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

Try THE GOVERNOR or NORTH.CARO.
ID LIMA A PROCLAMATION.-Wh Whereas q number
Of public meetings have recently been he'd in various por.
lions of the State Of which threats have been
made of combined resistance to the execution of the laws
of Congress- regard to CONSUMPTION and collection of
taxes thereby eudangerng the pupc peace and tranqu
have so soemuly engaged to deend And Whereas it is
nv sworn duty to all the laws of the land faithfully ex
ecuted and quiet and order maintained within our bor-
Now, therefore, I, ZEBULON B. VANCE, Governor Of
the Stale of North Carolina do issue this my Prooama.
on commanding all such persons to renounce such evil
Intentions warning them to beware of the criminal
and fatal consequences of carrying such threats into exc
cution.
The inalienable and invaluable right of the people to
assemble together and consult for the comm good
gether with necessary concomitsnts the freedom Of
speech and the press secured to my countymen
that the
which guarantee these great rights also limit you to the
exercise of them within the bonnds OF law, and impose
upon me the solemn duty of seeing that these bounds be
not transgressed The Constitution of the Confederate
States and all laws passed in pursuance thereof the
supreme law of the knd resistance to them By combna-
ton is treason and without combination, is high crime
against the laws your country Let be deceived
So long these laws remain on the statute book they
shall Be executed. Surely, my countrymen, you would
the country into another You will not knowingly to the
present desolang with the common enemy, add the
horrors of internal strife and entire subversion Of law and
civil authority You must not forget the envable char
acter which you have always maintained as SOBER con-
servative and lawabding people; would have you
to forget the plain eesy ana eoas.sIsas me.noa o, re-
ing laws if you think properyou have that highland
instruct your representatives in Congress or the State
Legislature as the may be, to repeal Mu Your own
servants made those obnoxious lawsthey can re-
peal them if such your instructions you regard
them unconstitutional our supreme cour. SIT; feaEy
decisions are final in the State of North Carolina and
shall be executed while the power remains in your Execu'
tive to enforce law There IS no grievance TO rearess
tn ho In M
cially effected the y fathers marked out by the
balobox and the other appointed msaus
In times Of great public 'Ge ns
geous, and tends to the division ana ol Inc
people so,;,, ,,a bo,s that Of all oood cti
zens that our eople should remain united bea us what
may. Should We triumph in the great struggle for nde
let feelings Of m snd 'ns
short OF that great object for which have struggled 80
long and bled freely, let not our strife and domestic
feuds add to the Of defeat #, Of h,o
would only result in bloodshed and ruin therefore inn
pore you my countryme of all shades political opinion,
nonncnp each other whether at home in the army and
10 avoid seeking remedy for the evils OF the times by
other than legal and through the properly const
which can stir the hearts Of cause OF
liberty and independence. We committed to 1t by
that bind an honorable people tSss
blood whilst Others giving up all earthly are
eithe: augusbng in dung homeless wanderers
through the land and all have felt in greater less de-
gree the iron hand of great and glorious nation
ia struggling to be born, and wondering kingdoms and
distant empires are sted with listening hope and admi-
ration watching this greatest events them
not pray YOU be shocked with the spectacle Of domestic
strife and petty malignant feuds. Let not our enemy be
reoced behold strong arms and stronger DEVOTION
which have often made him remble turned against our
selves Let us rather show that the God of Liberty is in
His Holy Temple-the hearts Of freemen-and bid all the
petty chickering's of earth keep silence before Him.
Instead of engaging in this unholy and unparotic strife
and threatening resist the laws of tn lands and endan
gerng the peace Of society," let us prepare diligently and
with hopeful hearts for the hsrdshps and suffering Of the
coming winter. Heaven has blessed US with abundant
crops but thousands of the poor unable
Let begin time and every effort to provide for them
and secure them against suffering And let US exert our
selves to the utmost to return duty the many brave but
misguided men, who have left their coun flag in the
hour of DANGER and God will yet bless and our children
and our chldreus children will thank for not despair
ing of the Republic its darkest hours of disaster and still
more for adherng to and preserving amid the fiery trial
of war conservative sentiments aud the rights and civil
liberties of the young Confederacy.
In witness whereof ZEBULoN B. VANCE, Gov
81: ernor, Captain General and Commandern.Ch Chief
hath these presents and caused the Great Seal
the State to be affixed
Done at the City of Raleigh this 9TH day September
A. d. 1862 and in the year Of American Independence the
Ssth.
BY the GOVERNOR: z. B. VANCE.
R. q. BATTLE, JR Private Secretary. -
October LIST, 1868. 75-w&sw2w.