Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-09-06

cey and Rhett and other SeceSslOnlStS oi tue Oou,
would derive much comfort from this days meeting.
Well sir, L have Just come from body Of men
which would not, for a moment, pretend to COM
pare for craftsmanship responsibility or patriotism,
with this Convention That body has devoted It's
time and attention to doing in six months Tor
the cause of secessonism than Beanregard and Lee;
and Johnston, and all the Southern Generals COM
bined have been able to accomplish in one year.
Said Senator from the South the other day, .,
Union maA jeff Davis is running two Congresses
now and is making id sight more out OF the
Washington Congress than the one at Richmond
daughter, and many marks of approval9
The legislation of that body has been almost
wholly for the almighty African" From the
prayer in the morning flor, gentlemen, we are pi-
Gus body, we are-making long faces, and sometimes
wry faces, too; Qaughter) we open with prayer,
but there is not much Of the Almighty Maker OF
heaven and earth in it from the prayer to the mo-
ton to adjourn it is negro in every shape and form
in which he can by any possibility be served up,
But it is not only the negro inside of the House and
Senate, but outside also The city of Washington
has been, within the past three weeks, converted
into one universal hospital; every church, except
for each denomination, has been seized ior nos
ptal purposes and while the sanctuaries ever
living God-the God of Abraham, Isaac and jacob
not the new God of the Burlingames and Summers
and other A5olitiousts not that God whose gospel
is written in the new Bible of Abolitlon-but tho
Everlasting Jehovah God-have been coniscated
for hoSpitals-every theatre, every concert saloon
and every other place Of amusement from the high
est to the lowest from the spacious theatre in which
a Forrest exhibits to enraptured audience his
graphic renderings of the immortal creations of
Shakespeare, down to the basest den of revelry and
drunkenness are open still in the Inferno OF the
great Italian poet
"The gates of he'll stand open night and day"
Sir, if these places of amusement-innocent some
of them, but not holy, certainly-had first been
seized hospitals for the comfort and cure OF the
thousands of brave and honest men, who went forth
believing in their hearts that they were battling for
the Constitution and the Union, but who now lie
wasting away upon their lonely pallets, with no
wife, or sister, or mother there to soothe, groaning
in agony with every description of wound which
the devsh ingenuity of man can infict by weapons,
whose invention was inspired by the very author OF
all human woe and suffering-wounds, too, ranking
and fostering for the want of surgical ad-f those
places, say had been first seized and then it had
become necessary for the comfort life of the thou
sands Of other sick and wounded who are borne into
the city every day, to occupy the churches of Wash
ington | know of no better or holier purpose to
which they could have been devoted. And now, sir,
not far from the stately Capitol within whose mar
BILE walls abolition treason now runs riot, is build
ing, Green's Row." by name in which l. 100 fugi-
tive slaves" contrabandS," in the precious slang
of the Infamous Butler-daly receive the ratons of
the soldier which paid for out of the taxes levied
upon the people. One hundred thousand dollars a
day are taken from the public treasury for the sup
port of these fugitives slaves, while the army Of
Shields ard other Union armies in the field, even so
lately as six weeks ago, marched barefooted, bare
headed, and in their drawers for many weary miles,
without so much as a cracker or a crust Of bread
with which to allay their hunger. Aye sir while
many gallant young soldier of Ohio, just blooming
into manhood who heard the cry that went up fifteen
months ago, rally to defend the flag and for the
rescue of the capita" and went forth to battle with
honesty in his heart his life in his hand with cour
age in every fibre and patriotism in every vein lies
wan and sad on his pallet in the hospital your
geonS are forced to divide their time and care be-
tween the wounded soldiers and these vagabond fu-
gtive slaves who have been seduced or forced from
the service of their masters These things and much
more-I have told you not 1.-THE OF all-are done in
Washington. We know it there though it is with
held from the people; and while every fasehood
that the ingenuity Of man invent to delude and
deceive is transmitted or allowed by the telegraph
cenSors of the Observation-Disclosures uSurpers
unknown to the Constitution and laws-these facts
are not permitted to reach the people of the United
States. Your newspapers, the natural watch dogs
of liberty, threatened with suppression if but
the half or the hundreth part of the truth be told
And now, too, when but one other means remained
for the redress of this and the hundred other poti-
cal grievances under which the land groanS-party
organization and public assemblages of the people
these, too are threatened with suppression by
armed force. Aye, sir, that very party which, not
many years ago, bore upon every banner the motto
Free Speech and a Free Press" now day by day
forbids the transmission through your mails Of the
papers from which you derive your knowledge of
public events, and which advocate the principles YOU
cherish.
And Democratic editors, too are seized, "kidap-
ped" in the midnight hour-torn from their farnI-
lleS-gagged-their wives menaced by officers if
they but ask one farewell grasp Of the hand one
parting kisS-thrust into q close carriage in the
felon's hour OF midnight and with violence dragged
to this Capitol and here forced upon an express
tran and hurried off to a military fortress of the
United States-yes, men of Ohio, to fortress that
bears the honored name OF the first martyr to Ameri
can liberty-the Warren of Bunker Hill oritmay be
to that other baste desecrating that other name
sacred in American history, and honored through
out the earth-the name of that man who forsook
home, and gave up rank and title and in the first
flush of youth and manhood came to our shores
and linked his fortunes with the American cause
the prisoner of Olmutz, the brave and gallant La
ayette. Aye, freemen of the West fortresses
bearing these honored Names and meant for the de-
fence of the country against foreign foes and out of
whose classmates briste cannon planted to hurl
death and destruction at armed invaders echo now
with the groanS, and are watered by the tears-not
of men only from the States seeded and in rebel
lion captured in war, but from the loyal States
of the North and the West. and from that party
which has contributed nearly three-fourths OF the
soldiers in the field to-day Are these things to be
endured? L"Never, no, never'"I If you have the
spirit of freemen in you, bear them not! [Great
applause, and cries Of That's it.; that's the talk
What is life worth? What are property and per-
sonal liberty and political liberty worth? Of what
value all these things if We born of an ancestry
of freemen, boastng, in the very first hours of our
boyhood, of a more extended liberty than was
ever vouchsafed to any other people, to fail now,
in this hour of sore trial. to demand and defend
them at every hazard? Freedom of the PreSsl Is
the man who sits IN the White House at Washing
ton, and who owes all his power to the Press and
the ballot is he now to play the tyrant over US p
[" Mo- never, never."l Shall the man who sits at
one end of a telegraphc wire in the War Depart
ment or the Department Of State, mere clerk, it
may be, servant of servants sit down, and by the