Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-30
Resolutions Vindicat1ng the Character of North
CarOlina-Interesting Proceedings.

The proceedings of the two Houses of our Gen.
eral Assembly, on Tuesday last were unusually in
teresting. Reports having been circulated, both in
this State and out of it. that large portion Of our
Legislature were untrue to the South, and were
"plotting," use the language of that organ of
Jews and renegade Yankees, the Richmond Enqutr
er-"to break the unity of the Confederacy," reso-
lutions were introduced in both Houses, indicating
the character of State against this SANDER and
asserting the determination of people to per-
form their whole duty in the pending struggle for
independence. These resolutions were introduced
in the Senate by Mr.. Arendell, of Carteret and
Jones, and in the House by Capt Grissom, of Gran
vile. They will be found in the proceedings of
Tuesday, in our paper to-day. They were ably and
eoquenty sustained in the Senate by Messrs. Aren-
0Cll, Brown, Warren, Smith of Macon, and Sharp;
and in the House by Messrs. Grissom, Amis, and
others. They embody new views or sentiments
of the Conservatives Of this State but they the
same uniformly entertained by them since the
proclamation of Lincoln calling for troops, in APRIL
1861.
But will it be believed that these resolutions-so
full and clear in their expressions of devotion to the
common cause, and so appropriate in the manner in
our people, were opposed and voted against by
portion Of the members of the two Houses? l. IS
even so. In the Senate, Mr.. Carraway of Martin,
Mr. Copeland of Northampton, Mr.. Drake of War
rem, Mr. Murrill of Onsow, Mr.. White Of CASTOR,
and Mr.. Young of Mecklenburg; and in the House,
Mr. Brown of Mecklenburg Mr.. Cobb of Edgecombe,
Mr. Costner of Lincoln, Mr. Crawford of Wayne,
Mr. Gillian of Rockingham Mr.. Hodges of Dupln,
Mr. Lemmonds of Union, Mr.. Love of Haywood,
and Mr.. Rves of Wayne, VOTED IN THE NEG
ATIVE That these gentlemen true to their
country we entertain no doubt; but what record
have they made for the public enemy for the eyes of
their constituents, and for posterityl 1t will be
known every where and the enemies of the country
will hear that fifteen members of the Legislature of
North Carolina have solemnly recorded their votes
in opposition to resolutions which denounce re-
construction of the Union, and pledge the State to
the continued prosecution of the war. The reasons
which influenced these members cannot be known,
either to our enemies or to posterity. They will
see only the record, and from that they will draw
| their own conclusions. Thank God there is no
Conservative name in that list. Every name re-
corded in the negative is either Destructive or
! sympathizer with that class of public men.
The introduction of the resolutions occasioned no
little auttering among the Destructives in the two
Houses They felt that their work of making party
capital against the Conservatives by encouraging,
outside the Capitol, these attacks upon them, was
at an end; and that member, or those members
especially who have been writing to the Richmond
Enquirer, encouraging it in its defamation and
abuse of the Conservatives of this State must have
felt that it not good to be there, while Messrs.
Grssom, and Brown, and Arendell, and Warren,
were dissecting those anonymous characters who had
given life and currency to these ISLANDERS.
twill be hangd, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cugging cnzening slave, To get some office,
Hath not devsd this SANDER
This appeared to be the opinion of nearly every
one, but tehO this sging, cozening" individual
was, did not appear.
Mr. Copeland, of the Senate so brimfull of South
ern ardor to be engaged nearly every day in ques-
tionng the loyalty of certain prints, whose ndepen-
dent course seems to interfere with his digestion,
thought the resolutions so unnecessary that he
would vote to lay them on the tablet The pill
contained too much asafcntida for the Doctors
stomach Mr.. Person, of the Commons, though a
person of some intelligence could not sufficiently
comprehend the resolutions, though they were read
from the Clerks desk two three times, to decide
how he ought to vote,.and so he asked to be CT,
cused The House excused him. Mr.. Costner, Of
Lincoln, was within the bar Of the House, but
lodged. Mr.. Cowles very properly moved that he
be required to vote The House required him. and
Mr.. Costner rose to perform the painful duty. His
chief reason for not wanting vote for the resolu-
tions was that they endorsed the ten regiment bill
We always thought that Mr.. Costner possessed an
undue degree of acumen, and now we know it.
"Optcs keen it takes, ween,
! To see what is not TO be seem"
But Mr.. Costner saw It. He saw it and SHE'D like
skittish colt whose wondering vision is suddenly
arrested by blazed sapling on the road side. But
the lash of the House brought him up to the object
he backed, snorted, and then ran plump against it
He voted NO. Mr.. Love then rose and said that he
voted no, on Mr.. Costner's reasons. He did this,
| we presume because he had no reasons of his own.
| Mr. PEBBLES not in the House The presump-
ton is that Mr.. PEBBLES lodged. Mr.. Cobb said he
approved of portion of the resolutions and disap
proved of another portion of them, and so he voted
against them. Has Mr.. Cobb thought of the effect
of this statement OF his on the public enemy They
will think it strange, to say the least, that repre-
| sentative from Edgecombe should object to any po--
ton of resolutions which are so truly Southern in
| their character. Think of it Mr.. Cobb. 1t may be
well to rise to a personal explanation.
| But the resolutions were triumphantly adopted
and we trust that the voice of Islander will now be
| hushed Will it be? We shall see.
We invite the attention of readers to the very
interesting speech of Mr. Graham, delivered in the
Senate on the message of the Governor touching the
! case of the Rev. R. j. Graves