Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-06-29

. SuDea90e4 fIessess
We are used to the assaults fsabsidized Or bought
up presses. In 1s6o when we denounced Gov.
Ellis and the disunionists for their efforts to dis.
solve the Union, certain monied men bought types,
snda press and Editor and established the State
Journal to >misrepresent and abuse us. And in
1854, when we expose the treachery Of Gov. Vance
to the Conservative party and warn the people that
he has abandoned civil liberty, and popular rights,
and constitutional government, and is about to de-
liver them bound hand and foot to the tender mer-
cies of central despotsm types, and presses, and
Editors are sgain purchased to misrepresent and
abuse u.s., In the Standard Of December lst 1860,
we said:
at seems that Mr.. John Spelmsn, the State
printer has purchased the Prsss establishpent and
turned it into the State Journal Where did the
money come from that paid or that is to pay for
this concernr Was it not raised by set Of disap
pointed, 6reeating poticisnsf And is it not their
object in thus purchasing the freedom of the press
to destroy us because We are true to the people p
Is not the Governor of the State party to this
combination. A pretty press truly, to speak for
the peoplei The organ, or rather the slave Of
clique!-the mouth. piece of scheming and mousing
politicians-the sewer into which all bad passions,
and all hatreds against US are to be empted and that
too, and that only, because we true to the peo-
plo and their rights"
In the same number of the Standard we said:
1T is not every man that fumes aud threatens
who will fight when the time comes. No high
office guers before US to lure US on to disunion
and civil war. We make no calculations looking to
epaulettes, and high salaries, and commissions to
consult with other States. We are seeking to serve
and save the country, and We are not thinking, as
others are, Of our own promotion. The worst men
in this country those like the Salisbury Banner,
. and State Journal and Wilmington Journal, and
other fire eaters Who are attempting to hurry North
Carolina into disunion and civil war. In the name
Of every thing sacred and dear to man, We call on
the people to come to the rescue-to rebuke these
agitators, and to preserve their own liberties from
the perils Of anarchy and military rule"
We were true to the people then, and we are true
to them now, and because of this We are assaed in
this campaign as we were in 1850, by presses and
Editors who have been purchased or hired by our
enemies. The Governor of the State was party
to this mode of assailing us in 1860, as the Gov
ernor Of the State is party to it now. We tri-
umphed then and we shall triumph now.
The Confederate was bought and established by
the "patriots and property holders" who belong to
one wing of the Destructive party and the Gonserpa-
tioewas bought and established, under the immediate
patronage and direction Of Gov. Vance by "patrios
and property y.holders" who belong to the other
wing. The Confederate has IN odor of naval stores,
and of governments money lavishly expended to
keep it going; and the Conservative has odor of
gains and profits corrupy obtained by illicit trade
through the Advance, and speculation BY means Of
our Railroads Every thought 10 these two jour.
mails is bought thought ground out to order
Yhey are obliged to puff Gov. Vance and abuse us.
Our journal is free 1t is our property, honestly
obtained and paid for No master pops the lash
over US. We are free to defend popular rights, to
expose wrong, to commend what is deserving, and
to print the truth. Let the people remember thai
it is not to tho interest of the Confederate and
Conservative to print the truth. 1t is all the same
to them what they print, since they only obey or
| ders. Where there is no freedom-no discretion
there can be no motive to just action. Money il
power; and that is the power which controls those
| journals.