Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-14

OhlNESE OUGAh ZANE OIhuP NUT llThEU.-"C (
learn from Maj Badhan, Chief Tithingman for this
State, that molasses or syrup made from Chinese
sugar cane is not taxed in kind.
UNrRUE-We find i'm the Raleigh Standard of
the I'd inst Gts first issue since the mob on the |
night ofthe 9th ult) long article signed Raleigh"
one untrue statement in which, upon which several
other untrue statements the Obser0er are based
we desire to correct The first sentence of the ar
ticle IS that to which We refer and is as follows:
SThe attempt of the Fayetteville Observer to pal
late the conduct of the Georgia troops astonishes
the public"
1t would have very greatly astonshed the public
if the Observer has made any such attempt. The
statement is without the slightest foundation. :
Some weeks ago the Standard voluntarily pledged
itself to copy in full any tng from the Observer to
which, it deemed It its duty to reply. Is it COM
pance with this pledge to- omit the facts Of the case
which had been before it for week and misrepre
sent the Observer over the signature Of Raleigh
Fey. Observer.
We assure the Observer that we are not the author
Of the communication signed Raleigh" and that
we had nothing to do with the writing Of it. We
copied it. not intending to approve any part Of it
which does injustice to the Observer, but simply as
we'll written account of the mob, and of the causes
which produced the mob.
The Observer denies that it has palliaed the con-
duct of the Georgia troops We have no idea that
such was the intention of that paper but the fol-
lowing extracts from it will show that the writer Of
j." Raleigh" had some foundation for his charge:
We have uniformly endeavored to impress upon
our readers the deepest adherence of mob law, and
the imperative duty of every man to dsconntenance
~ ~, o., roc
land at all hazards. There can be no other guar
anty Of public private rightsno hope Of liberty,
no assurance of the safety of life or property. The
feeling of this community, proud to say, entire
ly accords with this view Of the subject We are
alaw-abding people Soindeed has been the whole
State; but particular localities respect for
the law has been broken down by the incessant
iteration, through an nconsiderate Press and by in
considerable persons Of lawess opinions. No people
are likely to retain their princp of respect for the
law who have it necessarily dnned into their ears
that such and such person ought to be lyuched,
hanged, silenced, expelled, &c, &c, without judge
or jury.
Such has been the case in Raleigh for month";
past. All sorts of denunciatons have been banded
between the newspapers of that city. Their con-
ductors have become bitterly hostile to each other,
and have gotten the people or the city and coDsid
cradle portion of the State and the Confederacy at
loggerheads They have talked so aippantIy Of
hanging up each other to lamp posts, that the Won
der is not that the city has been disgaced oy two
mobs, but that nobody was killed or hanged by
them. Fortunately they have escaped such
tragedy as yet, but how long they may hope for ex
empton it may not be easy to say, unless the news
papers there moderate their tone towards each other
and exhibit some small degree of respect for law
and order and common decency. Observer, Ssptens-
Der IA.
1t had come tosbe a common remark all over the
State-we mean no offence and hope none will be
given by stating what is in every body's mouth
that the political papers in Raleigh we're political
evils. Yet no mobs have right to abate evils
The interval of non publication of three of them
will be wisely and happily employed in sober re-
Fiction upon the past if it shall lead to the conclu
sion at which the public long ago srived that they
have been sacrificing their own personal respecta-
bility, along with their own peace and the peace
of the State by their course and that it behooves
them at once to change that course If they shall
be brought to better frame of mind, their losses
by the late outrage grievous they are, and deep
ly to be deplored and condemned by all good citi-
zens, will not have been in Observer, Sep
: TENDER II.
1t is true, the Obseroer deprecates mob law, and
no doubt very sincerely but tRen "the .newspa
pers" Of Raleigh had behaved so badly, and the Ed.
tors had SO sacrificed even their "persona respec-
liability" that "the wonder is that the punish.
ment they received was not much worse than it
was. There is the inference, in plain English
Agin, "if they. these Editors,l shall be brought
to better frame of mind, their losses by the late
outrage, grleous as they are and deeply to be de-
plored and condemned by all good citizens, will not
have been in vain" Here tn, Editors, while deep
ly deploring mob law, plainly admit its correcting
hand, and they express tbe hope that good will
come oft. .
necessarily dinned it iaso the public ear "that
such and such person ought to be lynched,
hanged" &c. We.has'. made no remark of this
kind but once, and that was. forced from us
in moment of excitement by the incessant
calls from the State Journal, the Richmond En-.
qurer the correspo ndents of those papers, and 9TH
ers for lynch le~ against U.s. We warned them oil
the consequences of laying violent hands US, and
there stopIed and ON the other hand, for months
and months, we inculcated submission to law under
all circums tances, and implered the people in nc
event to to Ike the law into their own hands, Ye,
the Odseroer gives credit for this but classes
US with :" the newspapers which we're first to sug
gest mob law, and whose course and counses led te
the Dobbing of our office. -..--
We learn from the Augusta Chronicle that W
Alvin Lloyd author of the Southern Railroad Guide
was shot, and 1t is feared fatally wounded, in 9
street recontre at Mobile on the LIST instant
Gen. CLAIR has carried every County in Mssis
sippi in the late Gubernatorial election in thai
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