Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-07-20
The Confederate of the 18th July, speaking Of


the Editor Of the Standard, says:
"If he can encourage desertion, aid the enemy,
accuse the government, advise its overthrow, and at
tempt to install secret consprator into office among
the soldiers, for his own ends-then where Is las,
morals, safety, and what is crime?
Men fear that he is arrested it will elect him.
The reople of North Carolina look out in the open
cir for their chief magistrates They have soras
sense of pride and honor"
We have neither encouraged desertion, nor aided
the enemy, nor accused the government, nor aoSls'
ed its overthrow, nor attempted to install secret
conspirator, or any one else into efice among the
soldiers, for our own ends. There is no shade" OF
foundation for these charges in the Confederate.
The Editor wants US arrested. Very we'll We
do not fear the law, for we have committed no Of
fence. The lau, did we say9 Yes But we haze
no lap. 1t was abolished when habeas corpus was
suspended. Our Governor knuckles, our Courts
are senced and cowed, and such Dantons as Nc
Rae rule the hour. But his day is coming. When
Vance shall have been defeated, and our Courts
stored, and our independence established, the slow,
unmoring finger Of public scorn will be pointed at
these DanqRSv qRv and they will be hissed and scowed
into pri4A selife Does Mr. Commissioner Bragg
want business? Is he doing nothing to earn his
three hundred dollars per month ? Does he wish
some case in which he can distinguish himself be-
fore his term as sub-despot expires! Perhaps Col
AcRae, who is something Of lawyer in sky rock
ct way, wants fees for appearing for the unfortun-
ates whom Mr. Bragg may arrest.
And now Col. McRae and your masters OF the
Star Chamber, we defy you. We are free citi.
zen of North Carolina, unstained with the crime
of treason We are true to our common govern
ment. Such as you, who would change its char
acter and erect dcspotism on its ruins are the
real traitors You are so regarded BY the people.
You, and such as you, stink in the nostrls Of the
people. They distrust you for your want Of prnci.
pie; they watch you closely, because they believe
you would ensave them if you had the power they
regard you with contempt, because you speak great
swelling words about whipping the enemy, while
hsid they despise you for your vanity and selfish.
ness; and they hate you, because you and your es-
socaes, next to the abolitionists are responsible
LOT all the blood and all the horrors Of this awful
"af' You say the people of North Carolina have
come sense of pride and honor" They have high
SeaSe OF both. They will never call you and your
associates to their chief places. Those places will
0e reserved for honest men, for patriotic men, for
s'0u men, Our people will honor 10 set Of men
"no 10 gatlfy their malice or to advance their own
Ssllsa ends, would degrade the State by making it
appear that large majority of her citizens are tra.
'O's, Or who would belitte her in the eyes of her
.o0on'ederates and Of the world by producing the
IMPRESSION that she is not in earnest and not hon.
'1 p IN 'nls conflict with Lincoln and the abotionsts
r.oe nat Mr. Bragg wants business. and Col McRae
shon. something to write about and hence this talk
yvus wv" arrests The Colonel also wants votes for
'anee; % lie thinks if Vance is elected he will have
hsHs su0a time of in settling his accounts, and per.
thns ne may obtain another mission to France and
da;,ts'' nave an opportunity of reveng again in the
,elf1 ll.s OF the French metropolis. Depend upon it
,nse's cb,rao is the key that unlocks the Coloners