From the Tarboro' Press.

The Staff officers Of the North Carolina


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The STAFF Officers Of the North Carolina


Regiment.


1t happens not unfrequently, that party rage
blinds public men TO the planest rules of Justice
Party fsaid Mr. Gaston) is demon: party with
out power is demon in chains party clothed
with the attributes of rule, is Moloeh of destruc.
ton"


Familiar as we have become, in our editorial ca
paclty Tor years, with the extravagances of party
we have never witnessed SO fragrant violation of
public honor and political justice as has been ex
hIbited by Governor Graham, in his recent ap.
pointments of the Staff Officers of our North
Carolina Regiment. Never have we known so
unanimous an outbreak of the honest enthus-
asm Of our people, as since those officers have
been announced. We speak in no party sense:
all men oil all parties in this region concur that
the grossest injustice has been done 10 the feelings
ofthose noble democrats, who have volunteered to
serve their country, and especially to Edgecombe
county.


Two facts are notorious:


LIST: That the Regiment consists almost exclusive


ly of Democrats


End That Edgecomb county has furnished one


Mn OF the whole North Carolina Regiment
We do not accuse the great body of the Wings
OF any want of patriotism but they have been
Iectared from Congress, and the State legislatures
and by neighborhood politicians, so coniinpally =,
for the last few months about the injustice of the
Mexican war, that very few have volunteered
consequently the regiment is democratic-tho
roughly so: Now we put it to the plain sense of
every right-thinking man whether, under these
circumstances, the Governor should not have
selected the staff officers among the Democrats
Especially does it not shock common sense and
common honesty that the two highest officers,
Colonel and Lieut." Colonel, should be men who
have just voted that the war was uniust2 With
the words Of treason warm on their lips and warm.
er IN their hearts, they are appointed bv a whip
Governor to command the Democratic Regimen,
OF North Carolina, all the pulses of whose hearts
are beating high with patriotic fervor, and whose