Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-08-11
y refer to this meeting again.
Pictnres from Real Life.

Where is the man who promised oeioIe 'no wal
that he would ride through the ranks of the enemy
to Washington City, and write his name with MS
sword in blood on the walls of the federal capitoiF
In bad health. He may be able to 60 to the next
war, but he will not fight in thisG
Where is the man who promised before the war
that he would take his bird gun and meet the Yam
KEGS as soon they placed their feet on the soil OF
North CarolnaG Shrinking from the war, while
the children of his Conservative neghbors are facing
the deadly hail of battle.
Where is the man who promised before the war
that he would wipe up al the blood split with his
pocket handkerchief and pay all the expenses with
ten cents? He is too old to fight but not too old
to abuse the Conservatives and impeaeh their 10y
atty. Others who made the same promise are en-
ioying lucrative offices in the shade, and are thus
screened from service
Where is the man who promised before the war
that he would whip fifteen Yankees himself, and
who opened his mouth when he spoke, as if he
could swallow the whole Yankee nationp First in
a snug ofice-then speculator in cotton and BRAN
dy-and then skulker behind poor apology for
q substitute
Where is the man who promised before the war
that he would go among the first and said he would
fight knee deep in blood? Specializing in snuff,
dried apples, and salt-shielded from service by
militia officers commisson-quakingw with mortal
fear whenever it is rumored that the Yankees are
approaching his town, and packing up his trap" to
leave his own fellow. citizens who have honored him
with their confidence, at the bare intimation that
the Yankees are about to siege and hold the Rail-
road near which he resides
Where is the man that promised that secession
would be peaceable-thst should intimidate and
whip the Yankees before breakfast? Carrying out
his doctrine by staying at home the most peaceabLe
man in the country.
Where is the man who promised before the war
that the families of soldiers should want moth
ing-that he would divide with them his last BUSH
ell of corn and last pound of bacon? Selling his
corn at seven dollars per bushel his bacon at one
dollar and quarter per pound, his cotton cloth at
two dollars per yard, his spun cotton at sixteen
dollars per bunch; or voting in the County Court
ont dnvn the allowance to soldiers families; or
pose their families; or, in various ways, grow
ing rich out OF the war. This man is perfectly
sound on the Southern question: because he shouts
for the war, abuses the Yankees and his Conserva-
tive neghbors the same breath and declares that
We must fight until we have exhausted the last
man and the last dollar" OF course no one will
dare impeach his integrity. Hurrah for him! The
"last man" will be somebody besides himself, and
the "last dollar" will not be his dollar.
Where Is the man who opposed the war up to
the last moment-predicted the awful calamities
that would flow from it but when nothing else
would do, agreed upon point Of honor, and under
the impulse of a common Southern manhood, to 90
with the cotton States? In the aoar barring his
breast to the fury Of the foe. He is anxious for
peace, but he wants it on honorable terms. He is
ready to die for his country, but does not wish to
die unavailingly; but if, while fighting for peace,
he encourages his fellow-ci:izens at home to talk
for it he is branded by "the last man and last dol
lar" politicians as traltorl
The above pictures are drawn from real life The
last one is an honor to human nature; but those
which precede it embody in their most repulsive
aspects the weakness, hypocrisy, treachery, and
cowardce Of the same human nature. Let US drop
the curtain. Men who make large promises seldom
if ever perform them, especially when they are In
tended to deceive