Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-25
Aid and Comfort to the Enemy.

We observe that the Register copies from a dc
PRAYED British j,urnal in this City an article
which the Conservative'members of the Legislature
Of this State spoken Of as Bab;tloes. The But.
faloes are the tories Of Eastern North Carolina
They are few in number it is true but they are the
worst men in the State. : As general rule they
ere given to plundering, and they do the low work
for the enemy which in many instances the regular
soldiers of Li.coln refuse to do: What will the
people of North Carolina think and say of the mis-
cradle Engshman who devised this slander, and of
the Virginian who copies and gives circulation to it
in his paper? Is it not practical aid and comfort
to the enemyf If the charge be true, then North.
Carolina is Lincoln State, and is ripe for secession
from the new government; but if false, as every
one knows it ls then language Is inadequate 70
characterize the calupny
We anticipate no abatement Of party feeling in
this State in any event. We deplorc this, but
have no power to prevent it The Conservatives
must defend themselves when ?assailed, and they
would consent to their own infamy il they should
be silent under charges like the above. The only
hope for free government, in any event, is in the
continued ascendancy Of Conservative men and Con-
servative measures in our State councils If such
men as the Editors of the journals we are noticing,
and those for whom they speak. should be placed
again in power in this State, civil war would be in
evitabe, for the people would not submit to bear
the burdens of the governm:- -. and fight the bat
ties and at the time be marked and treated as
Butfaees and traitors. They would rise in their
might and drive their oppressors from the State, or
ccnsign them to a merited doom: Let the Conserv {.
tives stand together as one man. Great events are
on the wing. They have the confidence of the
people in the fullest measure; let the leading men
among them 50 act as to retain that confidence.
Let them be true to their pledges, and true to the
people, and that confidence will never be forfeited.
Noble Examples.
We learn from friend that Mr. L.. W. Hartley,
who owns valuable mill on the Yadkin river, has
gicen flour to the wives of soldiers which would
now bring him, at tho market price, fifteen husdred
dollars His heart is still open to the poor and suf
] fering. Mr., Hartley is staunch Conservative.
A lady. subscriber, who is a volunteers wife,
writes us from Anson County, that Mr.. William T.
Rogers, who is part owner of mill, has been gen.
erous enough to sell corn to volunteers wives al
one dollar per bushe when he could easily have
obtained double that amount He also also offers
grind toll free for volunteers wives if the
ol corn will sell to them at reasonable rates bu
our correspondent fears that those who hold corr
will not do so {" for are surrounded" she says
"with number of forward secessionsts such a.
always hold back their produce for high prices"-
Mr.. Rogers, she says. is Conservative and was O
Union man up to Lincoln's proclamation =
We learn, from the Milton Ghypnicle that Capt
g., j. N. Smith, living near the Red House, in Cas-
well, has retaled seventy FIVE barrels OF corn to thu
needy at ten dollars per barrel while others hav'
beep exacting fifteen to twenty dollars per barrel
The t7tronicle also o'says that Sidney s. Lea, Esq
Of the ssme County, continues to sell the families
soldiers flour at ten dollars per barrel and refuses
twenty-five dollars when offered by spectators.
The ne,n, the stingy, and the coldbearted vii
be cursed :,y this generation and by posterity bu
the fpersr soul and the open hand, in this our da!
ofsupreme al uction, will be remembered and besse'
by millions.