Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-07-21

And what makes it more curious is that it comes
from paper that not six months ago. deliberately
proposed an alternative" the reputation of the
Confederate debt"-Fdy. Observer.
The above, an attack upon this paper we pro-
nounce a willful and unmitigated falsehood We
proposed no such MEASURE Winston Sentinel
Very well. Now we will prove to be true that
which the Sentinel denies. We have no witness ex-
cept the Sentinel itself
From the Winston Sentinel, January, 1881
"Let the government change its policy; it can as
we'll violate the Constitution a military neceSsi-
ty in one thing another; let it pass law setting
fair and reasonable price on erery article of neceS-
sity until the end of the war; make Confederate
money legal tender in all contracts entered into
after given date, then raise money by taxation
sufficient to keep up the credit of the country and
when the war is over, if no feasible plan can be
adopted to the fictitious currency that has been
cast afOat let it all go by the board and put the
speculator who has boarded up his thousands upon
an equal footing with the soldier who has fought the
battles of the country for eleven dollars per
month. So far as the people of the Confederacy
alone are concerned we can see no very great in
justice IN course of this kind. 1t would destroy
no property it would leave it all just where it was
when the war begun; aad at the same time it would
renew and put in circulation all our old State
money"
This was a plain proposition TO repudiate the
| Confederate debt. We copied it into the ObserUer
of February 9th, and commented upon it "a it de-
served. The Sentinel then found it convenient to
modify its proposition, and advocate reputation as
an alternative" as choice between evils We
| copy from its next isSue:-
From the Winston Sentinel, Feb 1885,
"The Fayetteville Observer is down upon the
Sentinel for having, it states made proposition
| to repudiate the Confederate debt We tell the
Observer that we have done no snch thing We
merely stated the proposition a last resort and as
| choice between two "monstrous evils"
We need say nothing more on the subject. 1t
seems to US about exhausted The SentinerS 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-
vOcating reputation of the Confederate debt in the
very article denying that it had done so six months
ago. The advocate of Reputation is a worse enemy
| 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-
Vaton of these, and would also consgn us as a people
to everlasting infamy The idea of repudiating the
debt created for carrying on the war is infamous,
no matter on what pretence of an alternative" or
what demagogical notion of giving to widows and
| orphans that which belongs to others Reputation
would be equivalent to stealing 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 honest men in power to
preserve their good name, viii always have the
means to pay 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 the
above. The Editor of the Sentinel has treacher-
Gus memory. He not only advocated in January
last the reputation of Confederate currency, but
the Editor himself has repudated that currency on
one of his own contracts, we proved some months
since Such politicians as the Editor of the Senti-
mel, if they had their own way, would wreck the
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 step
forward and avert the ruin which that reputation
wonld at once have brought upon the country
We are proud of our old State, on account Of her
honesty, and on account of the high and unblem-
iSied character of her judiciary, and the firmness
with which it maintains the lao and uphods civil
liberty. Mr.. Memminger is repudiator. Mr..
Davis was a repudator in Mississippi. When we
voted for him for President we hoped his morals
had improved in this respect, but alas! If we had
,,,o, ~ in power as a. II. Stephens William L.
sbarksv, WIN. @. Rives, Herschel V. johnson, Bed
ford Brown. Wua. 4. Graham, John A Gilmer,
Robert P Dick, and others we might name, we
should have more hope of our final triumph. But
alasl some men are potent only to puh down
The mere day -laborer can pull down house, but IL
REQUIRES a good mechanic to put it up again.