Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-12-16

Besides, this Conservative party is thing of the
moment Confederate.
Thereneve was greater mistake The Con-
serVative party was formed in 1861 out of the bet
ter portions of the two old parties, and it will
dure The detection now and then Of prominent
men who profess to be Conservatives will not real
ly weaken the party or impede its progress 1t is
founded the Constitution of the country and its
guiding star is Civil LIBERTY. But for this SAM
Conservative party of North Carolina the heel Of
desrOc power would have been placed ere this Oh the
necks of our people, and We should have had no
more freedom Of speech or of the press than exists
in Russia The Editor Of the Confederate would
have gloried in such a condition of things, and
those for whom he speaks would have taken pecu-
liar pleasure in rivetng the chains on both States
and people. But CoNsERvA vATrsM has proclaimed, time
and again, to the President to the Congress at
Richmond, and to the Governor OF this State, "thus
far shalt thou 60, and no farther, and whenever
this voice has been uttered by our people it has
been respected and the tide of innovation and des-
potism has been stayed And this Conservatism is
stronger than it was and it will continue to
increase in strength. The Editor of the COnfeder.
oto may HuOH uiS IcclD, ouI uc GoIe "
bite. Our people now laugh at his threats of dun.
geons and bastilcs. North Carolina is STATE, and
her people are FREE MEN. She was State in 1860,
and her people were free in 1s6O and by the help
Of God they will neither part with their State
ereignty or their freedom in 1854. She will do her
duty as a Confederate State, as she performed it
formerly as Union State; but her people have
ceased to be terrified controlled by the detectives
and servitors of the Richmond and Raleigh admin
istrations. Let the. Editor of the Confederate re-
feet upon his tits against liberty, and right and
Justice, and free elections in North Carolina and
then put the above in his pipe and smoke it.
The Conservative party is now undergoing a
thorough publication. 1t IS soughing off its un-
sound parts It's future will be more pure and
more vigorous than its past 1t will be enabled
hereafter to do more for the country than hereto
FORE and it will be strong enough to put down and
keep down Destructveism in all its shapes.
"This Conservative party" as 1t is slighthgy
called by the Confederate is the same party which
that paper so aSsiduously courted but few months
since. Then it was great and patriotic party in
the estimation of that journal. The Conservative
erected a platform, and the Confederate got upon
it, and they "roared each other gently as suck
ing doves" Itwas not "this Conservative party 1"
then, but it was great joint stock concern, in
which the Confederate took the deepest interest,"
But change has taken place. The masses of the
Conservative party, with large majority of their
leading men in the Legislature and elsewhere, are
true to their principles and the result is the Con.
Tolerate is left out the cold Those grapes which
once melted in the mouth" of our cotemporary,
have turned to ashes on Its lips. The vine that
bore those grapes is whitening AMI will soon die
No pruning, or watering or "digging about il" can
save it. But the vineyard will still flourish, and
the master, that is, The People, will gather many
The grapes will be sweet and the wine will be de-
licious; but our cotemporary as he prowls around
the vineyard and would fain, like Satan,
"Leap DER the fence with into the fold,"
will at length cs2clude that the grapes are sour;
because they do not grow for him.