Weekly Standard (Newspaper) - June 18, 1862, Raleigh, North Carolina I THE N nf le M id WILLIAM W. HOLDS EDITOR AND TERMS OF THE 2 pff annum fl 00 in TERMS OF THE Li Dollars per invariably in advance of the time for which tmn Terms of Semi- Weekly Our regular rates of as One 1 Each subsequent Longer in Gun will advertisers at the above slx at the closo of pei deducted from the gross amount nul 01 not exceeding fivo lines will be i idl in either the Weekly or for in or in both p for 1 MX for twelve of Advertising in Weekly One square for the und five insertion duct fan will fir no twitter tuny in ted of advert will be into the All not are the and When the number of is on the it M insetted until Mone sent by mail is at our VOL. 25. N. JUNE 18, 1862. WHOLE NUMBER JUNE 14, 18G2. The Latest On our lines around Richmond every has been quiet for last several indicates quite a stir in tho of We learn that the impression prevails among our pickets McClellan about to change his or the idea at present of attacking Others infer that ho designs a move nient upon the South side of James i may be his it is hoped that our com- will never let him move upon them Uy slow incline to the opinion that lie is getling ready to tit by fortifying positional all so as to us to attack Such an attack involve the risk of ft terrible of our Having he could some of his force to check Jackson's The news from Stonewall Jackson's is Hon. attacked Fremont on Satur day lust near five miles from Port Re- and repulsed him with much On dtv Fremont was reinforced and attempted to re- but could not cross the On Monday Jackson attacked at Their forces being about and after a battle of completely routed capturing of and many It the ion to was as complete ns in the case ot Our in both buttles is estimated at 6 -n in killed and Quite an engagement occurred between our forces under Gen. W. IX Smith and the Yankees on da last on The enemy was re- as they read it second so. Tlie Richmond Enquirer and the iina The following article we take from the editorial columns of the Richmond We beg the reader to consider and wo ask the Enquirer and the public to consider our The Raleigh copies an article which appeared in this paper a few days and appends thereto a explanatory of its own course on the of our tho bitter spirit of controversy between leading journals of The in- sists that it was forced into a defence of its and that of its friends by the partisan course of the Raleigh the sumes that in justice to and tho Southern a denunciation on its of tho reAnt of tho was a solemn Far be it from ns to appear in the character of lecturer to our respected friends of the We would not commit the indelicacy of in any in their personal or their What wo in the article copied in the was suggested by the strong and very natural conviction that such a con- as that in which the journals alluded to arc in tho present critical juncture of cannot lail to have a most unhappy effect upon the Southern catse in the good We wish our Noi brethren to hear us for our cause anil their own With the sincerest editor of the he us to that his friends outside of Not concur in the tice of thc strictness passed upon some of his re- cent which have given no little aid and comfort to tho as tho uses made of them by Lincoln's journals fully Has tho editor of tho seen the duction of his articles New York u Herald Has he seen a late number of that containing extracts from the Raleigh in staring Southern Confederacy ally repudiated in North We hope that the known appropriation of his by the will suggest to our friend of tho the a return to that discretion and self-possession for which he was once true to thc Southern as is almost every body else in and will perhaps be surprised to that he been instrumental in conveying the impression to the Northern mind that the people of his State are ready to submit to the Lincoln Yet he is bound to admit the however unpleasant it may that tho language which ho has in his new character of grumbler and fault is of the very interpretation given it by Bennett in his If the Not them could see the and lead it th would not be thus But seeing only the extracts in the they very rally that North Carolina is about to declare to IK cause tho Raleigh as they read it second so. pulsed and driven back three until he retired upon the indiscretion t i 4ik i of the course of the editor ol tbo under protection of to himself as it fs Our about enemy s not lho Of The courteous bearing of the Richmond press have no news or js and the equally from the South west There is nothing additional of the Enquirer towards the from Chattanooga to that which may be found in our war An Atlanta states that a man direct from that Johnson was killed by Neil S. on account of his vexations and and that Drown was hung by the excited mob of Yankee soldiers Our subscribers in tho Army will please not forget to notify us when their regiments are ed from Post Office to Some complain of not getting their who have not done Thc failure is no fault of challenges our respect and a reciprocal Were we in thc midst of gentlemen of the press of equal intelligence and high mural tion with our of the duty of editing would be a pleasant and our inter- course with our how much soever we would never exhibit unwonted nor would misrepresentation and abuse from them for o us at any time to resort to such means of and punishment of tho of- fenders as we arc sometimes compelled to and of 'the corrupt politicians who control it- With this exception the Register has constantly sailed us for the last twelve though we have done as much for the war tho South as the Editor of that paper or any of his time and impeached our integrity as a Southern and endeavored to make party capital against us and our friends by charging that we are opposed to the government of the Confederate Meanwhile we have acted the and have shown ourselves the best friends of government and of the by insisting on reform where we reform was and by rebuking that disposition which exists both Raleigh arid to make this a party war by ignoring for as a general all those who did not prefer to break up the old and who agreed to do so only when the proclamation of coln called on the border States for troops to be used against our Southern we beg tp assure the is the ex- our parly and this is the manner in which we have been treated by the the so-called Southern rights party of this Let that paper decide for the who is to the Our respected gravely advertises that wv friends outside of concur in the of the strictures passed upon some of our recent Our cotemporary must allow us to say that of in or out of the can for a moment believe in tho justice or fairness of those this State which abuse or in their dis- position even to bo just and fair towards any one who was an old Union man or a In this regard North Carolina is an exception to all the States of the No where else are ultra- so abusive and unjust to the old Union as in It is not in that a man who was a Union man shall declare his fidelity to the Southern cause by going into the his or by contributing his means to the support of the but we are ignore all our former admit that the ultras were right at and have been right and and precisely as they give our unqualified sanction to all the acts of the State and Confederate and to tho acts of every hig or in those yield a silent and willing submission and an every measure they withhold all proper scrutiny into the of our legislators and public submit without a murmur to violation of laws ana and to the encroachments of the upon the civil is the cup pre- sented to and if we do not drink and drink it to tho wo a pronounced untrue to our tive voted for the separation of from the old not because we were converted to the disorganizing doctrines of and we believed and other cotton States were right in their precipitate but because of Lincoln's unconstitutional and tyrannical coercive We urged a and hence they make capital out of it. The lies at our but with those who thus falsely accuse They are giving aid and comfort to the and they continue to this as the Reg the State and the Wilmington Journal are now by quoting from the Newborn Progress to show that Gov. the and thousands of our are false to the Southern Gov. whose father fell covered with wounds in thc war of the has five sons in the Southern voted for the ordinance of and in the stood like a rock for the Southern firm and while others were excited and is charged in a insidious by some of whom are not worthy to untie hrs with being an enemy to Southern And We will tell the Because he was opposed to disunion up to the proclamation of and he bow down and worship the Southern rights party which had its origin at We are proud to be by our enemies with such a man as If he is ft traitor to then are we a traitor Thc Enquirer advises us to return to that dis- cretion and self-possession which once distinguished We are not most noble but speak forth the of truth and Let our excellent cotemporary take the trouble to our course and its and it will think better of Old Stonewall The quick movements und the successes of the heroic quicker and faster the eager of the public for news can After the retaking of it was rumored that was in Maryland ready to pounce on or Baltimore or This was not A small portion of his the Potomac and burnt some of the railroad but Jackson remained about Winchester arranging to secure his booty and re- move it to a safe As shrewd a General as he is knew that having left a considerable force in his he must clear them out before pressing In 22 Jackson marched from Staunton lo where he whipped Millroy thence to SO to over Shenandoah thence to Front 55 where he whipped the Yankees taking many thence to whipping 20 thence beyond 20 in all about about stand of small 80 wagon loads of ordnance 20 fine army of 200 100 head of Ohio cavalry and about worth of medical besides ing To save his he fell back into the whore ho has since encountered Shields and routing and beating them and still adding lo his stock of captured which we hope by this time are all II j appears to be at this timo the focus for all His policy is tho only as we have ted for which can bring us safely out of this Other Generals sit down before an my and ditch and wasting away their by short allowance and bad while he is always in the saddle and keeps his men in spirits and good Were all our Generals to adopt of the because of the assumption by Mr. coln of despotic overthrow of the eity of speech and of the and of the writ of h nit as arrest of men and and The is not cognizant of surroundings ft thoy separation of the and a vigorous prosecution the prospects of the Confederacy would in every quarter in three of our position in this and hence it is net prepared to appreciate our We can suppress a smiley at the success of our unhappy neighbor of the Register in imposing upon tho credulity of the We are that the Governor will send a messenger to the army near Richmond on the 10th of this and any packages or communications for troops in that army will be for- really scents to believe that the bad if left at tho Quarter Master's Office in this Of the and its abusive are the result of com so of the Our friend of tho Enquirer certainly claimed the great American right of thinking and speaking for and his disregard of the rights of States and of the rights of in the Southern Opposition to all such acts of tyranny is inborn with the people of They have never submitted their necks lingly to tho yoke of any and they never have we offended We have iven the administration of President Davis a This tribunal convened in this City on Monday i does not know the Register since it been in the support in the vigorous prosecution of the The following gentlemen were admitted to the hands of the Did tho Enquirer but tho of Stato to practice of law in the Coin ts of this State know our as we e are sure it would i R Martin i keep at a greater distance than we have been trying tv Council S. Alexander to do for the last twelve to avoid Moore Charles C. C. Our partisan if it be has been fore- i Upon us by the so-called Southern party W. j of this In the people of this William those of determined at the by an immense not to secede from As a matter of justice to our neighbor of the Re- Union on account of the election of a secessionists refused to submit to this j have encouraged our brave soldiers in the have in the Con- man and moans to rarry on the and if we could have been of more service to the cause by shouldering our we would have done it. But we have opposed tyranny The The Egress endeavors to produce the im- pression that we were an 01 ing side by side with Rhett Co. The knows Up to within the last three months the Express has endorsed our and the Standard and that paper have been together very from tho moment the message of Gov. Ellis which committed this State to We have nol but the people of who have carefully read the know that that paper It docs not speak now for more than one in ten of tho voters of We have never advocated the doctrine of sion at as our files will We have ways held the Jeffersonian and Jackson that no State hud a right to separate from the Union except for a and dangerous lation of the This was the doctrine of the the got we will that after our lust number was e Editor of tho we havo labored to maintain liberty control of it ai Charleston and and as in when has prevailed instead of sodn as their control thc party was dis- tho government and the cause it- organized and decay set in. A few months n. of j self have been claimed as the property of the and it was and with it the Union was we ho was not of and thcy at onco a j and the Petersburg at which thcy dubbed themselves appeared in that which we apology to oaths and since examined the files of thc for 1837, ing for Mr. Stanly ns a black repu liter We have and find our neighbor in very de- of Mr. Stanly's conduct in been consistent in this is so seldom consistent in his public con- duct we feel that he is entitled to this to rate from the Union by violent and against tho of a largo majority of her The so-called tho State the State meanwhile Cd 1 for thc purpose of putting a mark the late Union and on their children and their children's when tho military has been paramount to the destroyed At Charleston we denounced the openly in the and at more we stood to thc last moment by the old We were induced to support Mr. ridge because of thc assurances of his leading friends in this State and and because of his own assurances and those of Gen. that they were lhe course of certain presses in this State towards us it by no means disturbs our demands a simple statement once for Thcy meanly and falsely that in posing the name of Gov. Graham for Governor and then of Col. we knew they would and thus leave the way open to They measure us by They are incapable of rising above a sordid Bound down by self and an invincible partizan proclivity in all they say and they are ready to attribute the same base propensities to us which govern Every gentleman with whom we have conversed and with whom we knows that we have in the most earnest manner declared that we desired no office whatever at this We suggested Gov. Graham's confidently ing that it would meet the views of a large majority of the which we were not and that he certainly Those intimate with know that his declination was a serious disappointment to With the same feelings expectations we have suggested the name of Col. honestly preferring both of them to solf for that And we now say for the comfort of the that Col. and that he will distance any one they may choose to run against we now begin to think from certain thc squads drop Col. and we shall not be surprised if they declare for Col. Vance or for some new But perhaps we ought to for the special com- for and edification of our enemies and and Sweet Lutie dogs and that we venture the that no man in Carolina has received if so many sonally and by urging us to allow our name to run for the office of Governor as These appeals have not come from the but from the people of the in such numbers as would startle the hounds who arc constantly barking at Let them bark and that when we Want to be Governor we shall say so. 6th Regiment N. C. We learn that this regiment was thrown into soon after the battle below by the announcement that Capt. Isaac E. of company had been appointed Lieutenant Colonel over Webb and who were justly tled to thc Maj. who fought through the of under Colonel and thc buttles as commander of the at once resigned Ins place as as he should i done under the and returned His makes room for other and Captain will now become Capt. Lieutenant and Captain Kirkland Lieutenant C. becomes Captain of j company in place of Capt. Isaac E. An ordinance was passed by the viding that promotion in companies should be by and that all vacancies in third Lieutenancies should be by election but no provision of the sort was made as to for the reason that it was considered well that the regimental officers should be advanced as vacancies take that the Lieutenant Colonel to be the to be Lieutenant and the place of Major to be filled by the senior Captain of the This has been the But the rule has been violated in this A worthy and com- petent o wbv is a fresh from the field of has been called upon to submit to the in- justice of having a Captain placed over him as Lieut. having as it was expected he would the programme is no doubt to bo ried out by all the field offices of tho ment upon family and party The only objection to Maj. BO far as we is that he was not an original We now call upon Gov. and the partisans surround to furnish reasons to the public and to the for this winch appears upon its face to be so to Maj. Webb to other officers of thc Is this really a God is it that nearly all thc cilices of and both in the army and in civil are bestowed upon certain and certain Why is it that merit is and patriotism when compared with these claims of partisans and The remedy for these wrongs can be found only at the Let the people rise up in their cant the partisans and from positions which they have and put better and more honest men in their It is Great anxiety prevails to know the position and condition of our large force Of the evacuation of Fort Pillow and Memphis there remains no longer a They are in of the Vicksburg held last bat the enemy may to hare complete possession cf the Corinth has been evacuated is oor forces have retired into and from thence fo not had remained at Corinth as long as Halleck had so pressed him that he was to the condition of his the lack of bad it. Southern accounts that thc tion was well with buf crn speak of ing his taking prisoners and No one believes and yet the bare an- renders every one feverish and We hear of intimations of an entire change itY Beauregard's Thc silence of the ern except a few meaning indicate this we so much in the ability of we shall not be to hear from him soon on a career of brilliant and daring We whatever may be he will soon vindicate thc high and reliance placed in him by thc Southern Fight t Fight It Five little letters contain the only solution of tho difficulties now hang over the We talk of combining our withdrawing from the advancing into thc Northern the disaffection in thc she ia growing tired of thc she is that she cannot raise more France and England must and all but we repeat what we have often that nothing will do but to We must fight every the the enemy shows we must fight for for every We must impetuously and Our ments must exceed Buonaparte's in and daring and Jackson has seethe example to all our Generals and to the whole Let Jackson and and Magruder be reinforced and turn them loose upon the enemy every where to conquer or and thing will be Oh for the spirit of our Marions and and the fathers of the first re spirit of Andrew Jackson in the second Taylor in the Mexican and of Stonewall Jackson of this to be infused into our entire both officers and Then wo might hope for early and complete We publish as nt thc request of a the official statement of tho loss of company Capt. fi. F. 23th N. C. in the late buttle at Hanover J. Hugh W. C. C. J. T. B. E. W. L. J. W. J. H. D. W. A. M. John G. W. C. Albert James John Olive John We are glad to learn by a flag of truce received in that Gen. although severely wounded improving though a and that Col. Lightfoot and Lt. Col. Long of the 22d N. C. are not killed as but ate yf company the 6th N. C. State was ed as a guard for Gen. Smith's on Saturday the 31st, the day of the near He went into the engagement with tho 22d N. C. under Col. He had his sword and the scabbard was shot in His leg was at length Broken by a and some of his men were bearing him from the being hard pressed by the he urged them to leave him and They did so He was captured with four of his The company behaved nobly in the We trust that Capt. who is one of the best in the will survive his to possess and enjoy tho honors civil and when tho laws and thc opposed to secession in the event of Joues Thc Richmond papers announce the death of this gentleman in that City on Saturday He was a native of a man of varied devoted to and was the author of those popular Major Simon and other which have forded entire reading public so much ment and He was Secretary of the Provisional and had been a resident of a number of Gen. From the air of which pervaded the article of giving an account of the tight near Hanover C. in common with other published We readily therefore lish thc correction by in which he mits he did injustice to Gen. A correspondent of the frays that the 28th N. 0. regiment is in line near He also states that the reported loss of Gen. brigade in that encounter is about Why is it that no official report of the losses have been made except the casualties of the 18th C. A correspondent of the ton Journal blames Gen. J. R. who he say nothing of the justice of it on our part. Our declared that all who opposed its neighbor never does us but no reason why we should misrepresent Thc cause we advocate requires nothing bub truth and fair dealing to sustain it. At the battle nt on thc 25th of the 21st regiment under Col. was in the hottest of the and well sustained thc honor of the It lost about 100 men in killed and Col. Kirkland arid Lt. Col. Pepper were both the latter supposed to be Capt. Hedgecock and Ligon were both Gen. who has always been noted for his hatred to the it is determined recently to starve into terms tho loyal of Norfolk and by ting them off from all moans of procuring beyond their limited supplies on It was found not to work and thc Petersburg Ex- that those places have been added to department of Gen. with instructions to let provisions go freely from Northern At- tempts to smuggle provisions and goods into were arrested by the British who gave notice that if thc blockade was removed the port must bo opened to other nations besides the Richmond Whiff says all persons over who have for the whether old or new will have to serve during the war ns But the law does not touch those over thirty-five und under who art not now in and But the out for the Union to the proclamation of in It went with us in its Editor concurring with us in our and supporting us for the We introduced the first adopted by any public meeting in the to unite and date all panics in resisting the coercive policy of Here also the Register was with but j in a few days the Editor of that to gratify j the ambition of a few personal and the spleen of a few ultra turned upon ns and upon his former and commenced a course of policy which identified him with the de- him in the attitude of bidding for the against the State per owned and controlled by a knot of lous and which has never had any acter in this State for or or The real of the Register of deeply mortified at its and its still somewhat under the influence of just and still moved by the wishes of his real to repent of his coming buck to us joined with us in supporting ticket of Electors which ignored party by doing justice to all former and this our neighbor did in opposition to the views and course of the State Journal Whether the defeat of that ticket discouraged the Bister or wo do not know 5 but in a week or two it went toddling back to the Southern where it has been ever the most obedient servant of thc so-called 01- tion have been on tho Seward pretext that we must violate a part to save thc in view of all this and in the face of we have raised our voice in and de- we have called on the people to come forward and reform their and save their liberties from the encroachments of and from tho polluting poison of party ism and favoritism in thc midst of Would the En- censure us for Ought we to laud in Mr. Davis what we condemn in Mr. Lincoln Must tho Confederate Congress for doing what we detest in tho Northern But the New York Herald and the Newborn Progress are articles from the Because the dard utters plain truths which in many respects ply as well to the South as to the and be- cause papers copy and distort what the dard we must in all conscience we ask the Enquirer who is to Is the Standard responsible for the false and unjustifiable construction placed upon by the coln Nothing is more common in the South than for the entire press to denounce the Northern papers as lying sheets in every How comes that in the estimation of our cotemporaries they always tell the truth when they pervert our remarks Every body knows that the Lincoln papers referred take their not from the but from those presses in this that and misrepresent the incse presses charge that we are untrue to the we are opposing the we are unsound and a and that lina is full of It is in vain that we deny alt but thc charges are repeated again and The Lincoln papers are not blind to tion but when we found they had deceived we separated from them and denounced Thc Express also misrepresents us on the subject of ad We never opposed thc principle of ad We lost party friends and party influence in the contest between Gov. Ellis and Mr. because we refused to oppose the principle of ad valorem Ad valorem is just and r It is now a part of the law of the and we voted in tho Convention to make it so. last is very rabid and abusive wards We do not regard the Editor's and He will live to see the day when he will regret it. He cannot injure but he is rapidly destroying the last vestige of influence which he t The Milton says that the on Dan River have injured the wheat crops seriously and will probably prevent the planting of the usual quantity of We are requested to say that the Hon. Bedford Brown will not be a candidate for re-election to our and under no circumstances could he consent to serve if elected his Having retired to private life he desires its ment the residue of We copy the above article from the Milton While the friends of Brown may esce in his they will regret it. Such men can be illy spared from the councils of the country at this A more honest and useful public man the State does not The rights of the people and of the and devotion have been his polar star out his public just as important to reform the government as it is gays wng 4 miles with a lurge but did Gen. Branch any The annexed is the card of June 6, 1862., To the Editor of the Richmond In your paper of May 31st appeared an article on battle in by The author afterwards that some facts had been and that certain expressions had been used which might if be ed to reflect upon the personal bravery of ship of L. Branch therefore re- quested on June 1st, to insert an article of this first and was told by your cleric that the article would appear if Will please publish said if and it please publish at least enough to assure the public that is now that Gen. wan on the field before a gan had been and that ho ordered all of his forces into and did not keep a battery and four regiments idle at his side while the enemy was moving down thc Eighteenth and as was at first It E. Lee has thanked Gen. Branch for management on that occasion and for the conduel of his mnd as thc first if might do injustice to a brave it is hoped you will at least allow an to the the latter depends very much upon thc Let the people elect a Legislature which will ferret out and expose and reform the and let them elect Col. man who with all the brave officers and men who are staking their lives for the and who will sec to it that justice is done in promotions and without regard to friends at this place complain that the Standard does not arrive regularly at that We assure them it is not our nor have we any just reason to suppose that the postmasters on that route are to blame for it. For some the heavy rains have probably interfered with the regularity of the stage between this place and On some routes we fear unprincipled men do detain the Our friends will please keep a look out for any foul play of this We shall not fail to punish as he any one whom wo learn is guilty of or suppressing the 9 family who has no bee gums ought to buy Thcy are very profitable and are of Since the fall of New honey would be a good substitute for sugar for the sick Gen. Robert E. Lee in a letter to Mr. of expreses his opposition to the entire system of impressing the property of citizens and of undue interference with farming operations during the except in cases of great Good good Subordinates may learn thing from the I CAPT. are pleated to learn that in the recent near our young was and becoming carried him almost within the lines of the where ho injuring his rider m the shoulder and the though not very Capt. S. was h gh y complimented by Col. for his in this In the third he pursued a Yankee officer captured ami seemed a fine navy repeater and an elegant both of which he intends using in his future tions against the Capt S. accompanied of Col. to
