Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-07-05

When the hair is hall vocal with Joy,
AT the Vance news that surges along
Holden and Vance are cunning men, and have
been used to political wire-pulling-both need
watching Charlotte Democrat.
There is no evidence that Holden and Vance"
are "wire-pullers." Our course as public man
has always been independent and above board and
so far as Col. Vance is concerned, he is known in
the mountains auong his neighbors, as a
model of candor, frankness and Independence
Some people do pull the wires, however, and some
people dance as automatons. Among the latter we
class our cotemporary Of the Democrat Just now
he is at the end of two wircs-one running from
Raleigh, and the other from the Office of COL John
ston in ColuT bia, South Carolina. Every time the
wire is pulled our amiable contemporary Jumps.
Whenever a summersault is required. he executes
it with the aacrity of Stalled and the nimbeness
of a limberack-just, for example, he did at
Baltimore as lobby member of the Convention.
He went there Union man, and came back eating
great streaks Of fire.
But our ScarI:ke friend, speaking for its scarLike
friend, Colonel Johnston, says COL Vance "needs
watching" He "heeds watching" because he is
pulling wires does her We will tell you what he
is pulling, good reader. He is pulling down the
fire of the enemy upon himself and his brave reg;-
ment Richmond; he is pulling for the
enemy, with the determination to drive the last
Yankee from our soil, while Shady Yates and Shady
Johnston are resting quietly in the chimney corner
He "needs watching"-does he? WE'LL then,
there he Isl look at him. and scan him as thorough
ly as you please. He is just where duty calls him,
fighting for your rights we'll as for the rights of
others; and yet you call upon the people, during
his absence in such cause, to watch" him an
object of suspicion and distrustl Shamel Shame
And yet the Democrat is a nO-pdrly paper, and is
deeply greved at the dea that party spirit is abroad
in the land. Why, Its own party feelings so
bitter that it asSas brave soldier in the field,
because he does not happen to think in all respects
as it does. and because his friends are supporting
him for Governor.
The Charlotte and HillSboroush Military Institutes
have contributed largely of their bravest and best
to the Southern, cause in this war. Daniel II. Hill,
Principal of the Charlotte Institute, entered the
service as Colonel, and is now Major General.
Providence has thus far shielded him in battle.
Three gallant officers Professors in this Institute,
have been slain, to-wt: Maj. George N. Edgar, Col
Robert NJ. Mckinney, and Col Charles G. Lee;
and Col. John II. Lane, Of the Institute, has
had one of his arms shattered. Col Lightfoot, of
the Ilisborough Institute, is wounded and pris-
oner; and Col. Tew the principal, is in command
of the I'd State Troops. In addition to these, many
of the Cadets of these schools are in service and
some of them have fallen victims to disease and
battle. a detachment Of fifteen of the Charlotte
Cadets took part in the Bethel fight
Coz. VANcE's LEGIoS-We learl from friend at
Kittrell's-an officer in Vance's legion-that the
legion is not broken up, and that Col. Vance does
not yet despair Of completing it, notwithstanding
the instructions thrown in his way. There are
three companies at present at kittrers. Thirty
companies were accepted by Col. Vance, and if he
had been properly and fairly sustained and aided
by the authorities his legion would have been ready
by this tine for the field. Col Vance writes his
name on the PLAINS near Richmond IN blood, while
small-mindcd officials are endeavoring to break up
his legion and others are impeaching his integrity
as a Southern man. Woe to these officials and
these slanderers when the people and the soldiers ut
ter their voice at the ballotbox
The Charlotte Democrat says the Raleigh Stan
ddrd is trying to manufacture public sentiment by
publishing extracts from letters, and that the let
Ilhce dLCe pOItlCdl SOlleil
up for party purposes" The Democrat was never
more mistaken. We receive more than one hun
derd letters per week, and nearly every of them
contains cheering Vance news. All our extracts
genuine; and they are made from letters written,
for the most part, by farmers and business men.
The Democrat is disposed to sneer at the Vance
meetings. These meetings were generally we'll at
tended and were the result of the spontaneous ac-
ton of the people; but so far as COL Johnston is
concerned but two meetings have declared for him
one in his own town, which he attended himself,
and one in CASTOR County, where he has in1u-
entail brother. We will go further and say, that
it would be dangerous experiment for the friends
of COL Johnston to call meeting Of the people, in
any County, on the subject of the Governorship
for the people, if called upon to decide between him
and Col Vance, would certainly announce the latter
as their choice. Let the Johnstonites who pretend
to be party men, practice what they preach; let
them call meetings of the people, or join with Col
Vances friends in calling such meetings, and II, in
nine cases out of ten. the people do not vote COL
Johnston down and Col. Vance up, then we will
agree to abandon our support OF the latter. 1t is
our opinion, and VIC make the prediction, that Col.
Johnston will not carry more than live Counties
from the Warren and Sampson line, west to the
Tennessee line.