Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-02-04


to raise the pay of privates and non-eommissioned
officers to twenty dollars per month We trust
the two Houses will unanimously pass this reso-
luton.
We have condemned the pursued BY the Raleigh
Standard because we kusw that it was rous to the
of the South We have accused the editor OF
that paper Of dsloyay but have simply against
his course hurtuf TO the Confederate Wester
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We can respect contemporary, how much soever
it may differ with US in opinion, proydedt does not
call in question our motives or charge US with
want Of integrity or honor. No man shall! do this
with IMMUNITY. We know the rectitude Of our mo.
lives and intentions, and God knows them and no
man worthy of nstice shall question them without
receiving merited punishment We, therefore, &C.
cent the disclaimer of the Democrat, and we do it
the more readily, BECAUSE in some instances, We had
inferred from the course of the Democrat towards
US, that we should be compelled to place it in the
category of our enemies and calumniatorS
But the Ecmecrat says, I've have condemned
the course pursued by the Raleigh Standard, be-
cause knew that it was injurious to the cause of
the South" How did the Democrat knop this p
BY what mode Of reasan,ns O.. ahat~ faats eaas's3
the Democrat to arrive Mt such knowiadgef Is it
not mere matter of'opinion with that pspsrt We
entertain very different opinion and the facts JUS
tify US in saying, that we know the contrary, for
the following 1t will not be denied that no
State in the Conederacy has done more for the con
mon cause than North Carolina, in men, means or
sympathy 1t cannot be denied, that both in our
place IN the State Convention and through the Stan
dard, we have advocated and urged erery measure
which tended to. promote the common cause. 1t
cannot be denied that two thirds, at least Of tho
people of North Carolina have been with u.s. and
have sustained our course 1t cannotbe denied that
the Standard has the largest circulation Of any pa
per in the State, and enemies being witnesses,
has the most extensive influence upon the masses.
We are receiving hundreds Of letters per week. from
all parts Of the State, in which our course is most
warmly approved Are the people opposed to, and
disposed to injure therown government? 1.-THE Stan
dard is so are the thousands who thus approve its
course. 1t cannot be denied, that no paper in the
State exerted wider influence in inducing our peo-
pie to volunteer for the war $han the Standard
Let the large number of Conservative men in the
army answer
Wherein, then, is our ofencei We imploredthe
officials and pets Of both the State and Confederate
governments, for months after the war began, t.
abandon their party favoritism and policy during
the war We were opposed in all sincerity and
honesty to all partyisfn during the war, and SO ware
the Conservatives of the State to man. How were
they treated? Ignored almost entirely in all offices
of prominence denied the position of equals abused
and villified as traitors. and threatened that 50
hideous mark" should be put upon Them They
were thus forced against their will to assume an
attitude Of hostility not to the cause the govern.
ment-what they have done for it proves but
to the partisan eontrolers. of both, goyernments,
who thus maligped and m;streated them. They
were forced iassslfdefehoe; 70 adopt party posi-
ton as dernier resort and hence the Dsstructives
in this State were routed horse foot and dragons
We haveopposed, and shall continue to do so,
the measures and acts Of the Destructive partizans
in both governments, who seek to uproot, violate
or impinge the Constitution of the Confederate or
State governments; who, With the mouth advocate
the Constitutional rights and guarantees Of the
States but break them in the net; WIN sustain the
administration and Congress in their violations of
the Constitution their disregard of the sacred right
OF hd0eds corpus in elevating the military above the
civil power, and in all acts which tend to abrdee
the liberties Of the citizen We shall oppose. in
sH, every sdvanee towards despotism o.. monarchy.
md ehe dsshztion or abridgement Of the liberties
Of the psopla Dor this, We suppose the Dsnssyot
thinks our comss injurious to the governuIsas
We differ widely with that paper. We eeliSts 81
this course We sustain the government And Aher to
perpetuata it in all its vigor dsRutitys ~ =