Year: 1863

moos III this Clty, says: .... ....


/" 1t is certainly shameful that in this trying hour
the people of the South should be divided in sem
tment as to prompt them to enact deeds of violence
upon the property of one another; but it is equally
true that the presses which have thus been mobbed
-one by an exasperated soldiery, and the other by
citizens, have been mainly instrumental in creating
differences, and stirring up party strife and engen
derng discord among the people at a time When Oil
should be firmly united"


The Patriot is mistaken in saying the solulers
who mobbed our Office were "exasperated- Ihey
did their work coolly and deliberately under orders
To what source we are to trace these orders we do
not know, but the soldiers who mobbed our office
did so under orders. There is no doubt about that
Nor is the Patriot correct in saying that zoe "haVe
been mainly instrumental in stirring up party strife
and engendering discord among the people" We
have acted from the first solely on the defensive as
party man. What we have said could not have been
left unsaid in justice to the Conservative party
Does the Patriot dispute thats If so, it may be
Conservative but not as good one as we are The
press to which the Patriot refers had. repeatedly
called for mob law against ofice,-we have uni
formly opposed mob law, and yet when mobs are
formed and their evil results are seen the Patriot
holds US equally guilty with those who had advised
them. If our people are divided in sentiment, it
is the fault of the administration at Richmond and
of Destructive presses and politicians in this State.


But the Patriot ever since it passed from the
hands of Mr.. Sherwood, has had good feeling for
the Standard. We have regretted this, and have
been at loss to account for it, except the ground
that our subscription was constantly increasing in
the range of the Patriots circulation. We have
kI,,k
kindness, and we thought the Patriot and Standard
agreed in sentiment. But some time since meet
ing was held in GuilfOrd County, which passed
NUMBER of resolutions, and among them one endOr-
sing the course of the Standard The Patriot was
requested to publish the proceedings, and did pub
lish them with the exception of the resolution en-
dorsng the Standard. This struck US as a very
small business. 1t DaS very small business and
the Editor of the Patriots welcome to all the credit
he gained by it. If we were capable of treating a
cotemporary in that way, and especially political
friend, whether from IVY, hatred, or malice, we
should feel like hiding our head in the presence of
liberal just and magnanimous people.


The P,ltriOt of September 17th, in making lame
apology for not having published the proceedings
of certain public meetings, says:


ave are under obligation to no one to reprint
the Raleigh Staalard-nor do we fish through its
columns to see what we are requested to copy from
them; columns which fourished most when they
Scorned and revled the very persons who now seem
to adore and worship them, and which for the sake
OF money, and to secure little evanescent populari-
ty for their Editor, are ever ready to his
ends, whether prompted by patriotism, or, as is
most generally the case, something else."


Here. is gross reflection on US, which We repel
with scorn and contempt We have never sought
either popularity or money at the expense of right


We have the satisfac ction of knowing that our
course is approved by vast majority of the people
of Guilford County, and of the Congressional Dis
trict in which the Patriot circulates We are
Conservative at all times and under all circunu-
stances Can the Patriot say as much? 1t is not
our habit to trim so as to please the few
to the neglect of the rights and interests of the
many. Can the Patriot say as much


We copy an Editorial from the Patriot to day
for the purpose of showing that the course of that
paper and CT the Standard has been nearly the
same with the. exception that we have urged the
views the Patriot has with more vehe-
mence and drectness than that paper has exhibited.
We have not assailed the government at any time
HlOIe lldn LdtTtOC mas. we nave not Op-
posed the Confederate cause at any time any more
than the Patriot has And yet that paper does us
gross injustice in regard to the mob, and goes out
of its way in September, when our paper was sus-
pended and we could make no reply to it, to i'm
peach our integrity and patriotism


The Patriot says, in the Editorial to which we
have referred that it has no doubt President Davis
has winked or conniPed at the studied efforts at
Richmond to cast odium on North Carolina! Can
this be possible? If so, then President Davis is
unworthy Of his place, and ought to be impeached
and removed from office


We now tell the Patriot once for all that we have
borne its sights and its slurs as long as we intend
to. We are willing to be at peace with it, and to
act with it as Conservative paper, always showing
ourself the best Conservative of the two as we GER
tainy are; but we have made up our mind to sub.
NIT to injustice hereafter from any quarter, but
to defend ourselves when unjustly assailed or in
Juriously reflected on, against all comers