Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-10-02

my ONCE was premeditated, and that DeStructives
in this City and elsewhere knew it would be made
1t is stated that the Georgia soldiers while the
way, were urged at Weldon, Henderson and Frank
linton to destroy the Standard Office; and that they
had been so deceived as to the character of the pa
per and its Editor, that they enqured at Pacific de-
pot few miles this side of Franklinton if it was
true that the federal flag was flying over the Stan
dGrd office!
On the subsequent Friday evening another at
tempt was made to mob my Office by portion Of
the 4th Alabama, which was prevented by the pres
ence of Gov. Vance and an armed force from Camp
Holmes. And l learn also that night or two al
terwardS some twenty-five South: Carolinians, with
arms in their hands, were met on HillsboIoush
street looking for the Standard Office with the in
tention of completing what the Georgians had be-
gun. They were told that if they attempted it they
would be fred upon by he provost guard, and re-
sisted by the citizens whereupon they returned to
their camp.
1 trace this mob spirit to the course pursued by
the Richmond Enquirer, the Raleigh Register, the
State Journal and Charlotte Bulletin; and also to
the socalled Army Convention" All the papers
named had repeatedly called for mob law against
the Standard Some of them had urged the gov
ernment the people, and the soldiers to suppress
the paper by force ; and the socalled "Army Con-
vention," whose proceedings first given to the
public in the religious press, advised course in
relation to the Standard which the members of the
Convention knew the cover rnment could not adopt,
if it would, and which inevitably tended to and en-
couraged mob law, as is CLEARLY shown by the COM
munication from the Progress copied in the Stan
dard of to-day. The fruits of these appeals were
seen in the mob of troops from another State which
assaled my office, and in the destruction of the es.
tablishment of the State Journal. My readers will
bear witness that have at all times opposed mob
law. Nothing will justify resort to it.
And now, what have ! done, or omitted to do, to
justify or palliate such an outrage? If had CON-
mitted treason it was the duty of Gov Vance to
heart opposed to the Confederate cause, it would
have been his duty to have withheld his official pa
perS fIom my columns and to have discoun tenanced
NE personally as disloyal man. Twas assaed in
cowardy manner, my property injured, and my
Constitutional rights trsmpled down, account Of
my opinions 1t was done because had boldly and
uniformly defended the rights and the honor of my
native State-and had labored to reform the admin
istration at Richmond so as to save the cause-and
had vndieated the rights of the soldiers against op
preston in the army, and their families against the
injustice and cold charity of certain characters at
EOme-and had exerted myself to maintain civil law
against military had insisted that whilst
the war should be pressed with. the utmost vigor,
aud deserton and resistance to law discountenanced
and repressed, statesmen and people at home should
cast about anxiously for some means to initiate ne
gotiations that might end in an honorable peace
Ny offence hath this extent-no more"
With vast majority of Ghe people of this State
was Union man up to Mr.. Lincoln's proclama-
ton, calling for troops to make Georgia and
other seeded States. 1 then ceased to be Union
man. l advocated, as l advocate now, resistance to
Mr.. Lincoln. As one of the 12O delegates to the
State Convention signed the ordinance of separa-
ton, and voted to make North Carolina Confed-
crate State. did this sadly but firmly. While
member of the Convention l voted for every meas
ure which l thought would advance the Confed,
crate cause, and sustained every measure of the
kind in the Standard. have contributed as much
in proportion to my means to the Confederate cause
as any man in the State. 1t was my earnest wish
from the first that party feeling should be buried
and that our whole people as a band of brothers
should make common cause against the common
foe. But this was not permitted by those who con-
troled the Confederate government and the govern
ment of this State The most rigid partyism was
inaugurated at Montgomery and Raleigh, and SUBJ
sequently carried out at Richmond Every citizen
Ofthis State who had labored to preserve the Union
upto Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, and who would not
fer personal or pecunary advantage, admit that his
opponents were right in urging secession before the
appearance of that document, and right in prefer
ring to break up the old government, was marked
unit for civil or military office. Mr. Davis filled
his Cabinet and appointed his foreign ministers
from his partizan friends. His example was fol-.
lowed in this State.a Mr.. Davis appointed nearly
all his Brigadiers and Major Generals from his par
tizan supporters; and his example was followed in
this respect by Governors Ellis and Clark in their
appointments in the ten State regiments When
the old Union men, but now true Confederates, re-
monstrated against this injustice and reminded
their opponents that they were sending two men to
the field TO their one to fight the battles they were
that "those who made the revolution were alone
entitled to conduct it"-and that the old Union
men, but now true Confederates, unless they SUBJ
mitted quietly to- such treatment and behaved
themselves, would have a hideous mark " put up
on their foreheads, by which they and their child
rem after them would be known as traitors. This
led to the formation of the Conservative party of
this State, composed of persons who had belonged
to the Whg and Democratic parties. Those VINO
formed this party did SO reluctantly in sefdefence
At the next election they carried their nominee
(Gov. Vance) by thirty five thousand majority,
and both branches of the Legislature. Ny opinions
are now what they were then, and if am traitor,
then are two-thirds of our people also traitors
Meanwhile the proseriptive partizan policy of
the administration at Richmond was filling the army
and the civil offices with original secession parzans,
and such as had abandoned theff former views for
place. to the almost total exclusion of the old Union
men, but now true Confederates. Every Confeder-
ate Office in this State, believe, was occupied Oy
these partzans and of the eighteen Brgaders .ap-