Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-25

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or may be made such on which.we tread. The idea
at such hour, of cultivating cotton and tobacco
The man is public enemy who does it. Who is to
buy his cotton and tobacco? He is starving the de-
tenders of his country, and giving to Lincoln the
most substantial aid and comfort he can ever expect
to command in the Southern States" -
:. Public Sentiment.
We make the following extracts from the numer-
Gus letters received at the Standard Office, showing
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 our peo-
pie to know it by reading YOU, paper. The State
Journal is as dead as an old rat up here, and its
stencil has pretty we'll passed away in the pure at
mosphere' created by the Standard" -.
Extract from letter from Rogers Store, Wake:
the Virginia dctators. / glory in your spunk."
Extract from letter from Salisbury: ~.
although your course as journalist is any thing
but pleasing to those who have contributed so much
to our present troubles, and have done little to
get out of them, yet there is large and increa
sing minority in this part Of the State who look to
your course with pride and satisfaction. Stay.at-
home secessonists, spectators in articles OF prime
necessity Virginia traducers Of North Carolina char.
Maryland, who have received appointments from
government and been sent here to lord it over North
Carolinians have received severe but just rebakes
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
suierings have been scarcely less than' his own
Moreover you have battled for the rights of citizens
in civil Afe that they might be secured from awless
arrests by the military powet. Go on, athe people
will stand by you"
Extract from letter from New Hill, Wake:
81 am not surprised at your raising the price of
your paper. For the last twelve months it'll 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 no. do
themselves. The Destructives, suppose will not
assa you 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 tIa-
ducers Of State meets the approval Of the whole
people in this gion The freedom Of the press and
speech we glory in. The people arc proud Of
! your course"
| Extract from letter from Madison County:
| Yhe Ssdadard is the first political paper that
have ever advised the people Of my charge to read,
but it is such bold defender of Constitutional hb
erty that it ought to be read by all. l hope you
by you" r.
Extract from letter from Trap Hill, Wilkes:
~ congratulate you On the great increase of your
paper at this office. Meet neshbor and ask him
what paper he takes, and he quickly answers, the
Standard. The people in this section nearly
all Conservatives. We have few Destructives, but
they are scattering, and at home get. At the be.
ginning of the war they were going to whip ten
Yankees each and take Washington City but they
!
the poor women and children; whose husbands are
in the army and they left to shift for themselves.
| But QUE Register comes to this Office, while
you have upwards of thirty subscribers"
Extract from letter from ClemmonsyiRe, David
son:
"A few Destructives about here assail the Stag
dlrd but it is most heartily endorsed ~ the grea,
mass Of our people"
Extract from letter from Dry Pond, Lincoln:
1.-THE Standard is the paper called for here. Give
me the STANDARD, is the cry now. In few more
weeks will have other paper taken hero with
few exceptions but the Standard"
Extract from letter from Franklinsville, Ran
doph: :.
''These men who send for the Standard desir
me to say to you that they heartily approve you
course In defending the rights of the people and
civil liberty"
Extract from letter from Lincoln County.
"Y0u have some bitter enemies in this vicinity,
but three fourths Of the people are with you. Tn
Conservative party is rapidly increasing in thi
County,"
Extract from letter from Chatham County:
Speculation and extortion have taken compiet
charge of the produce in old Chatham God on
knows what will become Of the. poor. Your view
are disliked by few in Chatham, but seven eighth
, of our peODle are with YOU"
Extract of a letter from Haywood County:
-"Your paper gives satisfaction to all the subscr
bers have sent you and | do not see how any hon
est man can be dissatisfied with it. It. is the pee
pies paper 1t defends their rights with boldnes
and firmness which ought to secure their Datronag
and support. would not do without it if it cos
|. $40 year."
Extract from letter from Pennsylvania County
eve up this way like yourself desire peace, bu
are fearful that 6ghting will sever bring it. W
are among those who have always believed that eve
nv blow stricken in this fight made it worse. Meth
er can eyer whip the other by fighting. If tn
Northern people do not fall out among themselves VI
may calculate on fighting them twenty years, pre-
, vided we can hold out so long and if our peopl
do not perish out. we can fight them twenty years.
- Extract from letter from BERTHE County:
"Wheneger it becomes necessary for you to Civ
names in justification of your assertion that tn
leading original war men are now, and have bee
the greatest extortoners and spectators as well
the men mostly TO- Big found at home, call me, an
will aid you in making out your list Of Names"
Aseldief writing from Fort Fisher, says:
1--WE are'glad that we have an Editor who ha
State pride enough to vinaicate the State and he
rights"
A citizen of Cabarrus Who writes us and send
tie subscription price for the Standard for his so
in the army, says: =. ;.
+ AGive it to the Desructves, and continue to o.
pose the States assumption Of the Confederate deb
And may this war soon end, is the prayer of US ALL
Extract from letter from Coxville, Pitt County
Provisions are getting high here. They will