Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-07-22

"Andwhat makes it more curious is that it comes
from paper that not six months ago, deliberately
proposed alternative the reputation of the
Confederate ebt"-Fly Observer
The above, as an attack upon this paper, we pro-
nouace willfil and unmit1gated falsehood We
proposed no such MEASURE Winston Sentinel
Very well. Now we will prove to be true that
which the Sentinel Denies Wehave no witness ex-
cept the Sentinel ITSELF
From the Winston Sentinel, January 1881
Let the government change its policy 1t can as
well violate the Constitution, as military necessi-
ty, in one thing as another let it pass law setting
fair and reasonable price every article of neces-
sity until the end of the war; make Confederate
money legal tender in sill contracts entered into
after q given date, then raise money By taxation
sufficient to keep up the credit of the country; and
when the war is over, it TO feasible pao Can be
adopted to save the fictitious currency has oe@n
cast afoat let it all 20 by the board and put the
Spectator, who has boarded up his thousands upon
equal footing with the st,leer VINO has foug ht the
battles Of the country for eleven doiIars per
month So far as the people of the Confeleracy
alone are concerned, see no very great in
justice IN course of this kind. 1t would destroy
no property it would leave it all just where it
when the war begun; and at the same time it would
| renew and put in circulation ali our old State
money"
This was plain proposition to repudiate the
Confederate debt We copied it into the Observer
of February 9th, and commented upon it as it de-
served The Sentinel then found it convenient to
modify its proposition, and advocate reputation as
an alternative" as 4 choice between evils. We
copy from its next issue:-
From the Winston Sentinel, Feb. 1881
"The Fayetteville Observer is down upon the
Sentinel TO having as it status, made proposition
| to repudiase the Confederate debt We tell the
| .Obs -tI,ot hare dona M Snch thing. We
merely stated the proposition as last resort and As
| choice between two " moastrous evils"
We need say nothing more on the subject 1t
seems to US about exhausted. The Sentinecs abuse
of US will pass for the little it is worth-not much
| we should think with its own readers who, have
doubtless enough to see that it is again ad-
vocstng reputation Of the Confederate debt in the
very article denying that it had done so six months
ago The advocate of reputation is 3 worse enemy
l. Of the Confederate cause than the yankees. They
seek our lives and our property. He would destroy
our only hope of maintaining the war for the preser
walton of these and would also cons us as people
to everlasting inamy. The idea of repudiatng the
debt created for carrying cd the war is INFAMOUS,
no matter on what pretenee Of an alternative, OF
what demagogcal notion Of giving to widows and
orphans that which belongs to 9th els Repudlatlon
would be equivalent to saealag without the excuse
of poverty and want which suffering wretch some
times has for stealing; for the Confederate States
are rich and, if they put hsnest men in power 70
preserve their good name, will always have the
means to nav the interest on their debt and to do
such other things as wise and just people should
.do.-Fay. O6seruer.
We agree with the Observer in every word Of tin
| above. The Editor of the Sentinel has q treacher
GUS memory. He not only advocated IN January
last the repudiation Of Confederate currency, bu
the Editor himself has repudated that currency OF
one Of his own contracts, as we proved sone mooth
since. Such politicians as the Editor Of the Ssnt'
| mel if thew had their own way, would wreck tn
best cause in the world
But the men in power at Richmond have repu
dated the currency already, and Virginia has fol
lowed the example North Carolina had to steI
forward and avert the ruin which that repudiatior
would at once have brought upon the country
We are proud of our old State, on account OF ne
honesty. and on account of the high and unbleln
isl,ed character of her judiciary, and the frmnes
with which it m,nnteirs the 5aw and '1pholds ciVi
| liberty. Mr.. Msmu,inger is : repu diator. Mr.
Davis was q rep7dhltor in Mississippi. When VI
voted for him for president we hoped his moral
had improved in this respect but alas! If weha'
such men in power as A. e. Stephens, William L
sbarkey, VIM. G. Riyes, Hersckel Y. johnson, Bed
ford Brown, W H. A. Graham, Jehn A. dmer
Robert P. Dick and others we might name VI
should have M IRE hope of our final triumph Bu
alas some mel are potent only to pull d''wn-
The mere day aborer can pull,dotn house, but i
requires goot mechanic to put it up again.