Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-09-10
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tlon put successful resistance to the power af
, Great Britain. .hat brought her treat. And
nothing else will bring the United States toEsa
: like conclusion TIE States and tho people
have no right to treat with her, and can have
no shadow of hope that she will treat such
proposition from them with anything better
than contempt. The Standard fears that we are
) not able to do This, and that; and gives the
gloomiest view of the condition of things gen-e
Ierally.s We hope and believe and are deter.i
4 mined to try. The battle Is NOT to the strong
and We have faith that that will be shown ia
/ Gods own good time. provided we remain true
to ourselves and our country
We are ( lad to the Standard repeating
with emphasis. that ''we are opposed to recon-
! structing the old government, and have been
from the hrss." We trust it will continue SO
to the last. But, whilst we do not at all call
in question The sincerity of its declaration, we
are bound to say, that in opinion the whole
tendancy 1--WE do not mean sntantion) of it's ar .
guments is TO iuduce its readers to think that
| IN reconstruction lies their only hope. ALI its
gloomy statements of the condition Of things
military aud financial, all its fears OF our ina
blllty to accomplish anything, all It's talk about
"the establishment OF govern.
ment, with all our rights guaranteed, hath this
extent, more, no less. And it's readers
construe it, witness the meetings in which
reconstruction and the Sandard figure side by
side in the resolutions. The idea OF "a new com
mon government, with all our rights guaran.
teed, is ''the very Of the moor." The
yankees say they have the best govern
ment oa eatth. Are they likely to change it
at the request of a parcel, who have beaten
their boasttul armies upon hundred felds?-
Scarcely. And tc guarantees, what can the
Standard expect Or hope for that we did not
have in the old govern oent, ard that were
not violated there 2? To US there appears no
choice of evils between subjugation and recon
struction. See the speech of Gen. Burnside. /,
in Kentucky, in which it is plainly ayowed that
no man in that State has right to vote even
unless he conforms his views to those of the
Lincoln government. And yet Kentucky at
the beginning of the war, tried this very expe-
} ilnent which the Standard seeks TO induce
North Carolina to make. Kentucky wanted =,
peace-reace for herself and between her nsigh
bofs. To secure bosh these objects, but the first
beyond peradventure, Kentucky declined to
join tue South, talked lsrgely as the Standard
does of State sovereignty, and avowed herself
a neutral and peace maker. The yankee Gov.
ernment temporized and promised until Ken. !
tucky's chance for resistance was lost, and then .
the yankee promises were forgotten, kentuckys .
sovereignty laughed at, and her people ensiav.
ed. Ii North Carolina can be induced to take -
herself out OF the Confederacy "to protect her>
self, as the Standard aud its followers are fond
OF intmatng she may if she separate her.
tetf from her sister 0lateS to make peace Tor -
herself and talk Of one for her associates, as @
seems to be the Standards avowed purpose, it
is possible that she may find yankee promises
plenty until that separation is fnal and subju-
cation made easy Dy our divisions, aud then
they will be easily broken III Kentucky's
case, or ia the more recent case of the city of
n. York, When her mob was in arms sand sr
resisting the infamous fraud Att
tempted by the Government. the draft was stop -,
ped and redress PROMISED "a la an. evil hour the va
mob listened to the promise. The people laid d
iown their arms. An immense military and .ia
laval force was at once collected and the fraud e.
las been accomplished So willit be with usla.
when we attempt separate State action. "a Our d
negroes viii then be TUNED into yankee armies n
nd ourselves find that instead of peace we /.
lave naugprated "a war to which the horrors of 81
ibis are as nothing. .s s.. t.s+s .es< s,tss ysages
The Standard denies It's responsibility for the, Z
'ublic meetings which have done so much to ~ +
lan1age our cause and encourage the enemy =.
There may be difference. of opinion about
hat. It is due to frankness to say, that we
hink the Standard is responsible for them;
hat they are held in consequence of its pub.
ished request as well as in compliance, with its 4
eachings, and, now that the removal of MAJ
Bradford has removed the asowed.e cause OF
heir beginnings, that it would have done wises
v and patroticaliy to exert its influence to