Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-04-23
Acknowledgements.

- Acknowledgements. -...
The ultra secession presses of the. Stste. with
few exceptions, are down upon US with vim be-
cause we will not support partizan for Governor;
and BECAUSE having the good Of the country at heart
we DiU speak out against abuses and denounce yio-
lations of the Constitution.
First in the list we notice. and first in respecta
bility, is the Wilmington Journal We have only
room to say that the Journal has more brains
than all our assalants put together and is generally
decent and parliamentary in its style; bat we must
say the Editor has done us great injustice. Wehave
laid the Journal away, and may find it convenient
and necessary to reply to it hereafter.
The Winston Sentinel has misstated our position
ABOUT canvassing the State. We have proposed no
canvass. The truth is, We opposed proposition to
elect delegates to State Convention to nominate
candidate for Governor; which proposition, if car
red out would have occasoned the btterest canvass
ever known in erery precinct in the State Some
OF the very persons who favored this proposition,
opposed canvass by the candidates, as well they
might for such Convention if held and more large
~ attended by those of their way of thinking than
by others, would put the game in their own hands;
but we said and repeated, that discussion could do
no harm, and that honest and true men were not
afraid OF it. That was ALL We neither fear nor are
We anxious for q canvass.
The Charlotte Democrat is especially bitter to-
wards u.s. 1t impeaches our motives, and almost
doubts our loyalty. Our motives are better than
the Editors, and We are truer to North. Carolina
than he Is. Mr.. Johnston, whom he supports for
Governor, was appointed Colonel about the time
his brother was appointed, on partzan grounds, a
chaplain In the army; and probably Mr. Johnston
was instrumental in procuring this chaplaincy We
have heard that this chaplain, thus appointed was
not regularly ordained Minister and could not,
there'ore, administer the sacramens to sick and dy
ing soldiers; but what difference did that make p
He had served the secession party and his brother
would be pleased with his appointment, and so it
was made. Again. the Editor of the Democrat is
member of the Literary Board. 1t may be that he
thinks if his neghbor Mr.. Johnston is made Cover
nor, he will invite him to remain in Office We beg
our even'tempered and amiable contemporary to re-
member, that those who live in glass houses should
not throw rocks.
We have no reply to make just here to our neigh
Dor of the Register He devotes at out four columns
OF ink and bile to US per week. Owing to the block
ade all the steel pens and Northern quilts have given
out; and it is said that neghbor is seen every
evening, wandering along the hedgerows, looking
for geese and Plucklng quilts with which to demol.
ish u.s. We trust the quality of our neighbours to-
bacco is good.
We make our Acknowledgements to our assalants
one and all. The more they assa US the more the
people stand by US. They are the best friends, pc
cuniarily, that We have. Last week we received ont
hundred and fifty renewals and new subscribers.
They all seem to say, in the fitness of their maci
GUS kindness
"Pl SIT thee in shower of gold, and hail
Rich pearls upon thee"