Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-01-14
wickeduess of the Destructive Leaders.

There is no depth of malice, falsehood, or mean
to which the Destructive leaders aided 5y the
Enquirer, will not descend to accomplish
their wicked purposes. They compenced the war
of parties this State, and they determined to
keep it up without regard to consequences. During
the campaign which resulted in the election of Gov
Vance, they insisted that the people of the State
ought to be unit and that the Conservatives were
dividing the people But the result of that election
showed that the people wsrs unit Gov. Vance
and his friends thoroughly united them, his vote
being three to one to that of his competitor. If
these Destructive leaders had been patriots anxious
only for the success of the cause, they would have
submitted without murmur to this verdict at the
balllot,box, and would have forgotten their party
schemes, at least until the war was over But they
are more bitter now than they have ever been.-
Their journals teen with the bitterest abuse of the
Conservatives Of the State, and they have even in
stigated the journals of another State to dictate to
their own fellow citizens and to brand some Of them
as traitors. A government officer high in place in
Richmond, pronounces North Carolina q id nest
Of traitors" One Of their Judges makes political
harangues from the bench, and advises the mob to
tar and feather the Editor of the Standard; and
this same Judge after having issued o writ of ha-
beas Corpus, and finding the writ resisted, tamey
sits down under this contempt for his authority by
the military power. They have even influenced
some Of our brave soldiers in Virginia to hold po
ltical meeting in which the Legislature of the State
has been assailed; and some of their journals have
published letters advising our troops in Virginia to
come home and "break up" what they call the
"intsrnnl Legislature"
Have not these leaders been we'll nameds Are
they not Dsstructipes' Would our Constitution,
our rights, our liberties be safe in their hands p
Are they not desperate men?
1t is painful to us to have to write thus especially
in the present crisis Of any citizens: But
we must defend ourselves when unjustly assailed,
and we must warn the people. We must fight Lin
coin with our right hand and guard our liberties
with our left when the wicked rule, the people
mourn" God pity the poor creature who falls into
the hands Of these men, and is thrust on mere sus-
pcion into Castle Thunder or the Bastile at Sails
bury and God saye the State from the counsels
and the control of the Destructive leaders.
Our unhappy neighbor of the Register labors to
place US in the same category with ITSELF in utter
ing fasehoods The Registers bad logic again trips
its heels. We stated that Gen. Martin held "two
high salaried Offices" This Gen. Martin does not
deny, nor will any one who has regard for truth.
We did not say that Gen. Martin had receired the
7 pay Of two salaried Offices. we fecdsiocreu tnxt
Gov. Graham's report distinctly affirmed upon the
authority of General Martin himself, that he did
accept and then held commission as Brigader
General in the Confederate army and had actually
taken the oath of office and assumed command
suited to that Office while be held the Office of Ad
iutant General of this State. We also recoeeted
that the same report stated that Gen. Martin had
said that he had never received any pay pertaining
to said Office" but the report gave no reason for it
We then ignorant Of the army regulations, and
did not know it until We received Gen. Martins note
stating that those regulations forbade his receiving
| the pay of two Offices. The knowledge we derived
from reading the report on that point was simply
that Gen. Martin had not up to that period received
any pay as Brigadier General. Knowing that many
officers do not present their claims regularly, we
supposed that he held his claim against the govern
ment and would receive his pay at some day, until
we received bis note. Now, what goes with the
Registers charge? "Cease viper, you bite 6e."
regret that the Confederate authorities surrendered
Mr Gavesbut suppose they thought it better ti
do that than aft ,rd the conservative par
ty" and the GROWERS Raleigh in this State for
ualy abusing and cursing the Confederate government
Ctarlotte Democrat.
The Secretary of War surrendered Mr. Graves in
obedience to the demand of the sovereign State o
North Caroliua; and in doing SO, he distinctly ad
mitted that the arrest was improperly made, follow
ed as 1t was by the removal of Mr.. Graves to an
other State for trial Wethlnk it will be seen, ir
due time, that Mr.. Seldom denies to the military
arm of the Confederate government the power tt
seize citizens of one State on mere suspicion ani
fransnort them to another State for trial