Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-05-18

From tie North Carolina Standard, July 80, 1865
The Richmond Sentinel of Saturday contains an
article devoted to the Standard, from which We
make the following extract:
I'm a very recent number it Qhc Standard has
declared for peace on a lower basis than we are
contending for; that is it is in favor of reunion
with our enemies, which implies submission to
them"
There is not one word of truth in the above.
We are not in favor of reunion with our enemies"
or of ssubmission to them" The Sentinel does
not even take the trouble to garbe our articles, as
the Enquirer Does but deliberately and grossly
msrepresents them, without letting its readers
a word we have said The Editor calls upon the
Jury to convict US, and the Judge to sentence US,
without submitting to them q particle Of evidence
in the case; but, having condemned US himself, he
calls US a traitor and leaves US "to the law
Well, that is more conslderate than the Enquirer,
which would leave US to the tender mercies of the
mob. We do not fear either
The Sentinel says, in the article from which the
above is taken, that we are in the habit of tying
ourself to Coy. Vance, GOV. Graham Hon. Bedford
Brown, and other distinguished public men in this
State and. using them as life preservers." Our
readers know this to be untrue. But the Sentinel
says this, because in the number of the Standard
which be notices, We declared that if we had such
men in power as A. Fl. Stephens, William L. Shar-
key William G. Rves, Herschel V. Johnson, Bed
ford Brown. William A Graham, John A. Gilmer,
Robert P. Dick, and others we might name. VIC
should have more hope of our final triumph" This
was gall and NORWOOD to the Sentinel and it's
masters in Richmond, but it is the truth, and we
did not hesitate to utter it Of course every one
who dares to talk in such q way aboot Mr. Davis is
traitor But we now 60 further and say, that if
the Confederate cause should fall its failure will be
Justly attributable to, the President and his advi
sers. The most magnificent resources any people
ever had with which the commence, and carry for.
ward, and consummate revolution, have been mis-.
applied and wasted and the cause itself has been
prostituted to partyism, SO that persons who did
not desire to destroy the old government but re-.
sisted the secession movement Us long as it was
honorable to do so, have been marked and exclu-
ded, as general rule, from all positions of honor
and trust under the government. We have uni
formly labored to prevent or remedy this state Of
things, but feeble efforts have been of no avail
And because We have SO labored and because of our
devotion to our native State, we have been ma
lgned and prosecuted, and the mob has been called
on to destroy our office. This mob spirit is every
way worthy of the desperate and lawless men un.
der whose auspices the national Democratic party
was broken up, Lincoln elected, and the old gov.
eminent destroyed.
So far as Gov. Vance is concerned, it is proper
that should state that he is not responsible for
the course of the Standard. The Standard is an
Independent Conservative paper. and is not the or.
gan of either Presidents, Governors, or Generals.
1t is due to Gov. Vance himself as we'll rs to the
Standard. that we should state that he does not
agree with us in our views the subject of peace
He is as anxious as we are to see an honorable
peace established At a early day a. possible; but