Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-01-21

EIaeIsIA AND rH,cAaoInA.- have alluded but |
seldom and briefly and mildly TO the mpertinent inter-
ference Of the Richmond ENQUIRER in the internal affairs
of North Carolina and to its false and insulting imputa
lions upon her su. we have ast heard ses which
should induce it to let North Carolina alone and
its batteries upon Virginia Those facts that the books
States the Confederate States North Carolina the fifth
in white population, stands No. at tho head Of the list
ls States whilst Virginia BY far the largest in white pom
ulaon stands No. in number of troops furnished. And
to neutraze the power of what she has furnished to the
Confederacy, Perponts part of Virginia claims to have
furnished $4,000 men to Lincons army. NorthCarolina
has furnished none to Lincoln.
Now strikes that mpuations against the loyalty OF
NorthCarona come with very bad grace from any V'r
be Of
government which NorthCarona has done and il dong
SO much to maintain and defend.
Our State has sent the most hes c0uessedy clothed
them better than any others they are noted
for being more orderly than others they have been
yet orsooth these vrgnans lecture her upon and
duty; falsely charge her with entertaining plot" 70
overthrow the government and insinuase that she ha
defunct and despised Union And of the high officers
OF the Confederate government, whose duties bring nun
IN contact with thousands Of n,a oo'a
damned nest of traitors for which, if President Davis
has proper idea of what is due to hmsef and to an
ns1ed State be will pitch the sanderer out of the Office
The Enqutrers imputaous are offensive to North Care
INA ana should be discontinued she can DO without Inc
advice of that paper she did in the election
OF GOv Vance against which the Enquirer protested let
there be end Of it. if the Enquirer really desires unity
Of feeling and the of the great cause-Fayeevs
Observer.
The foregoing, from one of the most reliable
papers in the Confederacy, is worthy of considers
what this State has done in the way of troops for
the common defence, are true. Virginia has suf-
fered immensely in this war, and general thing,
those Of her people who loyal have done their
whole duty but more than forty of her Counties
are hostile to the Confederacy, and the people of
those Counties have actually created State and
applied for admission into the Lincoln Union !
Lincoln, in his emancipation proclamation has
expressly exempted those Counties from the opera
tion of the proclamation, thus rendering it perfect
ly apparent that majority of their people with
him in sentiment. And if it be true, claimed by
Picrponts part Of Virginia, that he has furnished
thiry-thousand troops to fight for Lincoln, then it
is also apparent that Virginia has been fighting for
the South with her right hand and for the North
with her left And yet the Enquirer comes for
ward to lecture North Carolina for disloyalty y
North Carolina, whose people are a unit in their
opposition to Northern aggression, and who have
furnished more than eighty thousand men to fight
for the South, ana not one to fight against it.
We have before US. the Weekly Nississippian, of
the 3lst December, from which we learn the extra
ordinary fact that steps haze been taken in that
State to enforce the eonscript lsw passed at tho last
session Of Congress- The Mississippian says:
aWHv
question mn iip. . s TsrS9s5 sea
majority Of the Congress to
ces mperousy required that the law should be amended
so as to embrace persons between the ages of hryfve
and fortyfve years. and though three long mouths of
painful and intense anxiety hare passed. yet in Mississippi
at least it has not been put into execution. Strange
the above all others recommended by the
President-uTged by the Presdeut-demanded by the
country-fought through BY majority of Congress-the
measure required to meet this appalling exgency. stands
dtaI letter sotar as Iississiopi concerned While the
savage foe with advancing columns have large
portion of the State and pressing its CENTRE the
question why has not been executed? The
Try requires an and t be not satisfactorily given
the demand should be repeated through Congress upon
assembling Of that body"
North Carolina is drained to The last man of her
conscrpts-tbey are hunted down over hill and
dale, and in cases forced into service and that
too while she stands first among the States in the
number of her soldiers already inservice, beingjth
in white population yet Mississippi, the Presidents
State is thus far relieved of the second CONSUMPTION
the law being "dead letter" so fer as she is con.
cerned. Comment is useless. Let the fact be
known that President Davis has ordered rigid ex-
ecuton of the late conscnption law in North Caro-.
lima, and that the same law remains dead letter.
so far as his own State is concerned. This fact
cannot be denied, for have it from the Aissssip-
plan itself.