Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-07-13
The Red String Party.

TIE two subsldized organs, the Confederate and
Gonse,vatiee, are 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 seerstly 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 about 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 exist! "What is Hecdba to u.s.
or We to Hecubaf" 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. X. McRae at its head, the wit Of man is more
vcieusly 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 enemys 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 it not be best to conceal the fact
from the enemy, and 60 to work quietly and firmly
to remove the evil and save tn 9 State. But if it
be false, what must be thought of politicians who
would deliberately make such statements about
portion of our own people, simply to influence the
electionsl Tell the Yankees we are divided-tell
them any thing, if by so Doing we can get votes
Such seems to be the rule by which the Destruc
tive leaders are governed.
It 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 large
portion Of Gen. Lees army are untrue to the Con
federacy. such an association exists, and if the
soldiers belong to it, it cannot be reasonable in its
character as charged by these journals, for no SOL
dier 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 we're made by the Desrructivss
two years ago against Gov. Vance and the Conser-
vative party. Gov. Vance himself was called
Linconte 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,
IS they will now, to al 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."
We repeat, our opponsnti belong to the red
string party. The tortuous string which guides
them is stepped in blood, and leads through ruined
homesteads, desol.sea fields snd blazing citiss.-
COL McRae and bis Destructive friends who live on
the two governments, and grow rich while the pso-
pie become poorer, follow this string at safe dis
lance, but they pull it till i; il crimsoned with the
blood of others. TAsy are the red string party.