Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-10-13

learn from Maj Badham, Chief Tithingmau for this
State, that mOlasses or syrup made from Chinese
sugar cane is not taxed in kind. ..... .- a
UNTRUE-We find in the Raleigh Standard of
the I'd inst Gts first issue since the mob on the
night ofthe 9th uL long article signed Raleigh"
one untrue statement in which, upon which several
other untrue statements to the Observer are based
we desire to correct The first sentence of the ar.
ticle Is that TO which we refer and is as follows:
The attempt Of the Fayetteville Observer to pal
late the conduct Of the Georgia troops aStonishes
the public" .-.f .a r. fIrr-: = ..' ... r..
1t would have very greatly astonished the public
II the O6seTOer has made any such attempt The
statement is without the slightest foundation.
Some weeks ago the Standard voluntarily pledged
itself to copy in full anV thing from the O6seruer to
which it deemed it its duty to reply Is it a com.
plance with this pledge TO omit the facts of the
which had been before it for a week and misrepre-
sent the O6serUer over the signature of Raleig p
Fay. 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 06ssrUSr but simply as
we'll written account Of the mob and of the causes
which produced the mob.
duet of tho 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
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 discountenance
it and to stand by the Constitution and laws Of the
land at all hazards. There can be no other guar
anty Of public or private rightsno hope of liberty,
no assurance of the safety Of life property. The
feeling of this community, proud to say entire
ly accords with this view Of the subject. We are
Law abiding people Soindeed has been the whole
State; but some particular localities respect for
the law has been broken down by the incessant re-
iteration, through an nconsiderae Press and by in
considerate persons, of lawess opinions. No people
likely to retain their principle of respect for the
law who have il necessarily dinned into their ears
that such and such person ought to be lynched,
hanged, senced expelled, &c, &c, without judge
or jury
Such has been the case in Raleigh for months
past All sorts of denuncations have been banded
between the newspapers of that city. Their
ductors have become bitterly hostile to each other
and have gotten the people Of the city and consd-
erable portion Of the State and the COnfederacy at
loggerheads. They have talked so lippantly of
hanging up each other to lamp posts, that the won
der is, not that the city has been dsgraced by two
mGbs, but that nobody was killed or hanged by
them. Fortunately they have escaped such Q
tragedy as yet, but how long they may hope for
emption 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, Septenl-
Der IA.
1t had come to be 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 were 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-
hection upon the past if it shall lead to the cOnclu
sion at which the public long ago arrived that they
have been sacrificing their own personal respecta-
bity 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 broughtto better frame of mind, their losses
by the late outrage, grievous as they are, and deep
ly to be deplored and condemned by all good cit
Zens, will not have been in yain.-O Observer, Sep
tennber II. .... 70. --,: ... -.
1t is true, the Obserpsr deprecates mob law, and
no doubt very sincerely but then "the newspa-
pers" of Raleigh had behaved so badly and the Ed
itors had so sacrificed even their personal respec
liability" that "the wonder is" that the punish
ment they received was not much worse than ii
was. There is the inference, in plain English
hBahp il Iii0y ltu0oO SnaH Uo OrOuBnI
to better frame of mind, their losses by the late
rage, grevous as they are, and deeply to be de-
plored and condemned by all good citizens, will not
have been in vain" Here the Elitors, while deep.
y deploring mob law, plainly admit its correcting
r. hand, and they express the hope that good will
come oft ..--.'.. -.... .a o.. ....
Now, so far as we are concerned, we have not
"incessantIy dinned it into" the public ear "that
such and such a person ought to be. lynched,
hanged" &c We have made no remark Of this
kind but once, and that was forced from us
in a moment of excitement by the incessant
calls from the State Journal the Richmond En-
quirer the correspondents of those papers, and 9TH
ers, for lynch law against us. We warned them of
the consequences of laying violent hands on US and
there stopped and on the other hand, for months
and months, we inculcated submission to law under
all circumstances, and impiored the people in no
event to take the law into their own hands Yet
the Observer gives us no credit for this but classes
us with "the newspaper" which we're first to sug.
gest Inoblaw and whose course and counsels led to
the mobbing of our Office t&
We learn from the Augusta Chronicle that W.
Alvin Lloyd author of the Southern Railroad Guide
was shot, and 1t lis feared fatally wounded, in
street recontre at Mobile on the LIST instant -s-hN
a Cen Clark has carried every Comfy in Missis.