Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-07-29
The Richmond Sentinel Of Saturday contains an
article devoted to the Standard, from which we

make the following extract:
I'm very recent number it 1.-THE Standard has
declared for peace lower basis than we are
tending for; that is it is in favor of reunion with
our enemies, which implies submission to them"
There is not one word of truth in the above
We are not in favor of reunion with our enemies"
or of submission to them" The Sentinel does
not even take the trouble to garble our articles as
misrepresents them without letting its readers see
a word we have said. The Editor calls upon the
jury to convict US, and the Judge to sentence us,
without submitting to them particle of evidence
in the case; but, having condemned US himself, he
calls US a traitor, and leaves US to the law
Well, that is more considerate than the Enquirer.
which would leave US to the tender mercies of tho
mob. We do not fear either.
The Sentinel says, in the article from which the
above is taken, that we are in the habit Of tying
ourself to Gov. Vance, Gov. Graham, Hon. Bedford
Brown, and other distinguished public men in this
State, and "using them as life.preservers." Our
readers know this to be untrue. But the Sentinel
says this, because in the number of the Standard
which he notices, we declared that if we had such
men in power - All. Stephens, William L. Shar-
key, William O. Rives, Herschel V. johnson, Bed
ford Brown, William A. Graham, John A. Gilmer,
Robert P. Dick, and others we might name, we
should have more hope of our final triumph" This
was gall and NORWOOD to the Sentinel and its
masters in Richmond but it is the truth and we
did not hesitate to utter it Of course, every one
who dares to talk in such way about Mr.. Davis is
Dot nd hat
the Confederate cause should fail its failure will be
Justly attributable to the President and his adVi-
sers. The most magnificent resources any people
ever had with which to commence, and carry for
ward, and consummate q revolution, have been
misapplied and wasted and the cause itself has
been prostituted to partyism, so that persons who
did not desire to destroy the old government, but
resisted the secession movement as long as it was
honorable to do so, have been marked and exclu-
ded, as general rule, from all positions Of honor
and trust under the government. We have uni
formly labored to prevent or remedy this state Of
things, but feeble efforts have been of no avail
And because we have so labored, and because 81
our devotion to our native State, We have been ma
ligned and prosecuted and the mob has been called
on to destroy our Office. This mob spirit is every
way worthy of the desperate and lawless men un-
der whose auspices the national Democratic party
was broken up, Lincoln elected, and the old gov
erpment destroyed.
$50 far as Gov. Vance il concerned, it is proper
that we should state that he is not responsible for
the course of the Standard. The Standard is an
independent Conservative paper, and is not the Or
gan of either Presidents, Governors, or Generals
1t is due to Gov Vance himself, as well as to the
Standard, that we should state that he does not
agree with in views on the subject of peace
lie is as anxious as we are to see honorable peace
established at early day possible; but he re-
CARDS peace movements among ourselves, with no
overtures of the kind from the North. premature
and injudicious That he honest and patriotic in
| these views We have no doubt Our views are we'll
known to our readers. We believe that mere fight
ing will not bring peace. We are for speaking
among the people and in the public councils for an
honorable peace, while our soldiers in the field
fighting for such peace. We think there can be no
harm and danger in our people responding to those
| in the North who are anxious for peace. We hold
that peace movements, if we are ever to have peace
again, must begin some time and somewhere; and
that the two governments are so infsmed by the
war spirit and intent on mere physical triumphs,
that unless the people of the two sections rise up and
demand that mental aud moral means shall be re-
sorted to to close the war; those means may not be
employed, and the war may be prolonged indefinite
y. These views of ours may be erroneous, but they
| are honestly entertained They do not separate US
from Gov. Vance, for both of US hold that we can
not cease to fight as long IS we are invaded; and
both of us hold that liberty among ourselves must
be maintained while we are fighting for it against
common enemy, and that the rights and interests
of North Carolina as one of the Confederate States
must be upheld and respected at all hazards. The
| Vaccinations Of the Sentinel and of Destp6ctives
in this State to engender discord and i'll feeling be-
tween Gov Vance and the Standard, will fall
These Destructives, who are devoted to the Con-
federate cause only as it enables them to enjoy Of
flee or indulge their bad passions towards their
neghbors, estimate every thing by the standard of
party; and they would be delighted to see feud
between Gov. Vance and this journal, though the
result should be serious injury to the cause ITSELF
The souls of these people are so small and mean
that they never rise above self We tell them that
they will be disappointed on this, on former &C.
casions. Gov. Vance and the Editor of the STAN
dard are still friendly terms personally and po
lticaly, and we see no reason why they should not
remain so. "Cease vipers, you bite fe."
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE TRooPs.-The Governor
of South Carolina has issued proclamation declar
ing that "the present exigencies of the service
require the completion of the organization recently
begun under the Presidents call upon the Governor
of this State for five thousand troops for service
within the State for six months from the LIST of Au-
gust next" He therefore directs the five thousand
men to be raised from those between 40 and 45 and
others, and orders elections for officers for the regi
ments. Other States yield their conscripts to the
President to be sent to distant fields, but South