Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-07-02
Platforms Richmond Enquirer.

Platforms Richmond Enquirer.
The Richmond Enquirer, following the example
of the enemies of Col. Vance in this State, copies
the resolutions of confidence in our cause of war,
and in the President and army adopted by the State
Convention in December last, and claims these res
options as the platform of the friends OF Coiohei
Johnston"-thus leaving the impression on It's read
ers that Col Vance and his friends are opposed 70
these resolutions, and consequently, untrue to the
South Nothing could be more unjust. Inc reso-
lutions referred to were drawn up by an old Union
man, and were unanimously adopted by the Con-
yention. We voted for them as member of that
body: and in the Standard Of 25th January, 1862,
We copied them second time, and said -
THr VOICE OF NORTH CARoLINA-The present
is fit time to re produce the solemn resolve of the
people of this State, uttered by their delegates in
Convention assembled, at the outset of the session
Immediately preceding this to prosecute the exist
ing war with the North "at all hazards and to the
last extremity" At the first session Of the Con-
ven,ion on the Goth of May, the ordinance of seces
sion was unanimously adopted; at the second ses.
sion, the following admirable and eloquent reso'u.
TONS introduced by Mr.. JONES' of Rowan, were
unanimously adopted; and at the present session,
the same body is diligently and fearessly engaged
in devising all necessary means to prosecute the
war, and in conjunction with the government at
Richmond, to establish permanent foundations
the independence of the Confederate States. The
resolutions are given below They are credltable
alike to the author and to the Convention which
enthusiastically adopted them. Charles Henry Eos
ter and other unprincipled letter-writers may mis-
represent and malign portions of our people; but
the great mass of them are true to the cause, and
they will abandon that until victory has
crowned it, and our independence is secured.
What will the Enquirer say now? Will it do us
the justice to say that these resolutions constituted
the platform of the conservatives of this State long
before they thought of by the Register and
other Johnston journals for party purposes? And
what will the Register say? That paper knous it
is doing Col. Vance and his friends injustice, when
1t charges them with being behind it and Its friends
in determination to prosecute the war but what
is all that to the Rsgister' 1t never does justice
to any one; and it can never be caught in false
hood for as soon as it is teed with one, it runs to
another, and thus you may chase it from one fb to
another all day, But we trust the Enquirer will,
at least tell its readers among the North Carolina
soldiers that the Johnston platform, so called was
drawn up by an old Union man, who is friend of
Col. Vance; that this platform was unanimously
passed by the Convention, every friend of Colonel
Vance voting fer it; and that, in its opinion, Gf
that be its opnion,) the supporters of Col Vance
true Southern men as any among us. The
Enquirer may also add. if it chooses, that the
grossest partyism and favoritism have prevailed,
and prevail now in the administration of our State
government; that officers in the army and sur
geons, and even chaplains, have been appointed on
party grounds; that persons not natives, some of
whom fingered North of Virginia even after Lin
coins proclamation, have been appointed to high
offices to the exclusion Of loyal and worthy natives;
that old Union men, general rule, have not on
ly been excluded from all posts of honor and profit
but as an. excuse for such treatment, have been
branded as disloyal that attempts have been made
to impose test oaths and gag laws on the people,
the object being to single out the old Union as
suspected persons, and thus mark them, and their
children after them, the tories of the revolution
were marked that, with the same view, and to in
vest these persons with still higher authority to op
press their ellow-ctizens, martial law has been ad
vocated IN places where there no earthly neceS-
stv for it; and that, generally and specially, from
the day when the old Union men OF conservatives
of this State, who had the majority, came forward
and made our people unit in their opposition to
Abraham Lincoln, they, the old Union men, have
been treated as an inferior and subject race-whch
treatment they have borne as patiently as they
could, bestowing their means without stint upon
the cause and pouring out their blood like water in
defence of the common liberties. And when they
nd hon
demonstrated and then Indignantly protested against
it as 1t was continued, they have been met with the
answer that they are not sufficiently forward or
true in the cause to be trusted and that those VINO
made the revolution alone entitled to conduct
it." And when, after all this, and in the face OF a
partyism which is thus crrppng the cause and
imposing an ntolerable tyranny on Them they have
talked of indicating their rights and their charac
ter and of retormng the administration OF public al
fairs through the ballot box, they are denounced as
partzans, and an attempt is made to hold them re-
sponsible as the originators of party strife. we
tell the enquirer that these things are so, and thai
thousands of officers and soldiers from this State
around Richmond, will bear their testimony to wha
We have said. What then {? Shall we place oul
hands on our nouns, anu odf uiouIiio Ill liAo uue"
and submit to all this injustice, lest inscription:
partizans should charge US, falsely, with being par
ty men? No, we wiU speak out, and the people
will speak out in August next, by electing Colone
Vance Governor by an immense majority.
We regret to learn from friend, that David Car
ter, Esq., of Hyde County, died at his residence OIL
the 23d June He had just returned from Rich
mond to attend upon mis- two sons.wounded in tn
battle on the slst May. While there he was at
tackled with cholera morbus, started home as sool
as able, but the disease terminated his existence il
few days. He was an enterprising farmer and
highly respectable citizen.
Dry the Fruit.
The yield of fruit will be immense the presen
summer-and more particularly the crop Of apples