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Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-08

For the Standard,
DIALOGUE BETWEEN GOV. VANCE AND
A CONSERVATIVE UPON THE POOL
RESOLUTIONS.

For the Standard.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN GOV. VANCE AND
A CONSERVATIVE UPON THE POOL
RESOLUTIONS.
Governor. Well, Conservative, have You
noticed the Pool Resolutions upon the
subject of peace? hope you will give
your vote and influence against them.
Conservative. Yes, Governor, l have
read them with care and must say | am
rather disposed to endorse them. They
seem to me to be the very thing for the
times.
G. What You have not became an ad-
vocate for separate peace by the State?
You are not in favor of North Carolina
Withdrawing aud making terms on her
own behalf?
G. No: nor do so understand the res;
olutions. The truth is our people earnest
ly long for peace as their chief good
They do not believe that further prose-
cution of the war, in. the manner hitherto
practiced, and for the purposes avowed by
the President, can be productive of any
thing but evil. They believe that the al-
ternatives are now presented of peace to
be secured by Observation-Disclosures
by the Yankees, or vassalage to some for
eign nation.
G. But suppose we fail to obtain peace
by negotiation, what then-will subiuga-
ton or vassalage tollow9
C. The bare possibility of failure is no
reason for not making an effort. Nothing
great Or good would be accomplished #
people were to wait until they were assur-
cd of success. There is reasonable hone
Of success, and firmly believe we can, by
proper effort, secure peace which will be
not only acceptable to the South, but i'll
: tinitely more to its interest than contin-
nation Of the war. But can we be injured
by failure? Even to try and fail will be
to our advantage.
G. In what nanner9
G. Why if we must continue to fight
We will then be more united and will fight
in better spirit when all other hope is
taken away, or if it is determined to place
our nation under foreign government,
fhe fact of having made every effort to Sc.
cure peace, will enable us to obtain better
terms, or will, at least, place rs in more
worthy position with other nations.
&: Do you think it impossible to con-
qner peace from the North?
q. We may continue to fight on, per-
haps for years, in sort OF guerrilla war;
fare, and may prevent the enemy from
completing our entire suhjugation; but
the misery and suffering entailed by this
condition Of things,will make life asenaura-
bic, and the people will soon come to DIG
fey quiet and secure government of abso-
-qate tyranny to an independence irauglt
with 50 much bloodshed, uncertainty, and
suffering.
y. Bat admitting peace to be ever so
desirable, how will Pools resolutions se.
curelt None but the President and Sen.
ate have the peace-making power.
q: That proposition is not denied NV tho
resolutions. The manner in which the
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ORDINANCE.
Jan 80, 1865.

ORDINANCE.
RE TT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSIONERS Ov
y the city Of Raleigh: w
That It shall not be lawful for any slave to buy or con-
tract to buy any meat provisions other article in M
CITY market, without the written permission of his or be-
owner or manager. nor for any slave to buy or contract
Day any meat, provisions other article in said msr
with intent to sell the same again, nor to sell or offer
sell any article purchased in said MARKET and any s
odendng against either Of said provisions shall be w
the Mayor. N'O''''A
Sec 2 The said Ordinance shall 20 into effect on III
~ Gay Of February, and it shall be the duty of the C
70 the samen the city papers, at the Court Ho
Post Office and other public places
WIN. H. HARRISON, Mayor
Raleigh, Jan. 80, 1865. 3d.
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CAST STEEL AXES,
~7E HAVE FOR SALE SIX OR FIGHT noypv
w Is and pounds) best steel ares O'-A'
SHAY, WILLIAMSON 4 CO
North State Iron and Brass Wor
~ ASSS' s.,
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ATTENTION.

As I SHALL VERY SOON REMOVE FROM THH
County those indebted to me are earnestly reouests
TO call Immediately and close their accou nts.
For Wheat Or Corn. the highest cash prices previous
ao wH b. allowed for professional services at old pcs
charged. p''''' W."
B. F. GRAHAM
's"' So, 1000. 9-2tpd
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harblnger or "reminiscences OF past woe, of future
miseryl
Evidently, then,w have but the one alternative
to disabuse our minds of this lorg nursed falacy,
our infinite immaculateness as people and allow
our leading msn-or force them If the necessity
presents to arrange an honorable peace with the
United States, bearing ever in mind the fact. howe
eser humiliating to our egotsm that the people of
the Northern States in every respect our EQUALS
and are in no wise more to blame for precptatine
this unholy war upon this country, than ourselves
Is 1t oyersteppng the truth to assert that the South
no longer reposes full and implicit confidence in
President Davis and his omniscient CLIQUE of fave.
rites at Richmond !? notice in to-day's Merexru.
an Article headed: Hurrah for jeff Davis, hurrahi"
thereby treating as burlesque or buffoon. one
whom the best blood of {" Dixie" has been shed to
uphold in his present dangerous pre-emnence.-
We canDot drift on in this bloody whirlpool much
longer. Reverse the picture, turn the other. side
and suppose that when Gen. Lee fought the battle
of Gettysburg, he had been completely victorious
and from thence containing his triumphant march,
had planted his standard in proximity to Niagara
Falls; or on the summit of Faneuil Hall. What
would have been the RESULT Would wenot
have been duly Electrified" in stentor tones :.
would we not have proclaimed to the world in gen.
eral and ourselves in particular, that We had con-
quered, snbjugated, yea, annihilated the North ::
that hencesorth and forever, they by right Of
conquest our slaves, our a,inens subjugated al
lies /? And has Sherman and his cerulean hosts dons
any lessf Is he not monarch of all he surveys p
In Invading Georgia or SO far on his route toward
BIanchville, has he incautiously stepped into the
seething crater of volcano submerging him and all
his trucking minions thus at one glorious sweep es.
tabEshng the Independence of the South rs an &C.
complished fact Is it allowed mankind to Judge of
future event with the president faculty of the AL
mighty? We may ony predict futurity BY past prece
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some Iflends tnat they snail be defeated,
and want you as personal friend to 20
against them.
G. That Governor is thing I cannot do.
| approve them and must support them
Doyou imagine that you are discharging
your duty, as the Executive of North Car
DINA, when you quit your proper functions
to influence the action of members against
their consciences9 Gov. Vance, I am your
friend and wish You WE'LL supported
you warmly in you first contest for Gov
ernor, and in your last have net ap-
proved of all you have said and done, but,
believing you to be an honest and true
conservative, have supported yoa. Do
not, pray you, shake my confidence in
your honesty by endeavoring to defeat the
Pool Resolutions. "You have promised"
| you say " to defeat them" Rash VOWS had
better be broken than be kept. You
! should not have promised to interfere with
matters that properly belong to the Legis-
lature. Let the resolutions have their
course. For / assure you that if: they are
notsufered to pass now, quietly and peace
ably, the time is near at hand when they,
Or similar ones, will pass in blood it may
be under the sanction of the sword. The
people are beginning to feel deeply upon
this subject. This is their country-their
rights are at stake. This is war of their
originating, and they will have a voice in
bringing it to a close. Too long have they
been held aloof, and kept in ignorance Of
the affairs Of the government, by secret
t sessions and other A.ngines ofoppression.-
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14
FRANCE AND MEXICO.

The Paris correspondent of The London Times
again asserts that the Emperor of France will
withdraw his army from Mexico by instalments,
and that by August or September, 1866, the
whole will have returned to France. The rea-
son for this resolution is said TO be found not
only in desire to keep on good terms with
the United States, but on economical consaera-
tions.
We find the same news in the Paris CORE
spondence of the Independence Beige, paper
generally well informed about French affairs.
This correspondent, however, is OF opinion that
the courteous but firm representations OF the
Government of Washington begin To be Needed
in Paris. He also states that there are indica-
tons that Marshal Bazaine intends soon to re-
turn to France.
We have no means OF judging of the claims
which these reports have TO credibility. Sooner
or later, of course, the event which they repre-
sent as being near at hand must take place, and
then Macmillan will have to rely on a yOlun-
teer foreign legion and his adherents in Mexico.
Then it must become apparent whether his ef
forts TO establish his rule in Mexico upon per-
manent basis will be crowned with success.
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
FOREIGN NEWS.

By the arrival of the City of Washington at
sSs port aud of tho Belgian off Father Point. We have
live days later news fiom Europe.
Several London papers, and The Independence Beige
mentions rumor that all the French troops are to be
swithdrawn from Mexico by August or September 1850
Another American has been arrested in Ireland on
rhe mere suspicion of being Fenian No other reason
Mt least, has been assigned.
The nsurrection in Algeria must have again assumed
formidable dimensions for French paper reports that
1be insurgents are $1,000 strong.
In the New Italian House of Deputies the parties VIII
stand az follows: Moderates 2S6. constitutional Lett
<Liberals). lOl; Clerical Right, 9; doubtful 4C.
Two French frigates have already arrived in Civi'a
vecchia. to bring back part OF the French troops
general meeting Of the German National 'ercih
Nas been held at Frankfort and again declared In a'or
Of constituting Germany Federal State the central
authority Of which should be transferred to Prussia
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14
COLORADO-MINNEsOTA.

After receiving for an entire week nothing
but discouragng dispatches concerning the re-
suit of the late elections, the Democrats at
length find some consolation in dispatches from
the fsr West. Colorado is said to have elected
the whole Democratic ticket for State officers,
Legislature and Congress; and even in Min
nesota, we learn, some Democrats ore sufh'
cently sanguine to regard the result as doubt
full
The latter hope, we are sure, will soon have
to be abandoned. Colorado may have been
carried by the Democrats; for this inchoate
State sufficiently showed by its previous vote
on negro suffrage, which was rejected by 4.l92
votes against 476, that it is not yet well
grounded in the fundamental principles OF pro-
gress. The State Constitution was, at the same
election, adopted by a majority OF l55.
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14

sppearance of such admirable sentiments as
those sbovo quoted in Tho Tines, to learn that
they have the deliberate approval Of this emi'
nent authority on the ethics ofpolitcal and per-
sOnsl controversy.
There is one related point whereon we hope
yet not confidently to elicit, in the interest OF
political morality and public deccncy, further
expression from The Times-this, namely: TO
publish for personal or party advantage, a prl-
vate letter or conversation is bad enough; but
it is far less Objectionable than to hint at or
suggest its existence, (aS with The Times in 1860,
for examplc) putting on it such construction as
subseryes your purpose, but which is utterly dis
claimed and repudiated by him whose confidence
you are thus betraying. Where any use at all
is to be made OF another's private letter or re-
mark, it is by far the bonester rascalty to put
a bold face on the matter and print fairly,
squarely and fully, not picking out portion
and sending it to the aniipodes for issue, but
blurting it right out. If you have mean
thing to do, do not advertise your consciousness
of its baseness, but walk right up to the chalk!
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14
LITERARY VES.DROpPING.

| The N. T. Times has an editorial repre-
hension of 1.-THE Use of Private Letters for
Public or Partisan Ends" which We have read
with some surprise, but more qualification.
Commencing the declaration of ex-Prcsident
Buchanan that in bis attempted vindcaton Of
the last inglOrious six months of hs official rule,
he has rcsolutely abstained from the use of pri.
vate correspondence, The Times says:
at has become too much the habit with our public
to for socalled public or partisan ends what
was spoken written In the freedom OF personal ac-
quaintance Tho temptation to do this Is constant and
often the highest moral courage is required 10 avoid
Welding 10 IL. Tested by strictly ethical rule. the
violation Of personal or private condolences has the evil
effect Of making inslncere bypOcriica and double
faced in the intercourse Of daily life There surely
oug h TO be license for IaDkness Of conversation In
private, between men Of opposite party views other
WISE society must resolve itself into mutually nquIsi.
tOria factions every man DONG the dty OF uettctNe
upon his neghbor.
"All experience has shown that where this habit Of
,spiOad9e-for ii really amounts TO tha-most partcn'
lary thIyes society becomes defnOralzcdi suspicion
dstrust total abnegation OF honor. the great
social features On the other hand 90 among the most
disciplined classes in any OF the foremost communi.
ties of tins country Of Europe and how entirely
sacred and nvoable the best men of these classes bold
personal confidence. Take the medical professions
take the counsel for accused prisoners; take the
highminded officer in the field or in TIE mill
tary bureau. What secrets hove these intrusted 10
them-of life and death every day and every hour !
What horrible confusion and disorder their indulgence
IN loose speec--.n he habit Of tehS udat Mey IaoD
would IN the whole structure Of society Why
should men, then who aspire far above any Of these
Professionalism who aspire 10 be governors OF their
1elIows-be released from obligations Of honor which
are deemed incumbent on those IN narrow spheres OF
life Among men Of real honor. whether in proics
sona political life. the vice Of Habbpg IL not in
dnged But there isa class OF so-callcd politician.
among Us whose entire stock seems 20 consist
in their facility for reproducing In public what they
gather up az caves-droppeIs or conjdcnce-mcn in
private. And 10 this class clearly belong those who
make use of private letters any pretext partisan or
frivolous TO further Of their special objects"
These sentiments are in the main so Just
and so pertinently and forcbly expressed that
we will thank the Editor Of The Times to ascer.
tain and state whether they areiheld also by the
veteran journalist and poGticpn who shares his
domicie and bis coffee, who largely figures in
his columns as letter.writer, and TO whom the
soutriquet of the Great Rccollector" has been,
perhaps inaccuratcly, applied. It can hardly
fail 10 enhance the public qualification at the
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14

That 10000 freedmen would perish this
Winter Of starvation, If not relieved is not the
least remarkable statemen, of those who have
been recent observers at the South. We are
not entirely surprised to know that in South
Carolina and Georgia only a very small minori-
Is are willing TO treat the blacks to pittance
of ordinary fairness. The real picture of
affairs is painfully suggested by this statement.
So far, the blacks seem to be the victims; but
our travellers have not told half the story. This
destitution on one side cannot be without cor
rcspoudcncc on the other, if we reckon from the
old social and industrial balance at the South
The white Southcrner who kicks labor away from
another persons land, and sends il ont TO pas
ture upon nothing is in fair way of starving
himself Rough-riders, who still keep small
standing army at the planters expense, to way
lay and shoot down negro soldiers and freed
men, are taking great pains to make famine a
sure thing all round. Rather put out the cmbers
Of the icud, drop the outlaws, protect the
freedmen, and let common-senso and plenty
have chance and room TO grow. We can pre-
diet that for every black man starved out by
the prc-iamno and pro-Slavery combinations OF
the South white mon will suffer in much the
same way and proportion.
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14

enforcing q contract. Being thus lcgalized.
being put in tho hands Of the master him
self in the case of an apprentice and IN
other cases in the hands of the Magistrate
sure to be The friend and neighbOr Of the mas
ter, there will practically be no more Limitation
Of punishment under this new Slave Code than
before the war under the old Slave Code.
So much appears upon the first glance at this
code. 1t covers, however. thirty-six closely
printed pages, and embraces many more pro-
visions than we can collect or refer to in
single column. Such extracts as are
made above suffice to show Its
spirit aud purpose. They will suffice also, we
trust, to give the North some hint OF the sort OF
reconstruction likely to take place by the ad'
mission of States clinging thus desperately to
old institutions.
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14
commanding the 5Oth U. s. Colorcd Infantry,
and Lieut. Ralph, have been guilty Of advlnng

commanding tne DUN ". o. CoioiO" -V
and Lieut. Ralph, have been guilty o. advinne
the negroes of Jackson that they nave the
right to protect themselves against such v'o'
lence and outrage as the whites Of that nelgh-
borhood have shown themselves disposed 70
offer. That is more than The Nsms can St'iiiu'
It declares that such speech III oid t'meS
would have secured coat of tar and icathers'
if nothing more. In fine burst of Indignation,
this journal exclaims: "We are now entitled
to peace. We have right to demand the re-
moval of the negro troops from our midst ana
when this is accomplished, we have rlght' ana
will Use it, of drumming out OF our country
every Northern emissary who is so lost to honor
and the interests of our people as to ins'lgate
warfare and inccndiarism between the wmtes
and the blacks" Is not that the true tohc oi
the fine old Southern gentleman! lar anu
feathers then banshment--the tbs These
creatures when they 80 far forget themselves
as to stir up discord between the people deserve
the fate of the mad dog" If this Is 10 DC tiie
fate Of a white man who advises the negro 10
defend himself what will be the fate oi inc
negro who follows that advice!
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14

Massachusetts promises to erect an eques-
,rian statue Of COL Robert &. Shaw, young
champion and martyr Of the greatest principle
Of the war. This statue will stand for the
noblest romance typed in the highest duty, to
remind our young men that the best they can
do for their country is the best they can do for
tho race. We arc glad that it will also in some
manner cOnsummate tho tribute due to so many
other brave young men who fell in the war.
Pennsylvania owes some such memorial to Col.
Dahlgren.
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14

South Carolina has wisely concluded 'ha' W
recover her former position in the Union IL Is
indispensable to ratify the CONSTITUTIONS
Amendment abolishing Slavery. The Amend
mont nassed both Houses yesterday with but
little opposition. South Carolina having thus
led the way, Mississippi, North Carolina and
other States will, we hope, soon follow, and thus
the required number of q States may be Sc
cured before the beginning of the new year.
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14
nUR CHARTEB ELECTION.

Three weeks hence our City will choose
Mavor and Corporation Counsel for the next
two calendar years, with a Board of Council
men. half Board of Aldermen, and part OF
her Board of Education. We are in no hurry
10 see candidates thrust forward. and trust they
will be selected with marked deliberatiOn and
carefulncss. Let us be sure We are right before
going resolutely ahead.
We write now merely to warn all good ci'i-
zenS against premature Committals, but more
especially against appeals to party or persoNaI
feeling. If those who prepondcrantly desc
frugality and honest rule allow themselves to
be distracted by individual preferences or party
predictions, there is on end of all present
hope of reform. But if each citizen who
realizes that Municipal abuse and prodigalty
are driving trade from our City, rendering lig-
ing here ruinously expensive, and taxation so
exorbtant as seriously to impair the value OF
real estate, will now firmly resolve to unite
with other citizens Of like convictions in the
support Of candidates of known probity and
capacity, regardless Of every irrelevant con-
sideration, their success is inevitable, and can
hardly fail to prove enduringly benefcent.
Of course, all manner Of party drums will be
beaten and horns sounded to distract attention
from the true issue and draw off votes from the
reform candidates. The plumber of our City
Goyernment--that is, the money paid from hei
treasury for services never performed ol
in excess of just and fair compensation
for service actually required and rendered
cannot fall below Five Millions per an
NUN. Such a sum will hot be surrendered
without desperate struggle; and we shall have
Union candidates and tickets got up. as
if on purpose to justify if not to force
the support of democratic tickets, and
thus to insure the defeat of Reform.
Our Municipal "Ring" is preponderantly
"Democratc;" but Corruption seeks and
finds confederates and tools in all parties, and
uses them with sublime Indifference to their
respective political affiliations. We have just
seen Mr.. Street Commissioner Cornell elected 9
( Senator by an intrigue too transparent Il
dupe the most credulOus; and We shal
see combinations as palpabiy siniste
: in the Municipal contest. Every persol
, I, now profting by misrule will make common
. cause against any earnest and vital Reform
though it may be deemed expedient to preserve
the semblance Of reciprocal hostility in order t.
dupe simple e-minded voters. Let none be de
9 ceiyed by these arts; let none who desire Re
form be beguiled or msled by them Our Cit.
needs to be governed for her own sake, no
for that Of any National party. She oon b'
so governed if those who desire it will bu
, sternly resolve that she shall be. To this end
let all eyes be turned, let all efforts be directed
The plundered decidedly Outnumber the plum
derers, and can eject the latter from power
they will. Let them resolve now that THEl
WILL, and inAexibly abide in that determine
New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-14

Southern leaders and people generally think
and mean, but do not always declare a
frankly:
We must keep tl> sace IN position Of inJsriovi,v
We must pass such iasss wiu make him feel lis irfyi,
ity aud while we give him ample protection 20 III.
person and property We are Hnauy lost If We permit
ourselves by any abstract would be philosophers H.
sonng TO admit him to any position that savof Of The
slightest equality With the white man."
What civil right will a Legislature animated
by that spirit grant to the negroi Not ono.