Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-10-30
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DIR CAUSE AND POIJGY


In times like these the chief requisite to public
servant is unwavering fidelity to our cause. 1t
is the solemn conviction of nv heart that our cause
is just. Freedom and the rights of man everywhere
morality and social order the rights of persons and
of property, pride and interest-al that is dear to
man-sppeal to US to resist the CALLING yoke of des-
potism and tyranny which Lincoln and his abolition
friends are endeavoring to hsten upon US. We
would be recreant to God-ingrate and false to our.
selves and our posteFity, to the memories of our
slaughtered countrymen, to our heroic soldiers, to
the hallowed fame of so many well fought battle
fields of this revolution, and to the glorious souve-
Mrs of our forefathers, we to bend the knee
to our adversaries and fawn upon their frowns.
In arduous struggles like the present, great dan-
ger to be apprehended from individual chickering's
and State jealousies. 1t only by the unceasing
efforts of Washington and his compatriots that our
revolutionary fathers were saved from like danger
We need that strength which can be found only in
perfect union of hearts and sentiments Public
servants and private citizens should do all in their
power to unite all the people of our whole country,
and especially the people of sovereign States. All
the States of the Confederscy have suffered and done
much in this great struggle. Their devastated fields
and smouldering ruins, the blight of so many once
happy homes, their citizens in exile, the walls of
widowhood and the cries of orphanage, and the
bones of thousands of their best sons now bleach
ing upon hundred classic battle fields attest the
truth of this assertion North-Carolna may we'll
lead the van in restoring concord and amity among
sisters that have suffered so much and fought so
we'll in a common cause. She may bid farewell to
envy and jealousy. l would not have her heart
poisoned by such grovelng sentiments. The modest
and gentle mother of a'lion-hearted soldiery that
have advanced her standard so high in the van of
this revolution, needs envious tongue to sing her
praise. Bethel, the two Manassas, the immortal
Seven Days around Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Charlottesville, Sharpsburg and Gettysburg and
Chickamauga, are the monuments. Of her undying
fame and glory. For her they paint many moral
and adorn many tale. They will attune many a
harp and tongue to sing her praise. They will
transmit her name down to the remotest posterity
in history and in song.
Whilst we should try to unite our own people, we
should leave effort untried to divide the people
of the United States l very much fear that our
Confederate and State legislation has been at fault
in this respect By this l do not wish to be un-
derstood as blaming any one. If we have erred in
this respect it has been the error of all plrties and
all persons having the control of our afiirs since
the beginning of our troubles. But cannot regard
the peace Democrats of the United States with the
same hostile feelings as do the Abolitionsts and
Lincoln. When witness the opposition of hun
dreds and thousands Of them to Lincoln's usurpa-
tons OF authority, my heart warns towards them,