Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-06-25
Re-construct;o,,.


The Register charges that the Standard is in
favor of reconstruction of the Union. There,is
no earthly foundation for this charge In May,
1861, in circular announcing ourself candidate
for the Convention, we said:
Fellow citizens we are in the midst of war;
: The time which we all feared, and which many Of
us aoored to avert has arrived. told you in F~b-
ruary that would resist all attempts by the federal
government, under any pretence Whatever" to
maintain the Union by force. The proclamation OF
Mr. Lincoln, calling for troops to make war on
Southern States, dissolved the Union SO far as we are
concerned, and summoned every true Southern man
to arms 1t is idle now to speculate upon the past
The proclamation referred To, as by stroke OF
lightning, made the North wholly North and the
South wholly South. There is no issue before US
Tor discussion. We are unit in defence of
our rights and liberties. / am for union Of the
South for the sake of the South and for all Of Con-
stltutiona liberty that yet remains. If elected to
the Convention will vote to dsconnect North Car
olina from the old federal Union; and will also
vote to make North Carolina a member of the Con-
iederate States As told you in February last,
will go with Virginia and Tennessee Virginia has
already cast her fortunes with the Confederate
States, and even if any could wish to do otherwise,
stern necessity mpels us in the same direction
But L am willing to vote, and would prefer to
vote, to submit the ordinance proposing to connect
this State with the Confederate States to the people
at the polls for their approval or rejection. | re-
peat have all confidence in the intelligence of the
people and In their capacity for self government"
From that day to this we have held the same Ian
guage-, We have done more for the Confederate
cause than the Register has done, or ever can do.
We are for prosecuting the war as long the foot
OF the invader presses Southern soil and we are as
much opposed to the reconstruction of the Union
as the Register can be. We stood by the old gov
eminent to the last and we intend to stand to the
last by the new government. We believe the new
government will live and prosper. Its best friends
are those who insist that it shall be properly admin
stered If it should fail in the end and the South
should be 6verrun and trampled down, the calamity
will not be justly chargeable those who agree
with u.s. but on those who have had control of pub
lie affairs, and who have fallen so far short of their
duty and of what was expected of them.
If there be re-constructionists and Union men in
this State they must be among the Registers
friends, who trembe for their safety and property
whenever they imagine that Burnside is about TO
advance into the interior. But whether this be so
or not, the Register knows that the Standard and
those with whom it acts, are not Unionists; and
when it charges that they are it not only fabricates
faisehood out Of the whole CLOTH but it encourages
the Newbern Progress the New York Herald, and
all our Northern enemies to persevere in the cruel
war they are waging against US. We can see no
difference between one who shoots at us, and one
who, from whatever motive, encourages him to
shoot Saul, who stood by consentng to the death
of Stephen, was as guilty of his blood those who
stoned him. But our neighbor does not mean to
encourage the enemy. Very well, then let him be
more just and more cautions. If he does it from
passion, or party feeling, or because he does not
know any better, then he is not fit to conduct a
public journal.