Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-07-15

colnl Why, says he. your Constitution says you
can't make peace. What folly. Your Legislature
has already advised Congress to make peace, suu
Congress has asked for it You can't do anything
rs long as you stay in the Confederate States put
you can leave the 0onfederacy take back you rights
and make peace Yes you can take anOther dose
OF secession You win have to take it to get peace
and then instead of being part of the Oonfederacy
you viii be the independent foreign state oil NORTH
Carolina. You will have heralds to blow your
trumpets, kings, potentates, chiefs, DC. Your ru-
Ter will say, you all now eat your breakfast nave
eaten mine.
When called upon by an independent State Tor
recognition what will Abraham say! You Tled
that before, and if you couldn't secede then, you
can't now. The authorities AZ Richmond ana a
Washington will say North Carolina has taken her
sovereignty, and when called upon you are recog.
nized by Mr.. Davis What would that amount to
Mr.. Davis government has not been recognized IT.
self vet (tiere the Governor told the story oil the
horse, the Madison county man, Col BroOkes a2a
the Kentuckian.) The States are lighting together,
why not make peace in that mannerF (Clappingl
You can't get peace otherwise. The men VINO tell
you so are tamperlng with the blood of your sons
Suppose you 20 the whole hog no won say nog,
it is q dirty animal, but suppose you go the "hoie
dog and secede and 20 into Abrahem's bosom, and
thus cruelty your sons aresh and put them TO open
shame, can you get peacef The moment you JON
the common enemy you would be involved IN war;
You have the right to secede that do not oeny.
man has the right to steal under certain circum
stances But when you exercise that right and
take seats with the enemy, you have war at nome.
Your sons will turn upon your homes that moment
you join the United States governmeDt-that mo
ment you are at war with the Confederate States.
(Here the Governor made an appeal to the parenS
of our soldiers who have died on the battle held
that if the war must continue, accursed be the arm
that struck blow save in defence OF our homes
Convention to obtain peace is unconstitutional.
1t is revolutionary and can never secure peace.
No county has furnished more soldiers than
Forsyth and none have won more glory Tor their
county and themselves. Would you have your
country enveloped in fame of fire :? Would you
have civil war? This is not civil war, for we
have been acknowledged as oelligerents- will tell
you what civil war is When you see the rafters
of your houses crumbling in flames upon your
wives and children in your own State, and hred oy
your own fellow citizens then you will know what
civil war is.
AS to peace meetings you can have as many as
you want You have the light to hold them. You
have the right to hold Convention TOO III that Is
my crime that l have opposed it you have nv
reasons But have been asked to convene The
Legislature. did not see proper to do So All the
names of those who signed the petitions did not
number 500 men. But thought it sufficient to
call my Council together The Legislature at length
came and after a session of two weeks said nothing
Convention. Why did he not ? There is secret
in this thing. There few politicians who want
to break up this government and go back into
AbrShaus bosOm--a few men in Raleigh (Here
he referred to the Hampton cert6cates) appeal
to the men in the sound Of my voice if the object
of the Convention not to take the State out OF
the ConlederaCy. That was the object
But the main charge is that have forssken my
friends, and turned secessonist and all the seces-
sionists going to for me. This is not true
Ny competitor and myself will divide the secession
vote l am for peace and independence by fighting
and negotiating Ny competitor is for keeping you
fighting. We can't fight without cheering up the
from the StGHddrd) There is no other road but to
fight it out Fight it out now. We repeat it We
must fight That is what my competitor said but
he won't come here for me to ask him. We ask him
through the papers, but he shuts himself up like an
oyster in his she'll. Mr.. Holden can't make peace
He has told you more than l hsVe-he is for fight
ing all the while. But say if you stand firm, if
you, fathers and mothers, are true We must sue
ceed My competitor and myself will divide the
secession vote. He will take the towards Such
as stand up to their principles will vote for me, but
those that spOred cockades and were going to tear
up the State if it did not secede will vote for my
competitor.
But | received memorial from this County
signed by several citizens saying they did not be-
opposed to Convention. That sort OF men won't
vote for me. They have great many substitutes,
and all will have to 60. A secessionIst who kills
Yankees from Salem to Boston won't vote for me-
And there is Pennington, an original secessonist,
a great greasy, lying scoundrel. When every body
wanted to take Fort Macon, no. said Pennington,
will go and take 1t myself He knew the garrison
consisted OF one old man, oneeyed turkey cock and
blind dog. But when 20, 900 Yankees came up to
Newbern and Pennington was in a cabin that did
not leak drop, so soon as it began to rain he got
up and says to the surge n, i have been taking
medicine and had better get home :" and so to
keep from getting wet he walked five miles through
the rain. He is now in Raleigh editing paper and
abusing me-a cowardly, lying dirty dog If a
secesslOnst votes for me- however it will not make
me secesslonist Ny competitor says so, and so
does Pennington. Ii there is man willing for the
Yankees to whip US for whom will he vote? For
Holden. Does that make him tory2 don't say
he is tory nor do say he is not But does that
mans vote make him tory don't say all men
who vote for Holden tories, but the tories will
vote for him. Why do secessionists prefer me to
Holden? Why even Yankees hate deserter, and
Holden deserted them. (Here he read extracts from
the StdndGrd) He, Holden, denounced you as
traitors in Fremonts campaign and advised that you
be treated with contumely and jailed by your
negroes. He voted for secession in the Convention,
and laid the paper by that his children and grand
children might read it and then he was for 81 the
last man and the last dollar" But now he comes
in with Pennington there the Governor introduces
his usual dirty fngs and calls upon you all as true
Conservatives to vote for him. CThe Governor now
made an appeal to the old Wings of Forsythl
Holden denounced Graham, Gilmer and others. He
called the latter kiss him-Giddings Glmer, and,
abused the Wing party until the present deluge of
blood was about to overflow the country, and then
he forsook his old party and joined hands with the
Conservatives Now he is the first to stand up be.
fore the people of this county whom he has abused
as abolitonists. He told you after coming from
Charleston that Yancey's object was to break up
the Union. Who did he vote for John c. Brock
inridge, the secession candidate. What he said did
take place, and Gov Ellis gave that dirty Spelman
the State nrintino lHera the GnHernnr drew the