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

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The Greensboroush Patriot.
The Greensborough Patriot, in its notice of the
mobs in this City, says: :. -.
ut is certainly shameful that in this trying hour
the people of the South should be so divided in SEN
ument rs to prompt them to enact deeds of violence
upon the property of one another but it is equally
true that the presses which have thus been mobbed
-one BY an exasperated solsIsry, and the other by
citizens, have been mainly instrumental in creating
differences and stirring up party strife and engen-
oering dlseord among the people at time when all
should be firmly united"
The Patriot is mistaken in saying the soldiers
who mobbed our Office were exasperatedL" They
did their work cooy and deliberately, under orders
10 what source We are to trace these orders we do
| not know, but the soldiers who mobbed our Office
did so under orders. There is no doubt about that
Nor is the Patriot correct in saying that ,s have
been mainly instrumental M staring up party strife
and engendering discerd among the people, We
have acted from the first solely on the defensive as
party man. What we have said could not have been
left unsaid in justice to the Conservative party
Does the Patriot dispute thats If So it may bea
Conservative, but not as good'a oneas we are The
press to which the Patriot refers had repeatedly
called for mob law against our of6ce, lave uni
formly opposed mob law, and yet when mobs are
formed and their evil results seen the Patriot
holds US equally guilty with those who had advised
them. If our people are divided in sentiment, it
is the fault of the administration at Richmond and
Of Destructive presses and politicians in this State
But the Patriot, ever since it passed from the
hands Of Mr.. Sherwood has had no good feeling for
the Standard. We have regretted this, and have
been at loss to account for it. except on the ground
that our subscription was constantly increasing in
the range of the Patriots circulation. We have
uniformly treated that journal with courtesy and
kindness, and we thought the Potriot and Standard
agreed in sentiment. But some time since meet
ing. was held in Guilford County, which passed
number of resolutions, and among them one endor-
sing the course of the Standard The Patriot was
requested to publish the proceedings, and did pub
lish them with the exception Of the resolution en-
dorsng the Standard. This struck US as very
small business. 1t soas very small business, and
the Editor Of the Patriot is welcome to all the credit
he gained by it. If we were capable of treating
cotemporary in that way, snd especially political
| friend, whether from envy, hatred, or malice We
should feel like hiding our head in the presence Of
liberal just and magnanimous people. -
The Patriot of September 18th, in making lame
apology for not having published the proceedings
Of certain public meetings, says:
"We are under obligation to no one to reprint
the Raleigh Standar9-nor do we fish through its
columns 10 see what we are requested to copy from
them columns which Hourished most when they
scorned ard reved the very persons VINO now ern
tn adore and worship them, and which for the sake
c. money, and to SECURE little evanescent populari
ty for their Editor are ready to serve his own
ends, whether prompted by patriotism Or as is
most generally the case, something else"
| Here i.a gross reflection on u.s. which We repel
| with scorn and conteApt. We have never sought
either popularity money at the expense of right
We have the satisfaction of knowing THAT our
course is approved by vast majority of the people
of Guilford County, and of the Congressional Dis
trict in which the Patriot circuates. We are a
Conservative at all times md un1er all circuaa-
staiaces Can the Patriot say as muchs 1t is not
our habit to trim course so as to please the few
to the neglect of the rights and interests of the
many. Can the Patriot say as much 2.
We copy an Editorial from the Patriot today
for the purpose of showing that the course of that
paper and Of the Standard has been nearly the
same, with the exception that We have urged the
same views the Patriot has with more vehe-
mence and directness thanthst paper has exhibited
We have not xssaiied the governusent at any time
any more than the Patriot has, We have not op.
posed the Confederate cause at any time any more
than the Patriot has. And yet that paper does us
gross injustice in regard to the mob and goes out
of its way in September, when our paper was sus-
pended and we could make no reply to it to i'm
peach our integrity and patriotism.
The Patriot says in the Editorial to which we
have referred that it has no doubt President Davis
has winked or cennived at the studied efforts at
Richmond to cast odium on North Cardinal Can
this be possible? If so then President Davis is
unworthy Of his place, and ought to be impesched
and removed from Office. H.
We now tell the Patriot once for all that we have
borne its sights and its slurs long as we intend
to. We are willing to be at peace with it and to
act with it as Conservative paper, always showing
ourse the best Conservative of the two, as we GER
tainly are; but we have made up our mind to SUBJ
NIT to injustice hereafter from any quarter, but
to defend ourselves when unjustly assailed, or in:
juriously reflected on, against all comers
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-, Public Meetings. .
We had on hand, when the mob assailed our
office, the manuscript proceedings of number of
public meetings, and some of them were in type
and thrown into pi with other matter-among the
latter those of a meeting held in Chatham County,
urging vigorous prosecution of the war The mob
pulled our papers out Of our desk and scattered
them in ali directioas, and in this way many of
lbeso proceedings, together with communications
Oh various subjects, were lost. We shall give in