Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-13

heart Is, the ladies' and little children take to him
wherever he goes
For the Standard.
u,.-. sys7-s0Ak-DALs, Pitt Co, July 80 1864
Mr. W. W. HOLDEN -
AL ask that you will give me small space
in your paper, 10 notice some base charges and an
Situations that have appeared IN the State journal
and otherwise circulated against me. The only
apology which shall offer to the public for intru
ding my name before them, is, that in my opinion
'longer forbearance ceases to be virtue" Short
ly after the adjournment Of the State Convention,
saw in the State Journal gross misrepresentation
Of the remarks made by me on the floor Of the Con-
vention, upon Mr.. Badgers resolutions in relation
to the Imprisonment and trial Of citizens Of Nrth
Carolina in the State Of Virginia. Averse as was
to newspaper controversies, concluded to take'no
public notice Of the Misrepresentation, gross as was
the injustice done me was confirmed IN this con-
clusion by the reflection that my remarks were
made in open Convention, where all my associates
in that body could hear and understand what did
saw Every one OF them knows that | made no
denunciation" of the Confederate government, and
that did not call Tour country's defenders set
OF narauders :" and did not say that would ad-
wise people to 60 to the enemy for protection,
nor any thing like it The person who furnished
the State Journal with the account OF my remarks,
which that paper published, must have been some
"0utsider" whose hearing and understanding were
perverted, no doubt, by the tcish and purpose to
misrepresent me. But, from that time forward
there has seemed to be a purpose on the part OF
that paper and its mnons, to Islander and misrepre-
sent me as being untrue TO the South. lsaw an
article in that paper Of the 18th inst headed Haze
,cs a traitor among US p? and the article processes
to give the substance of q conversation on the 4th
Of July in Newborn, between Gen. Martin, Lieut.
Graham and Mr.. Stanly. And then the
article charges, that there is "somo arch traitor
nearly as Influential and reliable politically and
ign f. Dan EroL1 an s0r1
pith Mr. StanIy and the question is, "tOho is he /"
Almost erery eye in Eastern Carolina
points to the same man, and some IN secret suen
tehisper his name, but dare not pronounce IT. -
Neither did intend to notice this article. LIST. Be-
cause had no especial respect for the source from
which it came; AMI I'd: because had no right to
assume that was the individual pointed at I'M
til some one did drre' pronounce my name or
so point the alusion, that the public could not
mistake it But when saw that the Fayetteville
Obserrer of the 2lSt inst, in noticing the subject
says, Some persons have supposed that Stanly had
this unfOunded information from q prominent gen.
tleman in the Eastern part of the State. We have
reasons for confident assurance that their suppo
sition is incorrect = On the very
day that Stanly made this statement to the flag Of
truce, the gentleman who has been charged with
giving him such information was making strong
and eloquent Southern speech to his neighbors, in
which, in reply to charges Of unSorndness whis-
sinuate that he was untrue to the South, or in IA
yOr, under any circumstances, Of a Union with the
North-and pledged himself to intiict summary
chaStiSement upon any man who would make the
inSinuation. We have this fact from an intelligent
officer, who present and heard the speech"
Now, Mr. Editor, as | made a speech on that
very day, to my fellow. citizens in the Court House
in GreenTIl!e and as | used substantially the Ian.
guage quoted in the Obserrsr, and as there were
several " Intelligent CjiesrS" present who heard my
speech, am no longer left in doubt as to whether
or not am the "prOmiaent Eastern gentleman
alluded in the article in the State Journal whose
name is 'tchtsPered about but dare not be pro-
nouuced"
| confess feel some humiliation in being COM
PEELED To notice such bLse and malignant charges
and nSlnuaIOnS. In the speech referred TO- did
denouncc all reports prrjudIcial TO my character
and conduct and their authors in terms which |
seldom employ. And, IN one or two instances,
where | thought | had traced them to parties OF
standing aud lniiuence, | took further stepS-but |
have never yet JoHm the responsible party, who
makes or ciTcuLI5Es them
trouble you and the public with this communi-
cation now only because Of the article in the Fay.
eIteve O5rerrcr whose Editor is a gentleman,
aud willing to do me juslice-and because IT'S refer
euce to the insinua;;On in the State Journal may
give wider currency to the tmputatioH than it
would otherwise have. and in parts Of the State
where my course and conduct throughout this War
have not been observed.
In conclusion l have only to say that whoever
charges me with having made any communication,
whatever, either direct indirect, to Mr.. Stanly,
or any officer soldier in the Federal army, or Of
being untrue to the South in word or act, is wick
ed and despicable liar. lie who tchisPers the "in-
sinuation," without the boldness to pronounce"
my name, is an infamous cOUdrd and he who
does either upon hearsay, is, whether he knows it
or not the vehicle Of as unfounded Islander as was
ever conceived in corruption, and brought forth in
iniquity." F. b. SATTERTuWAlTE