Year: 1863

ana the following Editorial article were IN type,
preparatory to the publication Of the paper next
day. The proclamation and the Editorial were
"knocked into pi" But we found the copy Of the
latter and now lay it before our readers it was
originally prepared. Strange that body Of men
should cheer the author of the proclamation, and
then mob the Editor who had endorsed it.


The Governors Proclamation.


Wepublish to-day proclamation from his Ex-
cellency Gov. Vance, warning the people of this
State against armed resistance to the tithing and
conscription laws It may be that Gov. Vance has
attached undue Importance to the declarations made
IN public meetings in relation to these laws; but
his motives are good and it will be source of con-
ISOLATION to him. if armed resistance should be offer
ed TO the laws of the country to reflect that he had
performed his duty Chief Magistrate of the State
by warning the people in advance of the evil conse-
quences Of sucn resistance =


We are grati6ed to observe the emphatic and
solemn manner in which Gov. VANCE reasserts those
great principles Of public liberty which are the
birthright of our people. He declares that " the
nalehable and invaluable right of the people to as
semble together and consult for the common good,
together with its necessary concomitants, the free
dom Of speech and Of the press are secured 10 our
people By theost sacred cOmpacts and this right
of the people to assemble together and consult for
the common good, "shaH neUer find a distur6sr" in
him. This declaration is worthy of the Chief Mag
strate OF free State and we trust it will be main
| tained at all hazards. If Gov. Vance had been
defeated in 1862, civil liberty in this State would
long since have been trampled down, and Bastiles
filled with victims suffering for opinions sake would
have been established in nearly every County
The military power would have trumphed over civil
law, and the arms of our soldiers would, ifpossble,
have been turned against their own countrymen.-
When we review the history of the last two years,
and see what people have escaped by the defeat
of the Destructive candidate for Governor and the
election of Gov. Vance, we cannot be sufficiently
grateful for the sufrages of the soldiers and people
in August 1862, which rescued liberty in this State
from the grasp of military power, and secured to
the people the practical exercise of the right of free
| thought and free expression.


The Governor, it will be seen implores the people
"of all shades Of political opinion to abstain from
assembling together for the purpose of denouncing
each other, whether at home or in the Gr1ny."-
The Governor will bear testimony, of his own per-
sonal knowledge, that so far as we are concerned
| portion of those who assume to lead public opinion
|
to and have deliberately refused to discontinue their
! assaults on u.s. that acting as we have been
from the first, in selfdefence and that, when the
effort referred to was made to promote concord and
harmony, we exhibited every disposition to meet
our enemies at least half way Our skirts clear
| of any evil consequences that may result from the
want of harmony and good feeling in this State.


But if the people assemble together at all, denun-
ciatory language may be expected. The implors-
tons of the Governor on the subject are, however,
natural to one in his position. 1t must pain him as
| the common head of our people, to see those who
ought to be brethren both in feeling and action,
rayed against each other in public meetings and deal
4 ing in mutual elimination and invective. But so
| far as the army is concerned this elimination and
invectve amounting to charges of dsloyaty against


majority of our people, are all on one side, and are
the result of deliberate effort, concocted at Rich
mond, to suppress the freedom of the press. We
glad to see that the Governor disapproVes denun
catory meetings in the army" well as at home !;
and as all the army meetings gotten up by aspiring
officers have been Of that character it follows that
the Governors dsapproval extends to every army
meeting which has been held. Its certainly desra-
BILE that the people in their public meetings should
abstain from the use of incorporate language; but
| it must be borne in mind that the grievances of
| which they complain are great and manifold, and
that those whose acts they crticise and dsapprove
are their servants who in very many instances haVe
shown themselves inefficient short-sghted faithless
and oppressivean their conduct That the Cover
nor especially deprecates denuncations of any por-
tons of odr people as LincolniteS and traitors,
| do not doubt; yet Governor of the State it was
not, perhaps his duty 20 recognize any difference in
denunciatOry meetings far as the injurious effects
| of those denunciations are concerned. de steps
| forward as q peacemaker between brethren, and
without casting blame on any, he implores them to
be reconced to each other and abstain in the meet
ings which he freely comedies to them the right to
hold from the use oflanguage which can be product
i've only of mutual estrangement and illfeelng.-
This advice is timely and certainly wellntended on
the part of the Governor, but its observance must
depend to great extent on its acceptance reject
ion by the Destructive leaders in and out Of the army
1t must not be expected-and the Governor does not
expect-that the great body of Our people will be
silent while they are denounced and charged with
disloyalty by Destructive leaders and presses.


No Governor of this State since the times that
tried mems souls in the old revolution, has had
graver or more perplexlng responsibilities on his
shoulders than Gov. Vance. 1t Is simply impossible
for him so to act to please every one 1t should
be constantly borne in mind that he is ssoern Of
fcer, and that his oath binds him to see that the
Confederate laws are enforced. If he has not OBJ
tanned for his State all that was justly due her, it
must be remembered that he has to deal with a
stubborn and perverse administration at Richmond
and that much of that which has been obtained has
been forced from those, who, whether from accident
or design, have been sngularly unfortunate in their
course towards the people of North Carolina.


We unite with the Governor in the earnest ap-
peal which he makes for unity and harmony among
our people. In his emphatic language "let not our
| enemy be rejoiced to behold our strong arms and
still stronger devotion, which have often made him
trembl turned against ourselves" But let us,
| with one purpose, rally around the common flag
| let US submit to all laws whether acceptable or
odious, until they are repealed by the same power
that enacted them; let 6s remember that anarchy
and bloodshed begin just where the law is disre-
garded and trampled down; and let US also bear in
mind as Conservatives and friends of liberty, that
the administration is not the government and that


in opposing the former, and in endeavoring to re-
form it we are really proving ourselves the best
friends of the latter.


| DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN RILLsBoRoUGH.-We learn
from the Recorder that fire broke out in Hills.
| hor 4.