Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-09-07

"That paper the Spirit Of the Age feels it its
.. dutyn 10 publish every thing it can make room
for spainst the Standard, while it studiously ]
refrains from giving Standard the slightest hear
ing. This is =" duty and justice with q ven
geance. "-Raleigh Standard.
Instead of the above extract, being
true, the very reverse is the fact. In
stead of " making room for every thing1
it can against the Standard" the Age
has scrupulously and with marked care
avoided admitting any thing into its
columns that did not courteously and
respectfully combat the positions and ar
gumcnts advanced by the Standard
Editorially, the Age has awarded. it pu-
rity of motive and honesty of purpose
in the course it is pursuing "a great
stretch of charity, we admit but protest
ed at the same time that in our opin-
ion it greatly mistook the best way to
secure peace, and declared as the hon
est conviction of our heart, that most
mischicvous consequences would result
from its course. What has been copied
into the Age from other papers, has been
IN the conservative" press, the
:1lrdard's own friends-the Fayetteville
observer, Salisbury Waterman, &C.,
which have appealed to it in the most
fraternal terms, to desist from a course
which they believed fraught with so
much mischief. The Standard replied
to these papers as gently as the roaring
of a sucking dove; but it denounces us
'warns the Conservatives of the Stat'
against the Age and calls it "a wolf il
Sleeps clothing" This is in return TO
the generous manner in which we hav,
treated the Standard. Had we copied tn
harsh structures WHICH have appeared il
the Destructive" papers, az it term
them, perhaps it would have been bette
a lie to appreciate that course, than
seems to regard our generosity.
1t is also untrue that " the Age hs
s~tudiously refrained from giving tn
Standard the slightest hearing" W
have never before made any Editorial re
marks in reply to any special article
the Standard, hence we had no occasio
to quote any of its articles. But whe
we copied some of the resolutions passe
in some of the North Carolina regiment
we added thereto the following remark
of the Standard, in order that its p%ositio
as defined by itself, might accompar
the resolutions from the army denoun'
ing it:
I'VE defy these partisan officers or their ms
gators, in Raleigh and Richmond, to point to o
disloyal sentiment in our paper. 1t is true
are for peace, but we are for 1t on hororal
terms and we are opposed to relaxing a SIM
nerve, or giving back an inch before the enen
while negotiations for peace are going on.
time and if the wol st should come, we are
North Carolina against the world"
And yet the Standard says the A
"~studiously ~refrains from giving it t
slightest hearing"
We have thus proven that we have Il
acted towards the Standard as charg
by that paper, and put the facts bcfo
the public. And because we have I
copied any of the severe things that t
obstructive" press have said of it, a
hare published an extract from it, vine
eating itself and defining its position,
warns the Conservatives of the ST
against the Age" Verify, This
duty and justice with a vengeance"