Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-04-06

But the Governor has not told the whole W9sp
with reference toa Convention He did not remind
the people that under the old government wnsn
the States had much less power than they have IN
der the new, "peace conference" was held -
Washington, and that no one objected to that as
body which might violate the Constitution BY at
tempting to make treaty, alliance, or conieder-
atom He did not tell the people that the friends
Of . Convention were as much in favor OF hghtin&
and as much opposed TO Lincoln as he was but they
desired, while the war was going on, to bring tee
States to the aid of the common government IN tne
effort to obtain peace In a word he argues ~
side Of the question just IS . lawyer defends ms
CLIENT he makes his side as fair as possible, ana
the side of his old friends who. favor Convention,
as dark as possible. Is that the way in which the
patriarch-the head Of the family should act? In
stead of representing and speaking for the Whole
people, he spoke only for portion of them. Gan
dor required him to state althe facts and all the
arguments on both Sides and then leave it to the
people to think and decide for themselves But ne
has NOT done this, and he cannot, therefore, COM
plain if he is treated in the character in which ne
acted on the occasion-that of the partizan.
The Governor says there is only one "lawful snd
legal way of rendering the olive branch" and that
is through the President And he adds
"No doubt many of you have read the writings
. thing or two. think among the best things be
ever said was this: "Tbe Kings name is tower
of strength" He simply meant that those who
had law and order and authority on their SIDE!
which in old times was represented by the name OF
King had moral force against their enemies and
would generally prevail Therefore remember, IN
all your individual efforts to obtain relief that the
Kings name is tower of strength, and that if you
proceed according to the established authority and
order you carry with you this tower Of strength,
which will accomplish more for you than any revn
lutonary or hl.considered plan that could possibly
be devised amongst you"
The "King's name that is the Presidents
name-"is tower of strength" 1t may be So
But when did the President ten Ter the olive branch
When will he do it? Would 1.-THE name of the
King" be less potent if the name of the sove-
reigns-to wit the States-should be added to the
commissions Or will the Governor insist that
"the King" is above the sovereigns? l admit " the
Kings name" was every thing in the days of Solo
mon, as it is every thing now in Russia and Aus.
tria, and Prussia but in this country, ever since
GEORGE WASHINGTON and his compatriots van
1t is their name which, in this country at least, is
or ought to be "a tower Of strength" But Gov.
Vance thinks differently. He thinks it wrong"
20 20 to them for counsel. He prefers the lawful
and legal way" though that way may never sue.
coed. He viii trust the King" but he thinks it
"wrong" to trust the people. The reader will
make the application, and draw his own interences.
submissive manner in which the Governor refers to
the suspension of habeas corpus Not that would
think for q moment of advising resistance to the
law for it is the duty of all to submit to even bad
laws until they can be repealed; but had hoped
that our Governor who has been So constant and
prouse in his professions of devotion to civil liberty,
and who of all others privileged to speak out,
would characterize the act it deserved and call
on the people to urge their representatives to repeal
i hat n in
Vance and Gov. Brown! The truth is, Mr.. Editor,
| have never known any public functionary who
has promised so much and done so ltGe as Gov.
Vance has, on the subject of civil liberty. We all
know what his promises have been,-can any enc
point to single act of his in defence Of civil lib
ertY against the iuroads Of military poweri do
not refer to particular cases but the State is full Of
them, in which the citizen has been arrested with
out civil warrant imprisoned, exiled, or otherwise
injured. Have our Judges been sustained? If so,
I have yet to learn it. Why the very County in
which he delivered his speech could bear witness to
the manner in which the ci Ill law has been disre-
garded by the military, and that, too by the i'm
piled consent to use no stronger expression, of the
Governor himself But do not propose to dwell
on this subject The facts are known to the people
Every good citizen and every friend of free govern
ment must feel the necessity of combining the mill
tary power strictly to its sphere Of duty. As the
war progresses the tendency will constantly be, on
tte part of the military, to step over the line and
trench GA the civil law. This tendency WILL in the
end, if not checked, destroy all liberty; and who
so potent to check it. while at the time he en-
courages and sustalns the military power in its sp
proprate sphere as the Governor Of the States If
he deserts US in such crisis and under such cir
cumstances, we may we'll apprehsnd the most dis
| aStr0us circumstances.
The Governor tells the people when they write to
their sons and brothers in the army, not to remind
them that "the original secessionists got US into
this scrape" He does not want his original seces-
sion friends troubled by unpleasant recollections
Now, if they are reminded of their folly, not to say
crime in this respect it must be remembered that
it Is done by the Conservatives by way of rebuking
them for refusing to fight in war which they were
instrumental in bringing on. The soldiers know,
as we'll a. the people at hsme, who brought on the
war. 1t is the result of the bad conduct of bad
men North and South, and they ought not only to
be told of it. but the people should again oon
tide either IN them or in those who apologize fol
them, or endeavor to screen them or who assocs te
| with them politically. Many of those who we re
red hot war men in 1860 are still at home spetu.
lating expressing the soldiers families, running
from pillar to post to avoid service in the army and
endeavoring to hide their own cOwardly and dis.
graceful conduct by denouncing the Conservatives
as traitors to the country-ust the thief essay
to divert attention from himself by crying thief
thief l honor the original secessionist who has
shown his faith by his works-who has gone to the
war and fought; but have no respect for your
skuiking original who is already slbjugated, and
shows it BY not fighting, and who is opposed to
peace as long as be can force other men into the
ranks and as long as he can stay at home and make
money out of the sufferings of the people, But the
Governor says we must not talk IN this way about
the originals, and above all, the people when they
write to their friends in the army must not remind
them that the originals '.got US into this scrape
If they would only come forward and try to get us
out Of it, for one would take the Governors ad.
vice, at least until the war was over; but as It is,
the Governor must pardon me if I remind his origi
nal secession friends tina: they are not what they
| should be.
learn, Sir, that the Governor is absent from tie
State addressing the North Carolina troops in Wiz.
g,nia, with the view of securing their surfaces.