Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-09
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Moro ofthe Jnsolence' or Ne Richmond Enquirer.
The Daily Progress Of this city holds the follow
ing language m reference to late editorial Of the
EegwSrsr, IN which it says the patriots of this
STATE, meaning the Destfhctiyes, intend to show up
che conservatives: -
.st~yill be recoected that this same insoent "or-
gam pointed out to the people of North Carolina
their in the late Gubernatorial election andtha
we were told by it that those who opposed the cleo
Ition of Mr.. johnson were traitors 70 the govern
,mentand country Well what was the result r
The people of this loyal State elected the man who
had shown his devotion to his country by rlsklng
his life for more than one year on the neo, oy
majority of over thirty thousand and the Enquirer
and the faction here that echoed It's lioeiS were
'rebuked by people whose acts nave SHOWN 1iier
devotion to the cause OF the South.
who is it of our people that this servile sheet
now assailS! Gov. Vance, majority OF the House
of Commons and seven-tenths of our people here
we have the organ of the Government assalhng the
iloyalty of the masses of State that has shown
devotion to the cause of the South not surpassed,
epualled, by any other State. Is Jefferson Days
the master of the people of the sovereign States,
whose organ is to treat them slaves, or is ne the
servant ofthe sovereign States INFESTED with certain
rights and required to perform certain duties =
Does Jefferson Davis the President of the Conted-
eerate States for whom our people cast their unanl-
tacks Of the Richmond Enquirer on the people OF
North Cardinal If so, We can say to Mr.. DAVIS
that while our people are as loyal as any in the
world and as intense in their hatred OF the common
enemy as any people the South contains they have
q President Of whom they would gladly relieve
themselves.
All these attacks are made on our people by the
Enquirer, because they wanted the Legislature to
raise a force of 10000 for State defence, IN
manner acceptable to the President of the GOnfed-
crate States and that there cause for conflict
between the State and Confederate Governments in
raising this force will here state that one OF the
Commissioners sent by the Legislature to confer
with the President told the return of the Com
mission that the President assured them that he
would not take another conScript out of the State
that they might be enrolled and organized and re-
tanned for State defence the Government to feed,
pay and elothe them. South-CarOlina has reserve
force and Virginia has force, and we only
wanted the same and for this seventenths of our
people, including our Governor and majority OF
our Legislature are denounced as traitors by the
Richmond Enquirer, the organ of the President
The Enquirer attempts to smooth over this attHek
upon North Carolina by complimentary allusion
to the bravery of our troops. We tell that paper
that those here whom it denounceS as brave and
loyal as those of our soldiers whom it euogises,
many of them having exposed their lives on the
battle field in the cause of our independence, and
we hurl its libel on the patriotism of our people
back IN its teeth
No Pierpont Government has been established in
North Carolina, and traitors have been found by
thousands in our State to give aid and comfsrt to
the enemy as in Virginia. Wespeak of these things
with no pleasure, but with deep humiliation, but
when the fair fame of our native State is aSsailed and
the loyalty of her people is questioned we dare
defend the one and protect the other even though
the "organ" Of the President of she Confederate
States be the accuser. We love the Confederate
States and the of the South much but we love
North Carolina, the mother that bore us more and
while we ready to defend and fight for the Gov
eminent, We will not quietly submit to have our
native State belled by the tools of the Confederate
Government or any other power
The Richmond Enquirer, knowingly, wlfully and
Intentionally, lbels our Executive and seVen-enths
of our people, and those craven hearted wretches
and suppliant tools here who echo and endorse its
base calumnies are degenerate sons of State whose
good name is dearer to her true sons than life itself