Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-07-21
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&c Let us have q Peace ConYention.V

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Let US have Peace Convention" is now the heart
felt cry OF the great of the people For peace for
peace ascend the prayers of widows and orphans made
tors and then to be danger of starvation The grasp
ing spectators aud extoroner alone look upon this
with per ure Is filing their pockets, while it is de-
Sr0yng the very vltas OF the people. All peace
The soldiers IN the army sick OF the dreadful
enacting around them. One poor fellow, who was killed
at ChanceiorsVe, IN the last letter he wrote to his
friends at the end of nearly every placed the
words Oh, If we could but have peace! tired of
tins dreadful war and he but echoed the cry that
bursting from the hearts of his comrades many of whom
charge
1t impossible to enumerate the evils of secession
as it is To define right Let give this
mighty element which has deluged our once happy coun
try with blood and laid waste most prosperous
tons, and filled with horror and grief every heart its
proper name-rebelliOn-which has originated civil war;
one, too, which might easily have been avoided had
turned to the legislative halls instead of TO the sword for
Justice
But it was not the policy of the Destructives allow
this TO WELD the sceptre of power which they Guild
never hope to do under the old government to gain fat
offices, and to make themselves rich by tyrannizng
the people, were their Objects and the people, listening
to their specOus reasoning, unconscousy assisted
them by rushing madly on to their destruction
They now See their danger and that there is but
to avert i-that is BY speedy and Just peace and that
Can be obtained only by Convention
Mr. Holden you have upheld the rights of the State and
people, when the Desructives would have tramped them
like dust under their feet You have strven keep alive
the feeble spark of freedom within the hearts of the peo
pie, while they have sought utterly quench it. They
have endeaVored again and again. to make minons to
their WILL but have shown that North Carolina, the
oceanrOcked cradle of liberty, has nurtured brave sons
that will not tamey see their rights wrested from them
who Will hight against oppression in whatever form it ap
pears GU have done all this and for it the people thank
YOU Bring forward this idea of Peace Conven ton and
contend Tor 1t vigorously, and they will bless you
One tnng Is certaln-we must not wait for the North to
propose one they will never do it, Although have
put forth almost superhuman efforts and have bravely
won many hard fought battle yet it is amentabe fact
that we have lost much nearly all the cities coast
have falen and with them the flower of army The
North well knows that even if we fight to the last man.
we cannot much longer fill up decreasing ranks
disease and death IN almost every form rapidly dmin
shlng them, and where be found to fill their
places? Not IN the Southern States most assuredy On
the contrary at the North constant stream of
ready to repIenish their army navy the
immense quantities of grain which were borne to our
Shores are flooding the markets. and these supply good
and plentiful provisions both the army and the poor
While the manufactures of fax and wool in foreign
tries as well as in the Northern States provide them with
warm clothing; while brave fellows often have
tend with hunger and partial nakedness well with
their actual foes who but the widest fanatic could
suppose that with such immense advantages over u.s. that
the North Will ever propose terms of peace? No. must
make the first overtures and let it be before blood
IS split Of course the administration at Richmond will
not any such proceedings especially if begun
In N Carolina but let the State send ambassadors to
ingon to enter into negotiations for peace-they would
be gladly received Doubtless there true men
the South or at least in good old State that would
gladly go IN such noble cause.
PATRIOTA.
Guilford Co., July 4, 1868.