Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-05-17

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taken from an editoris in the Ashville Spectator Of
April 1851, headed Hon. u. b. Vance! - -.- |
awe learn that Mr.. Vance made essPeesu a. |
Waynesville on Tuesday OF last wees ano an
,,o,;nooJ b;msef a candidate for reelection to the
neYt Congress of the United States HIS speech We
are informed was an able effort and that ne TOOK
hold and yery decided grounds against the separa-
ton of North Carolina from the Union without tue
cooperation of the slave States that have not
ded His position as we understand is that tne'
AeIava States remaining in the Union should hold
a conference agree upon common iine Oh poncy,
and make common cause That this line OF pohcy
when adopted should be submitted TO Ine Nsrtne,n
States as an ultimatun. If this utttHGtum shouio
be accepted on the part OF the Nortn' tnen lns
Union will be preserved and peace, good WIZ ana
fraternity be restored But ongtire other hand, II
Il shall be rejected then he IS for pursuing sucn
course of policy as under the circumstances the
honor and interest of North Carolina and the otner
slave holding States with which she IS ldentlneo,
NAV dictate for their future safety and happiness
Mr.. Vance INDUCES the hope that the North VIII
in due time do us justice by guaranteeing the neees
sarv constitutional protection. We have not heard
of any one who proposes to become candidate
against Mr.. Vance, although we have been INFORM
ed he will certainly have opposition. In What
shape this opposition if made, will come, we can
not tell. The true issue now in North. Carolina,
as we'll as in other seeding States is between
those who demand separate, unconstitutional ana
precpitate secession of the State, and those VINO
desire consultation and cooperation with the bor-
der slave States, for the purpose OF restoring the
,Union. If possible. The form in which that issue
wit be presented, to slightly modify the language
of Virginia cotemporary, is, shall RoEth.CaTollna
secede forthwith or shall she consult with her
sister border States is the great ISSUE 1t IS one
of incalcua5le importance to every citizen OF this
State On this then let the battle be fougEtand the
victory won. Mr. Vance as is shown is for stand
ing by North. Carolina and the border States"
| have given the whole of the article, from which
it appears, Mr. Vance thinks the way North.Car-
DINA seeded was unconstitutional. According to
this showing he did not consider it uneons'tutlon'
al in 1861 for North. Carolina and the non seSedng
States 20 send delegates to hold conference to
restore the Union. To this end the Legislature
sent delegates to Montgomery, and washington:
How then can it be unconstitutional now to hold
convention aud CO operate with all other states to
restore peaceY
After the vote was taken in 1861, and the propo-
siton to call Convention rejected by the people
of North Carolina, The Abbeville S. @. Baaner,
published the following:
"MovING LITTLE TERRAPIN LIKE.-Virginia,
Kentucky and Missouri are beginning to poke out
their heads and legs preparatory to crawling under
the fire laid upon their backs by the Lincoln ad
minstration. But Tennessee and North Carolina
under the stream of molten lava pouring upon
them, well not even shake their tails. Would
States so slow to move under such an accumulation
of wrongs, contribute much to the moral power of
literally to be kicked and thrust aRd goaded out of
the Union Nth the SalIUas Of insult dripping from
their faces, strengthen US in heart or hand? We
fear not. Their hardness under the circumstances
is conclusive of the fact that they would hang like
sheats of lead upon our skirts. Soon in our hum
BILE Judgment these States would be to us what the
North formerly was to the South. Better for them
to remain in the Union, and stand barrier be-
tween US and the North, than to join us and dis
tract our councils and cripple our operations VI
course if these States were sound to the core we
would be glad to have them, but mich and water
mixture we fear and dread What we want is a
pure, Unaduiterateds prOsIGUery government Such
we now have and such let it ever remain"
This paper was at last willing to take us with
the salivas of contempt and insult reekng from
faces. is it not we'll that the unadulterated, pro-
slavery government got US to fight its battles I?
Here is letter copied in the Greensboro Patriot
from Tennessee paper:
CAHABA, Ala, Feb. %, 1861.
Mr. W. G. BRowNLow Sir, you may exult as
much as you please the election in Tennessee.
In this part of the country we are not much disap-
pointed because we know how your State was set
tied 1t was settled by HoosIers from North Caro-
lima, the tory State of the revolution which we ex
pect to follow suit We do without either.
Both occupied by class of people Of lou order,
without one spark of honor or chiralry about them
Let them submit to Lincoln. They are towards
and from the way in which Virginia, Kentucky and
Arkansas are behaving, do not believe they are
any better. Virginia and Kentucky are we'll
enough descended, but do not expect there is q
family of high cOnneriOH or noble descent in the
whole of North Carolina Tennessee Arkansas
Now the crisis is upon US, this ROOsier blood shows
ITSELF But let them go. We do not want them.
We would be degraded by their ASSOCIATION. As
something has been said in the papers of your State
about Northern Alabama 10 the revolution going
off with Tennessee, 1 and all here say we would
like to see her try it. We bring her right at
the point of the bayonet and if Tennessee sympa-
thses with her, we can conquer her top. Such
people as yours could not stand moment against
the chicGIrOus md brace population of Southern
Alabama and Mississippi. More than this, ifany Of
your Tennesseeans come down here expressing their
Union sentiments, we intend to treat them to a coat
os tar ornamented with feathers to go home in. If
our country does not furnish you with market
for meat your hog raising State will be reduced to
starvation and bankruptcy in less than twelve
months. We uere WiLLing to sustain you and trade
soih you, but your own action has reduced you to
| the lowest depths of degradation and beneath our
contempt and forbids our countenancng you any
longer, After all it is happy radiance and We
| are we'll quit Of you. l.. B. MANNING"
I. Brownow in reply says that a counterpart of
the above nsolent letter appeared also in the Nash
vile Union paper. l have taken the pains to copy
these, as l could many other articles of similar
| kind, to bring to your mind the abuse that
heaped upon North Carolina by the secessionsts
| because she did not secede SnamediGteEy
The chiUalry hated us and traduced US before
this war, and Notwithstanding all that this State
J has done and is doing, they hate and traduce US
still, and defy our authorities and trample upon
our laws, appoint hosts of citizens from other States
to fill all profitable and influential offices in North
| Carolina. Go to all the counties of the State and
| look over the Office holders and behold who they
are and from whence they came. Not only so, the
| people of other States are told that the writ of
haJeas corpus was suspended to carry certain cleo
| tions in North Carolina. Nor is this all. The War
| Department has detailed the Rev. Doctor Pitts,
Colonel in Lnnostrnets army tn canvass this Etnte