Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-03-24
Public Sentiment.


the condition of public sentiment in the State.
Extract from letter from Mt Pisgah, Alexander
County:
81 think you are in the right, and wish poo
pie TO know it by reading your paper: The State
Journal is as dead as an old rat up here and its
stencil has pretty well passed away in the pure at
mOsphere created by the Standard"
Extract from letter from Rogers Store Wake
"The Standard is a welcome visitor. Give it to
the Virginia dictators. l glory in your spunk.n
Extract from letter from Salisbury:
Though your journalist is any thing
but pleasing to those who have contributed so much
to our present troubles, and have done SO little to
get out of them, yet there is large and increa
sing majority in this part of the State who look to
your course with pride and satisfaction. Stayat-
home secessionsts spectators in articles of prime
necessity Virginia traducers of North Carolina char
acter and that contemplate herd Of scaegoats from
Maryland who have received appointments from
government and been sent here to lord over North
Carolnians, have received severe but Just rebukeS
from your pen. You have defended the State and
plead the cause Of the soldier, who endures every
hardship and privation, and of his family, whose
sufferings have been scarcely less than his own.-
Moreover you have batted for the rights of citizens
in civil life, that they might be secured from lawless
arrests by the military power. Go on, the people
will stand byyOu"
Extract from letter from New Hill, Wake
al am not surprised at your raising the price of
your paper For the last twelve months it has been
mystery with me how you could furnish the paper
at the same old price, when every thing has gone
up so extravagantly high The people cannot>ex-
pect of you what they cannot and would not do
themselves. The Destractives, suppose will not
aSsa you for this for high prices is part of their
creed You are gaining ground constantly, in spite
of the Richmond Enquirer and its followers. The
manner in which you have met and exposed the ira
ducerS Of our State meets the approval of the whole
people in this region. The freedom of the press and
of speech we glory in. The people are proud of
your course"
Extract from letter from Madison County:
1.-The Standard is the first political paper that
have advised the people of my .charge to read,
but it is such bold defender of Constitutional lib
erty that it ought to be read by all. Ihope you
will continue your course and the people will stand
by you"
Extract from letter from Trap Hill, Wilkes:
i congratulate you on the great increase of your
: paper at this office. Meet neighbor and ask him
what paper he takes, and he quickly answers the
Standard The people in this section are nearly
all Conservatives. Ne have few Destructives but
they are scattering, and at home get At the be-
ginning of the war they were going 10 whip ten
Yankees each and take Washington City but they
are not gone yet. They are at home specializing on
the poor women and children, whose husbands
in the army and they left to shift for themselves
But one Register comes to this Office while
you have upwards of thirty subscribers"
Extract from a letter from Clemmonsvlle, David
son:
a few Destructives about here assail the Stan
dlrd but it is most heartily endorsed by the great
mass q our people"
Extract from letter from Dry Pond, Lincoln:
"The Standard is the paper called for here. Give
me the Standard, sSthe cry now. In few more
weeks we will have no other paper taken here with
few exceptions but the Standard"
Extract from a letter from Franklnsville, Ran
dolph:
"These men who send for the Standard desire
me to say to you that they heartily approve your
course IN defending the rights of the people and
civil liberty"
Extract from a letter from Lincoln County:
"You have some bitter enemies in this vicinity,
but three fOurths of the people are with you. The
Conservative party is rapidly increasing in this
County,
Extract from aAetter from Chatham County:
"Speculaton and extorton have taken complete
charge Of the produce in old Chatham. God only
knows wha: will become Of the poor. Your views
are disliked by few in Chatham, but seven-eghths
of our people are with you"
Extract of letter from Haywood County:
"Your paper gives satisfaction to all the subscri-
est man 10 dissatisfied with it. 1t is the peo-
pies paper 1t defends their rights with holiness
and irmness which ought to secure their patronage
and support. l would not do without it if it cost
$40 year"
Extract from letter from Pennsylvania County:
ave up this way like yourself desire peace, but
are fearful that fighting will bring it We
are among those who have always believed that eve
ry blow stricken in this fight made it worse. Meth
can ever whip the other by fighting. If the
Northern people do not fall out among themselves
may calculate on fighting them twenty years, pro-
vlded we can hold out so long; and II our people
do not perish out, can Eight them twenty years"
Extract frem letter from BERTHE County:
"Wheneveri it becomes necessary for you to give
names in justification of your assertion that the
leading original war men are now and have been
the greatest extoroners and spectators, as we'll as
the men mostly to be found at home call on me, and
will aid you in making out your list of Names"
soldier writing from Fort Fisher says;
ave are glad that we have an Editor who has
State pride enough to vndicate the State and her
rights"
A citizen of Cabarrus, who writes US and sends
the subscription price for the Standard for his
in the army, says:
"Give it to the DestructiveS and continue to op-
pose the States assumption Of the Confederate debt
And may this war soon end, is the prayer of us all"
Extract from letter from Coxville, Pitt County:
provisions getting high here They will be
grestdeal scarcer next year, if the continues,
for nearly all the able bodied men have been taken
away and many of the negroes have lurked off to
the Yankees, and those that remain make bad out
at work. because they know they close to the
enemy; consequently, we cannot push them to any
advantage"
Extract from letter from Midway, Davidson:
"A fast acceptable to God-what is it? is it not
to Ideal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou
bring the poor that cast out to thy house, whom
thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that
thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh
Isaiah So c. and verses. think if our people
will cease to Cypress the poor and needy, and treat
them as the Scriptures enjoin, the God of heaven
will hear and answer prayer. Let all the people