Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-16

ference oil hclmO0Q
of North Carolina and to its false and insulting lmPuS
tons upon her. But have just heard some acts wncn
are should induce il to let alone and turn
its batteries upon Virginia. Those facts that Ine
at Richmond show that in plumber OF troops H b
the States to the Confederate States MN
in white population stands No. at TIE head o. ne ass s
10 StGtes whilst Virginia by far the largest IN wne Pop
ulaton stands No. in number OF troops urnlsnea anu
to neutraze the power of what she has furnished TO the
Conederacy Perponts part Of Virginia CLAIMS 70
furnished 80 900 men to Lincons army Nor'n-O9rO~
has furnished none to Lincoln
Now strikes that mputatons against the ioyaS Oh
NorihCaroina come with very 9ao grace irOu1 and
most especially from the Virginia organ OF the Conieoeae
government which NorhCaroina has done ana Is oong
much to maintain and. defend. . -,
Our State has the most has conessedy cotne9
them better than any others they everywhere poteo
for being orderly than any others they nave pee
in battles and shed bod than any Others and
yet orsOoth these Vrgnians lecture her upon ana
duty falsely charge her with entertaining Plos a.
lurking hope of restoration reconstruction OF the
deunct and despsed Union And of the high Officers
OF the Confederate government whose duties Drng MN
in contact with thousands of HOrh-CarOinans, both
civilians and soldiers nsolently and falsely calls her
damned nest of traitors for which, If President Davis
has proper idea of what is due to dimssf and to an
nsGlted State he will pitch the anderer out of the office
he dIsgraces.
The Eaquirers impuations are offensive to North Care
na and should be discontinued She do without the
mgertneut advice Of that she did in the election
there be end OF it, if the Enquirer really desires unity
of feeling and the of the great causeFdyteUs
Observer.
The foregoing, from one of the most reliable
papers in the Confederacy, is worthy of considera-
ton. Wehave doubt that the facts stated showing
what this State has done in the way of troops for
the common defence are true. Virginia has suf-
fered immensely 10 this war; and general thing,
those of her people who are loyal have done their
whole duty; but more than forty of her Counties
are hostile to the Confederacy, and the people of
those Counties have actually created State and
applied for admission into the Lincoln Union I!
Lincoln, in his emancipation proclamation, has
expressly exempted those Counties from the opera
ton of the proclamation, thus rendering it perfect
ly apparent that majority of their people are with
him in sentiment And if it be true, as claimed BY
Perpont's part of Virginia, that he has furnished
thirty thousand troops to fight for Lincoln then it
is also apparent that Virginia has been fighting for
the South with her right hand and for the North
with her left. And yet the Enquirer comes for
ward to lecture North Carolina for disloyalty =
North Carolina whose people are a unit in their
opposition to Northern aggression, and who have
| furnished more than eighty thousand men to fight
| for the South, ana not one to fight against it.
We have before US the Weekly Aississppian, Of
ordinary fact that no steps hare been taken an that
State to enforce the conscrpt lao passed at the last
session of Congress. The Mississippian says:
"wur Is NOT THE CoSscaIPr LAW ENEoRcED?-This
| question is the lips of every Through OF
difficulties majority Of the Congress responded to the
recommendation of the President that the public exgen
ces mperousy required that the law should be amended
so as embrace persons between the ages of thrtvC
and fortyive years and though three long months Of
painful and intense anxiety have passed. yet in Mississippi
ut least, ii has not been put into execution. Strange
say the above all others recommended by the
President-uTged by the President-demauded by the
cOuntry-fOught through by majority of COngressthG
required meet this appalling exigency stand
dead letter far Mississippi Is Concerned While thu
savage foe with advancing columns have large
portion of the State and pressing to its CENTRE the
question recuTs why has il not been executed? The
try requires answer and if It be not satisfactorily given
the demand should be repeae through Congress upon h
assembling of that body"
North Carolina is drained to the last man of hel
conscripts-they are hunted down over hill and
dale and in some cases forced into service and that
too while she stands first among the States in thu
number of her soldiers already in service, being
in white population yet Mississippi, the p resident:
State is thus far relieved of the second CONSUMPTION
the law being dead letter. so fer as she is con.
cerned Comment is useless. Let the fact b
known that President Davis has ordered rigid ex
ecution of the late consumption law in North Caro-
lima and that the same law remains " dead letter
so far as his own State is concerned This fac
cannot be denied, for we have it from the Nssissip
plan itself.