Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-02-20
60 He that withhoIdeth Corn, the People shall
Curse Him.

''He that withhoIdeth Corn, the People shall
Curse HIM.
The Progress mentions man in our market who
sells meal to the families of soldiers at one dollar
per bushel. We learn Mr. Eldridge Partin, of this
County, is the man. That paper says:
On enquiry lie told us that nc for the war
until Lincons proclamation, calling upon North Carolina
Tor troops issued but he became man then and
has been since and he Thought the best way he
could prOnute the of the COnfederacy to Sell Inc
families of soldiers aud meal for dor buShel
aud that he should continue to furnish them at that as long
as he had any Here is man; man that sustalns
the cause and stands 10 the government and whatever
may be the ISSUE ofS unfortunate struggle the historian
w give bus name place on the scroll OF fame ana pos
terity will honor hun"
The Progress adds the following, in which we
cordially concur with that paper:
Bu We have other notable characters that would pass
over Could but We the extortloner
the ShyOck who wthhods bread from his brother and
who would starve the people and sink the cause OF the
COnfederacy TO increase his gains We learn there
such in this CoHny-in fact their have been given
to us;-nen who We told have hundreds and thOn-
sands of barrels of housed and who refuse to sell to
anybody at any price. These statements come to us
through responsible and infOrmants
or other Responsible persons will furnish US written state
citizens of the County of Wake that holding grain when
the poor are almost starving for bread.
man comes home from the army to his destitute wife
and children his Scany pay thrOug the negligence
of officials months behind and finds them o starving
condition He for himself that the barn of his wealthy
and the kind offices of county committees having been
absorbed in speculation and selfshness, the
that he leaves his family he leaves them almost certain
starvation and be resolves to desert skuk and to look
after them. We all admit that he does wrong, but then
we must admit that the temptation is stronga temptation
100 that appeals 10 all the Inner feelings OF mans nature
connublal and parental affections The deserter is how
ever, finally arrested tried md shot. His family is left to
beggary starvation and disgrace but the wealthy who
boarded his when the wife and little of the
unfortunate soldier cried for bread-the of twenty
or more niggersst lives and breathes and accounted
Il OOO1 lctiZ and IbriSti hvn
Oh reachery oh reaSun The history of this will de-
veop more OF selfish mcanneSS, of SOrdd lust for
gau, aud more heldeServing hypocrisy than century Ut
peace The sleek, well fed and well clothed SPECTATORS
eXortOnrrS aud Shy of the land may withhold their
meat and bread and other fat things now, but can
promise them that there is fearful day of reckoning
store Tor them, and 1t may not be lar distant.
How dare a large Shareholder with his cribs
bursting with corn, and his smoke houses crowded
with meat withhold food from the families of our
soldiers or sell it to them at famine prices Eel
ow-citzcns, these are the traitOrs-these are the
enemies of the Southern cause. We know such
men in this and other Counties of the State Their
names have been furnished us, and we will publish
them in due time unless they change their conduct
NiReteRths Of them original SeceSSi0nistS but
the cOwardly wretches skulk from the war which
they were so anxious to bring on, and remain at
home to grow rich by grinding the faces Of the poor
This war has already made from three to five thou
sand widows, and from fifteen to twenty thousand
orphans in this State In these families and in
thousands Of Others nearly all of whom are poor,
every dust of meal ard every pound Of meat is care
fully and even Sparingly used and the little ones,
who have no friend but GoG cheerfully share their
crusts with each other in a kindly Christian spirit
They are huRgering and suffering that liberties
may be won! The stake which they have in the
contest is comparatively small; yet what sefsacr-
flee, what patience, what sublime endurance do
they exhibit in the cause! Perhaps their fathers,
because they sought to avoid the war as long as
they hOnoraby could were called traitors by these
very secesSioniSts whose cribs are now bursting
with corn, and who Specializing on the
very bones and marrow of these children; and the
only answer which these fathers made to the burn
ing insult to go forth to suffer in camp and die
in battle. Before God and man, we believe that if
Southern independence shall be lost, it will be MAIN
ly owing to the avarce the extortion and the spirit
ofspeculation prevailing among US, and ochieh is
chiefly confined TO the original secessi0nists This
is our information from nearly every neighborhood
in the State Such men worse than Lincoln
ties. The Lincontes are open enemies, and we
have no claims upon them; but these men are
traitors and enemies in our very midst They
would Strange liberty in its very cradle in order
to put money into their filthy pockets.