Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-07-22

To the Voters of the 4sth Senatorial District
OF fNOrth.CarOiina, com posed of the Counties
OF Rutherford, Polk aud CIeaVeIand.
FELLow.CHIzENs AND SOLDIERS IN THE SERvrcE-4
At the earnest solicitations of numerous friends
am candidate for re election to represent you in
the Senate of the next General Assembly OF said
State. 1t was my intention to canvass the district
and by speeches, make the people acquainted with
my views on the most important questions before
them, but l shall now be denied that pleasure,
having been ordered with a portion of my COM
mand to Asheville. Therefore it has become ne
cessary that L should appear before you in card
giving you my views in a condensed form am
not only well known personally to most persons in
the district, but am also politically known as a
conservative after the Straitest sect" by which
you will understand me to be champion of the
rights, liberties anc freedom of the people, and to
oppression tyranny, or despotism in any FORM .
lell opposer"' | am in favor of using all legal
and honorable means to maintain the former and
prevent the latter,-l am opposed to everything
lOresnadowlng DGtGtOrship. In the language Of
lion. A ID. Stephens, I" / would not turn upon my
heel to choose between masters Twas not born to
have master from either the North or the South"
we are now waging war against powerful and
relentless Toe and in which it is necessary that all
our means and energies should be steadily and prop
erly used but AIN sorry to believe that military
necessity has been made an excuse to oppress our
own people, by the passage of unconstitutional
laws, among which are the Conscript law, the
1.-THE law, the Impressment laws and others, inclu-
ding the act to suspend the privilege of the writ
OF haoeas corpus which last in its general features
has been pronounced unconstitutional by the ablest
lawyers in the Confederacy. I voted in the Gen.
eral Assembly condemning this act, and asked its
repeal BY this law the rights of freemen are not
only wrested from them and trampled under foot
but 1t was passed for the cypress purpose of pre-
oentang the Jreenaen Of North Carolina from e1-
ercising their privilege at the baIotJoz, naussling
the press, stopping public discussion, in short to
oreG6 dOaon the Conservative party in this State,
and cripple it elsewhere. Remember this North
Caronians!
The policy of the administration in the repudia-
ton OF lis own currency, is another measure which
SpeWs the want OF foresight and capacity to admin
ter the government in that statesmanlike manner,
which the the exigency of the times requires. 1t
seems to me an ordinary foresight could have pre-
vented these evils, and kept nviolable the rights,
liberties and freedom of the people, and the sover-
elgnty OF the States; but they are upon u.s. and
what is the remedy to remove the evBs, and save
ourselves! The answer is easy and smple-re-,
move the men from Office who have assisted in the
passage OF these laws as fast as the power of the
people can get at them and prevent those from get
ting into power who have advocated these measures
This being done, it is to be hoped our country will
be free from oppression have ever been opposed
70 the principles IN each of these measures. The
poHcy OF the Confederate government in these
measures, has had powerful influence upon our
State government and forced upon it heavy and
unnecessary burtheus Again, the tendency of
some OF these measures has made the civil subser-
Went to the military law, thereby weakening the
sovereignty of the States and tending to a consoli
dated government to which am bitterly opposed.
My competition, DR.. W. j. 4. Miller, of Cleave-
land, may almost o. quite say, is life long poll
tician, and has represented the people of this dis
trEnt hafA e IL IL
oence his political acts are public property, and it
IS certainly right that the people should know
what his political career has been.
The hrSt l knew of my competitor he was an
oLG line Why, the next | heard of him he was
buchanan Democrat, the next he was a Bell and
Everett Union man, and l understand he used the
sxpresSiOn that he "goried i'll having an opportu-
nifty to vote for Bell and Everett the Union candi-
dates for the Presidency, in order to break down
Breckenridge and Lane, who were the secession
candidates Ito use his own language) to dissolve
Our glorious old Unlon" Next he was making
stump speeches in favor of secession to dissolve
that "glorous old Union" Leopard like he has
many spots, or like the Irishman's flea, put your
finger on him and he's not there. Secession took
place, the GLORIOUS old Union was dissolved and
suppose since that time he has kept the faith to-
erably well, having voted for Johnston against Gov.
Vance; he also voted for Lander against Hon. j. g..
Ramsay, assigning for reason that the latter was
LHLCOLH OOOtttLOH1SE. L 90 not KNOW WQeLnSI TIE
Doctor intended to brand the of his own coun-
ty who supported the Hon. j. G. Ramsay as Lin
coin a6o!itiOaiSts not, this he answer better
himself Being original secessionist, L presume
he has been warm supporter of the policy of the
administration of Mr.. Davis; if this be so, he was
IN favor of the conscript lew, which never existed
before in republican government and by which
the military power of the sovereign States was
trampled under foot. l also suppose he favored
the passage OF the tthe law, by which portion of
the hard earnings of the wives of soldiers in the
field has been taken from them and their suffering
children and wasted at almost every depot in the
State. | suppose likewise he is in favor of the im
pressment law, which has given rise TO species OF
highway robbery all over the country. l guess,
too, he favors what is known as the currency act
of the first permanent Congress, by which the gov
erpment was authorized to repudiate one-thIrd OF
the money in circulation, and which no doubt has
. prevented many poor woman from buying BUSH
ell of corn to hush the cries of hungry children
Last, though not least hefavored the act suspend
ing the privilege of the writ of ha6eds corpus which
deprves every freeman in the Confederate States OF
his rights and liberties, some of whom have been
arrested plunged into prison. there to languish, lg-
norant of the charges against them and denied the
right of trial-and they may have been arrested by
the mere declaration OF kidney footed negro-to
make negro evidence valid being one of the reasons
assigned for the suspension of the privilege OF the
writ. l have brought these things before the peo-
pie not for the purpose of doing my competitor any
Injustice but for the purpose of giving him an op
! portunity of showing how he.hGs stood, and how
! he noOO stands upon these various and grave ques
! items.
In conclusion there is another subject, respecting
our difficulties with our enemies of which would
speak. To use the language of Gov. Brown o.
! Georgia " In view of these difficulties it may be
asked phcn and hOW is this to be settled? 1t ls
impossible to say tOhet it may terminate but it is
easy to say hoao it will end. We do not seek II
conquer the Northern people-and If We are true
to ourselves they can neUer conquer US, and we d.
not seek to wrest from them the right Of self
government and they have not force enough t
govern US without our consent, or to deprive US o