Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-12-23

IHehl' speaking OF the gag law attempted
to be applied in the Senate, by the vote 10
lay Mr.. Pools Resolutions on, the table
without discussion, the Conservatives SAYS
:" 1t has been charged that the tabling of
Mr.. Pools resolutions in the Senate on
wednesday last, was an attempt to stihe
discussion. If so, we regard it as unwise
! and ImpoIitic. But we judge there were
other and better reasons for the vote of
The majority. Mere opposition to the res
olutlons was not a sufficient reason for the
course pursued. The public mind expect
the Legislature to express itself upon the
SUBJECT decidedly, and we are not ready
to believe that those who voted to lay Mr..
PoolS resolutions on the table did so TO
stave OFT the question entirely. If they
have nothing better, nothing more feast.
Gle than those resolutions, it was unwise
I" arrest debate on so important matter
so unceremoniously.
The occasion, however, furnishes an
opportunity to the Standard, which it was
anxious to have, for an onslaught, upon
Gov. Vance. 1t charges him witTfhaving
procured the action in that case, and with
aiming to manage the Legislature gener-
ally. We are not advised of any undue
influence which Governor Vance has
sought to exert over the Legislature. lie
certainly has not tried harder by his pres
ence and Influence to manage than some
others whom the Standard could name if
it thought proper. We do not believe
that Gov. Vance had any thing to do with
the matter. The resolutions may not have
entirely accorded with the Governors
views US the best, policy at the present
lnncture, but we are. sure no man in the
State will go further to promote an early
peace than Gov. Vance, ..
I" 1t is not true that he promised the PEG.
pie in the late canvass that if they elected
him he would give them peace in short
time. Gov. Vance could have made no
such pledge. He might have assured them
That he was better peace man than his
opponent, anu in this opinion he is not
alone"
This attempt at an apology for the dis
courtesy shown to Mr.. Pool is puerile and
contemplate, and the effort to extricate
Vance from the loving embraces ofhis new
allies, the Destructives, is equally nau-
seous and distasteful. And as to the Gov
ernor having nothing to do with the tabling
of Mr.. Pools Resolutions, we have heard
it stated and believe it to be true, that the
whole proceeding was a concocted plan,
prearranged and concerted, and that it
was done in the Executive office.
But the last paragraph of this de-
fence of the model Governor" is the
most ridiculous. st is not true that he
(the Governor) promised the people in tho
late canvass that if they elected him he
would give them peace in a short time"
We say it is true, and the individual that
gave utterance to the above sentence
knows it to be true. lie promised the
soldiers in Virginia that if they would
elect him he would give them peace in a
few months he promised the people in his
chGste harangues all over the State that if
they would elect him he would cooperate
with Stephens, Brown and all others who
desired peace, and see TO it that they had
it in a short time and he promised the
crowd who called on him at the Executive
mansion on the night of the 18th of August
that they should have peace in ninety
days. These are facts, and the invisible
Editor Of the Governors newspaper knows
them to be facts, but that inscriptions
sheet thinks longer to keep mp the decep-
ton and persuade the people to believe
that its master has not deserted them, and
his promises made to them of an early
peace.
We told the people, last summer, that
Vance was no peace man-that he never
had been from the time of the delivery of
his Wilkes6orough speech, and now they
begin to see we were right. Like others
in power, he had rather that every white
man and every negro in the Confederacy
fall by the sword, than that the people
should be allowed to make any peace that
will not precisely accord with his own
selfish views. But we tell these rulers,
these men whose selt-importance has been
largely increased by temporary power,
that the time is close at hand when the
people will think, reason and act for them
selves. They have submitted to much, but
they will never become the willing sub
iects of tyranny with such people at the
head of it.-k'rOgress.