portion of tn
State had rushed to arms, the ranks, the grea
mass of the old Union men did and if the govern
ment had acted upon the rule in making its appoint
ments, that the latter were true to the cause a
the former, no dscord would have existed In tn
Counties mentioned, but all would have been zeal
GUS and hopeful and active in this great struggle
Many of the old secessionists, we gratifed t
say, rallied to the flag and went to the field on foot
Ike .aer; but they have not done so in proportio
to numbers, as the old Union men have; and enoug
of them have been left at home to speculate on tn
necessities of the people-to hold horse back Offices
and to stir up strife by calling for test oaths
charging disloyalty on others
This Traveller" is at a loss to know what tn
word conservative" means We will tell him.