Mr. Spence, of Liverpool, the Confederate agent, wrote to last
Saturday's Times, in praise of the great moderation of the Confederate authorities in dealing with the Union press of the Southern States, pointing out that the Raleigh Standard, the Union paper in Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, though representing no popular party, has always been permitted to say its utmost against the authorities. "The Northerners," he says, "cannot realize the idea that the press has all along remained perfectly free in the South, and un- checked even in the utterance of obvious treason." In the North, the editor of any paper speaking equally unpopular views "would have been lynched long ago." Turning to the telegram of that same day from America we find "Geor- gian soldiers have destroyed the office in Raleigh of the North Carolina Standard, a peace journal. The opposition party have destroyed the State Journal office, the war advocate." It was an unfortunate day for the double assertion that the press in the South is perfectly free to utter obvious treason, and that there is no party that really favours that treason.
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