Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-14

In the editorial columns of the Patriot have often
appeared articles denunciatoTy of the administration
at Richmond, when occasion seemed to demand, We
have often thought that against the President many
objections could be urged, and in our humble capac.
ity as editor although conscious that anything in
the columns of the Patriot would have no erent
weight influence, outside its sphere of circulation
yet whenever the honor Of North Carolina seemed
sighted or insulted by the Confederate authorities
whenever our soldiers werc treated with neglect,
or our people with contempt have felt it our du
ty to speak out in measured terms against such in
justice. The readers Of the Patriot cannot com.
plain Of any failure part thus to speak when
ever they offered themselves, and our readers NAV
rest assured that such shall DO our course NJ al
times.
But if any one has construed our objections to
President Davis into opposition to the Confederate
government; if any one ever persuaded himself into
the belief that because the Patriot has been omen to
criticism the justice of certain measures proceed
ing from headquarters at Richmond that we stood
ready to foilo7 suit in any movement in North Car
DINA, no matter what, so it denounced President
Davis and his advisers, no matter how violent the
opposition or in what manner brought about: if any
one supposed us really to participate in those move
ments which have already brought strife among the
people, and bid fair to eliminate in open denuncia.
ton OF the cause of the South and in an invitation
to Lincoln to receive us as his bondsmen. that per
son badly deceived himself as to our conception of
duty and honor; and any hint that our State has
not on oil occasions received her full share of honor
IN this war; or justice at the hands of the admins
tratlon, that We on that account Arnoldlike would
turn traitor to our country and betraY ous trust,
couid De received only as insult too grievous to
be borne
whenever President Davis las shown DISPOSE
uon to receive the advice only of flatterers, and,
IKE the Persian King who, when determined on an
undertaking. weighter in character by ten-old than
any undertaking Of his fathers, followed the rash
counsels Of his har-brained suitors and companions
TO the exclusion of the wise men Of his court then
nave we urged our objections to his administration.
Inc TACT however, that such miserable cheats and
intoierable boosters as Wiga of Texas, and others
OF MS ilk, men who have made promises which have
never been redeemed, were among his old political
associates has led many calrA and sober citizen to
form really worse opinion of the President than
Justice strictly required Our deprecated currency
is as much an unavoidable result of the war, owing
TO the inmensity of its crculationAor the govern
nent was bound by duty and will be to the end, to
pay its sodiers-and is as much the fault of the peo
pie as it is our law makers, and the executive de-.
partment. We infer this from the fact that even
our highest prices at present are comparatively light
to those ia store for Us if the war continues inde
hnltely. They are light as compared with prices
| in the revolution Of re, when our fathers were
struggling for their independence, cut off exactly
rs we now are, from all outside assistance unit, the
recognition by France.
But to the studied efforts or the part of some at
Richmond, to cast odum on the reputation of our
native State there is no doubt with us the winks of
Inc President gave additional strength. We SO