Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-09-10
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From the Fayetteville Observer.
NoRTa CAROLINA PoLITIos.-WitI some in
convenience comply with the . andard ) re-
quest to copy entire its reply to our appeal to
il on the I7t.l lust under the above head. 1t
merits renndsr, though it shows manifest
symptoms of disease with which celebrated
politician of our State was once said to be affiic
ted viz ''a dlarrhea Of 0ords." e... .#
One,thrd of the Standards artice ID dsvo-
ted To an arraignment of the Confederate Ad-
ministration for, it's course from its inaugura
tlon at Montgomery to t;:e present moment" :"
That course is denounced as "slrtctly partisan"
and proserptive. Our readers not now to
learn for the first time, that we think the Ad-
snustratiou has grievously erred in not treat
ing all old party lines as obIterated oy lac
war. We said that. in the article TO which the
S.anG ard replies, as we'll previously. Bat
the Standard certainly does the President i..J
tce III one particular. We are not positively
informed as To it's statement that nn man who
did not regard the election of Mr LINCOLN as
good cause tor dissDlvlng the Union has been
ad mitted to the Presidents Cabinet, though
we are inclined tn think it incorrect. But
when it says that prescription at such men an
the field has been the order OF tins day. it is un.
douh- ealy mistaken. Tue three hig hest tsener
als 10 the army, to go 40 arther, were Union
men-Cooper, Lee ahd Johnson. We think
moreover that the three Generals for whose ap
pointment to high commands the President has
been so much abused--his ''pets" as She Sand
ard calls them-LoveI Pemberton and Holmes
were Union msu. We know Gen. Holmes
Ia have been enthusiastic IN his devotion
20 the old Union but when, some days before
Lincou's proclamation OF April 1861, he was
ordered to make PREPARATIONS for the INVASION
of the South, ae resigned and caras here TO de-
tend the South. s-t
onto out ther
the Standard has fallen but We prefer to re-
mind it. that this policy OF which 1T complains
as governing the Administrations II ON ITS 1aaug
uratiou at montgomery to the present moment
Eust nave been apparent to 1t tor months De
fore tg Editor, as a memo ot the Convention
of North Carolina. snted for and signed AMI glo
r.fed the Ordinance Of separation from the Uni-
TED States and of formal union with the afore' t
said government at Montgomery. That was |
one time, it strikes US, to pause and consider
whethsr We should unite the State OF North Gar
nIina with such a wicked goverameEt as the I
Standard describes that at Montgomery 10
have been Tie E litor of the Standard did |
not pause-the s'wisa man did not foresee
the evil and hide himself" He rightly and /
heatiiy, mot only cast off the old COVE ernment /
but embraced ths new one, aud plunged Nerth
Carolina into tns existing war. Ii is now too
late for the Standard to discuss the question as
to the necessity of this war, VIII" is most to
blame that it was not avoided. We shall not
follow it in sucn a discuss,oa. not only because
lit would te proftless, but because we should
be mpeiled TO show It's own responsibility as
for years leader of the seeessonists and stir
rer up of strife ostween our people athome and
between, North and South. .u II
But there was Jet another time to pause. -
Before the Presidential Election in November |
lssl, the policy of the Administration had
been plainly developed by nearly ayear's prae
tce, the President had chosen his advisers they |.
were known to the Standard, and number Of
other things OF which the Standard now com: 1t
plains had already occurred, yet the Standard /,
e.. only Supported the President for . rs.s,so.
hat it was not heartily in his favor. We 4
lhink the STANDARD was then right. We were /,
Governed by precisely the same considerations /
hat appeared to iniuenoe it then. Not that h
gs thopght the President perfect: Nor aP- Es
roved 81 all that he has done: But we sup; /
ported him because we felt perfectly satisfied S
bat bis heart and mind and body were devoted 4