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

the war. | don't know how the cities ana !O"ns
will make out in sparing more men, but II all 'lis
-able-boded men taken from the farms the narn u
work will fall on the sick, the lame, and the blind
LoNG's Mills, Randolph, July, 1858;
"Our wheat crop has been materially injured oy
:he wet weather find the people through
out my travels almost unit for peace. The opPo-
stion to propositions for peace find mostly IN the
towns and villages"
SALISBURY, July, 1868.
"The Standard grows daily in favor in this sec,
ton. Many who formerly took the Regtster ana
State Journal have dropped them, and now read
your paper altogether"
BLoUNrvILLE, Tenn, July, 1868.
81 regard yours as truthful and impartial paper:
1t maintains the true ground in relation to this cruel
and fratricidal war in which we have been plunged
as l. believe, by the fanatics Of the North and the
fre.eaters of the South and for which they should
be held equally responsible"
SURRY COUNTY, Juue, 1858.
"Your paper is one for the times. fully believe
that twenty to one in this neighborhood approve
your course"
HENDERsoNvILLE June, 1868.
"Yeur course is approved by our people. We
want the laws administered in their purity-we
want freedom of speech and of the press, and this
dreadful war closed as soon as possible"
ROCKY MOUNT, June, 1853.
Your course in vindicating the honor of North
Carolina and repelling the vile ISLANDERS heaped up
on her, | thoroughly endorse, and know it will be
duly appreciated by all true of the State every
where"
WHKEsBoRoUGH June, 1868.
"All your readers in this County, as far as can
hear, are well pleased with your paper. 1t is the
friend of the soldier and of his family at home |
look upon it especially as being the poor mans
friend"
RANDOLPH County lima 1969
"Weadmire the firm stand which you take against
the DeStructiveS. We want you to cry nightly
Tor peace 1t must come at some time, on some
terms, and the sooner the better. Stand firm, re-
gardleSs of consequences for the supremacy of the
law and the welfare of the common people, and you
will be sustained"
SAMPSON County, June, 1853.
expect to take your paper as long you
speak out as you now do, and tell the people the
whole truth about their affairs"
BUNcoMBE County, June, 1863
The Lower Swannanoa company, 108th regi-
mcnt N Z. militia, of Buncombe, numbered
before the war one hundred and forty between
the ages Of Is and 45. Now there are but twenty
subject to the militia, counting eXempts from con-
scription ana all. Not man of this company has
at any time been conscripted, neither has a single
deserter returned back to it. Soldiers from this
company have been in every great battle since the
war began, and in every one some have fallen
Every family mourns loss. Last August in the
Governors election every in the bounds Of Lower
Swannanoa company, well as their sons in the
army, voted for Gov. Vance"
RANDOLPH County, June, 1863.
"My Godl look around-more than half the men
that left Randolph two years ago dead am told
this state of things exists nearly every where
Something should be done to arrest this state of
things. You have influence and nerve-can't you
propose something that will at least some of the
sons Of our State? The man or the men who
could put stop to this awful massacre of our peo-
pie, and bring peace on fair terms would be regard
ed as benefactors Of their kind"
YADEIN County, June, 1868.
Hurrah for the St,rnddrd and our noble Gov.
Vance! May God grant him the wisdom of Solo,
mon, the strength of Samson, aud the piety and
faithfulness of Abraham-not Lincoln but the
father of the Jews"
WINDSOR BERTHE, June, 1868.
"Stand firm in your position. Advocate the
rights of the people and uphold the dignity of the
State. Our people IN this County are with you"
ELEVATION, Johnston, July, 1863
81 like your article about the Tithingman. Our
administration seems determined to subjugate US.
How much worse subject Gan man be than to be
ordered by officer from Shother State to haul off
his Scanty supply of provisions to a certain place
dislike :he law, and dislike the idea of our peo-
pie being placed under officer from another
State"
MECKLENBURG County, July, 1863
"The Conservatives of Meckenburg endorse what
you say in your paper. They want to rid the State
of Virginia officers or rid the State of the COnfed
eracy. We think if our people will submit to the
tthe bill and then to Virginia officer to collect the
tithes, they will be unworthy of freedom"
GRANVILLE County, july 1868.
"I purchased some time ago from neighbor, ten
barrels of corn for my own USE but before hauled
it home Of the press agents went to the gentleman
who had sold it to me and told him not to deliver
it. as he had authority to annul all contracts of the
kind. | am told on good authority, that the
Confederate tax collector for this County, orgi
nal seceSsionst has for some time refused to take
Confederate money on debts due him. l also learn
that one of the I" originals" claims exemption from
militia duty on the ground that he is physician,
when it is known he has not been considered
practitioner for twelve years."
RoxBoRoUGH, Person, July, 1853.
awe are very much gratifed at the manner in
which, in your last weeks ISSUE you handle the
authorities for appointing Virginia Yankee tax
collector for North Carolina. The appointment can
not be justified upon any pretext whatever. North
Carolina has submitted to insults of this character
long enough, and think it high time that she take
measures to preserve her own dignity and honor
Commanders from other States over her soldiers
and campS-tax collectors controlling her property
and the rights of her citizens, hailing from the
NorthI How long is she to be degraded and spit
upon by her servants?
| however expected things of this kind to follow
when it was sought to deprive her citizens of their
arms, which am informed have been stacked away,
and not one of them used in the public defence by
the Confederate government. l am told that no
other State but North Carolina has been insulted
by similar attempt either to deprive the people of
their Constitutional right to bear arms or to i'm
pose unsympathizing nonresident tithing men upon
them. Whilst the blood of our nobe-hearted solt
diers rises in smoky clouds from every battle field
in the country-whilst every officer and almost
every citizen in the good old unpretending State is
using his utmost endeaVors to keep an army in the
field and to support the soldiers there and their fam
lilies at home, her government and her people are
abused by a lying mendacious press, both at homo
and abroad, and weak malignant officials are heap
ing dishonor upon her head.
If this state of things should continue, there is not