The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-01-13
PRESIDENT DAVIS IN RALEIGH.

ing, I'D, by the nVe CLOCK train from tlafiote GU
route for Richmond. He was accompanied by
been anticipated by the news of his coming, and
an unusually large concourse of people were pres.
ent to greet him.
It being intimated to him that it would
yratify the people to him and hear him speak,
the President stepped forward to the front of the
platform amidst loud and hearty cheers. He was
introduced by Hon. d. NJ. Barringer, and said in
substance as follows:
He acknowledged the hearty reception he had
met with, aud he expressed the qualification he felt
in meeting with the people Of Raleigh bound as
they were to him by ties of the dearest character
When his wife and children came here as place
of refuge, they met with such Kindness and afec-
ton as he could forget. Raleigh had be-
come household word to him, uttered daily in
his family and lispcd in the infant accents Of his
children. ....-
And he was gratifed TO meet the people Of Ra-
leigh as North Caroluians. True to her Revou-
rionary history North Carolina had given to the
cause in which We are engaged a support not sur
posed by that of any other State in the Confed-
eracy. Her sons surpassed the glory of their
ancestors and had met the enemy in the shock of
battle like heroes.
He alluded to the fact that the election Of our
Governor had been heralded at the North as a
triumph by our foes; but the advent Of his admin
istration brought him promptly to the support OF
, the Conscript Law, and North Cerolina now stands
first among the States in furnishing Conscripts.
Slow at first to take part in this struggle, she
had resolved upon the step, North Carolina rushed
to the of her sisters, and from that day to
this no one dared to distrust her.
TIE President next alluded to his visit to the
West. He went there to find dissatisfaction and
; confusior. But he found, the contrary, as at
other places, our gallant boys ready TO meet five
times their numbers, and to whip them as they
have done at MurfreesboEo
! The NeX Year, he said, comes in auspiciously
for u.s. 1t finds us victorious at every point; and
it finds our enemies beginning to feel what we
have borne patiently. and, like true dunghills we
hear them squal at the first touch of the gaff.
Abiding to himself, lie had been chosen to @
position he did not DESIRE as he preferred another
one; but he could lay his hand upon his heart and
say that he had rewarded man because he was
his friend or withheld appointment from any man
because of personal dislike.
The cause, he said, is above all personal OF
political considerations, and the man who, at d
time like this, cannot sink such considerations is
unworthy of power. In conclusion, he said our
let all lock shields and stand together and in
the end you will enjoy amount of prosperity
you could attain connected with the Yam
kee nation Of extortioners. He again thanked the
audience and withdrew amidst dcafening cheers
Hon. VIM. l. Yancey was then loudly called
for, and after while acknowledged the compli-
Hcnt in brief address. He counseled harmony
amongst the people, said the government, civil and
military. was we'll ofhcercd and was entitled to the
full confidence Of the people At all events, he
said, this was no time to change servants. Let
the struggle in which we are engaged be first
ended, and the'if anything is wrong it be put
to rights Raleigh JournoI
NAPOLEON TO INTERVENE ALONE
The intervention question again occupies much
OF the space of the Yankee press as we'll of the
foreign Journals. The centres from which the new
rum"rs radate are Paris and Washington The
Philadelphia inquirer states that the runors
from " ashington of the most conflicting char
acter. A correspondent of the New York Her
aid quotes Seward authority for the statement
that the 1ankee "Goycrnment has never since the
war began, stood So we'll with foreign powers, and
that Intervention at present is not among the pos
sibilitics"
Per contra, letter to the n. Y. Tribune writ
ten from Washington upon the same day as the
above, declares "that the late foreign news con-
firms the belief that the French Emperor designs
to persist in his mediation scheme, ercn If he has
to proceed nlpnc." So well informed does this lat
correspondent profess to be, that he gives the
propositions to be presented in the letter of the
French Minister with considerable part cularity
The proffcr of mediation by Napoleon, he SAYS
'wi be accompanied by letter FROM Drou yn dc
l. Hugs, stating in substance that the Emperor
believes the proposition of arustice act in no
way injurious to the interests and honor of the
United States, but, on the contrary, en,incntly
useful; that it is not his intention to press it upon
the Federal Government, which alone can deter
mine the time when the friendly office of France
may be accepted; but that the President must be
| aware that any proracted refusal of her offers
would necessitate the Emperor to listen to the
Southern representatives., whose PROPOSE tons for
recognition have hitherto been rejected, because
he has always entcrtained'the hope of seeing our
difficulties amicably settled and the Union rcstor-
ed. The official communication will conclude hy
stating that the French government expects that
MIR Lincoln will maturely consider the peculiar
situation in which it is placed, and also take into
consideration the uses and customs established in
the referred to in his proposition by writers
International law"
!. The enquirer says that the :concludine SEN
tence OF the foregoing paragraph has quite dip
lomatlc twarg 1t is very courteous yet very sig.
nifcant. Mr. Lincoln is expected to take into
consideration the uses and customs established in
the cases referred to by writers on international
law That is conclusion very like the termina-
ton OF hostile note according to the code of
honor, where polite request for explanation
winds up with reference to the 'usa.es and Gus
toms recognised among gentlemen" Il is as
much as to say if MIR Lincoln does not accent Ma
poiepns mediation he must look out fur eoDse