Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-01-15
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indulges in some very gross and unjust WI
portion of the people of this State ms o0''e'
pondent says: , c.-,,;no
.rbo strin of country in North Carolina
,,bih = LARGELY di,ioyal Beginning with kahdoiP"
Cd Cu;lGorG il extends thrOug h Davidson. Forsy"i
D,v;n Yadkin into Wilkes But Tue ho1"eu VI
tortvism is in Forsyth county ms county 800 ooO
shon: 800 and has furnished but about zoT " ~
90, The town of Salem a Moravlan SettiemeuH
ln'" bin the people are honest and worthy IN the
binary affairs of life politically they are roteh 10
r. cora M one can read the Press, weekly pa
ner published in this settlement without o'scoFer
ing under the editorials on - Conservatism Tue
spirit of disoyalty to the South This paper Is
the advocate of a candidate to supply vacancy IN
the present Convention of the State, who Is running
On the Conservative" issue. What he or the editor
means nv Conservatism in the present CRISIS, no
one * able to learn unless it means "re-c0hSTae'
tjon or "Unionism." leading citizen OF tins
town. who was appointed one OF the commissioners
TO receive subscriptions to the Confederate loah'
publicly ridicuIes the whole thing, and declares nc
would not give dime for basketball oil Confederate
bonds. should like to know how many thousand
dollars are invested in this town IN the Cohieuertc
bonds In the adjoining town OF WINSTON, Tue 'Iio''
who has received large contracts IRON uie sorI
ment is known TO be Il most hltter eie"y VI
Confederacy But it is not worth winnie 10 ihert I
these little instances of the unpatrotc SPir'c VI
people The small vote that was poiied LOT 1rh'
Davis, in all this region, shows the cohutoI Vi tne
public mind And so well satisfied am tnal thS
diSloyalty is growing holder mot by gaming IN mum
beers but by being unmoleSted) that, unless there -
a SleeplesS vigilance over that section, or some ac-
tive measures taken bring to justice these loyal
citizens you NAV look for another East lehtieS-
see demonstration. They lack the courage 10 at
tempt anything than secret organization, ou'
il Is these cOmclaveS which do the mischief y IL"
months ago a merchant in Salem, in controversy
IL ,r-,It,y Of hat confessed
he knew of persons in the community who were IN
CORRESPONDENCE with the Lincoln Government For
various reasons believe that this same corTeSpon-
dence is still going on, and at the proper time some
sort of demonstration will be made TO further
the interest of the enemy. But, before such all
event it is to be hoped the government Will not
ignore this condition of things as 1t did similar
one in East Tennessee, and Others by It's neglect,
encourage these traitors to bring rum into the very
heart of the Cnnfederacy. Let detachment be
sent to Salem Winston and arrest all suspected
person at once and then scour the whole OF tins
iiSloval region. \ few thousand dollars thus eN
pended by the government will save millions. " An
ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure"
Here is charge that portion of this State, en-
bracng some IS, 900 inhabitants is largely dis
Ioval" The charge is not true. We do not know how
many troops the Counties named by this correspon-
dent have sent to the war, but opinion is that
the number reaches four or five thousand Hun
dreds of the citizens of these Counties scattered
from the coast of this State to Manassas; and so
far rs Forsyth (whoSe people seem to have been
specially singled out is concerned, she has sent live
companies to the field; and portion OF her sons,
nee stricken and greatly decimated by disease,
were under fire at Manassas. Her vote is not 500,
as stated by this correspondent but only about
y nf I'm baS fnnrth in the field
In addition to this the people of Forsyth have con-
tributed thousands of dollars to furnish and sustain
their troops in Tuyinia, one of whose leading pa
pcrS is thus made the medium of the groSSest in
Justice towards them. The other Counties mentioned
have done quite as we'll in this respect as Forsyth.
One of the first companies that went in May last to
the defence of Fort Macon, was from Glilford-all
Of them persons who had labOred to preserve the
Union as long as it could be done on honorable
terms and this same company, if we have not been
misinformed left behind them four or five original
secessonists who belonged to it. and who, it seems,
had =" no stomach for the fight" One of these sub
sequentIy came to Raleigh, and was rewarded with
a horseback Office. We know, too, that two or
three Captains Districts in Randolph, from which
at least company volunteered, sent or~ ard at one
time through Richmond, to this and other companies
from that County in Virginia. not less than $4,000
worth of supplies for their comfort and support in
CAM
The basis of this charge that Salem is politically
rotten to the core" and that Randolph, GullfOrd,
Davidson, Forsyth Davie, Yadkin, and Wilkes are
largely disoya," is to oe found in the fact that
the Counties referred to WERE by large majority,
IL,
last. They did not labor, as some did, to dissolve
the Union. and then skulk like towards, as some
did, from the bloody conflict which, in secondary
sense they were instrumental in producing. They
were for peace as long peace possible on
honorable terms but when the seeded States were
threatened, and when the sword was drawn by LIN
coin against the South, the people Of these Counties
sprang with unanimty unexampled in the history
of the world, to the defence of their rights And
if the original seceSsonists in that portion of the
State had rushed to arms an the ranks as the great
mass of the old Union men did; and if the govern
ment had acted upon the rule in making its appoint
ments that the latter as true to the cause as
the former, no diScOrd would have existed IN the
Counties mentioned, but all would have been zeal
Gus, and hopeful, and active in this great struggle
Many of the old secessionists, we are gratie6 to
say, rallied to tie flag and to the field on foot
like men; but they have not done so in proportion
to numbers, as the old Union men have; and enough
OF them have been left at home speculate on the
necessities of the peOple-to hold horse back Offices,
and to stir up strife by calling for test oaths and
charging disloyalty on others.
This " Traveller" is at loss to know what the
word conservative" means We will tell him. 1t
means that the revolution in which we are engaged
Is not internal, but exterior; that law and order
should be maintained now, as heretofore; that party
Spirit should have existence at time like this
that the great Democratic right of the people to
govern themselves should be maintained at all haz-
ards that profigacy faynritSnn and ooru.,...;0. l.;