Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-27
Extracts from Letters.

Extracts from Letters.
We make the following extracts from letters ad-
dressed by subscribers and Others to the Editor OF
the Standard:
DURHAM's Orange Co., JAM 16, 1858.
have been close observer of your course ever since
the began and heartily approve of it, especially your
reply to the Richmond Enquirer. North Carolina VIII
never submit to Virginia Dictator any dictator"
YADkIN INSTITUTE, Davidson Co., Jan 90; 1859.
Send me the Standard another year. 1t speaks ree
and independent language We breathe more freely aier
perusng it."
TRAP HILL, Wilkes Jan. Is, 1858.
"Your paper gets nearly all the subscribers at this Of
says the Standard"
PROFESSIONALLY Rockingham, Jan. 90, 1862.
The of the Standard has satisfied me- though
the Richmond Enquirer and other journals seem 70
be dissatisfied with it. have good reason to beheVe tnat
hreeourths of the people part Of the State approve
your course"
HIGHLAND VALLEY, Haywood, Jan. 16, 1853.
al hope you will not relax in your noble defence OF Con
it and the shouts of the Conservatives will 20 up
for you as one man."
TRANsrLvAN1r Co. Jan. 16, 1863
"No doubt you have heard of the " laurel war which
took place in Madison last week. 1t reality in its
way. The mob entered Marshall in force and seized the
County salt and other things in regular mob STYLE The
remote the Stay law and suspension of the
Courts The people have come to think that there IS no
law the land The immediate cause is said be owing
to dissatisfaction in the distribution of the County
salt The robbers charge that the salt due to some faml
lies had been withheld account of their political opn-
uncomfortable Not few of them ihstigated, no
doubt by the cold boy himself for plumber which went
some mystery about this sail matter What right has the
salt agent To dictate the different Counties what con-
tracts they shall make get the salt hauled and how and
to whom shall be distributed? The people of some of
the Counties complain that the salt is unequay disribu-
ted Many think would be of advantage change the
salt agent and appoint who would not insult every
who goes for salt. am glad to the Standard,
the Governor and the Legislature taking strong stand
for personal liberty The principle should be maintained
Tlr,o IN
do justice to this principle Those who and heard him
recently the Western circuit generally pretty well
fitness proceeds from it inquire into since
it all the those who suffer from his unftneSs-
He ought to be got off the bench, if possible"
We have the proof, and can produce it if neces-
sary, that Judge Saunders charged the Grand Jury
of Rutherford County, at Court which he recently
held in Rutherfordton, that there was certain class
of men in this State who endeayoring to bring
about conflict with the Confederate Government
and that there was an Edtor-meaning the Editor Of
the Standard-who was doing every thing in his
power to bring about this conflict and that he
ought to be tarred and .feGthered We hayeno par
tcular feeling on the subject for we do not regard
any thing that Judge S. says about us; but we do
think that Judge who from the bench, instigates
the people to mob law, ought to be impeached
That is our opinion. But it appears to be idle to
insist on Constitutions, or laws, or justice this
crisis. God help US mot only the bench, but our
very pulpits, in some instances, seem to have been
surrendered to the bitterness and the filth of party
politics.
Threats of mob law by the Destructives are COM
mon. Wehear them from the Richmond Enquirer,
from Judge on the bench, and from the two De-
structive organs in this City, as well as from a
Destructive paper in Charlotte. War between the
North and South is bad enough, but war among
ourselves would be worse. We never have, and
never will approve mob law; but if it should be-
gin, woe unto him who begins it. at were better
for him that milestone were hanged about his
neck and that he were drowned in the depth Of
the sea-" The Conservatives have the physical, as
well the political and moral power in this State.
They will defend themselves in the last resort; and
not only will they do that but they will hang up
those who may commit the overt act of mob law,
like hogs in Saughter-pen. 1t is painful to have
to write thus ahnnt- OU.v -.ON-hior elfurte IC