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' ' . . . ' " . v J if UK i IS. i VOL. VITL NO 13. . ' . r . i . , - .. - i . , I I WEEKLY PUBLISHED BY J . w:- AiL S I U Or H TERM8 O? SUBSOPwIPTIOlT. For 1 copy, per annum . - - Fur 9 copies-... ......v...... . For 15' copies. .. . .... ... . . The paper will "be forwarded, only ichen the money has oeeri received in advance. ) to his coontrj nhd that he "bad done and would ;j'UllLii,it' v - v - . do all 'thathumsn nature is capible of, to ' teSfe J"8". r 0 L i ., vanee ; U cause. And vfdrther-in J.lookr .. around the country W. ,aw no man wb.iT. 73 T" pr"en,' 'Iy?.onditi,d of perfect, or Hk.!y to do ..), . thaa, .hw. But; m.es, aud ofwht, iiptu i ; h iir'Ti 'friiw uivr 1 1: i s uvor w ir. nrnitat v - - a. .-a ii .K. -:A.rAi iri- ,nJ, ,lr:.s'8 to us that this U not the snint - .v, . . . tna anouia actuate a free mn crmnaiin,. a nan or wonaerluLiireatnessj die iieean'th i. r -j'A U ..i '. .i i it u j nis rigs ts; nav for the very existence of imsplf .-.4:00 J . 8 00 .12 00 KATES OF A DVE RTISING. ried it on for tw and a third . yearf, ,4ju ring which' wts have gsiped m?!!, brilliant victories and has riw great ' aritiies and abundanceof ?air the material ot warl vVe are infinitely' stron- Jger than evpr beforehand -there is no iion in the Each4b33quent insertion,, , .v. . ....... 3-5 path to Pace and ludenpedence. but that,. whose For uasquare three months, 3 50 groWls are heard in the threats of. domestic dis For six months..... 6 5r i ent!n. For tvsrelve months,. ...850 bonae ofthe things of which the 'Standard , ' ' - ; - jcornplains were altogethar indispensable. Tbe . 't- t r .... -.1 - conscription, hard as it was, was one of these. North Carolina Politic?. -With some in- convenience wo comply with the Standard 'a re quest to copy mtir its reply to our appeal to it on the 17iU inst uoder the above head. It rp lit i ail aiiivcr j'Oiiu auuucu ciuuuui uatiuil. afU lO Oil merits a rejind3r, though it shows ma nifest symptoms, of. a -disease with vhich a celebrated politician of our State was once said to be affiic ted. viz: 'la diarrhcea of words.'1 , t,ite t.o &nv that ' tht f j?hf is nff rinlc- np- ' esnr , but 13 just. lmj'iiber of Congress ' Mr. Pnh. nlainlv sho?? ed ilii j js.'ice. Instead of taxing real estate whieu evnot be constitutionally done until a census shall have been taken, and which woj Id have ben mostur.juit whilst such a vast por- tion oi tnat re a estate lifts luie in conseq uence ana nfi people. A man whWdp.nta a -aljeady. He who trusts God and uses his .pwr.4s:roQg arms, may be whipped, indeed, but it is Ch eveivcbance that he wiil not be,,, and if he should be. be will have the satisfaction of knowing that "be 'did his cluty that he lost not iii's .btoor WiCtne striigrfile. 1 ? . j ' la what the Standard says about the effects ( of-sudden emancipation we entirely concur. And for that reason as weil as many others, vve can tolerate no thought of any other result, of this war than that of a complete and final sep aration. Subiugalion or reconstruction would the; Standard, !.J. , - j i . I woe-tn.ra or in omouaru a. w . iu.To-i6 its fuvners beina in the army, the tax is on ted to an .arraignment of the Confederate Ad- Uy laid upon the prodace Gf such of the real es mimsirauon ur its courat? "in.nn n juatuia-jtat(J &g is not idle. tion at Montgomery to tue present moment. . That course denounced a.'sirictly partisan" and proscriptive. Our readers are uot now to a learn for the first time, that we think the Ad ministration ha? grievously erred in not treat ing all old party lines as obliterated by the war. We saU'that. in the article to which th Standard replies, as well as previously. Bit the Standard certainly does the -President istjus tice m one partiutar. We are not positively informed as to its statement that no man who did not regard the election of Mr . Lincoln as good cause tor dissoivinj; the Union has been admitted to the President's Cabinet, though we are inclined to think it incorrect. But when it says that proscription of such men in the field has been the order of thi day. it is un douVedly mistaken. The three highest Gener .aU in tbe army, to go oo f arther, were Union men Cooppr flo'e ancT Johnson. We thiuk moieover that the three Generals for whose ap pouitment U high commands th President has baen so much abused his -pets" a tha Stand ard calU thom Lovell,Pembirton and Hidmes were Union men. VVe know Uen. ttotmes , in&t in wnicn among others, the foliovviDg res- io the old Union ; but when, some day before ireopie say tnat it is an odious tax. So are all taxes. Perhaps it is less odious than the income tax, which pries into ever'' honest man's business, makes him tell how much he has earned, and pay a heavy tax upon his earnings. We cultivate no farm a;jo h.4 no produce tunes to pay, oai our nv'ibojs" koow that no field laborers are work e i ( v uiea'i with our hands) as we are, and we riKva to pay more than a tithe of our earn ings in taxes. Shall we complain? By no means. Oar country needs ; it, or it would not call for it -needs it.to defend us from the loss of all, property, business, profits and .all. And onr country, shall have freely whatever it de mands oNis. The taxes and the other calls upon us incident to the situation of the country may. not, probably will not, leave enough to "make both ends meeU'V But what of that? Better that our country should take f even sthe whole, than that we and the whole should (all into the hands of the destestable yankees. About this matter of tithes we are mortified Jo see in the Standard, unrebuked, the proceedings of a meeting in Alleghany county, on the 12th Lincoln's proclahiHtion of April 1861, he wai ordered to. make preparations for the invasion ot the South, h resigned and came here to de tend the South. We could point out other errors into which the Standard has fallen . btit we prefer to re mind it, that this policy of which it cdmplaini j as g verniug' the Adtnioisuatio fiorr its maug uration at Montgomery to' the present moment must nave been apparent to it for months .. be for its3 Editor, as a member of the Con vention of North Carolina, voted for and s'gnd and lo r fied the Ordinance of separation from the Uni ted Stater and of foVmaf union with the afore aid government at Montgomery. That .was one timeV it strikes us, to pause and. consider whether we should un'te the State of North Car olina with, such ft; wicked govel nmeBt as , the Sundard;4esoribes that at. Montgomeiy; to have been. The EJitor of the Standard did J not paus-the "wi5 man oiu uuu . ujiwo. the evil and bide himself." le rightly and heati!y;not only cast off the old', government but embraced the new oneand pluoged North Carolina into the existing war. It is now too lata for the Standard to discuss the question as to the necesMty of ths War, or who is most to blame ihat itlwas uot avoided; We shall 'hot follow .it in sucn a discussioo, not only because it would, te profitless, but because we -should be compelled to ahowits own responsibility; as for yemrs a leader of the seeessionisfs and a stir m'upof strife patweert our people al horneaud between. North an;SoutbV, , " But titere' was ' yet" another, time to pause,- Before tne 'Presidential. JEiection in - November 1831. the policy of the Admiuutration: had been pla'fnty developed by nearly a year's prae xice, tne jrresiaent. .au v-iiusouuia ufciajwwjf. Iwere knowa'-tath'erSindard,-and a number of other things of which the Standard ; now cora- olutions were adopted ; Resolved, That we regret the appointment of one Draott-ra, a Virginian, cnier-utningman jor North Carolina. , l H Res jived; Tnat we demand the speedy re mo vai of said . Bradford. , ' r Resol vad, That we do not intend to pay tithes to Bradford or any! other persou. . , . . , Resolved, That we highly appreciate and ap prove of the course ihat W. W. Holden has pursuod in supporting the rights of the people! ami keeping alive the almost extinguished spark" of liberty." . -y, :i , . ? Liberty ! VVhat sort of liberty has the. Stan dard taught these ieiple ( who by the.1 way demand the speedy removal of a man who had already been davs removed. 1 Surel v the . m m m m Standard did not mean to teach them ''that' 'Mi b: e ty consists iu refusing .to obey a ax law- clearly constitutional law enacted by the gov eminent which taey had themselves erected for that and other purposes ? ? If that be liberty what, is government ; 'And if this beva'' despot tism as the Standard instructs its readers, das. potisms allows their subjects to take , strange liberties- A despotism! no freedom of opinion ana tne persons wno mae the compiaini ae mand;ng of their government the reuabval of a tax collector asunacoeptable; andplainly telU ing tbo government afct.the isame time that when It appoints a'col lector to suit their, notions they' woc't pay the Uxhs to jiim J . . . . But to pais frdni this branch it 'Hhe Stan dard's repifV n:,i;-4-V! .v-.,-;'-: i ' ? It was okt -secessionist who took ' North Carolina put of the old Unmn, or who joined her to the Confederacy., ;i or Avas it tor anything that the, secessionists ofth.c ittori States . had done or could 'do,' that she" Went bu t. She had boldly, m'aufuil y,;ariH wisely, "disregarded " all that, and she would'have disregarded it to this sink thJ StanaVri7was'Chen prerneJb!y',''BraWieiy 'teaOTi.. con$i3raUo'ni jnas appearta to nnuenoe it ,inu. ..,?. Ve thopght tbe President :perfet : Nar; ;ap-, Sroved of all' that be has done : " -But wo sup: ported htribeauie'weriliw Hat bin Heart maftt miod and body were d4ro&d t tending the subjugation of, the South j. that took: North Carolina oMt, ana rnat oy tne votes oi the old Union ,med,-repreaeatrhg an old Union pe?pie -mlt Union raen and people no longer I than. Lihcola'a irisane andifatal policy was i.de- Telopdd. -The change of; sentiment was instan taneous.,, lrSrtFAs BmsTf :B-ut having put ;our bauds io thVpioub shall we take refuge, m the tbadft iatid ' leave 6br ) work' ' l(al dori oecahso thl?a iddy Csun tcbifories u)im Shalb we mkeno "crop at all because, 'H fot our, e untold horrors which would visit alike slaveholder,, the non-slaveholder, and the slave. The Standard flatters itself that in some con tingency not yet reached, it could secure peace without sudden emancipation. Upon what this strange delusion is based, we are unable to con ceive., Certainly, Lincom s proclamation, ana the action under it of his officers, civil and mil itary, have given no ground for such a hope. Everj thing shows that wherever the United States can secure a footing,emancipation is very sudden. But could the Standard trust to paper pledges, constitutions or laws 1 Did we not have all these in the old Union? and had they not proved worthless? How can an one hone tor anything stronger, especially' as a conces sion to us after the worst stares "us in the fact-?' Does the Standard look for something better than we had before, to be granted when we get into a condition of helplessness when the worst has come? Has' there been one .solitary sign, fr odj Lincoln or from his army br people, of concessions to us or even of former admitted rights, except when we had the upper hand! The; wnole conduct of the yankees in relation to the exchange of prisoners showed too plainly what will 1)8 tiieir pojicy when the worst" comes. While we had the advantage in number of pris oners they treated with us and ? made terms which would have been fair, if they had been faithfully. keptv, But. now that they have the fid vantage 'the worst" having befallen us, what do we see, bot ihe most insolent and utterly in. admissible pretentions: : So will it ever be. Our only safety is in fighting them 'fighting them as the Standard says, "with a desparation which the world, has never witnessed."; r The Standard considers U3 as.disposed to twit its Editor for his "declaration in ,'Ma'y .1861. Surely we said nothing of the kind. . We quot-1 eel that dec'aiation to show tat the otandaro was not, as the;Yabkee papers iclaimed,i and' as many, at home, believed, faithless to the Confed eracy , but. that from, the 20th of May -18G1 , to the present time, the Standard ,bad , coutinuerj .to affirm its opposition to a regpnstruction ol the old Union. It was a sincere .gratification to us thus to put it right before. the public. But the Standard iniilces' this the occasion for one of its despairing statements,' calculated to depress the spirit Of the people, and to make them cry enough withous; waiting to show fight.' We wonder ihat the Standard did not say that the State and County debt was equal to all that the State wcurd sell for in gold and silver.' ihere being no gold or silver comparitivelv speaking, the one statement wouia : nave been .bypt asicorrect as, the othert ut vve can fight thi war, and, whip" the, yankees without gold and silver; and the debt that we have incurred ami tuau vet io oe incuriuu, is iiiH.wist-sii ituui. that ever a coufrtfy made' " It4 is made 'to save us from .degradation and ruin.' ; And: it will do ' tj u n J esa. t he u nfq r tu na.te croaHing of; the S tan d ard and its friends shall so far cr'pple our.cour age 'and resources as", to makeus give up4withj but a sufilcieot struggle.4 But the debt OP the State, large as ths Standard : would i have the people believe ity is only about a third of what v irgtnia, or Mary land, or Pennsvlvania owed before ths war. As to xoid and; silver. ;we have no special neeq or either, wnwe ine . war asts, and w hen; it is o ve'r,1 our cotton and tobacco and rice- will bringua iplentvv " -:; .The Standard as tn"4. 'to - treatA'with the i - . . . . ginning ot the war, tried this very exne- which the Standard now seeks to indurin Carolina' to ' make. Ken tuck v wnn teA dayl ll was iincoln!s act, .unmbtakeably il inCo ferrate govercmentrpeacel;s toireoog- . J . r- . ' n .i. . I nirra that (rnworn rr- . ftj At. a whit mnrA than to treat Iwitb the Confederate gbvern men for ahrexchang?e of prisoners was to recognize that government. tEhgiand -did not- recognize the United States byu treating! with tbeiri for peace-4 houghhe .did so rcoghizetheir jtndepejn.denee' by preliminary treaty concluded fhfj.' mopthf aftWwards,'Vid by derinite treaty cohcloded, lauro iHsu a yvar auerwaras, ine , (actuany broceedihg1 during thV tirsfe mfiiionla; period ot six menths. Iwhilst the negotiations were go biv PwUna-miod ftBd bW Were 4td cbmprebenOo oCtH&W rort-tlS -l AffiTO,wtWrfT'WlP riod misht be of service to showing, thft nothing then secured our recogni !; b tion but successful resistance to tbei power 6fW5 rreat lintain. JLhat brought her to treat. ; And nothing eUe will bring' the United Slates ttdaf" like conclusion:; The" States end the? ' people lu!! have no right to treat with her- and can, ;hftYe ' no shadow of hope1 thatshV-w'iHTtreat'!LsucIr, proposition ftora thra with anything ; better. than .contempt ; .The.' Standard fea'rs that we are! VX not ahle to do. this, and that; and ' eives the ,Jf gloomiest view;of the condition of things gen '-1 erally.t We hope and believe, and ere deter1 : rpiiied to try. ' The battle is nor to the strong ; ; ana we have faith that that wUl be shown ia God's own good tinie. provided we remain true, to ourselves and our country. V, ; We' are jlad to see the Standard repeating., with emphasis, that "we are opposed to recon structing the old government, and have been from the first." SVe trust it will continue so to the last. But, whilst we do not at all call in -question !he sincerity of its declaration, wa thej are bound to sav: that in our opinion th whoL tendancy (we do not mean intention) of its ar- guments is to induce its readers to think that in reconstruction lies their only hope. All its gloomy statements of the condition of things military and financial, all its fears ot our ina bility to accomplish anything, all its talk about tbe establishment of a new common t,rve.rni ment, with all our rights guaranteed," hath this extent, nrj more, no less. And so its readers construe it, as witness the meetings in which reconstruction and the Standard figure side by side in the resolutions. The idea ot 'a new com mon government, with all our rights guaran teed," is "the very error of the moon."1' The yankees say they have now the best ''govern.' tuent on eai th. Are they likely to .change it at the request of a parcel, who have beaten their boastful armies upon a hundred fields? Scarcely. And as tc guarantees, what can the Standard expect or hope for that we did not have in the old government, acd' that were not violated there ? 1 To us there 'appears ' no choice of 4vils between subjugation' and recon struction, oee the speech of Gen. Burnside, t in Kentucky, in whia it is plainly avowed that no man in that State has a right to vote even unless he conforms his views to those of tbn Lincoln government. ? And yet Kentucky, ,;at the tta j tment North peace peace for herself and between her tiaih bors. To secure both these objects, but the first ' oeyohd perad venture,, Kentucky- declined to join tae South - talked largely as the Standard does of State sovereignty, and avowed herself a neutral and a peace maker. Tbe yankee Got. ernment temporized arid proniised .untll , Ken tuclcy's chance for resistacpe. was lost, and ihea the yankee! promises were, forgotten, Kentucky i sovereignty, laughed at, and her people enslav- ,ed f ;If North Carolina can. be-induced to ' take herself Aut of the Confederacy "to protect ;her ;'t self," as the Standard and its followers are fond., J of intimating she may ; or if she separate . her telf f roar her sistr'ykates to make a peace, for . herself and talk of, one for her t associates, as.v seems to be the Standards avowed purpose, it is ppssible.that she may find, yankee- promises " plenty until that separation is fioal and subju- ' gation made easy by our divisions, ; arid then they-will be as easily broken as in ; Kentucky' ' ', case, or in the more recent case of the . city of N. York.., hen her, mobWds .in ;t arms earjd 1 successfullyj'esisting tha k infamous fraud at-,1, 'tempted 6y the Government, the;draft was -atop', ,ol "ped and redress promse.rjli fi In anev)! hour, tha iniob listened, to the promise:; phe people, jaidl. otii oJ aownaneir arms, ii immense, military ,,ana naval force, was at once coUectedV and the ifraud.t.t , rii has been'apcomplished., , So will)it be with .usj . i- U when wo aUempt separate, State, action.. :7 One . vri nerroeW will then" be turnedjnto yankee armies,: -f ana; .ourselves iiua tna& lngiaa or peace u we:,: . have inaugup horrors of H "this are asndtbnigT.,'" .y , j; f nuf 1 'The Standard deniesits responsibUty for tbet:' public meetings, wnicnjiave aona. so mucn to damage' our cause' ah 'encourage theeoeipy.-r There i may be a. difffrenc of opinion about that.; rIt is diiet to frankness to say, that . w,e thick the Standard is responsible, for C them; that thev are held in consequence 'of its oub lished 'request as .wen.as .in.confplance, with its t , teachings" .andaow that the lempvalbf -Maj.i - Bradford has removed ther a owed ,; cause .or their beginnings; that it would have, done, wise ly and patriotically to exert . Jts . influence to stop at th same time thfaid and comfort" they anoa, tne pnttaja jpus ine cjtauuaro say, Leftbe Deonie .sbeak.MV.lt is refreshing to hear taam;?J t Refreshing to Jiear themtpeak trea son, aai inurry4;nd m deriance;ofLaw, es i. m Aliglmrl j anP Jisiineciion o wa war' wfaicn the Editor of the Standard-voted us into! i:AVW denythe rlgt otay man or. seti. bf oiei 5 i uon c iua6 qqjv necQTy pagt. iliU i . - c ,r. v. -f .or. ? i; Si . V : 1 i ! 14 v, r .1 t f 1 Sl'VM V t u t i '('A 'r. ;i rMi i r t ''! S : T ' J ' - i i V i j V ?-t -If .1 ,- M 1 .lr. A. f J ir . .. .1 i f it, T 4 ... t3 V. 4. ; ; I ti i! r - i. ft 'I f . "r . f t - " - 1 ' . - .... ' . v - - , . ......
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