Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-07-08
The Red String Party.

The two subsidized organs, the Confederate and
Conservative still greatly excited about the red
string party. They affect to see in it "gorgons,
hydras, and chimeras dire" They are afraid the
county will be secretly delivered up to Lincoln,
and that their property and their precious persons
will not be protected by the red string if the enc
my should come. We know nothing aboot this
red string party any other secret political party
If such party exists we do not know it What
is it to US if does exist3 "What is Hecuba to us,
or We to Hecuba?" But one thing we do know, and
that is if the wit of man has devised worse party
than the Destructive party with Gov. Vance and
d. K McRae at its head, the wit of man is more
viciously prolific now than at any former period in
history.
But do these journals ever reflect that If what
they say on this subject be true, they are giving
aid and comfort to the enemy, If it be true that
many of our people are banded together in secret
organization to deliver the State into the hands Of
the enemy, would itnot be best to conceal the fact
from the enemy, and go to work quietly and firmly
to remove the evil and save tn g Statep But if it
be false what rGust be thought Of politicians who
would deliberately make such statements about q
portion of our own people, simply to influence the
elections q Tell the Yankees we are divided-tell
them any thing, if by so doing we can get votes I
Such seems to be the rule by which the Destruc
tive leaders are governed.
1t Is even stated in the Destructive journals that
large portion of Gen: Lees army belongs to this
secret association If this statement be true, and
# the association be reasonable in its character,
then it is charged by these journals that q large
portion Of Gen. Lees army are untrue to the Con-
federacy. If such an association exists and if the
soldiers belong to it. it cannot be reasonable in its
character charged by these journals for no SOL
der would attach himself to any organization cal
culated to give aid to the very enemy he is fighting
Our readers will remember that charges equally
false and ridiculous were made by the Destructives
two years ago against Gov Vance and the Conser-
vative party. Gov. Vance himself was called q
Lincolnlte and traitor, and it was asserted that
Mr.. Graham, Mr.. Badger, and the Editor of the
Standard were engaged in secret reasonable cor.
respondence with Mr.. Stanly, Lincoln's military
Governor. But the people turned deaf ear then,
as they will now, to all such slang. They are not
to be diverted from the true issues or induced to
change their votes by this trash and nonsense about
secret political organizations. "Old birds are not
to be caught with chaff." ... .-a
We repeat, our opponents belong to the red
string party. The tortuous string which guides
them is stepped in blood and leads through ruined
homestesds, desolated fields and blazing cities
Col. McRae and his Destructive friends who live on
the two governments, and grow rich while the peo-
pie become poorer, follow this string at safe dis
lance, but they pull it till it is crimsoned with the
blood of others. They are the red string party.