Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-11-16

PRofosTIoN.-We propose that, by common
consent the Hon. Mr.. Boyce of South Carolina and
the would be Governor of North Carolina be started
out IN search OF some one to negotiate with. They
insist upon it that the war cannot he closed without
negotiation, in which we agree with them, and that
negotiations ought to be entered upon at once, ip
which also we agree with them The only differ.
ence between US is, that think there can't be ne
gotiatl0ns without the consent and concurrence of
the Yankees, whilst Mr.. Beyce and the Standard
either think otherwise or know of some Yankees
who will negotiate. By all means lie. them have
every facility for finding those Yankees. Let them
take along with them in the search, which will ne.
cessarily lead them into Yankee land, as many OF
their followers they please, and all the types and
presses of the Standard, &c. Should they never
find their way back, there will be many dry eye
in the Confederacy. If they can negotiate peace,
they will earn honor and fame. If they fail, why
they can at least stay in Yankee land, where they
cannot do the Confederacy half the harm they do
Fayetteville Observer.
Our am,able and witty friends of the Observer
seem to overlook the fact that Mr.. Boyce and the
Standard are not the only persons in the Confed-
crate States who desire to negotiate The Vice
President of the Confederate States, the Governor
of Georgia nearly the entire delegation in Congress
from this State shown by their votes at the last
session of Congress, and millions Of men, women,
and children in the Confederate States are most
anxious for peace and in favor Of Negotiations
Even the O6sercer when it answers its purposes to
be so, is in favor of negotiations When it wants
votes for its candidates it is blatant for peace but
as soon as the election is it shouts for war-
The war does not affect the Editors Of that paper
They are "making their jack p" by their manufac-
,:ob m
sustained by the war but there are stains Of blood
and widows groans, and orphans tears in all their
cotton fabrics and in all their kerosene oil. But
what is that to them? Their lives are not endan-
gered, and meanwhile they are adding to their
wealth day by day as the war continues. Of course
they are war men, and of course, in their judgment,
every friend of negotiations is an enemy to the
country, because an enemy to their interests.
The O6seyser wants US to 60 to and "stay IN
Yankee land" We have shown much less affec.
ton for yankee land" during our past life, than
the senior Editor of the Observer The time has
been when be invariably spent all his summers at
Saratoga, and toadied to wealthy Yankees with the
SIMPLEST of knees aud the blandest of smiles
North Carolina watering places were too common
place and too vulgar for his refined tastes. He is
constantly impeaching our loyalty. Our reply IS,
that We have not trumpeted in our paper, as he has,
what we have done for the Confederate cause; and
that, in our opinion if the Yankees should overrnn
and occupy the country, he would 90 among the
irst to take the oath to save his person and his
property.
1t is . sad feature in the history Of the times
when persons who pass for Christians as the Ed
tors of the Obseruer d. ridcule the idea of peace
and make merry over the flow Of blood
The Editors of the Observer are constantly it,
dulgng in personalities especially towards the Edi-
tor Of this paper. In their last issue they have
made remarks about US which are so low in their
character that we will not notice them. These re-
marks are based on recent article of ours showing
the scarcity of the means of living; and our only
reply is that the Observer has deliberately and will
fully perverted portion of that article, and has
made it's perverson of it the occasion for personal
attack on us, in which 1t imagnes the cost Of our
dinner, and holds US up as faring sumptuously and
at the time having pity on our suffering fel.
beings But we can afford to be Indifferent to
the opinions and course of the Observer. We Meth
er fear its influence desire its friendship 1t is
Destructive in all its sentiments and tendencies,
and it is proverbally coarse and malignant in every
controversy in which it engages. 1t seems to have
no shame and but little if any sense Of decency
and we make no doubt that but for the fact that it
is read and patronized- by some persons of educs
ton and refined tastes, it would soon become as de-
?raved in its language and styleas Speman's State
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