Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-07-15
PARTY SPIRIT.

Among the papers attached to the party to which
we were opposed in old party times, and which
have occasionally copied articles from this paper
with high commendation of the spirit manifested,
there are several whose compliments would have
given us much more pleasure if better spirit had
controlled the use made of what we have said. II
our sentiments are worthy of praise, and our exam
pie fit to be commended as worthy Of imitation by
others, surely those who so commend it might
themselves emulate it. Is it impossible, in these
of our people taxed aad all should be united for
the common good, to rise above that wretched par
tisan spirit which now as before the war divides and
embittsrs people by ceaseless charges Of disoy
atty against men, who differed in old times from
their maligners then and nowP If anything could
have driven the people Of North Carolina into dis:
loyalty it would have been done long since by the
most unfortunate course of Few bitter party men
and their allies among the newspapers in this State
and Virginia The war upon such men as Graham,
Badger, Vance, and scores of others might name,
has been continued. from the first day of the war
with the same bitter malgnity THAT marked it before
the war begun. Are their maligners SO blinded by
party feeling as not to see intent upon party
success as to be careless Of the result that this is
calculated to effect? Can they. wonder that peo-
pie who know only what newspapers tell them are
led to believe by such charges against such men,
daily made or insinuated that these great and in
auential men are really opposed to Southern Inde-
pendencel Or, that once convinced of this, people
should believe that their proper position was the
same as that which they are falsely told is occupied
by those great and honest and patriotic citizens p
We beg these stirrers up.of party strife to think of
these things, and to pause in course which, what
ever its motive, is far more injurious to the great
cause than the hosts sent against US by the common
foe. 1t is with no little pride and satisfaction that
we can say thst there is party spirit in this
ton Of North Carolina; there has been and is no
talk Of treason or disoyalty here and there is no
treason or dsloyaty. There is very little of it. we
believe, in any part of the State and less than in
any other State in the Confederacy. What there is
has been made by the unfortunate policy of politi-
clans in our midst.
Il is not often We meddle with the sayings and
doinss Of the politicians who yet trouble the people
of North Carolina. Not because we do not feel the
wrong done. the State and the Confederacy, but
because we do not wish to add 20 strife already dis
graceful But there is a party war lately commenc-
ed Of far more evil tendency than that to which
we have alluded. 1t is the war upon the Judica-
ry of North Carolina For the sake of all that is
dear to us let this at least be stopped Or if must
20 on, atleast wage the war in some other way
Misreseesentation of their decisions may end not
only IA dshonoring our State where the facts are
not kaawn, but to most deplorsble consequences in
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