Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-14
BOLD spEEoH IN LfNUoLNDoMl;..

We find the following specimen Of free speech in,
Yankee land copied in one Of our exchanges from .
recent northern paper As win be seen, ii is an
extract from communication published by sid pa,
per and written by some Yankee who did not it.
seems, have the fear of Lincoln before him. Il s
worth reading: g y
Fifth. Within the past two years this government
has suffered grievous change, Almost disastrous
and humiliating eclipse 1t has become filthy by.
Bird monster, smeared with tho bloody sacrifices
ofits own children adstestable compound Of crimes
and vices; a despotism which cannot fifty be de.
scrloed IN decorous language; 1.-THE sum of all vii
death"
The administration is ignorant, conceted and yul-
gar; cunning, fnsincere, and inscriptions fierce
sanguinary and cruel; full Of all subtlety and all
mischief; Of all hypocricy and deceit 1t is with
out trust or honesty, without manness or decency
Its avarice is Unsuitable; its corruption unboun.
ded; for gain it will do anything, however infamous
oppressive and wasteful, and does not scruple to
baTter the whole country for profit It is bully,
q braggart and coward it domineers by terror
over weakness; it shrinks from truth and daylight;
deals jp pimps spies and informers, and fears an
enemy ih every shadow. With bands of artnedmen
strikes down the liberty of the citizen ut the dead
OF night when he is surprised solitary and defence.
less; wages war on women and children 1t is bar
barous and wanton it desolates peaceful and ill.,
offensive lands with fire and flood; it DESTROYS cities
towns, villages, and solitary dwellings; it plumbers
wherever Its emissaries prowl destroying what can
not be taken away. It does not snare the sacred
monuments of art science and literature: respects
not the graves has no pity for the shrieks of help.
iessness and purity, and the instruments of it's
crimes are only less detestabe than the crimes them
selves and the criminals
In everything, and in the most stupendous pro.
portions is this administration abominable: the
stencil thereof rises toward heaven as the stencil of
Sodom and Gomorrah. 1t is foe to all goodness
and whosoever should destroy it would confer q
blessing on mankind.
-, Sixth The Southern people are fighting for our
liberties as we'll as for their own. No greater ca.
lamity could happen to US than their overthrow:
the destruction Of the would be speedily follow.
ed by the subjugation of the other.
Seventh. Should the Confederate army capture
Washington and exterminate the herd of thieves.
Pharlsees and cut:throats which pasture there de-
filing our temple Of liberty, We should regard it as
special interposition of Divine wisdom in behalf of
justice, judgment and mercy.
Eighth. No portion of this Union is entitled to
public sympathy or assistance or protection from
Southern defensive invasion, so long it continues
to be party to the present aggressive war. There
humanity stands aghast
Ninth. The three pieces of silver" the price of
blood and the general ruin is not entitled to pro-
lection. Let those who have grown fat on the mis-
fortunes Of the land defend their plumber, fight
u little and below less.
Tenth. SO long as the present war continues and
despotism prevails, We shall have no disposition to
oppose Confederate army, whether on border or
in our midst; rather would we hail them as friends
and deliverers
Eleventh. We arraign Abraham Lincoln, Presi-
dent Of the United States, and the men of his coun-
Gill; before the bar of public opinion and national JUS
tice, for the following high crimes feonies and mis-
demeauoys:
For the country they have betrayed; I'd he oa.hs
they have violated for the Constitution they have
trampled under foot; for the laws they have per-
verted or annulled for the power they have abused
for the precious hope they have blasted for the
blood they have shed for the armies they have
slaughtered for the manifold, excessive and wide
spread defraudings, robberies plunderings desola.
lions, wastes and crueties they have pepeetrated.
We arraign them for converting this ouce great
prosperous, free and happy land into land Of dis
cord strife and despotism-of ruin, misery and
shame.
Twelfth. These pernicious criminals we propose
to try by authority Of all the laws their despotism
has left us, by that very law of necessity and self
preservation which they maliciously, traitorously
and falsely have invoked promulgated and enforced:
And we shall appeal for justice to that universal
sentiment which passes judgment on all such as are
enemies to the human race.
Thirteenth Fellow.ctizens: In the name of the
thirteen colonies, We say to you" Resistance to
tyrants is obedieD ce to God" ..