Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-05-06
Public Sentiment.

ton OF public sentiment in the State:
Extract from q letter from York Collegiate Insti-
tute, Alexander County: -
&c am much pleased with your lecture to the Sec
rotary Of War. 1t is of itself worth S. I heartily
endorse your course, and not only do l, but the
great multitude of the people recognize in you de-
fender Of their constitutional rights. The State
journal at one time last year had more than fifty
subscribers at this Office while there were not half
that number for the Standard. The Journal now
has less than twenty five, while the Standard has
nearly fifty"
Extract from letter from Ashborough Randolph
County:
"Give it to the Destruetives! Four fifths of the
people in this County are with you. Times are hard
in this section. Corn sold at public sale few days
ago ut 81. 10 per bu,hcL How poor people will get
bread till harvest can't tell and if they don't starve
this year, God only knows what they'll do next
Nearly every man that is able to work is taken to
the war there are but few slaves in this section,
and the land generally poor so that it takes nearly
every one that is able to work to make support
Some of the Dsstructives in this section are men Of
considerable wealth, and promised if the men would
volunteer they would divide the last piece Of bread
they had with their families. But they are not do
ing half as much for such families as the common
poor class of farmers who did everything they could
to avoid the war;"
Your remarks on the Mason. Russell correspon.
.dence, think equal 10 anything that has ever an.
peared in the Standard or elsewhere. The truth
ought to be told to the originators Of this cruel war
1t is the only thing lacking to put them in their
true position. If they were once as they should be
-shorn of their corruphy purchased honors-the
people could rise in their majesty and maintain their
rights"
Extract from letter from New Garden, Guilford
County:
81 Ike your paper and wish to see it widely cir
cuiated, because it speaks for the people"
Extract from letter from. Bethany Church, Ire.
deli County:
"Please send me the Standard another year.
cannot do without it. The prospect for fine wheat
and oat crops in this vicinity is fatterng. There
is good deal of fruit yet But few peaches are
killed, andI think the apples are unhurt."
Extract from letter from Graham, N. G.:
81 enclose five dollars, for which send your Semi
weekly for assure you'll would not 10 without
| it for twenty times the subscription price,"
Extract from letter from Dobson, Surry County:
"Origina secessionists in this County are refus
ing Confederate notes, and the consequence is the
families of volunteers unable to buy the neces
saries of1ife-their money being refused This has
become serious evil here"
Extract from letter from Merry Hill, Bertic
County,.
"Your, paper, Mr. Editer, all through this section
of country is received with the warmest welcome
| In fact we know not what.w should do without it
You may rest assured you both speak and write the
sentiments Of the people of BERTHE 1t is truly graft
| flying to the people to know they have in you SO
strong an advocate Of their rights and liberties, and
| the maintenance Of civil law"
Extract from letter from Dobson, Surry County ::
"Your readers herc-and may say, all who are
not tied to party, fully endorse your course as
| editor of an Independent Journal Most captains,
commanding companies from this County, who
way to get out of the service. Those captains who
were original Union are still in service"
Extract from o letter.6orn Oas---.su.viss, Es~;d-
son County:
| "The popularity Of the Standard is daily in
creasing here, in spite of Tor rather by Off
the denunciaens it receives at the hands of three
or four Destrucsves." {.
Extract of a letter from York Institute, Alexan-
der County: :.
1.-The State Journal is dead letter at this Office
! Its circulation was double that of the Standard
last year but the pursued by its editors in
abusing their superiors, and heaping up SANDER
upon our State has caused dropping off from its
| list The Standard is the peoples paper the
advocate of republican principles. We most fully
concur in your course as whole, and may add,
| in every particular"
Extract from letter from TOMS Creek Surry
| County:
"The wheat crop looks fine for the season, but
fear that there are not men enough LETT to it.
! think 1t would bNwisdom in our authorities to
order all the conscspts ouof the forges and other
public works for weeks in harvest time, for there
might thus be saved many busEel Of grain"
| Extract from letter from Smmon Grove, Chat.
ham County:
| 81 ask permission to make two requests Of you
One is to try to reason with the authorities to
call out any more over forty years old, for VIC
cannot spare them without bringinga famine on our
land, and the other is to demand Of the Congress in
the name of the people, the repeal of that odous
and disagreeabe law-tbs 20 negro exemption act
one of the meanest laws ever passed by set Of
white men, l want you to publish the name
of the man who introduced the bill, and all who vo
ted for and against it, that future generations
may know their napaes."
Extract from letter from Cleaveland, Tenn:
| Your bold and untramelled manner of declaring
facts is admired by every one your paper falls in
| the hands CT am for the Independence of tht
South, but at the same time, am we'll aware how
this war was brought on and by whom it. is con-
| Quoted" -
| Extract from letter from friend who sends u
the. name Of soldiers wife as subscriber, datet
at Earpsboro, Johnston County, N. c.:
| i" Her husband being in the army, she desired mz
to send for the Standard. She 50 Us that she canno
do without your paper, and having been an atten
tive reader of it since her husband entered the
SERVICE looks upon it as the fea;less exponent O
[ soldiers rights IN every emergeney. So go on, Mr.
| Editor, IL the good cause. Lay on and spare not
| all the common sense, honesty andpatriotism in
the land with you and the poor soldiers wife is
| prominent in the class"
| Extract.frc N q letter from Saltville, Va:
t "Iam compelled to enclose you three dollars
Would to God that every man Of any consideration
in the State of Virginia and rot only so, but in the
whole Cont ,deracy would at once forward the same
money and read your paper FIR twelve months. The
Conservatives increase not only in North Carolina