Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-02-02

VAS unanimously lol ONobS ONH'N"NOo' "
expect the proceedings in time Tor our next issue
rr.n in North. Carolina, the State that has come
most nnder suspicion the great body Of the people
aro sonnd to the core. In the City of Raleigh,
rbere the traitor Holden has his rabble dupes and
dbprents there are not five respectable citizens who
o the least counteuance to his disloya sentiments
end projects. have the authority Of distinguish
ed CLERGYMAN of that city for this statement, and
NV own observations convince me that it is true
Rich Cor Sac. Rep.
The above is from the Richmond correspondence
! of the Savannah Republican. We have seldom seen
50 many falsehoodS in so few lines. North-Carohna
is "under suspicion" because she is Conservative
State, vet this writer admits that the great body
of the people are sound to the core" She is sus-
pected and the character of her people injured, on
account of the ISLANDERS Systematically perpetrated
against her by newspapers edited by persons whose
attachments to her are slight and temporary, and
such clergymen as the distinguished" individual
above referred to- But for the gallantry and endu-
rance of the troops of this suspected" State, the
correspondent OF HcPU0ssO,-- lA -<~t hA d
the opportunity of indting the above falsehoods in
hlchmund; nor indeed, but for the troops of this
same "suspected' State, sustained and encouraged
as they are by the people at home, would he have
had it in his power to travel without moestaion as
( Confederate citizen from his home to Virginia:
for it not immodes in US to say for our State when
thus assailed that if her strong arm had not been
put forth in the seven days conflict around Rich
mond as well as at other points at which the enc
my has been repulsed, in vain would have been the
Efforts however heroic and glorious, of the troops
Of other States. But for North Carolina the Con-
iederate cause would have been lost ere this. Yet
shs is the State "most under suspicion" How is
it with Mississippi? Has the conscript law. ever
been enforced in that State There were nine hum
dred of the citizens of Jackson who had soiemnly
pledged themselves in writing to meet the fSlerals
when they approached that town, the capital of the
State; yet when the calrw was made, and they were
expected to turn out and fight, but fifteen appeared
in the trenches. Eight hundred and eighty, five
original secesSOnistS like the correspondent of the
RepubLleGh and but fifteen Conservatives yet the
latter were ready to do their duty, while the FORM
er vigorously departed, leaving the city to the
mercy OF the enemy. How many thousands of bales
Of cotton have been sold to the enemy for gold by
people living on and near the Mississippi river P
speak of these things more in sorrow than in
anger; but when our glorious old State is pro-
nOuneed suspicious character by cotton State scrb
tS and an attempt is made to injure her in history
ser what she has done in this war, we think it but
f'snt that the truth should be told, hurt whom it
may Yet Georgia and Mississippi are great and
gallant States = NY have suffered much at the
aands of the enemy, especially the latter, and far
Oe from US to reproach them as States for the con.
al'0n In which they are placed What we mean
SAY is, that if the original seceSsionsts of those
'a'eS to man, had performed their promises made.
'siofe the war, and had devoted their souls, and
'aeS and substance as thoroughly to the cause as
r' conservatives or former Union men of North
'Ui.nS nave done, Chattanooga and Yicksburg
Uu,u S'lli have been ours, and Mississippi would
how is
nu' VINO is the distinguished clergyman who
0I 'n's correspondent that there are not five
.'aOie ci'lzens of Raleigh who agree with us
FDo"! RAo Is he? 1t makes no difference
norD 'S, Ills statement to this correspondent is
hb. - r'. - DC untrue. Every body here knows it
n, L. iue' Whoever he is, he talks politics.
a"gaOm rs of this world. "When this cruel
ai.. - over he will again turn his attention to
os,; 'uN things. Meanwhile he busies himself in
SG,', travellers as to, the "rabble dupes" and
NJ .' Status of the City of his residence. Prob.
s;; ~ ns told this correspondent that Holden was
bi,: !'. mana traitor. If he did, may he be for
tb,s, ,Or the falsehood II is recorded. Satan,
sD,b.S oiat ne had one more cord around him,
i'm S0 ~ lot JOY when it was written down. Let
fin spent and do his first works." lest he be cut
EesD.o. ms SINS and lost We entertain the deepest
sen. ~" ~. christian ministers, but we can have no
gym.e Ou' that Of disgust and loathing for cIer.
..n VINO 80 far fOrgets his calling and his duty
gynaD an iaiSehOod on, his neighbor. If cier
md n,oS ""s talk politics, let him do SO cautiously
him bptty' So as not to i1jure his Masters cause;
uy Of n'"Gy' tell the truth and if he possesses
n e,sra; CHARITY which beareth all things let
oor nsna sSs little of it now and then towards a