THE 17EEKLY CONSERVATIVE
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- " Tto erves-Thtf Standard !
We have nothing to say In.defence of the: Order
calling oat the Keservea between 45 and 60.- The;
Confederate administration must defend itself upon
such tcpics. ! think, with n:ost people who hare
spoken to hus upon , the subject, that r the call can bo
justified only, by the most argent necessity, and we
are net apprized that any such exists. To take
fanners from, their fields at this time of . the year is
to subject the government to the grayest responsibil
ity, md-must be answered for. TWe hope that it
will turn oat that it has been property done. Mean
while, however, it is not to be denied that it has
caused general and great uneasiness. -In the present
condition of the bread supply, and the prospects of
another crop, Everything should be done to assure
the community that ,tb government will not heed
cssly or igoorantly obstruct the already narrow way
to relief. ?" . -; . . "
These considerations -open the door to important j
and delicate discussions,, tirut it is not "ro.enter upon
such that we hay6 taken-our "pen. The Standard,
in its issue takes Gov. Vance to task as guilty
of complicity in this act of the Confederate govern
ment. It charges that if the Governor had done as
he should in relation to the bill for,, 10,000 State
troops, which pended before the present General As
sembly, eighteen months sine?, we should now.have
that body in the field, and so the recent call would
hive been avoided. Gov. Vance is not responsible
for the defeat of that bill. It is well known that the
responsibility for its defeat rests on Gov. Graham.
Gov. Vance recommended the bill, but it was de
feated as every body said at the time, by the influ
ence of Mr. Graham n the State.Senate. Mr. Gra .
ham's objections, as was understood, were mainly'
two (1) a financial one, -ylz : that its expense would
rum the State; and (2) that war is always better
carried on by a single head.
Whether or not he was right in his views we are
not now concerned to maintain. In passing however,
we may remind our readers that if this bill had be
come a Uw, North Carolina would now be from
$15,0.00,000, to $20,000,000 further in debt than she
is. ' What her credit would have been in that event,
we need not enquire. It may well be that after hear
ing Mr Graham's oV-jections Gov. Vance Was co
vincep! that he had beea hasty in his recommenda
tions! We do not know. But it is evident that the
artIclVnVthe Standard is rather a sly assault upon
Mr. Graham, whose judgment swayed the Assembly
in this matter, than upon Gov. Vance who only ac
quiesced therein." Jdutato nomine, the criticism.is
upon Mr. Grahah.
As for the rest of the article in the Standard, we
mav sav brief! v that Gov. Vance has done asnuch
to provide exemptions for citizens required to remain
at homo as Officers of the State, and otherwise as
any Governor in the Confederacy. The question of
exemption does not depend upon State legislation,
but upon Confederate legislati9n. The recent Act of
the General Assemble on this subject does not, as a
matter of law. secure a single one of the officers
therein mentioned.' Their exemption depends upon
Qox. Vance, .and upon him alone. The exemption
Act of the last Congress provides that it shail be for
the Governor to say what State officers -shall be ex
empted In exercising this delicate function, the
Governor of North Carolina has called to bis aid the
General Assembly, desiring them to say whoshall
be claimed as necessary Officers of the State. This
was a very proper reference upon his part, and the
Assembly has responded to it ; but it is plain that
its action is not legislation, but only advice; the sub
stantial exemption being (as the law of Congress re
quires) necessarily pertormed ny tne uovernor.
tv. .Ana iin vance iook iorwaru witu
all confidence to the verdict of history upon the con
sistency, the candor and the courage with which he
has conducted his Conservative administration.
They do not claim for him immunity from error,
but they insist with all confidence that he las 'a
sound head, and a hcaft wedded to the'welfara and
honor of the State. '
Hon. Bobert Toombs Gov Vance Vindictted.
"We devote a considerable portion of our space this
morning to the very able and eloquent letter addres
sed to Gov. Brown, of G., by another of Georgia's
distinguished sons-HoN ROBERT. TO OMSr-in
favor of the great principles of personal liberty,"
and In opposition to the act of Congress suspending
ine privilege v - i
tain cases. Thus, one by one have some of the
ablest mials of the Confederacy followed in the
fodlsteps of that noble champion of the people s
STn North Carolina-Z. B. VANCE. .Gov.
Vance wrote bis manly protest to President Davis
,aeaJnst the suspension . of the writ of Habeas
Corpus on. the 9ih of February last This was
Ufore the- act was passeti. Subsequently Gov.
Brown, of Ga , wrote bis able message to the Legis
lature of that State, taking strong grounds against
the act Vice President Stefhs followed soon after
in a masterly speech, at Milledgeville,- against it.
Hon. William A. (jeaha. oniy a iewaay3 ago, iu
his
a speech
ann of
th;vt Ahnnt the sameJlime Hon. H. S. Foote,
of Tenn , made' a powerful speech m the House of
Representatives in support of a resolution to repeal
the act, in the course of whjch he -paid a glowing
tribute to Gov. Vance for the faithful manner in which
he (Gov. V.) had protested in letters addressed to the
President and members of Congress against the pas
sage of the act. Other gentlemen of ability, both
in and out of Congress, protested against the act,
as at least'iinpolitic and unwise, if not unconstitu
tional. Lastly, comes the powerful argument, of
Gen. Robert Toombs, which we publish ta.day in:
defence of the! great, principles of persona liberty
and against the act under consideration. .
Let it be remembered that this great array of
talent and statesmanship is the sequel, of not the
logical sequence, of the manly, yet modest, efforts of
Gov. Vance against the suspension of the Great
I Writ ofTight,
The Standard. .
; This highly interesting literary journal made its
appearance igain on yesterday. How delightful it
is to read the productions of one " whose only arts are
all honest arts." Nothing "mercenary" about such
a man.
No indeed be . is honest, for he says he is.
But we will pay our respects to this man oi honest
arts at another ume. . :
We have but little doubt but the whoU country
beyond the Blae Bidge wiU go for Mr. Holden.
Progress. .' . ' - '
Where ar.e the votes to come from? W.e saw an
intelligent genUeman yesterday from Buncombe, and
he assured us, if there was a HoiDpt cian ia that
county he had not heard of him. -The gentleman
alluded to said theytories, deserters, and boshwhakers,
wh were " iath voadv re all (or Hotnn, bat
that they would hardly venture to come odt to the
polls $n the day of election that if llf , Holdss had
any gopporters among any other class they had not
w aTovrtdtheEaselT?f-- '? -:?,;.r.;i:V.
plage in, the-Confederate States senate? aeuverea
, "characterized," says tne tn.g, uye
rhPtoricand ereat force cf argument, 4agamst
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mplzLy: RALEIGH, N. C, WEIXNESD JXINE;; 15,64v:;V--eKM-
r u The CaricTia Candidate for .Governor.
The editor of the' Standard. ancld nolitical staler.
is well aware of the dislike of- the honest masses to
caucus .dictations. I He hassnant much of his life in
efibrti tQ forceT the people to endorse the decrees of
secret conclaves of central wire pullers, and almost
any. number of his baprr. selected at random, from
the issues of -the last r fifteen yeafs, will be found to
oreame tureatemngs and slaughter against all who
dared to think .differently from the irresDonsible
juntas who issued infallible decrees to all the faith-
ful concerning the tickets they were id support froni
constables Tip to President. " Organize, organize,"
was always his watchword; thaVislhe people were
perpetually called on to fall into ranks, at the com
mand of cross road drill mastere. and to wait for. and
obey without question, the orders of king caucus ; ,
- "Mr. Holden very" well knows, from loner exne -
rience, hoWbard it often wa? to force the masses into
the- support of, men iri regard to "the selection of
whom they had no Voice ; forit wiVhis dutyito' see
.that all murmuring was suppressed,' while - he -has
had to goad many a stuidy Republican intp..ranki byi4
the fiercest .denunciation and the foulest abuse. .
".Indeed lie has- Often proceeded -to extremities with
the refractory, and ; has "often" pronounced the sen
tence Of political death on not a fe freemen of the
Country for refusing to accept of caucus as their
absolute lord and master.
Hence his recent lattemp to conciliate favor by a
new profession of faith, and by a solemn repudiation
of the claims of caucus. Let us hold bicn to all the
conseooences of this doctrine. If he is now right,
.then he condemns his whole political course for twen
ty years; and will w himself pretend that it is safe
at such a crisis, to clothe with high responsibilities
a politician who confesses that he has spent the whole
of a loner nolitical life, no to-this time, in the advo
cacy of pernieious errors? But Mr. Holuen's re
cent pronunciamento against caucuses not only con
demns his pas't career,- but i puts an-effectual ex-,
tinguisher on hi3 present aspirations. Who nomina
ted him for Governor ? A midnight caucus of one
single old jpolitical intriguer, W. W. Holden, hivi'
self. Ho does not come before the people for their
favor, by mingling with them, telling them who and
what he is, and anawering theffc questions.. No, ha
sits in hfs editorial sanctum, that old haunt of king
canons nnnsults with himaelf alone, and issues the
decree I nominate myself as the candidate of all
true Conservatives for the office of' Governor,'- and
forthwith: proceeds to read out of the party all who
do not support this nomination. .
This is the culmination, of the odious spirit of
caucusit can reach ho higher point of impudent
assumption Or insolent dictation. The student ot an
infamous school has graduated he has passed
through all the degrees of the spirit of intolerence.
Formerly he contended that a few leaders had the
xigbt to select men and devise-measures for tae sup
port .of the people. Now a single plotter may issue
his infallible rekose, and that injavor oj himself, and
all lwh6 refuse to endorse it ai e to be branded 1
Keep it before the people that Mr. -Holden is the
caucus candidate for Governor, nominated by a body
consisting of bimseU alone, with Mr. Pennington
for door-keeper, that he. alone suggested his own
-fiame, discussed and decided on his own claims to
the support of that vas and honest party knovrn as
the Conservative,. and passed resolutions .which he is,
now trying to carry out, to affix the stigma of trai
tors and renegades on all who will not accept him as
their leader 1 Surely - old king caucus is in his dos
tage this vile despot that has so long lorded in the
politics of North Carolina -'from - hip Imperial palace;
in the Standard office, is making himself absurb
with senile folly, snd'is about to expire in the odor
of infamy he so richly deserves.
Colonel Amis,
We do not pretend to know whether or not the
ticket presented to the citizens of Granville In the
columns of the Progress for a few days pas has been
made up with the consent of Colonel Amis or not
We do not know the-politica of either f the persons
named excepting those of Mr. Tatlok and CoL Aaiis
One thing is certain, however, that it is most
o...ir - that the friends ot such a ticKet snouic nave
selected the Progress as a means of cominuaicating
with those wbo would, probably support it. We
thought there was a mouse about, -when we first
saw it, but tn article in the last -Standard Has con
vinced us thereof. Wei doubt whether it will not cum
out that it is a mouse of about the size of that with
which the mountains Once labored.
Col. Amis daring the last session was one of an
excellent delegation from Granville, all of whom it is
understood are willing to represent the county again.
Under these circumstances it was very fit that one
of them should ignore bis colleagues and consent to
run upon a ticket composed in part at Least Of gen
tlemen politically opposed to the old ticket. That
would.be like a man of honor and good sense, such
as Mr. Aatn is thoroughly known to bel And then,
the friends of that new ticket would naturally resort
to the Progress as a means Qt acquainting meir
friends that there was such a ticket in the field 1
Until otherwise advised we shall regard this as a
trick upon ttoa part of some of the strstitest (by no
means stwughtest) sect to divide tho Conservative of
Granville by making a record which shall prove that
CoL Amis has divided from his colleagues in the last
Legislature. Tne Progress supplies the fact of
rion, and then down comes the Standard with pun
and invective, and finally mounts the back of a cer
tain old frieud and rides out of the. ring. -
In conclusion, Col. Amis is well known through
the State as no holiday Conservative. He has been
such for years, through jgood and evil report. No
better member of tbe j Legislature comes, from any
county. He does not always vote as a strict party
man but in substantial be is reliable, and has
merit enough to be allowed to keep a conscience even,
in public life. His independence (within the limits
which he restrains it) is of no harm to the State or
to his party. ! ' "
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ISP A friend who has just returned from a visi t
to counties heretofore considered. Holdenite, gives
ns a glowing accoant of.the condition of things.
The people aril turning to Gov. Tance, alleging that
they have4 been deceived by Holden into believing
the Governor had gone oyer to the original seces -sionists.
They say his message -and speeches hw
satisfied them his principles are all rightthat he
has made as good a Governor as anybody in the world
could have done, and he ought not to be cast aside
as a criminal for so "sUfly" aman as Uolden. . v
ttT Keep it before the people, that the Standard
andthe Progress have refused to publish the corres
pondence between GoniVxxcB and President Davis.
Mr. HoLors ii afraid to trust the people; or surely,
surely, he would not withhold fromthem the corres
poodeice between the Governor of his gtate and the
President of the Confederate States, touebmg ques
tions of yital importance at the present irying auu
criucai juncture m our anairs,
' -Gov. Vance. A private dispatch received in this
city from Salisbury, on the 7th, says : Vance is
greeted everywhere by large and attentive audiences.
At least three thoTjsand (B.OOOT here to dar, and
all se?o to b? for TbcV . -,' .
':r: HonT H.- Boyden .personal. Hbexty Bill
- The Confederate still insists that Mr.TJoTDss'a
ty,' and we da not think the or of that party in
this State ought -tor abuse Mr BoTi)Eir; etenadm
ting tfte above allegation -to be true. x But it was: not
Mr. "Boyden's Sntention to bring: stKata'"rcollisiori:
between the 'Confederate and State GovernmentsH
The. sole object! of ;theahaiMr,B6Ti)Kif d
on tlie floor of the Senate. is to secure - every ;mah
that degree of personal liberty, to which he' is en
titled, under the laws of the ; general and Stats Gov-?
ernments- as they exist at this. time.' The State of
Alabama, if vre remember rightly, passed, sometime
ago even a stronger .-personal liberty act than the
one under cnsid?rilionv,iAnd yet we do not re
member to have JSef'n any"Jstrictures in the Gonfed
erate on the : Legislature bf that State for so griev
ous'an oSence.: AUiof its ; ire ; and . wrath i are re
served", fori the Comertativc members- of ovrown,
,U'islaloejttiQetl
Below we give the remarks of Mr. Botden, whllo
the bill was up for consideritioa in'tbe Senate, arid it
will be-seeh that he is fully acquitted cf the al leged
intention to nullify the" laws of Congress ':
Mr. Speaker, the sole object of the bill now beforo
the Senate is to secure every man that degree ot per"
sonal liberty to . which hj is entitled under thenaws of
the general and the State Governments as they exist
aCthis time. This bill grants to no one the writ of
Habeas' Corpus for , tbe restraint of . his personal
liberty to which lie would not bfc entitled, if this bill
should not become s law. Itjirescribes no new.rule
for the action of the courts olQietidges; in granting
the Writ of Habeas Corpus, or in "deciding-any point
of law that may arise when theWrit Unapplied for,
or upon its return, "but leaves the cirts. perfectly
free to act and decide, in all respects, just as they
would do, if this, bill should not become a law. -The
bilt takes ft for gVanted that the courts and v judges
know the laws of tbo Confederate and., of the State
Govern-raent, and that they will administer, these
laws Impartially, having a due regard to all acts of
Congress .and to the laws of the State, and that they
will decide right ; and the great object of the bill is,
to provide that these deeisions'of the courts and the
judges shall be respected and .obeyed by all men,
high or low in office, or out of office, .and that -no.
military satrap shall with impfinity 'resist of erade
these decisions. Can any Senator seriously object
to such a law ? Why talk about a, confiictlwith'the
Confederate authorities, as if the ..bill prescribed
some new-rale of decision for the judges in Writs of
Habeas Corpus ? "Nothing of the kind, Mr. Speaker.
It leaves the rules of iawfor.; issuing the Vrit of
Habeas Corpus, just what they would be, if this oil 1
should not become a law, and (it changes no rule of
law for deciding such cases upon the returns," as they
now exist Why then talk a,out a conflict of the
Stale and Confederate authorities f There-is no law
yer but w, nat knows better. There is a . class of
politicians who desire that all our courts for the ad
ministration of the laws of the land should be closed,
and all the functions of our judges suspended, until
this war shall end ; and tbt every man should be
subject to military law, and tomilitaryjudje .. Such
persons may cry? out conflict,': and they .scent conn ict
in every act of the legislature, that has any tendency
to maintain the-supremacy of the civil law, and to
ref 1st the encroachments of military power. ; It is that
spirit and that alqqeAlbt n?o
this bin as calculated toproduqa a conflict.! Nothing
of the sort is in the bill asvery la wyerwell knows.
There is one portion of this bill that provides that no i
person in civil life shall be transpqrted by force - or
violence beyond . the lfmits of the State, and inflicts a
aevere penalty upon any one violating -thislaw.
Can'anv Senator object to this provision. Was not
this one of the grievances of which' our forefathersJ
& X ...1 M a . A ill QAnntAK
L object to a law to prevent such a crime r After mur-
Uer tniS IS OQ Ul lUC lilguesi. Uiuiw ttjauiau ius
citizen, and if we had a "fenetentiary, it should.be
made a penetentiarv offence This removal not un-
frequently results in the death of the person trah3
x-ersonai iieerty xMi an ace as, nuijieaiton aoo
" nuln'fication " doctrine ' used tb; be very popular
with some of the" leaders :" of the f Confederate par
1
sin-fported and the person who thus transports a cai
zen irk civu lue contrary 10 law, anu ueum ensues,
. . : A i i J.-ti.
is morally guUty of the crime of murder. I hope
The bill will receive the undivided support of the
Senate. -. - ,' - .
Since the above was in type a friend rras
furnished. us with a copy of Ihe personal liberty bill,
passed by the Legislature of Alabama some time in
the month of December last. ; It is as follows :
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate &nd House of
Representatives of the State of Alabama in General
Aesembly convened, That any person to-as whom a
writ of Habeas Corpus has been issued and served,
who wilfully fails or refuses under any prfetence
-whatever, to obey the mandate thereof, or the orders
of the judge or the court thereon, before whom the
same is heard, or who knowing or intentionalty pre,
vents the service Of the same by force, or by keeping
out of the way, or who shall wilfully fail or refuse to
permit any person upon application by counsel, in
his custody, to Consult with and have tfee assistance
of counsel," for the purpose of sueing out, or prose
curing said writ, or who Ehall send away or conceal
any person who is"in his custody or under bis con
trol, with intent to prevent said writrfrom being sued
eut or executed, or the petitioher from beingtdis
eharged, when the judge-or court orders, shall be
guiliy of felony, and.'cn conviction, shall be fined not
less that $1,000, orMinprwoned in the penetenttary
pot less than one, nor; more than five years,- at the
discretion of the jury trying the same.
. Upon a comparison of the above act with the bill
of Mr. Boypen; of" which the .(7?ira complains
so bitterly t we find that the first section of the latter
is precisely the same, word for word and letter for
letter, asthe above act; only the offence in the North
Carolina5 act ' is pronounced a 'high misdemeanor"
and the penalty a fine not less than one thousand
dollars, or imprisonment not less than one year.
Try your hand on Alabama a while, neighbor, and
give Mr. Botixen a short resting spell; .- ;
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.
The following is especially; commended to the no
flee of the "Progress man . ." r.., '
From Johnston county : , , ,
A gentleman sends us his name as a subscriber,
and says: I am taking the Progress, but I cannot
stand " John the rascal I am a" Vance man, and
want i Vance paper. We are " all right down this
way. " . : T .' -"iii; J;jif;;:''
Frcm Yadkin county : . -2'.' ':'''y-.
together with eight or ten other persons sub
scribed for tbe Progress about the Ktime . he promised
to give each of the candidates a fair showing in his
paper, bni since he has gone for Holden, they,allsay
they wish they, had never seen it. ; , '
Another letter fjomjtadk in, says r f -
"The people of Yadkm are -for, .Vance. .Vance
will wry Yadkin five to Holders one." - - ,
Extract of a ; letter om NH county : 1
' The Vote for Oov. JVanca in this county . will be
tremendous. All the candidates:, inf the countyjiut
one, are declared Vance men, and he will not get
half a doien votes. His name k'UitbJas," 1 ; v
;E2eiiiptioaaf;. State'. OMcmr&eV'frqm . Con-r
aOntbe 14th Deceniber: 1863;the Legislature parsed
the following Exemption Act :
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I W- VWiv.-t etenerak sisscmuiy V
the State of XiortA Chrolina and U u herely enaclsd
MjxutAortty of the tarns. That in obedU
an act of the Congress-of the Confederate States.
passed' and approved ifay the Ist,? 1863, in relation.
jto extmpimg ceriaia perscs necessary as tna atate
omcers in aaaiuon io me state omcers exempted bv
.tne act oi ongjress passed uctooer Jiitn.: low ; the
Governor of the ht&te having claimed and obtained
it... r t.; f.ir.-:: on - .L
lUBTuipnyu .u lup juiwwHig vwr Msceasary w
carry on the operation of the State government, viz :
All.jJustices of the Peace, wnose appointments were
made previous to. M y 1 1 th, . 1 Sesouhty . Trustees,
Goiioty SoIrciiors, rKegisters Tax - Collectors, on
tv " i - cii to. .:. . t . .
uepuiy ooena m ea,cu couniy wnere mere is no.
tax collector, .Coroners, Constables who entered int
bond previous to the. J 1th of May, J6C3.- or thei
successors in office, one Jpeputy Clerklfor, eaoh Coun
requiring it. one . , County - Commissioner for each
countvfordistributinz money and Drovisions amongst
soldier's families. Agents
appointed , under n act of
Assembly tor any duty,
Commissioned ' OflteerVei
the Militia of this State, and Commissioned Officer
of the Home Guards, Mayor and Police of RsleighJ
Wilmington, Salisbury, pharlotte, Fayetteville and
QoldsboroV Counsellors of .State, Board of Internal
Improvements, and Li terary. Board, and Employees
of tlye State. Government in the different departn
ments. - i - - . '
SEa 2. Beit further enacted,: That the "General
Assembly doth claim and exempt all the different
$sss of -officers named in section first of this bill,
in obediencs to the act of Congress approved May
1st, 1863. v- !
Sec. S. Be it further-enacted, That this act shall
be in force from and after its ratification;
Reid three timps and ratified in General AEserably,
this 14tbday of December, A. D. 1863. i
Pv S. DONNELL, S. II. O.
GILES MEBANE, S. S.
On the 23th. ult., the Legislature passed the
lowinrr preamble and resolution, re-afhrmme and
enlarging the above act : v
RESOLUTIONS EXEMPTING STATE AND OTH
ER QEFICERS FROM CONSCRIPTION
Whereas, The fearless and free discharge of the
officers of the State is essential to the preservation
of its sovereignty ; and, whereas, Congress has no
power to conscript State officers ; and as this General
Assembly has 'already, by an act, declared certain
officers and empl6yeeof the State exempt
Resolved, That this State demands exemption from;
conscription of all the Civil and Military officers
thereof, and also all County Surveyors and Jailors,
and all and every cass of Officers named in an act
to exempt. certain officers and employees ot the Matet
from conscription," passed by thij General Assembly
at its adjourned session in lS63j and ratified the.lith
day of December, 1863.. "J 1 I
Read three times and ratified in General Assembly
this 28th day of May, A. D., 1864. . .
JL SI DONNELL, Sj It C.
OlLES MEBANE, S. .
" Some doubts having arisen as to the proper con-
stf iictton of tho above resolutions Got, Vance asked;
me opinion oi ine Atwruey vjrruerai, wuo auurcsstrw
to his Excellency the-following: T,
' " - . Raleigh, Mat 27th 1864.
HiSi-Excellency, Gov. Vance t - !-j
- Sir : Yours of this date inas been received) ! Upon
an examination of .the two acts, X am of opinion that
all Constables legally appointed, whether succes
sors r" ox not, are intended to- be exempted by these
acts. - ; j
Further; I am of opinion that the resolution of this
session is not to be limited ' by the act of 1863.
On the contrary, the resolu
. k
ion claims the exemption
of "all civil and military Officers' and, iu addition,
survivors and iailors, and uch others aa are enum-
erated m txv act of-laod.
euch a5 com mfiSi oners,
deouty cleiks, fec, &c.
I am, your
s resbectfull
pectiutly,
SION ll. ROGERS,
Attorney GeneraK
Gov. Vance.
We copy the following from the Augusta Sentinel,
which hows the manner Gov. Vance is treated by
the administration press in Georgia : , '
To be Expected. The Administratidn press do
not publish all the correspondence between Governor
Vance and the President. They omit the able Utter
of the -Executive of North Carolina on the suspewrion
of the bRbea3 corpus act The arguments 'of Gov.
Vance are so convincing that the President did not
dare u atUmpt to controvert "theoV, and the letter
addressed to hifh remains unanswered. . , -j .
This being the position of affiira the subsidised
press Generally have omitted that portion of the cors
I respondence which places their masters m a bad
Ttjght. This, is just what might Ue expected, icis a
good specimen of th unfair and unscrupulous policy
they have.aa.opteo iQwarus anv who may nappeu iu
difft-r with lhem. Havins departed fronvtbe paths
of moral rectitude,they endeavor to place all the
same level with themselves. , We raerery statetne
facts in order to show to the public the fcase tricks
the supporters of the.adtisinlstration idopl Jn order
to deceive, and carry out tjieir ends. - - . f
The . Standard .and the Progress have percistentlv
refused and still-refuse toi publish GpvVAJiCrs
letters to President Davis, because they are afraid
to let: the people seethe truth. We wish thia fact
to be kpt prominently before the people; that Mr.
Holden is afraid vto trust the people with Governor
Vaisxk's views as expresse.d in his letters to President
Davis.-. - '-. - ' " - . ' - P
i Cross Fire.
The two wings of the. Destructives the Holdhs
wing, through the Standard and Progress, and the
" Confederate party wingthrough the Confede
rate are firing into us furiously the one assailing
our rig'ut and rear, and. the other our left . But we
stand undismayed and nnappalled. TVe feel as se -cure,
if we are not as defiant, as Gibralter assailed by
pop guns ahd pocket pistofs!) ; -;..';; -:4- 4 -
BST The FavetteviJIe Carolinian inqairesof uv
-u,r it ia yt ih Km am tire does not reach that
place but two or three timei a week ? W 4 answer.
we co not r icnow. Ane wmmw'"' '"
maile every morning (Sunday's excepted) for Fay-etteville-at
least oar mailing clerks so inform us.
We have directed our especial attention to this mat.
ter.and hope we shall have no rnofo complain ts cf
.? Our friends will do us kindness' by irtl
forming u of any irregularities in the reception of
our paper. ' - ' ' ' - ' " ' :
- frIs the Progress still iri favdr of a Convention;
in order that North Carolina may J- take herown
ffirs in ber q wn hands fL: 1 We trust our neighbor
may nt find it inconvenientto ahswer tbis question.
If it is a qvestio xezata axaoag the brethren woiU
not insist. -
ADV1HBTISIKG,
v iUil8EMI;T3 will ho inierWJ, at 7 Twa boUtf
rrqiar ot ten lino, (orlecs) for each liitira'n.'
; Wkea Vent- by letter, tha' moaoV must accom-jwv tha
adverthianafnt.' Marria5." d
noticeg chwgej s a.ireniaeoaents aaJ moat La raid la'
tldioflc With dbpatc-U and "as noatly a.i can b doU Iq
liB Confederacy. . " ;. .' . i " r,
. - - . ,. . .. i .
'For tbe Conservative-.
THE INFLUENCE or tup AtronnAnnTva
STA1F ELECTIOKS ON. THE WAH
-i It' becomes verr trifkt ar.d
phiUnthropIst to'
i atate elect on in iYAe :- ;m Kn tK.. ...
LJ. With regard tn n ftnrl rA .ninnco 1 ' - Wm '
1 people, nave started on tto roid of naUonal exUtf nee
ana inuepenaenco. , xo tuv end the great Heart of
tne people are engaged, t this end ail our energies
afe directed; and nothing short "of it will satisfy the
ionng desire orrepayt&escnnci which havo been
made and the suffv-rines which haro "been enduteo.
On our.nart we are enraged in' a noble cause one
which involves all that is desr to maa onww oa
the nart-rf ntii nem!fia .(hir nnmnaps bhd aim ara
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the basest and the most upndisa which can possitiy
enter the human breast.
t.
i -
;How to obtam the coveted criie which we hire in
Tiew, inthe most expeditious wy,:add without tha-'
sacrifice of honor, is a Question of firs importance.
".It becomes Vis, therefore,- to enquire what piobable
ettect our every ac t .will have cn tbe result of the t
present struggle. ; And m making -this enquiry we ;
must not cloie our eyes in blind prejudice against
lmrJhrtant . f icta as they pass before cur -face. Oa i
the contrary, every man, a? a sentinel who watches
for the good of his counth, should permit no event i
or fact to pass without; carefully examining it . and
dlTly weiffhintr its import. The well-beine of our
country, of ourselves, and of our children Is involved.
The issue involved is one before tce-j-magnitude-1 of
which'all others of an eirthl y charatJer dwindle into
insignificance and vanish info 'nothingness. It is,
whether we shall be freemen or Slaves. ' ;
Now. if it be the fixed purpose of the great mass
1 of people in these Confederated States to ecbievo
mat moepenuence tor wnicn our oanuer u uuiumw,
we will certainly, sooner or later, realize the object
-in view. I say certainly because it is impossible to
siibdne and holdas a conquered province, ft country
as greaQn extent, as' abundant in resources, and . as
popQlous as the Southern" States, it the people are
only united in their resistance to the power; which
seeks their oppression. The God of nations will,
sooner or later, and in His own way. vindicate their
cause, in the eyes' of the nations of earth, and to the
dismay and ruin of their enemies.
With these views before us. let us nrocred to con
'aider' the- probable. eSlct which, tbo ensuing August
elections win nave on me uuiauwu ui wi. v
have before lis two' candidates for the Governor's scat.
Gov. Vance and W. W. Ilolden.'and two sets of can
didates forthe Legislature, one supporting the claims
of Gov. Vance, and the oter advocating the preten
sions of Mr. Holden. Mr. Holden and his friends
pretend that by their election an honorable peace can
be more speedily obtained than by the election of
the other ticket. - This is tho gist of tho whole mat
ter in the contest. v t
Let us, therefore, r.xamioe the subject under this .
head, and weigh the conduct of the two candidates
since the'eomm-incemeht of the war. Mr. Holden -was
elected. member of the State Convention in
1861, not because be had never advocated the docs
trine of secession, but because he opposed It at the
time cf his election. As a member cf the Conferu.
tion he voted the State out of th federal Union, and
into the Confederacy. Whether, however, this act
was the result of the doctrine wuich ho had taught
for years, and which he xtis'l secretly harbored in his '
bosom, or whether it wis from the pressure of qir
cumstances' then existing; Is Vquestiori whrcfiTwill
not pretend to decide. But the.frct is,' he voted as
stated, and then in his paper, tbe Standard, pledged
the laat man and 'the last dollar " to mk good the
solemn act. War vras the result. It bad. a Jt been
long,' however, after tho cocmeacement of tt war,
beforo be began a general system of complaint and
faulifinding, minisuin with studious sagacity and
well ordered oace. to the apprehensions, fears ana ,
discontent of those o?er whom ho coijld gain influ'
ence, until his paper became very popular with a .
freat many true men, and all of the disaffected of the
tate. And, like a vulture, he . has fed upon that .
aliment nearly from the beginning of the war to tt
present time. Many iroocr men and true patriot?
have been deceived by "him,, but within the last nin
or ten months, when his treasonable purposes hav -
I become more manifest, thy have taken alarm aoa
uenounced hia pretensions. : lie reni unmi
they desired or apprehended, i
When he advbcfed a State Convention for horth.
Carolina to " uke her affdrs into her own handa," in
dependent of the Confederate government with ref
erence to negotiations for peace, h'is purposes of evil
were no longer concealed from minds whowa patriot
ism arose higher than thefr fears and prejudices. It
was chargedjhen that tbe object cf toe Convention c
Agitation was to scced6 from the Confederacy, aci
cause, the gallant sons of North Carolina to lick th
dust at th oppressor's faet. More recefctfv, the
eviderice has becouie positive that this was his inter,
tion, and this evidence is cumuhtife. Just 8Ce :
North Carolina must "'take her afiYirs i.ito her own
hands' What can this mean but secession from tha
Confederacy f Strip it of this meaulng, and t h4
none. It is body' without goul Then, in the alur.t
of this agitation, L; the declaration which h ma'Jc
in the presence of Measrs. Hampton and Hetton,
that the Legislature-'ough -to call' a Convention to .
take North Carolina out of the Confoderacy. Alt
these things point to one object alone, and force tin
ICese filings puiut w yuc uiywiw
mind to oqe inevitable conclusion to wit :
,f Holden's purpose for soine lime past' has be
-'ture of the Confederate govtruoucnt aud sx
t : mai vxr.
been a rup-
mr .ir tup. UunitMieraie i:o?truwcui auu wiuwij
. ... . . i - . ire i r rt
to yankee tyrannyt
tv.nM.WmI. and that i. the view which our enemies
take of the mattei. It is notorious tht thoyankeea
regnrd Mr. Holdenabovo ail otker men inorth
Carolina, aatheir friend, and bavexopted morelarje
ly perhaps from his p;per to prove his friendly c!ii
position than from any other paper intheSQUtE '
This is so notorious, that it may be classed; under ,
that head of evidencj knewn to the law as"matters
nf rrencral reputation." In this view of the case
would not theyankees take fresh courage and renew
their eff'Ois for our subjugation in the event of his
election ? Most assuredly they would. Tbev would
regard Nortn Carolina as virtually taking sides with. ;
them, and; their hopes would thereby, become
strengthened. ;; This, would prolong the war beyond m
a doubt. It is not necessary in this view of the case
to determine whether Mr. Uolden' is really in favor
of submi3ion or not.' If our public enemies so con
eider him, it will be a sufficient cause for their ac-, .
j ArTrrin nr,t th- voters of the Sute look upon .
As yet tne suljici ms oa-ii v inci vmj .
Regard to its ' effects at home that is raopz our--feelves.
-There is arwther light b which it is to be
the question in this aspect, and allow it to have due ; - ,
weight with' them in the coming election ? U they ,
Wish to avoid any aoa every . ucU irKiv M.
andcomforttotbe eneaiy. and to avoid prolonging the a..
Varwith all its horrors ana sanerings, n pscom
theiraolfemn duty to vote for no man whoiatbe ene
my regards sj a friend. This view of the ease, is 0-
d;n .hat it seems that any one -should see it who
ii not hopelessly blind by reaton cf prejadice - .
There ate other views which I have to present ca
the subjTBct whic, I wjU.fqrfW from doing for. th
present, least 'this commuTiisstioa" should to extendtd
to an undue ltngth, which . I hope to be able to- gife
in a fetf days. In tbe meantim, I adjure my fellow- .
Citiiens to ponder well the thoughts here presenUdr
and view Jhecrin the lijha cf reason aod pamotisa. -
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