Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-06-14

not prefer to break up the old government and who
agreed to do so only when the proclamation of Lin
coin called on the border States for troops to be used
against our Southern brethren.
This, we beg to assure the Enquirer is the ex-
tent of our party feeling; and this the manner in
which We have been treated by the Register and the
so,ealled Southern rights party of this State. Let
that paper decide for ITSELF upon the facts who is
to blame
But to the Eaquirers counsel. Our respected
contemporary gravely adverses US, that our friends
outside of North Carolina concur in the justice of
the structures passed upon some of recent arti-
cles. Our contemporary must allow us to say that
no friend of ours in or out of the State can for
moment believe in the justice or fairness of those
presses in this State which abuse u.s. or in their dis
position even to be just and fair towards any one
who was an old Union man or a conservative In
this regard North Carolina is exception to all the
States of the Confederacy No where else are ultra
secessonists proscrptive, abusive and unjust to
the old Union men, as in North Carolina.
1t is not enough, in North Carolina, that a man
who was formerly Union man shall declare his
fidelity to the Southern cause by going into the
army or sending his son, or by contributing his means
to the support Of the war; but we are required to
ignore all our former princples-to admit that the
ultras were right at first and have been right alto
gether-to think and talk and do, precisely as they
do-to give our unqualified sanction to all the acts
of the State and Confederate governments, and to
the acts of every officer, big little in those gov
ernments-to yield silent and willing submission
to, and an active support of, every measure they
propose-to withhold all proper scrutiny into the
conduct Of our Legislators and public oficers-to
submit without murmur to the violation of laws
and constitutions and to the encroachments of the
military upon the civil power This is the cup pre-
scented to US, and if we do not drink it, and drink
it to the dregs, a pronounced untrue to our ma
tive land.
We voted for the separation of North Carolina
from the old Union, not because we were converted
to the disorganizing doctrines of Yancey and 9TH
ers-not because we believed South Carolina and
other cotton States right in their precipitate
course but because of Lincoln's unconstitutional
and tyrannical coercive policy. We have urged a
separation of the South and vigorous prosecution
of the war, because of the assumption by Mr.. Lin
coin of despotic power-his overthrow of the liber
erty Of speech and of the press and of the writ of
habeas cOrpus-his arrest of men and women, and
imprisoning them without hearing, because they
claimed the great american right Of thinking and
speaking for themselves, and his disregard of the
rights of the States and of the rights of property
in the Southern States. Opposition to all such acts
of tyranny is Unborn with the people of NorthCar-
DINA They have never submitted their necks will
lingly to the yoke of any tyrant and they never
will. Wherein, then, have we offended? We have
given the administration of President Davis hear
ty support in the vigorous prosecution Of the war
we have aided in ralying the people Of this State to
arms-we have encouraged our brave soldiers in the
midst of their toils-we have voted, in the Con-
vention, men and means to carry on the war
and if we could have been of more service to
the cause BY shouldering musket would
have done it. But while we have opposed tyranny
without we have labored to maintain liberty with
in. Hence, when partyism has prevailed instead Of
professionalism the government and the cause it.
self have been claimed as the property Of party, the
offices divided out among original secessionists and
the late Union men put under the ban, suspected,
and told to fight foot-when sedition oaths and
test oaths have been proposed, fofthe purpose of
putting a "hdeous mark on the late Union men,
and on their children and their childrens children
when the military has been made paramount to the
civil power and when the laws and the Constitu-
ton have been violated, the Seward pretext that
we must violate part to save the whole,-w say,
in view of all this and in the face of it. we have
raised voice in protest, remonstrance, and de-
! nunciation, and have called on the people to
; come forward and reform their governments, and
.lo tbo
err and from the polluting poison of parcyism and
favortism in the midst Of war; Would the En-
guirer censure us for this? Ought we to laud in
Mr. Davis what we condemn in Mr.. Lincoln? Must
we gloriy the Confederate Congress for doing what
we detest in the Northern CongresSp But the New
York Herald and the Newbern Progress are copy
ing articles from the Standard Because the STAN
dard uters plain truths which in many respects ap-
ply as well to the South to the North, and be-
cause these papers copy and distort what the Stan
dard says, we must desist. Now, in all conscience
we ask the Enquirer who is to blame? Is the
Standard responsible for the false and unustifia5e
construction placed upon its language by the Lin
coin papers? Nothing is more common in the
South than for the entire press to denounce the
Northern papers lying sheets in every respect
How comes it, then, that in the estimation of our
contemporaries they always tell the truth when they
pervert our remarks? Every BODY knows that the
Lincoln papers referred to, take their cue, not from
the Standard but from those presses in this State
that SANDER and misrepresent the Standard. These
presses charge that we untrue to the Confede-
racy-that opposing the goyernment-that
we are unsound and traitor, and that North Caro-
lima is full of traitors 1t is in vain that we deny
all this, but the charges are repeated again and
again. The Lincoln papers are not blind to this,
and hence they make capital out of it. The sin,
therefore, lies not at our door, but with those who
thus falsely accuse US. They are giving aid and
comfort to the enemy; and they continue to give
this aid, as the Register the State Journal and the
! Wilmington Journal are now doing, by quoting
from the Newbern Progress to show that Gov Ora
| ham, the Standard and thousands of our people