Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-04-09

Charlotte Democrat
Charlotte Bulletin,
Charlotte Whig
Concord Flag,
Mountain Eagle
Ashevie News
Western Carolinian,
lredell Express,
Milton Chronicle
The above we clip from the Raleigh Register. 1t
was not our intention to allude again soon to the
Governorship; and certainly we would not have
noticed the above but for its evident endorsement
by the Register. The paper from which it is taken
we do not read nor should we know anything of its
contents but for an occasional alusion to it by
friends ana for extracts from it in other papers.
How much OF alsehood there is in the above extract
we do not undertake to say, so far as the other
papers named are concerned. 1t is their own bust
ness to determine whether they are following the
lead of the first named paper or not. But for once
since our acquaintance with that paper, it has told
the truth in the above extract in regard to the
Standard, when it says the Standard does not stand
on the same platform that it does.
But when the above paper says that the Standard
is opposed to unity of action with the respectable
press of the State simply lies, outright and down.
right. When it says that it is opposed to party
ism, and that the Standard is in favor of partyism
during this war; it only duplicates its falsehoOd and
lying
The Standard has labored necessarily since the
beginning of this war; to discourage every species of
party ism, until it became evident to every inteli
gent person in the State, that those who own and
control the aforesaid aper and those who support
it. determined at any and every risk to the in
tereSt Of the State to follow under the old party
banner which that paper raised to the yictorS be-
long the SpoilS" That paper in the outset insisted
that "those who inaugurated the revolution should
conduct it,"-that they entitled to The offices
of trust profit and honor in the governmert,-a
the government in Raleigh and at Richmond have
carried out the programme punctously to this day.
This course has been pursued in North Carolina
to the great detrment of the State and the cause of
the South in the face of the known fact that prior
to Lncolns proclamation there were so 600 MAORI
ty of the people of this State who were not
tainted with original secessionism. When the pro-
clamation issued Lincoln forced upon the State
the alternative of secession for cause revolution.
Strictly speaking at that juncture people
unit. With at least equal aacrity and iervor the
old Union men, Wings and Democrats, sprung to
arms, with the original seccssior.istS, higs and
Democrats. Now, We ask all candid men, who were
the first to disturb that unity
The conservatives or old Union men, at once pro-
posed thai all should forget the past that all dviS
ions and party strifeS should end, and our whole
people should throw themselves into the cause Of
the country, as equals and brethren. The Standard
took the position and maintained it. AT first
the original Secessionsts talked in similar strain
But the patronage OF both governments, State and
Confederate was in the hands of the original
| sionists. At once the above named paper, raised
! the old partizan standard, to the victors belong
. the SpOS." The governments acted upon the prin-
cple and continue to do it to this day. unblushingly
and shameleSsly. Now the extent of the Standards
party-isn, solemnly aver, has consisted in moth
ing but opposition to the parsm of the two govern
! mentS and their partizan managers.
! But it is well known that this partizsn faction
which controls the government, processes to be the
no party party. They aver as the aforesaid paper
falsely alleges, thai they are opposed to party
Can any one be so blind so corrupt to believe
| it? How do they make ont the case as to at
! tempt to blind the people? Why, simply by point
ing to the old Wings and old Democrats in office
What difference do the people discover between a
! per sc secession Wing or per sc secession Demo
| crat? There is no such thing now a Wing or
Democratic organization; hence, if they not all
of the same stripe our optics are not keen enough
to discover difference. But in this State there
! 10000 old Union Wings and at least $4,000 old
Union Democrats both equally conservative, and iii
essential points the same. Now the simple ques-
ton is have they claim to representation or in
fuence either in the State or Confederate govern
ments? MUSE they be content to do the drudgery
of the war, and simply follow in the lead Of those
who have no higher claims than they upon the pub
| lie confidence?
The conservatives were willing to bear all the
burdens and all the honors Of the war; equally with
those who naugurated the war, but this simple JUS
tice has been denied them from the beginning.
What now? Those who claim to have inaugu-
rated the war in this State after all the co-opera
ton and support given them by the conservatives,
have signally failed-broken down in managing the
government They have lost us Hatteras, Roanoke
| Island and Newbcrn-they have filled the State
with complainings until their partizan friends
are disguised with them bu: now unwilling to risk
any one before the people who has been prominent
in the administration of the government, they bring
forward gentleman unknown to fame, but one full
II committed to the same policy Of action. They ask
the people of North Carolina quietly to submit and
let them put no-party man into the office of Gov
ernor, whose only recommendation is, that he is q
respectable gentleman of good business habits, is
good manager Of Railroad; and, whispering in
the ears of the old Wings, "you see we are party
men. We offer you Mr. Johnston an old line Wing
clever man. &c. But the old Union Wings Will
saw "Mr Johnston was once Wing, but by be
coming per SO secessionist, he has ignored all his
former conservative principles. Moreover, we be-
lieve Mr.. Branch was good Railroad manager, bu