Weekly standard., 1861-03-20
Secret Organizations.

Secret Organizations. 5
IL mag be that secret organization exists in this
State under various names, the object of which is
to "precipitate" the State out of the Union.
s 1T may Be that this organization pervades the en-
tire South, and that it was actively instrumental,
through Mr.. Yancey and others, in breaking up the
Democratic party at Charleston and Baltimore
1t may be that this organization exerted potent
influence in the late Legislature of this State, as
shown by the dsunion action Of a majority of that
body, and especially in one Of its last acts, to-wit
the election of one of its own members to the Office
of Adjutant General, who had openly insulted the
American flag
1t may be that this organization pervades every
neighborhood in the State; and that it is now en-
gagged, through its Juntos, in g." firing" the hearts
of the people against the Union and in making ar
rangenlents at Goldsborough, Charlotte and else
where, to commit the State to disunion against the
deliberately recorded will of the people on the 18th
of last month.
1t may be that this organization is known among
its members as Knights Of the Golden Circle; or
AS an alliance, its sub-aances in the various neigh
borhoods being called Juntos.
By whatever name called, it is Substantially the
Yaacey League, and its objects are of the most ne
farious and dangerous character.
Let every patriot be on the alert. External Wig
lance is the price of liberty"
The Despotism of the OIigarchs.
The following notice of charge to grand jury
one of the Georgia Judges, affords additional
proof of the despotsm established by the oigarchs
in the Confederate States. 1t is vel! known that
every ordinance of secession with the exception of
that of Texas, has been passed and carried into e
without giving the people hearing at the polls
and that Mr.. Yancey threatened the people of North
Alabama, who demanded hearing at the polls,
that they would be punished as traitors unless they
at once held their peace and submitted to the action
Of the Convention. Having hurried the people out
Of the Union against their WILL the oligarchs are
now taking steps to sti1e thought and to prevent
men heretofore free men from expressing their views
as to the forms Of government they prefer. 10 at
tempt to reconstruct the Union is to commit treason
against the Confederate States. This is in perfect
keeping with the latest declaration of Mr.: Yancey
in the Alabama State Convention. Mr. Yaneey
said:
II avow myself as utterly, unalterably opposed
to any and all plans of reconstructng union with
the Black Republican States of the North. No new
guarantees--no amendments of the Constitution
peaceful resolutons-no repeal of offensive laws
can offer to me any, the least inducement to con-
slider even, upon proposition to reconstruct our
relations with the nonslaveholding States"
Mr.. Yancey will not consider even" PROPOSE
ton to reconstruct the Union; and yet NorthCaro
lima is called upon to follow Mr.. Yancey, and dis
solve the Union in order to reconstruct it.
But read the following, and see what liberty of
speech is permitted in the Confederate States:
CRusuNG- Our OPPosIrIoN-The Atlanta (Ga)
ntelligencer of the 7th instant learns from friend
who was present on the occasion mentioned, that,
on the Monday previous, Judge 1verson l.. Harris
delivered to the Grand Jury of Morgan county, an
important charge in reference to the government OF
the Confederate States:
Judge Harris said, among other good things,
that our government was now permanent stable and
fixed, and that it was the duty of all good citizens
to maintain and support it. There must be no look
ing back, no working for q reconstruction, for, in
the nature of things, this could not be- Men who
reside among US must work for US, and with U.S.
If they take any part directly indirectly, against
US it is plotting treason, and they must suffer the
consequences Incendares and incendiarism must
be crushed out"
esso We stated in our notice of Lincolns Inau-
gura that the President had authority to collect
the revenue except at the Custom Houses-that he