Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-11-17
The Observer and the EIections.

Inc OoSeTOer appears to be chagrined at our state
ment in our issue af the 10th, that the Conserva.
ves had carried at least six out of the ten members
of Congress in this State. That paper says:
1.-THE Standard does not tell US exactly who
these six eight are but auong them are several
who are diametrically opposed to its own proposed
course upon the peace question. 1t evidently Claims
for instance, that the votes for Lieut. Fuller are
votes to sustain and approve the Standards course,
and we suppose, therefore, that it claims the elect
lous of Lieut. Fuller as part of its glorious tri
nmph.' In this it is egregiously mistaken. And
1t y fortunate for Lieut. Fuller that no such pre-
tence set up by the Standard before the election
Tor II It had 6een much as that gentleman is respect
ed he would have been left in woful minority.
We suppose also tha DR.. Warren and Col. Yel-
lowey are included in the Standards six or eight
But both these gentlemen issued circulars before the
election taking ground the very opposite Of the
Standard on the peace question. And we shall be
greatly surprised to find Mr. Turner, DR.. Ramsay,
should ne be elected, acting with the Standard
upon that question"
We will tell the Observer who the six members
elect are, whom claimed as Conservatives in our
issue of the 10TH They are Messrs. Leach, Fuller,
Turner, Gilmer, Christian, and Logan. All of these
gentlemen are elected and there is some ground of
hope that Messrs. Yellowley and Ramsay are also
elected, which would give eight out of ten to the
Conservatives.
So far as Lieut. Fuller is concerned we had most
reliable information when we announced his name
for Congress, that he was true Conservative. We
earnestly desired his election, but we took no active
part for him in the Standard because we feared if
We did so that it would call out the ultra secession or
Destructive VOTE and thus endanger his election
We rGoice at his success. He owes as much of that
success to the Standard as he does to the Observer
for the latter paper is welded to the Destructives
that it did not dare raise its voice in his favor. We
were silent ioT the that feared that by ac
lively ad Vocatlng his election might injure him
the O6serrer though the Editors no doubt paid him
the compliment of their votes, did nothing and said
nothing for him from prudential, selfish motives
The Editors voted for him, not because he is Con-
serVate but because of his great and deserved popu
arty and to gratify it may be- some latent and un-
worthy old Whig feeling against Mr.. Strange The
Editors voted for him, and we did all we could for
him individually by urging voters from the District
whom we happened to see to support him. and by
furnishing his friends with documentary evidence
against Mr.. Strange. Wepublished nothing against
Lieut. Fuller but the files of the Observer will show
his friends and consequently against him. The
Observer could go out of its District to take part
against Mr.. Christian. but it had not word to saw
in its own District for Lieut.. Fuller. But it has
been rebuked for that sufficiently, without any re-
buke from US, by the very large majority whom the
gentleman it opposed (Mr. Christan,) has received
at the ballot box.
1t is not true that Dr. Warren and Col Yellowley
issued circulars before the election taking ground
against the views of the Standard
So far. as Mr.. Gmer is concerned, he took no
ground on the stump against the socaled peace
meetings; and we learn further from friend, who
heard his speech in Graham, that he went as far as
we have ever gone for an honorable peace Weregard
him as a good Conservative, and the future will
show, in our opinion that he will be as active to
secure an honorable peace, and meanwhile to main
tain civil liberty against the usurpatons of the mill
/ tary, as any member of the new Congress. Should
we, however find ourselves mistaken in this respect
We shall not hesitate to say so.
The Observer is "sorry" to learn that Mr.. Chris
tian DR.. Leach, and Gen. Logan are elected. OF
course.
1t is useless to mince matters any Ion ger in rea-
ton to the Obseruer That paper has donned the
turban and turned Turk. 1t has gone over to the
Destructives Indeed, it has never professed to be
a Conservative journal; but while it has claimed to
be impartial, it has uniformly, for several months
past, given the weight of its influence to the De-
structiVeS. We prefer an open enemy to doubt
full friend. The Observer cautious in changing
its coat. In the language of Mr.. Macaulay, IN his
review of the works of Lord Bacon, ait was in the
chrysalis state" some months ago-"putting Of
the worm and putting the dragon fly "a kind of
intermediate grub between sycophant and oppres-
sor,"-but it is now a full grown dragon fly, with
Haunting WINGS dashing from point to point in a
new atmosphere. Let it GO The Conservative
party of the State do without it, and will be all
the stronger after having gotten clear of its doubt
full aid and injurious influence
P. S. Since the above was written we have learn
ed, with great qualification, that Dr. Ramsay is elect
ed. This makes seven Conservatives out of the ten
members.
the Observer will turn to DR.. Ramsays circular
announcing his views it will find the following:
| "a Christian people, however should not be too
sensitive the subject of honor when principle is
not involved; and brave people should carry the
olive branch of peace in one hand and the sword in
| the other. And inasmuch as Mr.. Lincoln has re-
Gently announced that any peace compromise shall
be rejected if proposed by any ofthose control
ling the army, think it advisable that the President
should instruct those having the power to open ne
gotations for peace subject however, to the super,
vision of the treaty making power of the govern.
ment, or the decision of the people When our ar
mics victorious, as they now are, propositions
for peace on the tasis of our national independence
may be made and received, with the least prejudice
to our interests ard honor but it does seem to me
that those in power cannot be entirely acquitted o
permitting opportunities of this sort to pass by with
out proper improvement"
And the following extract from DR.. Ramsay's cir
cular deserves to be printed in letters of gold:
"The personal liberty OF the people should not bt
in the keeping of any one man, however pure or ex