Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-08-06
Truth well Expressed.

We make the following extracts from commu-
aicaton just received from one of the most emnen.
citizens Of Caldwell County In addition to 'ne
pointed and truthful observations which our cofie
pondent makes on the state of parties and the coun'
try, he avails himself Of the occasion to correct al
error into which Col. Wheeler fell in his recent wen
written notice of the lamented Stokes:-
ESQ MANY If our men are in the army that the
vote in ,b;o County will be comparatively small out
IF the number given we expect to give Coi. .a"'G
t,o .b;rJS ~ three fourths. Of Colonel Johston,
tnow nothing personally. He may be, and as Tar
nc know is, a very worthy gentleman. IL ne Is
dsfso,sd as I think he will be by large majority
ho nav set it down to the course pursued oy tne
St,ta ,iournal and the authorities at Raleigh, VINO
b.re steadily pursued and advocated the policy OF
roscrbing the old Union men from all participation
+ Tho honors, places of trust or proht IN the gov
- now henceforth and forever: party
hot has supported the war earnestly and vigorously
since its commencement by liberal cons'!'ou"oh
If the lives of its members, their blood Incl,
nre and other mt ans and which 1t must oe aclt.eu
has done as much, if not more, for its successful
Tins far, than the original secessonists,
w;Il not submit to be thus unjustly treated ana
hase attempt made to fix upon them the odlum at.
tached to the tories of the first revolution, without
a proper rebuke. This trust will be given IN the
onnroaching Gubernatoral election There never
was fairer opportunity presented for an amagama
ton of all parties, and perfect harmony and UNITY
of action in every thing that concerns the welfare OF
our pocd old State than was presented by the exis
ence of the present war; but the original
isis would not have it so. True to their political
instincts of rule or ruin if the latter should be the
alternative left Them they will have nobody to blame
Int themselves. The old Union party in North
Carolina will not submit to be robbed Of their just
rights either by the tyranny Of Lincoln and his
minions, or by the tyranny Of powers nearer home
have already written much more than intend
cd l wish, however, to correct an error into which
Col. j. H. Wheeler has fallen in the complimentary
DR.. G. W. Blacknall, published in the Standard of
the 10Th inst lie states that the mother Of Col.
Stokes was the daughter of the late Colonel Henry
Irwin, who fell at Germantown in TIT. This is
q mistake. The first wife of the late Gov. Stokes
was a daughter of Mr.. Irwin, by whom he had
only one child, daughter, who first married Mr..
Henry Chambers, of Rowan County, and after his
death, the Hon. Wm L. Lewis, Of Nashville, Tenn,
who was appointed of the Auditors of the United
States Treasury, by General jackson. The second
wife of Gov. Stokes and the mother of the lamented
Col. NJ. S. Stokes, was Miss Rachel Montgomery,
the daughter Of Mr.. Hugh Montgomery, a merchant
of Salisbury, N. G. A long acquaintance with Col.
Stokes enables me to endorse most cordially every
thing that COL Wheeler has said in his praise in the
notice before referred to- and l should not have
taken the trouble to correct the unmportant error
of Col W. had it not been for the fact that he has
made the same mistake in his historical sketches Of
North Carolina Nothing BUT desire to vindicate the
truth of history in small matter, would have
induced this communication"