Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-07-22
For the Standard.
Sc Let us have Peace COnventiOn.''

"Let us have Peace Convention" is the heart
felt cry of the great of the people For peace for
peace ascend the prayers of widows and orphans made
such by this IT'S bitter 20 lose friends and prOtec
tors, and then to be danger of atom The grasp.
ing spectators aud extortones alone look upon this
with pleasure it filing their pockets, while it is de-
The Tie s sick OF the %
enacilng around them. One poor fellow who was killed
ChanceorsviiIe, in the FAST letter he wrote to his
friends the end Of nearly every placed the
words Oh, if could but have pesce am tired of
this dreadful war; and he but echoed the cry that
bursting from the hearts of his comrades, many of whon
perhaps like him. have received their final but awful dis
charge
Iii impossible enumerate the evils of secession
it is to define right to exercise it, Let US give this
mighty element which has deiuged happy cOun
try with blood and laid most prosperous Sec
tions and filled with horror and grief every heart its
proper rebeion-whic has originated civil war,
one which might easily have been avoided, had We
turned the legislative halls instead Of to the sword for
justice - ,
But it not the policy of the Destrucves to allow
hope To do Ss old
Offices aud to make themselves rich by tyrannzng over
the people, their objects; and the people, listening
them by rushing madly On to their own Destruction
They their DANGER and that there is but one way
that is by speedy and just peace, and that
Mr. Holden you have upheld the rights ofthe State and
people, when the Destructves would have tramPed them
like dust under their feet You have srven to keep alive
the feeble spark OF freedom Wltnn the
pie while they have sought utterly to quench It, They
have endeavored again and again. to make Us mnons 70
their WILL but you have shown that the
cradle of liberty nurtured brave sons,
that will tamey their rights wrested from them
who will fight against oppression in Whatever form
pears You have done all this and for the people thank
YOU Bring forward this idea of Peace Convention, and
| contend for it vigorously and they will bless you
One thing certan-we must not wait for the North TO
propose one; they will do it, Although we have
put forth almost superhumsn efforts and have bravery
MANY hard fought battle, yet is hmentable fact
that have lost much; nearly all the cities coast
have fallen, and with them the flower of army. The
North well knows that if we fight to "the last man.
Disease and death in almost every form rapidly dimn-
ishing them, and where men be found To fill their
places? Not in the Southern States most assuredy On
the contrary the North constant stream of emgants
ready epensh their army and navy, and the
immense quantities Of grain which borne to
shore> flooding the markets. and these supply good
and plentiful provisions bott the army and the poor
While the manufactures of fax and wool in foreign coun
tries well in the Northern States, provide them with
clohing while our brave fellows often have to con
tend with hunger and partial nakedness well as with
their actual foes who but the widest fanatic could evel
suppose that with such immense advantages over that
the North wIeve propose terms of peace? No. We mus
make the first overtures and let it be- before more blood
not counenance any such proceedings especially begun
in Carolina but let the State send to
ipgon to enter into negotiations for peacethey would
be gladly received Doubtless there many true men
the South at least in good old State, that wohle
gladly 90 in such noble cause.
Guilford Co., July T. 1868.