Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-01-27
The Fays.tevil,e Observer.

4 The Fayetteville Observer.
The O6seroer seems not only to have lost i1
reason. but az respect for truth and decency IN ts
assaults Cd us. It calls Us trsitor, end charges
that the object of State Convention is to tas tne
State out Of the Confederscy and make terms with
the enemy. 1t even goes SO far .as to charge, IN
substance that the Standard is Lincoln Psper'
and labors to show that we are disposed to screen
and favor the feders government m it's conduct To-
wards the South and at the same time array our
people against our own government
We need not say to our readers that all this is
false. The object of the proposed Convention Is
not to secede but to protect The rights OF the
State against the common government, and to
aid that government in obtaining an honorable
peace. We have not assnled the Confederate gov
ernment-we have not thought OF advising the dis
banding of our army-we have not favored in the
remotest sense the despotic government OF Lincoln
On the contrary We have sought to conserve or pre-
serve our government by insisting that i shall be
administered in its integrity and purity. We have
advocated every just and constitutional measure to
increase and strengthen our army. We have urged
the soldiers to stand by their colo and not to de-
sert them under any circumstances. ehaye held up
to our readers the dangers and the horrors OF sub
jugation and have advised them to take those steps
which, in our judgment, may avert these horrors
We have never wronged the Confederate govern
ment in thought word, or deed. All our interests
and all our feelings as = Southern man are with the
Southern cause. But our sin is that we will not,
with the Obsecer, excuse every act Of the Confede-
Il Until khOf onorl n
disposition to sacrifice every principle OF free gov
eminent to blind hatred of the "Yankee nation"
Our sin is that We are determined to preserve lib
ery while we are contending for it against com.
mon foe. The Obse,p at one time entertained the
views and the same feelings, but it has under
gone radical change since tpassed into the service
Of the Destructive leaders. .-.-
We shall not appeal to that paper to represent us
correctly, or to do as justice. To do so would be
to "cast pearls before swine"
The Observer denies that it desires to draw Con-
ederate troops to this State to overawe our people,
but the record is against it 1t declared, more
than month ago, that in a certain contingency
the government would "take armed possession of
this State" and hold it against even our own peo.
pio1 1udt WOulu Dc civil Wal Allu VIC ucoiSoe0 bos
to say that in opinion before the Observer
would abandon its new opinions, and the service
of those desperate political adyeuturers who con-
troll it. it would see North Carolina humbled at the
feet of arbitrary power and drenched with the
blood of her own citizens.
The Editors or the public men who would take
part against their own State, in any event or for
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the wall in last effort to preserve its rights and
liberties, are capable Of any crime heretofore re-
corded in the annals Of human degradation.
The O6seroer is desperate. 1t intimates, with
out the slightest excuse for so doing. that we
charging "extortionate prices" for the Standard,
and that we are making fortune out of the war
Oar answer is that the price of the Standard is
tcice that Of the Observer, and that su5scrip.
ton list is increasing more rapidly than at any
former period and that in our opinion as a
printer, the 0dserver is losing money IS news
paper, and the Editors fearing on account of
the unpopularity Of their present course to ill.,
crease the rates of the Observer lest they should
lose nearly all their subscribers, are keeping
up their establishment out of the p1o6t6 Of their
cotton and Kerosene factories. Ws -
honest living by hard work, and 4
readers cheerfuly pay. We hass
at $40 per gallon, or cotton cloth at
If the poor starving for the want Of Covering to
protect them against the cold it is consolation to
US to be clear of the temptation to see them suffer
if they cannot pay US forty prices for yard of
cloth. 1t gives US no pleasure to refer to matters
of this kind, but the Observer threw the first stone
by stating what is not true, that we are charging
"extortionate prices for the Standard