Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-06-11
! Maid and confort !, . the enemy.

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Every one processes to disbelsve statements made
by the Lincoln papers or eSeir correspondents in
regard 20 Southern Affairs, or souther men and their
acts and yet there IS class Of newspapers in this
State that give currency and endorsement 70 false
hoods published By Lincoln papers, BY reproducing
theufin their columns without one word Of contra
diction, The Lincoln paper at Newborn has pub.
iished some Of the most unblushing misrepfesenta-
tons in regard to the views Of the Standard, of
Gov Graham and others; and yet the ultra seces-
sion party presses Of this State are republishing
/ them without denial The Register and another
press in this City, first start these things from the
Newbern Progress, and they are then taken mp and
repeated by such papers as the Wilmington JoaTndL
The object of these presses and of those who con.
troll them, is 10 njure and destroy the influence Of
the STANDARD, and to wrsak personal spite on its
Editor, and at the same time so to damage the con-
servatiyes of the State as to ensure to themselves
quiet monopoly Of the offices and spoils This is
about all they care fer. Other men may eight, but
they intend to remain in the shade ont of the way
of danger, abusing better men than themselves.
This is emphatically true of the ablebodied IRISH
man who owns the Wilmington Journal, and the
able bodied Englishman who is owned by those who
own the State Journal These men are engaged
about half their time in abusing the Standard and
impeaching the loyalty Of its Editor. Now, SO far
as the Wilmington Journal is concerned we will
say, that il e had belonged to secret organization
formed to break up the government and if zoe had
croker, faith with constituents, as be did, and
comU enced the work of disunion at Charleston and
Baltimore, even under the belief which was certain
" very silly one, that secession could be peaceably
accomplished, we would at once have shouldered
our musket the Editor has not done, and gone to
the battle field. That Editor denounces Gen. But,
Ter, who commands the Lincoln forces at New Or.
leans, and Gen. Isaac E. Stevens, who commands the
Lincoln forces in South Carolina. Every South
ern man feels that these men deserve to be de-
nounced; but they both seeded with the Editor of
the Journal from the Democratic party at Balti-
| more. They were so intensely Southern that they
would not sit with the Douglas men, and the next
thing we hear of them is, they are Generals under
Lincolnl They wanted to break up the Union, be-
cause they knew that as long as it endured they
would be in minority in their own States, and
would never obtain Office; and the Editor of the
Journal went with those who preferred to break it
up, because they were about to lose the Offices
Butler, Stevens and Fulton-brother boilers at Bal
timorel-not boilers in Difference to the views of
their delegations but because they preferred it and
labored to accomplish it.
Again, the Editor of the Journal when he i'm.
| peaches our fidelity to the cause ought to remem-
Der that after the proclamation of Mr.. Lincoln in
April 1861, he finished the publication Of the fed
eral latOs an his paper and applied for the Lincoln
gold in payment, and that, too, after this State was
virtually out of the Union; whereas we as soon as
we saw the proclamation, refused to continue and
finish the said laws in our paper. And yet the Ed
itor of the Journal has the assurance to brand
Isaiah Respess a traitor, who being inside the
enemys lines, tried to SAGE his property; while the
Editor himself tried to get his property-that is,
Lincoln gold which he had earned after his State
was virtually out of the Union. The amount is one
hundred and eighty dollars, which we trust this
State or the Confederacy will one day pay over to
the Editor, with interest of his heavy losses
incurred by this revolution.
We alude to these things not with the hope of
reforming the manners the morals Of the Editors
whose conduct we are noticing, but to show that
they are giving laid and comfort" to the enemy.
IL the enemy believes what they say, and what they
insinuate-that the Standard, and Gov. Graham,
and thousands of our people untrue to the
South-then indeed may he take comfort, and pros
ecute the war with redoubled vigor.
We learn from a friend that a late number of the
Newbern Progress contains an article in relation to
the action of the Convention of this State at its late
session. which does not contain one word Of truth,
and which is calculated grossly tn misead all unp-
formed persons who may read it The Progress
says it obtained its information from n member of
the Convention. That of course is false. And
yet we shall not be surprised to see this article
copied into several of State papers, without de-
NAL Such is the mad spirit of party and of per-
sonal vengeance towards US which is doing more to
divide our people and to injure the than all
the Yankee forces on our coast