Year: 1863

know what their motives are, and We can only Judge
them by their fruits. We only know that their
course not Conservative-that they have been,
and are doing all the harm they can to the COnser-
vatiVe cause-and that they are just now, as they
have been for several months past in high favor
with the Destructive leaders and the administration
at Richmond which is strong evidence in itself that
they are hostile to Conservative measures and Con-
servative


The O6SeTUer confesses that the Editors voted for
Mr.. Fuller for Congress on personal grounds. 1t
| says, "our choice was governed by very SIM
pie and sufficient consideration; he had served in
the army private with two of the Editors of
this paper and won their highest regard and esteem
during months of such intimate association. This
was the turning point which directed our votes"
Now, if Mr.. Strange and Mr.. Meares had happened
to have the same claims the Editors could not have
voted at all. But with all this attachment the
suit of intimate association" the Observer did not
have the candor or the boldness to utter one word
in favor of Mr.. Fuller. 1t could go out of its own
District to assail Mr.. Christian, but it had not
word to say in behalf of an intimate friend who it
says agreed with it in opinion, and who had stood
with of its Editors in the blaze of battle. "Call
you that backing your friendsF'


But the Observer says that if Messrs. Gilmer and
Fuller do in fact belong to the Conservative party,
they not attached "to the Standards wing of
the party-the secession wing, the Sc. called peace
party" At fault again. The Standard knows of
no such wing. No such wing of the Conservative
party exists. Nine-tenths of those who voted for
these gentlemen anxious for an honorable
peace are, and we entertain no doubt that
MesSrs. Gilmer and Fuller will do all in their pow
er to carry out the will of their constituents. The
Conservative party is one and indivisible. There
are shades of difference between those who compose
it. but to the principles and great objects of the
party they unit And one of the strongest
proofs that the Observer is enemy to that party
and Is playing into the hands of the Destructives,
is to be seen in its efforts to sow the seeds of dis
cord among Conservatives. fit were friend and
wished well even to Messrs. Gilmer and Fuller, it
would pursue different course.


The Observer insnuates that the Standard was
party to the movement to elect Col. Brown over
Mr.. Gilmer The insinuation is unfounded both
as to Col. Brown and ourself. Neither of US had
any thing to do with it. Col B. was not candidate
did not even desire the place, and we so stated in
the issue of our paper which contained the CON-
nunication presenting his name for Congress-,


The Observer charges that the " "Stdndard and
its party" expect to "put up candidate against
Gov. Vance next summer" and says the result of
the late election, it interprets that result is "a
foretaste of that Waterloo defeat which awaits the
candidate" We deny the charge, and call for the
proof Have you got the proof, gentlemen Ifso,
produce it We neither plot nor counterplot. We
are above it. Weare friend of Gov Vance, and ex-
pect to remain so while he adheres to Conservative
principles; and how could we, under such circum-
stances go about to "put up" candidate against
him next summer? If Gov. Vance will stand by
his friends, set his face against his enemies, ayow
himself Conservative as he is and maintain the
civil law and the rights of our citizens against the
aggressions of the military power and the admins
tration at Richmond, we expect to support him. and
support him cordially for re election; and in doing
so we shall act with vast majority of the people
of the state. We know of no Conservative who
wants his place He hardly want it himself
though he has it. for it is place repete with toll
trouble, and anxious apprehensions. But we do
not assume to speak for Gov. Vance We have no
authority to do So and the OJsercer has no right
That paper is no friend of his, notwithstanding its
professions. 1t cannot be, and retain the support
which is now its main dependence, of the Destruc-
tive leaders. If he should be a candidate for re-
election, and that paper should support him, it will
have to do so on the ground that of its Editors
"served in the army with him as private" for it
cannot sustain him on political grounds. The
a., IoI - l. oaI
aged into his support in 1862 and even then it did
not devote more than one column Of all its issues
during the campaign to his support and defence
We fought the battle, while the ObserUer reposed
in its tent 1t was even then paving the way for
the cordial feeling which exists between it and the
Destructive leaders. Well may Gov. Vance exclaim,
ssave me from such friendsl"


But the Observer, which ignores the Conservatives
and acts with the Destructives for the present. cher
ishes the Utopian dream that "when the war is
over" it will "join hands again with its old Whig
friends" and be an oldfashoned WhigI Yes,
"when the war is over!"-


"When Birnam wood shall come to Dunsinane."


"When the war is over" great many things
will be done, but no arm will be long enough
to reach down and bring to the surface the
fossil remains of the old Wbig and old Dem
ocratc parties. They sleep the sleep that knows
no waking When the tree fell the vines that
clung to it fell with it, and so when the old gov
ernment pershed, parties perished with it. 1t re-
quired the genius of Clay to build up the Whig,
and the will of Jackson to consolidate the Demo-
cratic party. The former dwindled and perished in


short time after the sustaining hand ofits creator
was Withdrawn by death, and the latter expired in
mighty effort to save the Union They are both as
dead as julius Caesar, but one great principle which
both of them maintained survives, to wit the right
| Of the people to goUern Themselves The COnserVa-
tive party is composed of the best men Of these two