Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-05-20
THE NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD:


This r..ioned out gives to each head of our entire
nonulation fifteen bushels of corn and seventy. five
nonnds of bacon add to the latter half ration OF
beef and We can subsist for another year. This is,
however, independent of our wheat and rice crops;
these will, though, about meet the deficit taken
from the aggregate of corn for forage and stock &C.
But if we are the back of these figures forced 70
draw from these means of supplies for more men to
20 into tho field of active service, We shall fall IN
dubtably fail of an adequate supply for the army
and home consumption tho coming year. we
should look then, at the substance, not the shadow
and base our views upon supplies as the essential
item to insure successful issue to our arms. we
may be assured no supplies will como to US through
the ports of other nations, tor there IS now but III
tie doubt that secret alliance with England, ~
least if not with other powers has been effected
Such being the case, our fate ia in our own keep
ing. with no body to succor, ss | first believed, in
our last hour of extremity. We must then look 10
home supplies to feed our soldiers their wives and
children. and the women and children of non-com-
batants if we would he sure of beating our enemy
in the face nj alliances leagues, combinations ior
the ultimate overthrow Of our country, and come
out of this great and bloody struggle with peace
aud independence.
A failure in these means and resources of defence
will sink U.S. and cause us to lose all in all after the
hardship suffering, 'death-the loss of such blood
and so much treasure. We are fighting the most
formidable nation on the globe its navy is far sa'
peror' to any othe. in strength and gunnery.-.-
Well may the English and French COVER scsore IT.
and seek an alliance The distance from country
to country in consideration of the Superior facilities
in the art of war in this age precludss the posso'
now. What could they effect by an attempt to in-
wade the United States? Viewing the distance, no
army could be supplied and it would be worse than
folly to attempt such thing At this day. Gut on,
as it would be both by land and sea, it would be
left to perish or surrender before any relief If re-
lief could penetrate, to effect an escape. We may
rest then, perfectly quiet on the grounds Of future
Intervention in behalf it is all talk. The Eng
lish statesmen have long since weighed the matter
and counted the cost of a war with the United
States. And it is time we had come to our senses
upon the subject and to begin in earnest to rely on
our own srms for our deliverance and indepen-
dence. To day. that government is calling for .
hafa million of men to throw forward upon us this
fall and mex. Spring. Shall We be able to recruit
sufficiently: When that half million melts away
and the call is made for another half million, can
we enlist enough to meet them again! And will
these calls cease until their entire available force is
brought outs No. Can We then compete with
them and drive them back as We have done hereto
forer These are the questions for Us to solve
They must be solved-there is no lodging the issue
now. Men may say they are heartily tired Of war,
and if they had the road to 60 over again, they
would say compromise upon terms without war,
&C. That day is past-but one way to peace now,
and that through blood and death, IS the Enqui-
rer has it. re.construction. submission, infamy."
Must, will this be the ultmatum of "peaceable Sc
cession!' We hope not We could only submit
now to the former upon such terms IS would be
amply satisfactory. How stands the matter with
the crest mass Of our peopler Do not dink at it,
but answer truthfuly tits time to begin to think,
speak, and to act canddy, honestly with ourselves
and our country. s. F.
May 18th, 1868.