Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-09-10

yesterday, that JEFF Davis, and Toombs, and yam
cey and Rhett and other Secessionsts Of the ooutn
would derive much comfort from this day meetlns
Well, sir, have just come from oooy VI NV"
which would not for moment pretenu. ~ @
pare for craftsmanship respectabIhty OF ot.a it's
with this Convention That body has devotea f Us
time and attention to doing more Id SIX lnonaS
the cause Of secessonism than Beauregsro, sno n.'
and Johnston, and all the Southern 9ellei s.o
bined have been able to accomplish III ~ H.
Said Senator from the South 'ne o' Tonarc.ses
Union man Left Davis is running TWO ~
now and ia making id sight more OUT u tav
Wash;noton Congress than the one at k'cnmono
Gon.hter and many marks of APPROVAL
The LEGISLATION Of that body has. been aimost
wholly for the "Almighty African" from vi, ~;
PRAYER in the morning flor, gentlemen, We arc p
GUS body, we are-makiDg long 1aces III! nus rarar
wry faces, too; Qaughter,) we open ~ltn ptayea3f
heaven and earth in it, from the prayer W 1ie ill.,
t;on 70 adjourn, it is negro in every shape ana Ior
in which he can by any possibility be served up
But it is not only the negro inside OF the House anu
Senate, but outside also. The city OF washington
has been, Within the past three weeks, cohVerleu
into universal hospital every cnn.S J ~ bns'
one for each denomination, has been se'zea ior nus
nal purposes and while the sanctuarles OF the ever
living God-ttie God of Abraham Isaac and jacob
not the new God of the Burlingames and Summers
ond other A5olitionists not that God whose gospel
Is written in the new Bible of Abolitlon-but the
Everlasting Jehovah God-haye been conhsca'eo
for hosptals-every theatre every concert salooh'
and every other place of amusement from Tue n.gI,
est to the lowest from the spacious theatre IN whch
Forrest exhibits to an enraptured audience MS
graphic renderings of the immortal creations OF
Shakespeare, down to the basest den of revelry ana
drunkenness, are open STILL in the Inferno OF the
great Italian poet:
"The gates of hell stand open night aud day"
Sir if these places Of amusement-innocent some
of them, but not holy, certainly-had first been
seized as hospitals for the comfort and cure oil the
thousands of brave and honest men, who went forth
believing in their hearts that they were bathing Tor
the Constitution and the Union, but who now lie
wasting away upon their lonely pallets, with no
wife, or sister, mother there to soothe, groanlng
in agony with every description of wound which
the devsh ingenuity of man can intlict by weapons
whose invention inspired by the very author OF
all human woe and Sutferng-wounds, too, ranking
and fostering for the want of surgical aid-f those
places say had been first seized, and then it had
become necessary for the comfort or 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, SIT,
not far from the stately Capitol within whose mar
bic walls abolition treason now runs riot, Is build
ing, "Green's Row." by name in which ! 100 fugi-
tive slaves" contrabands," in the precious slang
of the infamous Butler-daly receive the rations 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 fugitivcs slaves, while the army OF
Shields ard other Union armies in the field even so
lately as six weeks ago, marched barofooted bare
headed, and in their drawers for many weary miles,
without so much cracker or crust of bread
with which to allay their hunger. Aye, sir, while
many a gallant young soldier of Ohio, just blooming
into manhood who heard the cry that went up fifteen
months ago, "ray to defend the flag and for the
rescue of the capital and went forth 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 sur
geons arc forced to divide their time and care be-
tween the wounded soldiers and these vagabond fu
gitye slaves. who have been seduced forced from
the service of their masters These things and much
more-l have told you not 1.-THE Of all-ars done in
Washington. We know it there, though it is with
held from the people; and while every talsehood
that the ingenuity of man can invent TO delude and
deceive is transmitted 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, are threatened with suppression, if but
the half or the hundreth part OF the truth be told
| And now, too, when but one other means remainet
for the redress of this and the hundred other polti
cal grievances under which the land groaas-party
organization and public assembagcs of the people
even these, too are threatened with suppression by
armed force. Aye, sir that very party which, no
many yelrs ago, bore upon every banner the mott
"Free Speech and Free Press" now day by da,
forbis the transmission through your mails of tn,
papers from which you derive your knowledge 0
public events, and which advocate the principles yo
cherish.
And Democratic editors too, are seized "kidhap
= ped in the midnight hour-tor from their FAM
INSTRUMENTATION wives lnenaced by officers
they but ask one farewell grasp Of the hand, on
parting kiss-thrust into a close carriage in tn
telon's hour of midnight and with violence dragge
to this Capitol, and here forced upon an expires
; train and hurried off to a military fortress of tn
United States-yes men of Ohio, to a fortress tina
bears the honored name OF the first martyr to Amer
can liberty-the Warren of Bunker Hill; or may
to that other bastile desccratins that other nam
t sacred in American history, and honored through
out the carth-the name of that man who forsoo
home and gave up rank and title, and in the frs
flush of youth and manhood came to our shore
and linked his fortunes with the American cause
e the prisoner Of Olmutz, the brave and gallant LII
, fayette. Aye, freemen of the West, fortresse
| bearing these honored Names and meant for the d.
fence Of the country against foreign foes, and out
t whose classmates bristle cannon planted to hui
death and destruction at armed invaders, echo no
. with the groans and are watered by the tears-nt
l. of men only from the States seeded and in rebe
f lion or captured in war; but from the loyal State
n of the North and the West and from that part
e which has contributed nearly threc-fourths Of til
/. soldiers in the field to-day. Are these things to
l. endured? ["Never, no. never''] If you have tt
e spirit of freemen in you, bear them not [Gre
applause, and cries Of "That's it; that's the talk
d What is life worth? What are property, and pc
it sonal liberty and political liberty worth? Of VIII
value all these things if we, born of ancestl
Il of freemen Boosting, in the very first hours of
o boyhood, OF more extended liberty than vi
n ever vouchsafed to any other people, to fail
J. in this hour of sore trial, to demand and defer
!; them at every hazard2 Freedom of the Press!
$, the man who sits IN the White House at Washin
n ton, and who owes all his power to the Press ar
the ballot is he now to play the tyrant over US
II ["No! never, never Shall the man who sits