The Portland daily press., 1864-01-30

IMPORT ANT FROM N. CAROLINA.
The Disafiecsion Among the Rebels Spread

IMPORT ANT FROM N. CAROLINA.
The Disafiecsion Among the Rebels Spread
ing.
Unless the "signs of the times" are very de-
ceptive, North Carolina will not long remain
member of the Southern Confederacy. The
Raleigh Standard, in commenting upon a
speech delivered in the rebel Senate by Mr..
Brown, says.
We tell Mr. Brown. and those who think
with him, once for all, il the desperate revo-
lutionary measures which he advocates shall
be attempted to be carried out, If the civil law
is to be trampled under foot by the suspension
Of the writ Of habeas corpus, and every able
bodied man placed in the army from sixteen
TO sixty-hve-if no man Is to have hearing
before the State Judge as to the right of the
enrolling officer to seize him, and if the rights
of the State are TO be ignored and swept away
by the mere creature OF the state, the common
Government, the people of North Carolina
will take their own affairs into their own
hands, and will proceed, In convention assem-
bled, to vindcate their liberties and their pri-
vileges.
They will not submit TO a military despotsm.
They will not submit the destruction of
their rights, personal and civil, in this or any
other war. We say what we know to be so.
A vast majority Of our people are restless and
excited on account OF the threatened encroach-
ments upon their liberties by the Congress at
Richmond; and we most respectfully and er-
nestly warn the members of the body not TO
kindle a flame which no effort can extinguish.
Pass this measure, suspend the habeas corpus
in order to silence our courts and force our
whole population into the army, break faith
with the principles of substitute, repudiate the
currency of the country, levy a tax in specie
to pay the interest OF the funded debt, contin-
ue in full operation the tithing and impress
ment law at the same time-do these things,
Mr.. Brown, and the people of North Caroline
will rise in their majesty and assert their SOW
ereignty. There is no power to prevent their
doing this, and woe TO the official character
who shall attempt TO turn the arms of Conied-
crate soldiers against the people Of that State !
North Carolina will not be the slave of either
the Congress at Richmond or Washington.
She is this day, as she has been from the first,
the keystone Of the Confederate arch. If that
stone should fall the arch will tumble.
The Standard also has the following arti-
Gle.
We are now reaping the bitter fruits OF
"peaceable secession" in forcing from their
once peaceful and happy homes into the army
all from eighteen to forty-fiye years OF age
TO be driven to the slaughter like oxen to the
shambles. And to fill up the thinned ranks the
present Congress now has before it the mon
strous proposition to conscript all from six
teen to flfty-fve years Of age, and make them
subject to military law, which the Richmond
Examiner boldly denounces as nothing less
than an attempt to make Mr.. Davis dictator.
Let us examine and see what kind OF
body 1t is that is imposing such burdens on
the people of North Carolina.
Wa have Congress, the legislation of
which is controlled by members from Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Louis
lana, and other places, who impose odious
and oppressive laws upon US, which can no
more be enforced upon the people of the
States which they profess to represent than
upon the people of New York or New Eng
land. The chief cause of the revolutionary
war which sundered the connection of the
Colonies from the mother country was that
the English Parliament imposed oppressive
laws on the Colonies which did not affect the
people Of England themselves. No conscript
law can be enforced upon the people of Ken
lucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louis
lana, nor on large portion of Virginia Flor
ida, Mississippi, or Texas.
No tax law, nor tithing, or impressmeut
law can be enforced on them while those ir-
responsible members may force from their
homes every person in North Carolina able to
bear arms, regardless OF age or condition, and
place them in the army, as is now urged by
them in Congress, and leave the helpless
women and children to starve. They may
put us under a military despotism, and place
over us dictator, and impose taxes and bur-
dens on US which are unsupportable, and
there is no redress, unless North Carolina will
protect her childrea.
Is II not an outrage on every principle of
free government for men Of desperate fortunes
protesting TO represent other States on whose
soil they dare not set their foot, to make and
enforce odous and oppressive laws on our
people? Are we prepared TO submit Se this
II not, then let every man arouse himself be-
fore II Is too late and denounce these attempts
TO betray our liberties and place us under a
military despoiism. Let every man that can
speak or write denounce these outrages OH
civil liberty until their denunciations are heard
and needed in Congress.
But II Congress in spirit of desperation,
should act the tyrant, and impose such crush
ing burdens on the people of North Carolina
rs are insupportable, then they should demand
OF the Governor that he should forthwith con-
vene the Legislature in order to call State
convention Of the sovereign people to take
into consideration what is best to be done to
relieve our people from the greyous burdens
imposed upon them.
III tne independence OF the Confederacy
cannot be achieved by the strength of our
population up to forty-five years OF age, 1T is
clear to any rejecting mind that II will not
be done by placing in the army the few left.
upon whose labor all are dependent for food
Without food our present army must disband.
and without food our helpless women and
children must perish. Let the people speak
out, write 10 their Representatives in Con-
gress-yea, hold meetings and demonstrate
against those iniquitous schemes to enslave
and starve us. II you do not, silence viii be
construed into submission and approval of
the chains that Congress are forging for us.
We have too long implicitly trusted TO such
architects oil ruin as Wigfal & Co., who are
now for placing every man in the army, and
all under the control of dictator.
Trust them no longer. Remember their fair
promises. The dwelers in the Garden OF
Eden, when they listened to the tempting