Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-06-25
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~, Otnmp or on the streets, by blackguards and
,,r.gopues; but BLACKBOARD paper in this City
having misrepresented US in certain particular,
ND respectable paper in this City, the Register,
Loving copied this Misrepresentation it is due to our
friends, and, perhaps to ohrself, that we should no.
,.;t The charge is, that Holden declared, IN
the presence of two reliable gentlemen, that IN less
,b,n three months the Yankees will have possession
e every capital in the So0thern Confederacy."
No il is impossible o- US to recollect all we say,
~ what we say, in our numerous conversations with
fionds. and sometimes with enemies. No doubt
e hare said repeatedly, we say nOr, that if the
,,,Iicv of backing down before the enemy be con.
,inued and if troops are not permitted to fight
when they ought to fight, and if the ineficency in
the management of our affairs which has lost US the
coast of this State and the Mississippi Valley did
not or docs not give place to more vigorous policy,
then in few months every State or the capital of
overv State will be in the hands of the enemy.
Tint is chat ire said. But by giving one-half of
What we said, our enemies are striving to produce
the impression that we had given up the contest,
and that we soanted the Yankees to take the coun-
try In the same way, by garbling the Scriptures,
+ coud be proved that there is no God. For exam
"a THE fool hath said in his heart, there is no
God" Give the latter part Of the sentence, and
omit the former, and we have it as follows: "There
is no God
These and other charges made against us,
solely because we were not original secessionist
and bscause our enemies fear the influence of the
Standard By lying they hope to injure us and to
break the influence Of the Standard among the peo-
al
not having been so, if we had made our peace with
the spoils party, and agreed with them to combine
orainst the people in order to hold office and enjoy
the spois, we might have used the strongest Ian
guape against the government, and gone unrebuked
by the Sallfederates. For example, the Charleston
.Ier:ury of May Is, 1862, speaking of President
Davis said:
His miserable and weak defensive policy-a' de-
f.nsive policy uithout any adequate means Of de-
tcacs-S now exploded; but it has brought down
the Confederate States into defeat and blood. Some
may call it policy of surrender"
Is our garbled language, above given, half as
strong as that? No, but the Mercury is not COM
planned Of because it is of the Stallfederates.
Again, the Richmond Examiner, in an article
which we copied into our issue Of the 2Sth Of last
month, emphatcaly declared that if the government
at Richmond should abandon the Chickahominy
ana Richmond, as it had other places, the "conse-
quences" would he not only military but civil
national" And it added
They are the consequences decentralization and
Reorganization, out Of which the army and the
country will endeavor to ITSELF by nen creG-
ton of leaders and rulers adding thus to all
calamities and difficulties, that of ~eUOlutiOn"
But the Examiner is an original secession paper,
and therefore, no Stalllederatc has complained of
the Examiner.
Again, Gen. Pillow delivered speech in this City
some two months since, which was highly eulogized
by the Register in which he declared that the fate
of Richmond, and perhaps of the cause, depended
upon the Confederate army holding Corinth. Well,
Cornth has been abandoned, and yet no one GEN.
sures Gen. Pillow Is he traitor for uttering such
language2 No, he is only an original secessionist.
Again, Mr.. Rayner said in the Convention, and was
soreporte6 in the sheet which started this lsehood
against u.s. that the administration of the govern
ment at Richmond had been marked by gross i'm
becility" Now, an imbecile is one destitute of
strength either of body or mind; and if what Mr..
Rayner said had been true, there would have been
no hope for the cause, for such government could
not be expected to meet the Yankees successfully
But Mr.. Rayner did not mean that He only meant,
By the use of a very strong expression, to manifest
his opinion of the manner in which our government
had been conducted; and he said this not for the
purpose of embarrassing or injuring the govern
ment, but in the hope that good would come of it,
And yet no one censured Mr.. Rayners Why9 Be-
he has. generally acted with the original Sc
cessionists.
We now say once for all, taat all our hopes, cal
culatons, wishes. and expectations with the
South; and that any man who charges that we have
ever, in thought, word, or deed, acted disloyal
part towards State the Confederate States is
caumniator and liar. These are harsh terms,
but the times and the nature of the charge against
US call for them.
The same vile sheet which orignssed this lie, and
legionS of others against u.s. charged some months
since, that we had said en- the streets of Raleigh,
that all the leaders (ncluding of course President
Davis and his Cabinet in the Southern movement
which dissolved the Union politically and
ally corrupt. We paid attention to this false
hood at the time and should not have noticed it now
but for the latest one which we exposing. We
have our own opinion about William L. Yancey,
Mr.. Wgfa, Mr.. Toombs, j. P. Benjamin, Gov.
John Milton, and Others who were active at Char
lesion in breaking up the government; but we have
never thought and we have never spoken of such
men as President Davis, Mr.. Reagan, Mr.. Memmin-
ger, Mr.. Mason, Mr.. Russell, or Mr. Haynes as NOR
ally or politically corrupt. The truth is in the un.
certainty and scattering of votes which prevailed at
Charleston, we were on the eve at one time of vo-
ting for Jefferson Davis for President, and would
most probably have done So for few times at least
bnt for the fact that understood that the single
vote he was receiving was cast by Caleb Cushing We
could not go with Caleb. We regarded Mr.. Davis
as a man q ability and national Democrat espe-
claly after his visit to Maine, in 1858, where he
made number of sound national, and anti dsunion
Speeches Ii would have been better for all of us