Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-08-26

| =. -,.t, 'Eoia the Fayetteville O6aerpcr,
wn'co We invite the attention of our readers.
| .ae o0se'vsr is correct in saying that the real
o"e,nasors OF party feeling sfe those who admins.
ssreo the State government in 1851. when our neo.
Pc determined to resist Mr.. Lincoln's nroc,am..
'0n' But We go further and say, that this was on
part OF the party Programme that LEA 10 the
u'Ssoiutlon OF the Union, and which has s6yerned
! tue Confederate administration from Il. ;n.u,u-,
ton at Montgomery to the present moment W.
W. people separated from the federal Union and
u''''eo themselves with the government at Mont.
s'uery' tney did SO in the belief that men of ali
s''aaes Of opinions would thenceforth be political
equals, and that the form Of government adonted
would be so administered as to preserve thu rsbte
Oh the sovereign States, and protect the free ex.
preston OF thought and opinion. In this thew
nave been grievously disappointed. The admins.
raaon Of Confederate affairs has been strictly mar.
tzan. No man who did not regard the election of
Mr. Lincoln as good cause for dissolving the Union
has been admitted to the Cabinet councils Of the
PRESIDENT Prescription of such men, both in the
held and council, has been the order Of the d.v
and not only this, but when they have complained
OF such treatment, and endeavored to correct the
errors and blunders of the administration th.v
have been assaed in venomous tsrmS and threat.
! ened with q "hideous mark" which would Al.
grace them and their children.
Out even this could have been borne for the sake
OF the country, if the rights of the States and the
liberty OF the citizen had been respected. When
North, Carolina seeded the States were REGARDED
as the masters of the system, and the government
as the servant Of the States to execute their will
how Is 1t now! Under the operation of laws not
warranted BY the Constitution the war has ceased
to be voluntary in its character, and the Governors
ol the states have become mere registers of the
Will Of Congress and the Executive. The conscrip.
lion and the tlthins law leave nothing to the States
Out the central government takes our fighting men
with one hand and the tenth of our substance with
the other If the first was really necessary the
states themselves could have enforced it. and each
State could have kept its quota Of men in the field
in brigades, duly Offered and if provisions were
needed, and could not be purchased, the States
could have furnished them by system of purchases
OF their own, and taken in exchange for them the
currency OF the government Seizures of persons
and property have become as common as they are
in France and Russia Personal liberty has been
| made dependent on the mere will of army officers
appointed BY the President Hundreds have been
arrested for opinions sake, immured in dungeons,
denied trials before the civil tribunals and released
only when the military power chose to do it Our
Courts, when they have nterposed to protect these
unfortunates and to uphold the law, have been dis
regarded in many instances and their integrity re-
Elected on in gross terms by the War Department
at Richmond The Confederate currency, which
is the life blood Of the system, and the emanation
Of plghted public faith, has been to some extent
| repudated as matter of cohvenience; and por.
ton Of it in one instance has been refused by a
Cabinet officer, the same ground, in open viola
ton Of = law Of Congress Our patient uncom-
| planning, heroic soldiers have been placed in the
van of every battle and in the of almost every
retreat and when they have fought with an ardor
| and steadiness which would have reflected credit
op the old guard Of Bonaparte ITSELF just praise
has been denied them. by journals supposed to
speak fer the administration, and their fathers and
brothers at home who are Conservatives have been
held up as dsloyal and uniricndIy to the cause
Brigadiers and Major Generals from other States
have been placed over them in many instances, and
when such officers have been appointed froE our
State they have been almost invariably of the same
politics with the administration. Prescription has
thus been practced over the very bones and blood
of our people, Supefadded to all this has been the
appointment of surgeons, enrolling officers and the
like from other States over our regiments and over
our people at home, until the crowning outrage
was reached by the appointment of Maj. Bradford,
of Virginia to collect the tithes. This led to the
first public meeting held in this State; and but for
this and other meetings, and the earnest remon'
strances of Gov. Vance, Maj. Bradford would Still
be Tithingman for this State.
Such are some of the causes that have reused the
people of this State to sense of their rights. and
led to the meetings so much deprecated by the o.
se,per But there are other causes, growing out Of
the partizan policy referred to- and out of the nef-
ciency which must always characterize party ad-
mnistration in the midst of great revolution like
the present The arms of the whole country, it is
true. have been dedicated to this struggle, but only
half of its mind SO much as that has been called
into reouison. The counses of every great states
man and good man who die not believe that Mr..
Lincoln elections was sufficient cause for Inaugural
ting civil war. have been as efectuay excluded
from the ear of the President in his practical admin
isration of the government as if they had been ex-
lies in foreign lands The idea that secession would
be peaceaue the great mistake that underlles the
whole movement The President was urged at
Montgomery to purchase the stock Of cotton then
On hand as a means of procuring ships, munitions
of war, and other necessary supplies, and also as
basis for our paper currency; and also to call for
and accept five hundred thousand volunteers. de
declined to do it. and his Congress ordered .tftee"
Thousand stand Of arms and Borrowed .fftes7 mil
lions Of dolars Seeing his mistake, but not admit.
ting it by calling statesmen who bad thus advised
him to his aid, he adhered to his party policy ana
ran to the other extreme Of general conscr'pton
If seven hundred thousand men, without due re:
gard to the productive interests on which success
lul prolongation of the war must mainly depend
! "a of not Generals whose incOmpetency