Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-07

inalienable and invaluable right of the people to as
sembie together and consult for the common good,
together with its necessary eoncomi.sin the free
do" Of sn4.:Ss md efths press are secured to our
people BY Tie most sacred eompacts and this right
Of the people to assemble together and consult for
the common. good, "shaN meoer find distur6er" in
him. This declaration is worthy of the Chief Mag
istrate OF free State and trust it will be main
tanned at all hazards. If Gov. Vance had been
defeated in 1862, civi; liberty in this State would
long since have been trampled down, and Bastiles
filled with victims suffering for opinions sake would
have been established in nearly every County
The military power would have triumphed over civil
law and the arms of our soldiers would, possible,
have been turned against their own countrynen.-
When we review the history of the last two years.
and see what our people have escaped by the defeat
of the Destructive candidate for Governor and the
election of Gov. Vance, we .cannotbe sufficiently
grateful for the surages of the soldiers and people
in August 1862, which rescued liberty in this State
from the grasp Of military power, and secured to
the people the practical exercise of the right Of free
thought and free expression. ,-,
The Governor, it will be seen, implores the people
of all shades of political opinion, to abstain from
assembling together for the purpose of denouncing
each other, whether at home or in the Gray."-
The Governor will bear testimony, Of his own per-
sonal knowledge, that so far as we are concerned
portion of those who assume to lead public opinion
in opposition to the Standard, have been appealed
to and have deliberately refused to discontinue their
assaults US that we are acting as We have been
from the first in self defence; and that when the
effort referred to was made to promote concord and
harmony, we exhibited every disposition to meet
enemies at least half way. Our skirts are clear
Of any evil consequences that may result from the
want of harmony and good feeling in this State
But if the people assemble together at all, denun-
ciatory language may be expected. The implora.
tions Of the Governor the subject are, however,
natural to in his position. 1t must pain him as
the common head of our people, to see those who
ought to be brethren both in feeling and action
rayed against each other in public meetings and deal
| ing in mutual crimination and mvective. But, so
| far as the army is concerned this elimination and
invectve amounting to charges of disloyaty against
majority of people, are all on one side and are
the result ofa deliberate effort, concocted at Rich
mond, to suppress the freedom of the press. We
glad to see that the Governor disapproves denn-
ciatory meetings " in the army" as well as athomc
| and as aI the army meetings gotten up by aspiring
officers have been of that character, it follows that
the Governors disapproval extends to every army
meeting which has been held tits certainly desira
bic that the people in their public meetings should
abstain from the use of incorporate language; but
it must be borne in mind that the grievances -'ol
which they complain are great and manifold, and
that those whose acts they crticise and dsapprove
are their servants, who in very many instances have
shown themselves inefficient short sighted aithless
and oppressive in their conduct That the Cover
nor especially deprecates denunciations of any por
tons Of our people Lincolhites and traitors, w
do not doubt; yet ss Governor Of the State it wat
not perhaps his duty 20 recognize any difference IN
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Of those denunciations are concerned. DE step!
forward as a peacemaker between brethren, sant
without casting blame on any, he implores them Il
be reconeied to each other and abstain in the meet
ings which he freely comedies to them the right Il
hold from the use oflanguage which can be product
i've only of mutual estrangement and illfeeling. r
This advice is timely and certainly ellinteaded Of
the part of the Governor, but its observance mus
depend to great extent on its acceptance reject
ion by the Destructive leaders in and out Of the army
1t must not be expected-and the Governor does no
expect-that the great body Of our people will b
silent while they are denounced and charged wit
disloyalty by Destructive leaders and presses -:
No Governor of this State, since the times ths
tried meu's souls in the old revolution, has ha
graver or more perplex,ng responsibilities on hi
shoulders than Gov. Vance. II is simply impossibl
for him SO to act as to please every one. It shoul
be constantly borne in mind that he is stc1rg. o
fcer and that his oath binds him to see mat tt
Confederate laws are enforced fhe mas not ol
tanned tor his State all that was lastly due her,
must be remembered that he has to deal with
stubborn and perverse admirisration at Richmond
and that much Of that Which has been obtaiaed h
been forced from thosse, who whether from accide
or design, have ben singuary Unfortunate IN the
course towar"ls the people e. North Carolina q
~, " e.. pn;e with the Governor in the earnest q
pv-' pu .leh ne M s<es fer unity and harmony amo
: W. people IN his emphatic language, "let not Q
enemy e:% - rejoiced to beLold our strong arms
SIN stronger DEVOTION which have often made b
.remble turned against ourselves" But let
;. with one purpose, rally around the common ia
% let US submit to al laws, whether acceptable
s" odious, until they are repealed by the same po,
= that enacted them; let us remember that anar'
, and bloodshed begin just where the law is di
& gafded and trampled down; and let US also bea
mind, as Conservatives and friends of liberty,
the administration is net the goceTnment and
,, in opposing the former, and in endeavoring te
= form il, we are really proving ourselves the
= friends of the latter 'sITI -.
!, TdGH- HANDED PRocEED1NGs.-The pubiSatio
a the Henderson Times, in this State, Gonserv:
/, aper, was recently suppressed by a Confeds
. Liehtenant with squad Of men. The officer a
- wards kindly consented that the Editor shoul
he sumo, if he would publish according to his or
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