Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-09-02

The MEETING IN FoRsyTH.-We delayed the pub
LEGATION of this number of the Press one day. in Or
der to give the proceedings OF the meeting held at
the Court. House on Wednesday. It was one Of the
largest and most harmonious bodies of people as
sem5led in this section of the country, since the
commencement of the war: There were persons
present from the counties of Randolph, Guilford,
Davidson, Davie, Yadkin, Stokes and Surry Gen.
j. NJ Leach was present and addressed the au-
dicnce, in an eloquent and well-timed speech. of
more than two hours in length, which was we'll
ceived. He touched on all the points which the
state of the country suggested the great
principle that ours is government of the people,
that both civil and military officers are but the
agents of the people,-that it was therefore the
right and duty of the people to assemble in primary
meetings, and discuss and canvass public men and
measures, and see that the military shall remain
subject to the civil authority of the State at all haz
ards that majority had the right to govern all
our public affairs, and that the minority must yield
and be made to submit that when We the people,
failed to assert those great fundamental princies
that we would soon become slaves.
He declared that it was the duty of the people to
fight with. the sword in one hand and the olive
branch of peace in the other and that the states
men OF the land composed of such men as VIM. A.
Graham, Gov Vance, Alfred Dockery, John A.
Gilmer, Bedford Brown, Thomas Settle, Lewis
Thompson, and others, ought in his opinion, to
urge an honorable peace through the action of a
Convention, or in some other mode, whereby our
property and rights may be secured, and this most
fearful and unnatural war be brought to an end
He alluded to the attack made on the Editor of
the Standard, and the attempts to suppress that
and other papers, and declared his opinion that the
EdtH of that paper exposed in the main the senti-
ments Of more than threefourths of the people of
the State -that it was untrue that Mr.. Holden had
advised reconstruction or submission and that
an article in the Richmond Whig extracts from
which ne read, smacked much more strongly Of re-
construction than anything that had ever appeared
in the Standard; and that therefore 1t was small
minority in the State that had arrogated the right
to denounce and traduce an immense majority. lie
paid high tribute to Senator Graham, Gov. Vance
and Chief Justice Pearson.
He concluded by urging the people to obey the
laws of the land both civil and military, and advis
ed the deserter to return to his regiment and stand
by his colors; and also the people to throw no OBJ
stacles in the way of the execution Of the tithing
law though he denounced it as unwise, and unjust
in ITS determinations against the. farmer and ex
pressed his hope that it would be either repealed,
or so modified render it acceptable to the peo
ple.-Salem Press.
The proceedings Of the meeting above referred to
shall appear in our next We learn that between
1900 and 1900 of the citizens of Forsyth, Stokes,
Davidson, Randolph, Rockingham, Yadkin, and
Surry were in attendance.