Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-01-07
The Virginia Dictatorship.

We are not surprised to find the Raleigh Regis.
ter following the lead of the Richmond Enquirer in
its attempt to dictate to the people Of this State-
The instincts Of the Register are all that way.
The Register characterizes the ten regiment bill
as "disgrace to, the State" 1t says it is "puz-
zled which most to wonder at its vicEedness or its
consummats tolly." The Register, it will be seen,
is an apt scholar of the Enquirer. The latter pa
per charges treason on portion Of the members of
our Legislature, and says there is a "plot" in
Raleigh to "break the unity" of the common gov.
ernment The Register says amen to this, and de.
clares to the world that the State has been "ds-
graeed." "Disgraced" by what? Why, by a SIM
pie effort to raise troops to repel the nvaderl vr-
ginia, Georgia. and South. Carolina have done this
very thing, and yet the Enquirer and Register have
not even noticed their action Why this hectoring,
this abuse towards North Carolina and this silence
in regard to other States, who have done what she
attempted to doi The reason is obvious,-North-
Carolina is Conservative State, and the papers
referred to are seeking to make party capital out of
her conduct as a sovereign State. These papers,
and those who control them, "live, move, and
h1'S suSh oStAS HPsAtys AhSy nSsSA oA~" - VI ASesu
outside Of or above party.
We deny that North. Carolina has "disgraced" {"
herself or broken faith with her co-States, that
the ten regiment bill, as charged by the Enquirer,
is an Outrage" North. Carolina has never yet
"disgraced" herself or broken faith, or "plotted
against her allies and they who say that she has,
are her enemies and calunniators of her character.
The following extract from General Order No. 5S,
of the Adjutant General of South, Carolina, will
show that that State has eight regiments Of reserves
in the field on her own coast:
The Second. Third, Fifth. Sixth. Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth and Eleventh Regiments of the LIST Corps of Re-
Aacng teen accepted far Confederate serric and
ported for duty and sufficient time having elapsed to
afford all perspns desiring exemptions for their overseers
opportunity to present their applications to this office
after this date application will be considered or acted
ON for the exemption of persons oyerseers who are
liable to duty in either Of said Regiments"
And the following extract from the Savannah Re.
publican, of the proceedings Of the House Of Rep
rcsentatives of Georgia on the 18th of last month";
will show that the two regiments recently author
lied by the Georgia Legislature are to be raised d.
rectly out of these subject to conscription The
Republicans correspondent says:
"Iu the House. this morning, motion was made to re-
consider the bill to organize Two regiments Il" State troops
Mr. Lee favored the motion. the ground that State
troops will effect unnecessary and rulnous expense upon
the treasury. Capt Burke opposed the notion Judge
Love favored the notion for the purpose nf adopt the
original BILL which would take the troops from those not
subject to conscrpon Mr. stephens opposed the melton
to recusder and took occasion TO dscaim all hostility to
the President the execution of the Conscrpt law. The
motion to reconsider lost"