Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-05-01
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FROM numerous letters received at this ONCE we
make the following extracts as indicating the
dition of public sentiment in the State:
Extract from letter from Glover Orchard, Ala
nance County, N. c.:
"The people heartily approve your advocacy Of
State sovereignty, personal liberty, and su5ordl-
nation of the'military to the civil power"
Extract from letter from TaylorsYille, Alexander
County:
"Yonr paper is gaining popularity every day in
this County. There are about l25 copies taken at
this office alone. 1t has been the advocate OF the
people and OF the peoples rights, and hope it will
continue so to be. We all like your paper for the
many well-merited blows which you lave dealt out
to the Destructive party. Continue to give it to
them in broken doses. Some of them are badly
satirGted already, and l hope you will keep it up
until you make constitutional change in them"
Extract from letter from Hadley's Mills, Chat
ham County,:
II had rather do without my supper every night
than without the Standard Your paper has
larger circulation in this County than any other.-
Every body approves your course. save few
Peaeea6L secessionists, whose countenance you
do not want"
Extract from letter from Hookerton, Greene
. County,:
There is no news; all quiet along the lines in
this State. Farmers are planting large crops of
corn here this year. The wheat oat and rye crops
look unusually fine and the breadth of land seeded
is larger than it is ordinarily in this section
letter from New Hill, Wake County, says:
The ladies are calling loudly for your paper
Mrs. =, soldiers wife, wishes your Weekly
Standard l enclose the money for her..
Extract from letter from Richmond Hill, Yadkin
County:
!, '.l have been a close reader of your paper for
more than twelve months, and have watched your
course with a. vigilant eye and must say most
heartily endorse and approve the bold and inde-
pendent stand you have taken in defending the
rights of North Carolina"
Extract from letter from Hookerton, Greene
County:
we can't get along without the Standard. 1t
speaks the sentiments of nine.tenths of the people
in our section Of country"
Extract from a letter from Stony Point, Alex
ander County:
"The most Of our great heroes, and war men be-
fore the war began, are here yet Some get off by
being diseased, who were never known to complain
before; others by mechanical trades who would
have been ashamed of such occupations two years
ago; some by being over age, who look very young;
and some few OF them are in the bushes. All Of
them, who can, are engaged in speculation, extort-
ing the last dollar from the wives and families of
our volunteers"
Extract from letter from Thomasville, Davidson
County:
Gov Vance is the man for the times 1 say
emphatically, God bless the man for the interest
he manests in behalf of the poor soldiers and their
families as well the poor generally. We have
not been mistaken in him. lie is every thing we
could wish for"
Extract from letter from Mebanesville, Alamance
County:
81 cannot do without your paper. Your course,
amidst the trying scenes through which we are
passing, meets my unqualified appreciation. If ever
there was a time when theAyatchman upon the wall
should stand firm" cry aloud and spare not and
hold every in authority to the strict letter of
the Constitution, nOD is the time. Otherwise we
may find, when too late, that the chains of despo-
tism are rveted upon US. Permit me- then, to
cheer you on in the good work of advocating the
cause Of the soldiers-the cause of the people-the
cause of law and Of liberty"
Extract from letter from Millbank Granville
County:
\ "You may look for long list of subscribers from
\ne soon. The people in this section unanimously
approve the course you have pursued since the war
commenced, and particularly the ladies'"
Extract from letter from Stone Mountain, Nc
Dowell County:
ave are pleased with the course OF the Standard
and hope that you and Governor Vance will still
stick to the people They with you, and no
mistake. We are all anxious for peace here, if we
can have it honoraSly."'