Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-05-05
Public Sentiment

Extract from letter from York Collegiate Insti.
tute, Alexander County:
= am much pleased with your lecture to the Sec
retary of War. 1t is Of itself worth S3 heartily
endorse your course, and not only do l. but the
great muttute Of the people recognize in YOU a de-
fender of their constitutional rights The State
journal at one time last year had moro than fifty
subscribers at this office, while there were not half
that number for the Standard The Journal now
has less than twenty five, while the Standard has
nearly fifty"
Extract from letter from Ashborougt Randolph
County:
Tive 1t to the Destructives Four f(ths of the
| people IN this County are with YOU Times are hard
IN this section. Corn sold at public sale few DAYS
ago at S7.lO per bu<hel. How poor people will get
bread till harvest can't TELL and if they don't starve
TINS year, God only knows what they'll do next
Nearly every man that is able to work is taken to
the war; there are but few slaves in this section
and the land generally poor, that it takes nearly
! every one that is able to work to make support
| Some OF the DestructVcs in this section are men of
| considerable wealth. and promised if the men would
volunteer, they would divide the last piece Of bread
| they had with their families: But they are not do
| ing half as much for such families as the common
poor class Of farmers who did everything they could
to avoid the war"
Extract from letter from Rutherfordton N c.:
Your remarks on the Mason Russell correspon-
dence think equal to anything that has ever ap-
Peared IN the Stthdard or elsewhere The truth
Ought to be told To the UrgnatorS of this cruel war;
Ii Is the only thing lacking to put them in their
true position. Ii they once as they should be
-Sh0rn Of their corruptly purchased honOrs-the
people could rise III their majesty and maintain their
rights"
Extract from letter from New Garden, Guilford
County:
81 like your paper and wish to see it widely cir
cuated because it speaks for the people"
Extract from letter from Bethany Church, Ire
dell County,.
please send me the Standard another year. I
cannot do without it. The prospect for fine wheat
and oat crops in this vicinity is lsttering. There
is good deal of fruit yet. Bat few peaches are
killed, and think the apples are unhurt."
Extract from letter from Graham, n. c.:
81 enclose five dollars, for which send your Semi
weekly; for | assure you | would not be without
1t for twenty times the subscription price,"
Extract from letter from Dobson, Surry County:
"Original secessioniSts in this County are refus-
ing Confederate notes, and the consequence is the
families of volunteers unable to buy the neceS
saries OF fe-their money being refused This has
become serious evil here"
Extract from letter from Merry Hill, BERTHE
County:
Your paper, Mr.. Editor, all through this section
OF country IS received with the warmest welcome
In TACT, We know not what we should do without it.
You may rest assured you both speak and write the
sentiments or the PEOPLE of BERTHE 1t is truly graft
flying To The people to know they have in you so
strong an advocate Of their rights and liberties and
the maintenance % civil law
Extract from a letter from Dobson, Surry County:
"Your readers here-and may say, all who are
not tied to party fully endorse your course as
editor of an independent journal Most captains
rbo
were original SecesSioniSts, have managed in some
way to get out of the service. Those captains who
were original Union men are still in service"
Extract from h letter from CIemmonsve, David
son County
"The popularity Of the Standard is daily in
crcaSng here, in spite Of (or rather by reason of
the denunciatons it receives at the hands Of three
or four Destructives."
Extract of a letter from York Institute, Alexan-
der County:
THE State Journal is dead letter at this Office
It's circulation was double that Of the St1Id1rd
last rear; but the course pursued by its editors in
abusing their superiOrS, and heaping up sander
upon our State has caused dropping off from its
list. The STANDARD is the peoples paper the
advocate Of republican principles. We most fully
concur in your course rs whole, and may add
in eTery particular.
Extract from letter from Toms Creek, Surry
County:
The wheat crop looks fine for the season, but
fear that there not men enough left to save it.
| think it would be wisdom in our authorities to
order all the cOnsCrptS Of the fOrgeS and other
pubc works for two weeks in harvest time for there
might thus be saved many busEcl Of grain"
Extract from letter from Smmon Grove Chat
ham County:
II ask permission to mike two requests Of you.
One is to try with the authorities not to
call out any more men over forty years DID, for We
c.ulirt spare them without bringing famine on our
i.lr a t..a 'rr - "a demand Of the Congress. in
l... .,.:- - ~" "p!e the repeal Of that odiouS
a..... ...-...'.. 80 -.e 20 negro exemption act,
..nr -, a., ,..y,ia,' Avs ever passed by set Of
wn5t- nvn | w,nt y0u to publish the name
OF he HAL VINO introduced the bill, and all who vo-
ted for and against IT. 50 that future generations
may know their names"
Extract from letter from Cleaveland, Tenn:
"Your bold and untrameed manner of declaring
facts is admired by every one your paper falls in
fhe hands Of | am for the independence Of the
South. but at the same time, am we'll aware how
this war was brough on and by whom it is con-
Quoted"
Extract from letter from friend who sends US
the name of soldiers wife as subscriber, dated
at Earpsboro', Johnston County N. O.:
Her husband being in the army, she desired me
to send for the Standard She says that she cannot
do without your paper, and having been an atten-
tive reader of it ever sace her husband entered the
service, looks upon it as the fearless exponent of
soldiers rights IN every emergency. So so on, Mr.
Editor iE the good cause. Lay on and spare not.
All the common sense honesty and patriotism in
the land are with you, and the poor soldiers vile is
|. prominent in the class"
Extract from letter from Saltville Va:
az am cOmDeILed to enclose you three dollars
Would to God that every man of any consideration
in the State Of Virginia and not only so, but in the
whole Confederacy, would at once forward the same
money and read your paper for twelve months. The
Conservatives increase not only in North Carolina
but here and in all the States of the Coniederacy.
| EpucAuoSAL CoSvENrIoN.-We learn that the
| - IL Lo,., Of tho Couth which re-