Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-07-02
Spies, Eavesdroppers, and Forrer.

spses, Eavesdroppers, and Forgers.
mere appears to be a regularly organized system
among our enemies, by which our private conro.
sa'ohs ID our Office and on the streets, is misren
resented and perverted in the hope Of MAKING con;
tai Tor their sinking cause. The two .s,aufsd =.
pe-s OF this City are the mediums .throueb uh;a.
'nese conversations are given to the public; and
when the gross injustice which they do US in tb;'
respect is shewn, they are profoundly silent in 70
gard to the explanations which we make and 49,
constantly engaged in starting new perversions .ns
misrepresentation. A cause which reou,,es s,,..
agencies to support it, mast indeed be desno,..s
mat TINS system of espionage and eavesd,onn;.
Is an organized one, there esr be no dorltp
'na' 'nose engaged IN it are pad foy their SERVICES
or promised either pay Or an osise, We th;nt mas'
IMAM probable The staple of nearly one half tho
EDITORIALS OF the two papers referred to- consists -
'lese conversations OF ours which aye in every in.
stance grossly misstated and perverted
But our enemies have gone even f,r,,o,
and resorted to downright forgery! 4 month .,
TWO since, vile newspaper in this City eoDea fro,
the Philadelphia Inquirer what purportsd to b. 49,
article which had appeared in the Stnnan,a 49,,
which, 1t was charged, was favorable to 1;n,o,nr,.
government The Wilmington journal copied frorn ,
the papeS referred to- and the whelc body of orin;
nal secessiondom appeared to be Mortified at tho.
treason which they had fastened on u.s. But in dino
time we noticed the extract, which it was said tbo
inquirer had made and shouea that no svcb
language ha@ eoer appeared in the Standard -
what then? Why the journals that had nubl;shoa
the forgery on US were as silent as the grave
The last Western Sentinel says, "a friend who
has just returned from Old Point, handed rs tho
other day copy of the Philadelphia Loouiy;e, Of
June 18th, and the Sentinel then COPIES from tb,
Inquirer an article, which commences as follows.
"A GREAT LIGHT IN NORTH ARoLwA.-The ~
tlcIe published elsewhere, from the Raleigh, IN Cl
Standnrd OF June 9th, while discussing the French
ueieat IN MeAlcO IS pregnant with matter moro
justly cheering than anything we have heard from
that State since the outbreak of this infmops 70.
bei.ion oo' IT,
ana the inquirer then goes on to argue, and to
express the hope, that North Carolina will soon re-
turn to the Union Of course the Sentinel is deep.
~ grieved that "any North Carolinian or Southern
man should lay himself liable to be so misrepre.
scented !" as We have been by the Inquirer. Now,
we published no paper on the 9th of June but in
our issue OF the 7th-the date nearest the 9tb-vc
made no alluson to the French defeat in Mexico
and we have at no time, so far as We can recollect
discussed the French defeat in Mexico. The truth
is, the Inquirer had not seen the Standurd of the
9th for no such paper had been issued and we be.
eve it had not seen the Standard at ALL but tat lis
article a0as prepared for it in this State and ;,roba
bly, in this City, and toruorded across the lines 6y
some spy aoho Is employed by both Sides
OAR readers know that nothing has appeared in
our paper at any time, which, by the most forced
construction, could be understood as fayorine re-
construction of the Union.
public man, as We are, necessarily talks great
DEAL We are obliged to do it, or he rude and impo
lite. Our opinion is asked about almost every
thing, and We generally give it frankly and freely.
All we ask is, that what say be reported correct
ly. But, at the same time, We regard private con.
versatons and street conversations as improper sub
jects for newspaper reports. We never deal in
them. If we were to do so, we might I'll our col.
umns with what it is reported aspirants for office
say on the streets; or We might initiate our enc
mics, by sending spies to draw them out in CONVEX
saton, and then garble and pervert their language
in our columns. Such conduct is mean. and we are
above it.