Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-04-10
The Reign of Terror.

The Richmond Examiner thus warns the Union
men Of Virginia of the fate reserved for them in
case the disunionists shall prevail in that State:
"The conceited, eccentric, stubborn few who op-
pose secession, are warning against Providence,
finding fault with the ways Of God. They may &C.
cason and bloodshed by their irritating opposi-
ton; they may prevent peaceful solution of our
difficulties; but cannot proven: secession. If war
does come the submissionsts will be alone to blame
for it. Were they to unite their efforts with the
secessionsts and show to the imbecle government
at Washington that Virginians were united and
unanimous that government would let us depart in
peace If they continue their hopeless factious op
position, they will prompt and encourage Lincoln to
profit by our divisions, and attempt coercion-which
is but incipient war. Or, If we escape war from
without, they may engender worse than war in our
midst T iTginiaus are conservative, order loving
law-abiding people; thsy are patient and forbear-
ing as they are brave-and yet they are but e3-
Opposed, Inverted fretted by the submssionists,
will they not at last become as intolerant proscrip-
tive and cruel their English ancestry in the days
Of Cromwell? The Barbados the ga Ia lanterne,".
and the guil!otine of Paris, will never find place
among us but certainly, unless the submissonists
succumb, and obey the voice of the people, they
soiU excite spirit Of persecution in Virginia morse
in its effects than foreign History teaches but
one lesson on this subject. Mans nature has not
which shall be-" The people will have their own
way; and woe to the county court attornies, the
jack-legged lawyers, set i'd genus omne" who op-
pose them. The submissionists sure to be the
first uictins Of intestine troubles which they invoke
and OCCASION Already they have run up long &C.
count of guilt"
Union men, read and ponder the foregoing You
are to be punished" for exercising your right of
selfgovernment. You are abused and branded as
submissonists to unjust power, simply because you
are true to the Constitution and obedient to the
laws! Such is the mad spirit of disunion. Imagine
you can the condition in which you will be placed
if these men should obtain power.
az A friend and subscriber writing us from
Macon, Georgia, says II am asked if the Editor Of
the N c. STANDARD was amongst the seceders at the
Charleston bolt last May, when the secessionists
first showed their hands," Our reply is, we were
not among the boilers either at Charleston or Balt
more. We stood to the last by the old flag. We
perceived the designs of Yancey and others at Char
lesion, and we refused 70 60 with them; but We
supported Mr.. Breckenridge, with thousands of 9th
ers in this State, as Union candidate. All his
leading supporters in this State declared that thei
ticket was better Union ticket than the Bell o.
Douglas ticket; but noo nearly all these gentlemen
are rampant disunionists. They deceived fort,
thousand of our Democratic people, and they de
ceived us. That was their fault; if they deceive u
again the fault will be ours.
w We are requested to state that Elder j.
Scoggn, of the Primitive Baptist Church, will preacl
in this City on the fourth Sunday in this month.
advertisement of these Springs in our paper to-day
We learn that the enterprsing proprietors are max
ing considerable improvements, and that the pros
poets for large company during the ensuing seaso
are excellent. There can be no doubt Of the valu
of these waters while at the same time pleasan
resort is offered at these Springs during the heat 9