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

had been so deceived as to the character of the pa
per and its Editor, that they enqured at Pacific de-
pot, few miles this side of Franklinton, if it was
true that the federal flag was flying over the STAN
dard Office!
On the subsequent Friday evening another at
tempt was made to mob my Office by portion of
the 4th Alabama, which was prevented by the pres
ence of Gov. Vance and an armed force from Camp
Holmes. And learn also that night or two af.
terwards some twenty. five South Carolinians, with
arms in their hands, were met on Hillsborough
street looking for the Standard Office, with the in
tention of completing what the Georgians had be-
gun. They were told that if they attempted it they
would be fred upon by the provost guard, and re-
sisted by the citizens, whereupon they returned to
their camp
trace this mob spirit to the course pursued by
the Richmond Enquirer, the Raleigh Register, the
State Journal and Charlotte Bulletin and also to
the so-called "Army Convention" All the papers
named had repeatedly called for mob law against
the Standard. Some of them had urged the gov.
ernment the people, and the soldiers to suppress
the paper BY force and the so-called "Army Con.
veption,n whose proceedings were first given to the
puhaio in the religious press, advised course in
rsiation to the Standard which the members Of the
Convention knew the COVER hment could not adopt
if it would and which inevitably tended to and en-
couraged mob law, as is clearly shown by the COM
munication from the Progress copied in the Stan
dard of to-day. The ffuits of these appeals were
seen in the mob Of troops from another State which
assailed my Office and in the destruction of the es-
tablishment Of the State Journal. My readers will
bear witness that have at all times opposed mob
law. Nothing will justify resort to it.
And now, what have done, or omitted to do, to
justify Or palliate such an outrage? If had com.
mitted treason it was the duty of Gov. Vance to
rest me; and even if he had believed that was at
heart opposed to the Confederate cause, it would
have been his duty to have withheld his official pa
pers from my columns and to have discoon tenanced
me personally as dsloyal man. was assailed in
cowardly manner, my property injured, and my
Constitutional rights trsmpled down, on account of
my opinions 1t was done because had boldly and
uniformly defended the rights and the honor of nv
native State-and had labored to reform the admin
istraton at Richmond, so as to save the cause-and
had vindcated the rights of the soldiers against op-
preston in the army and their families against the
injustice and cold charity of certain characters at
kome-ana had exerted myself to maintain civil law
against military power-and had insisted that whilst
the war should be pressed with the utmost vigor.
and dcsertion and resistance to law dscountenanced
and repressed statesmen and people at home should
cast about anxiously for some means to initiate ne
%bof o;ohf and; IN
"My offence hath this extent-no more"
With vast majority Of the people Of this State
was Union man up to Mr. Lincoln's proclama-
ton, calling for troops to make war Georgia and
other seeded States. then ceased to be Union
man. 1 advocated, as advocate now, resistance to
Mr.. Lincoln. As one of the 12O delegates to the
State Convention signed the ordinance of separa-
ton, and voted to make North Carolina a Confed-
crate State. did this sadly but firmly While q
member Of the Convention 1 voted for every meas
ure which l thought would advance the Confed-
crate cause, and sustained every measure of the
kind in the Standard. have contributed as much
in proportion to my means to the Confederate c,use
as any man in the State. 1t was my earnest wish
from the first that party feeling should be buried,
and that our whole people as a band Of brothers
should make common cause against the common
foe. But this was not permitted by those who con.
troled the Confederate government and the govern
ment of this State. The most rigid partyism was
inaugurated at Montgomery and Raleigh and sub.
sequently carried out at Richmond Every citizen
Of this State who had labored to preserve the Union
up to Mr.. Lincoln proclamation, and who would not
for personal pecuniary advantage admit that his
opponents were right in urging secession before the
appearance Of that document, and right in prefer
ring to break up the old government was marked
unit for civil or military Office. Mr.. Davis flled
his Cabinet and appointed bis foreign ministers
from his partizan friends. His example was fol-
lowed in this State Mr.. Davis appointed nearly
all his Brigaders and Major Generals from his par
tzan supporters; and his example was followed in
this respect by Governors Ellis and Clark in their
appointments in the ten State regiments. When
the old Union men, but now true Confederates, re.
monstrated against this injustice, and reminded
their opponents that they were sending two men to
the field TO their to fight the battles they
insultingIy, told that it their duty to serve
that "those who made the revolution were alone
entitled to conduct it"-and that the old Union
| men, but now true Confederates unless they sub
mitted quietly to such treatment, and behaved
themselves would have a "hideous mark " put up.
on their foreheads, by which they and their child
rem after them would be known as traitors. This
led to the formation of the Conservative party Of
this State, composed of persons who had belonged
to the Wing and Democratic parties Those vino
formed this party did so reluctantly, in self
At the next election they carried their nominee
Gov. yance,) by thirty five thousand majority,
and both branches of the Legislature. Ny opinions
are now what they were then, and if am traitor,
then are two.thrds Of our people also traitors.
Meanwhile the proscriptiye partizan policy OF
the administration at Richmond was filing the army
and the civil Offices with original secession partizans
and such as had abandoned their former views fol
place, TO the almost total exclusion Of the old Union
men, but now true Confederates. Every Confeder
ate Office in this State, believe, was occupied oy
these partizsns; and Of the eighteen Brigadiersap
pointed by Mr.. Davis from this State, but two were
CONSERVATIVES. Persons fron. Virginia, South Car
olina, Mississippi; and even the foreign State o
Maryland, were appointed to Offices in our mids
over the heads. Of our people. The fifth medj
cal director for the State 4or example, hsd been ap
pointed from Virginia or Maryland; and on th