Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-31
Public Sentiment.

pdly than at any former period has the advance
in our terms at all affected the increase Our
friends have our hearty thanks for their efforts in
behalf of the Standard We are in the daily re-
ceipt of large number of letters, the most of which
are from our political friends but we are begin
ming to hear from honest original secessionsts-
farmers, wOrkngmen, and few professional men
who have seen their error and now disposed to
join in the general demand for peace and constitu
tlonal liberty. The ladies, too-msy Heaven bless
them !-are still honoring us with their patronage,
and we now nNlbsr them Oh cur list of subscribers
by hundreds
We make the following extracts from the mass
Of letters before us.
A distinguished friend writing US from Burke
County, says:
81 find no trouble in procuring subscribers to
the Standard, when ! can get opportunity to see
the people. ] ain determined as far as IN me lies
to give the StaHdard good circulation in this
community. Many of our people voted last sum.
mer for our CommOner, Col. J. j. Erwin, because
he had been old line Whig all his life and they be-
lieved he would make a Conservative member but
now they see their mistake, and bitterly regret it.
de is Incorporating Burke County his last time.
lie is now classei where he properly belongs,
Such old line Wings as Col. Erwin, who have
joined their fortunes with the Burton Crage seces.
soniSts, are worse seceSsonISts, if possible than
the originals Col, Erwin is a Vance Destructive,
and such Destructives are playing second fiddle to
the Davis DeStructiveS. Col. Erwin might if he
would, profit by the Conservative example set by
Mr. Craige, the Commoner from his ncighboring
County of Mcdowell
Ths following is from one of the ,worthlest citi.
zens Of the County Of Surry:
"Our community is somewhat troubled by the
rumOr that the writ Of haLeas corpus has been sus
pended, and that whole male population FROM
l6 to 90 are TO be forced into service. Ii this should
be done liberty will wholly expire anu starvation
must speedily set in among US. Does our modern
RoLesplere at present in Raleigh, endorse this ac-
ton Of the Richmond deSpOtisIn? And will he Use
his counsel and influence to prevent the Legislature,
now in session, from speaking out and acting p
The hand writing is on the wall, and will only be
made more visible by his future course He has
voluntarily thrown himself into the arms of those
who denounced aud villiied him in his first cam.
paign. His reflections must be sweet and pleasant
while in their embrace as he has abandoned those
who stood by him manfuly and were his real friends,
when his PEsSSat cs~ociales were disabling him as
q traitor.
The following, from an intelligent gentleman of
Wilson County, speaks for itself:
"EncloSed you will find $45 for the Standard
Send to names as directed. | cannot follow an ad-
minsttation that was State rights party in
federal Union, and now federal party in Con-
Tolerate Union. Great Observation-Disclosures ap-
preaching gold standard in this quarter. Cobb,
Farmer, and Powell miSrepreSenting their constitu
ents. This is from former States rights man, but
now Conservative after the straitest sect"
A friend writing from Asheville, says:
"Mr Atkin of the Nescs, is out for peace by
separate State action! Is not the world coming TO
an end directlyE p
A friend writing from Sampson County, says:
"a great change has taken place in the minds of
the people in my nelghborhoOd, during the last two
weeks"
The following is from one of the most intelligent
and influential citizens of the County of Davie:
"Your paper is on the increase in this County
1t is looked upon as the most truthful paper pub
lished in the South. Keep your head up. and keep
kicking to the right and left and you will soon get
the Rubbish out Of your way. have been Of
the opinion for year past that Convention ought
to be called. Let the wisdom Of the State assemble
and consult 1t can do no harm, and may do a
great deal of good. | speak the sentiments of u
! large majority Of the people Of DaVie."
! The following is from an intelligent and influen-
tial citizen of Chatham County:
|, al have been an earnest supporter of the Davis
4 administration, and of Gov. Vance, and huter of
! Holden. am now convinced Of my error. be-
j lieVe you have pursued the proper course. have
lost confidence in the authorities, and think we
i should now strike for the best peace we can get
I l think the Legislature should do something for
peace. The people are ready to sustain them"
1 The above is from a farmer, and not from pro-
:, fessiona man or politician.
j We respectfully invite our subscribers and
\ friends in all parts of the State to write at once
and freely, ja relation to tho condition of public
j sentiment We want to hear from the people di.
4 rectly. We entertain doubt IS TO what that
sentiment is, but we desire to have it before in
tangible shape, so that VIC may use it in our col
4 umns to encourage public men to do their duty
! The people arc ready for action, but we have so
! many Halters, and Byends, and Gobetweens among
our public men that the of peace is hindered
in its progress and the country driven still further
to destruction.
"WHrPPEDl"-We learn that Mr.. PitchfOrd, Of