Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-02-05
For the Standard,


Nix. EDIToR: Some one, unintenticnally no doubt,
has conceived perpetrated and published in the
Richmond Examiner, Of a late date, over the sigma
ture of " Traveller" foul SANDER upon a portion
Of the good citizens Of our Old North State. The
Salisbury Bfpner, following in the wake of this
miserable deianer publishes his article; endorsing
it, Qhough not all that Traveller" ssys) with a
long addenda, which, If possible, shows spleen
and less brains than Traveller" Traveller"
after naming the disalfected counties, turns his at
tcntion more particularly to Forsyth than any oth-
er, county in which an election for scat ~ the
State Convention was about to take place. But the
Banner, whose information seems to be not so eX
tended as that OF Traveller" confines itself
particularly to the /" Forks Of the Iddkin" 1t
thinks that Traveller has stated facts, the truth
of which no one HIS yet, or will question, who is
thoroughly acquainted with the subject in all its
bearings" To what subject does the Banner al
Jude in all its betriRgs?' The subject of Ebell-
| ing and slanderIng good people? II so, We pre-
sumo there but few at least who will profess to
understand it better than it does, in all lis bear
ingS" But, if IT means that the people Of Davie
are traitors we pronounce it falSehood and SLAM
der.
But again: "They are chips of the old block
extracts from the most infamous sect Of old revou
tionary tories that dsgTaced the fair fame and
polluted the sacred soil of he noble old North
State" YES this section or portion of it. (tlre
= was the hOtbed of tories in the days OF
70. 1t here that the notorious tory, Col. Bry-
ant held his secret organizations, and efeetualiy
operated of whom it is said that ne controlled eight
or nine hundred of the then inhabitants of certain
of those counties, whose skulking cowardce and
secret cave enabled him to evade the vigilance OF
the patriots" His cave is yet to be recognized
| between the two forks Of the Yadkin."
| Well IN reply to the above quotations. we desire
to say few words. As to the BryaHtS, there are
! none among us-none of his kin that we know OF.
That there may have been some tories IN this sec
ton besides the notorious Col Bryant, during the
days re- do not pretend to deny, as there were
some to be found in almosteFery section Nerecolect
! hearing our father say when we were boy, that
some two or three old men in the county were said
| to have been tories. We do not know that they
| were, and only know what we have related above
But one thing do know, that the last one of the
descendants of those persons that we have heard
spoken of as having been tories, was and is now, SO
| far as We know, red-hot secessiOnlst. Now, the
| same course Of reasoning that we adopted IN the
case above, of Bryant, will be equally satisfactory
to the Banner IN this case and prove to him that
| none of these men are unsound. But the banner
| has stopped at the wrong depot, II he desires 10
/ catch tories besides, it has started out win the
wrong idea inits head any how. 1t won't do to
set it down that those who had tory ancestors IN
the revolution are all traitors now-for, if that be
men after the Banners notion would stand con-
| deluned But to show the Banner the utter ab
surdity of its position, we propose to take view Of
our Southern sister, Carolina. She was notorious
for tories from one end to the other. Charleston
ITSELF and even the State authorities, at one time
were willing to have compromised her liberty, by
casting her fortunes at the feet of the coHqueror
whichever be might be- upon the condition that she
might only become an idle spectator OF the bloody
scenes which were then transpiring.
And could any body, for one moment, doubt
South Cardinals soundness, or the city of Charles
ton any how? Did not secession first start there
WAS not the first ordinance Of secession ratified anc
signed in Charleston, the same city which was SC
ready in the days of 76, to render up every thing
Just to be let alone? And are not they now, tht
very last of them as the secessionists every
where are in the field, with musket in hand Eight
ing for their country ?-and that too in the ranks
thinking it not honorable to hold Office especially
a civil nature, or military one, to which there II
no Sighting attached. These are the men for me