Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-01-20

SHAMEFUL TREATMENT.-We have had PROOF lot
some time past of the following fact, as general
thing which we extract from letter from friend
in Madison County:
"The Conservatives have been shamefully treat
ed in this section of country. A parcel OF men un-
der arms would ask you if you had voted, and if you
said yes and for Gen. Logan for Congress- they
would curse you for tory"
Conservatives have also been singled ont to be
foraged upon, their property taken from them, and
themselves arrested without civil warrant Is there
no protection against such outrages9 Are any Of
our citizens to be matreated, nsulted or arrested
on account of their political opinions? 1t seems so.
Several citizens of Wilkes, among them leading
citizen of Wilkesborough, and the Rev. Mr.. Smith,
q candidate for Congress, we're arrested without
civil warrant and thrust in the guardhouse, and We
have not yet heard that the officer who ordered
these arrests has been punished An officer belong.
ing to North Carolina regiment published some
weeks since, over his own name, letter in the
Spirit of the Age Of this City, in which be endors-
ed the mobbing of our Office as much needed
work" Has be been punished, or even reprimani-
ed for thus encouraging mob law? We have not
heard that he has.
friend writing US from Wilkes County, under
date January 7th, says
There has been great deal of property destroy
ed or taken in Wilkes by the troops employed to
catch deserters, such as horses, saddles, wagons,
work steers, &c. Horses have been taken from
helpless women and they have to carry their corn
on their hips to mill Families have been abused
when their sons and husbands were in their places
in the army, and they had letters from them to
prove the fact. T.. Your paper suits the Con.
servatives exactly and if could have had justice
we would have elected Smith to Congress; but we
were threatened if voted that would be report
ed to the military authorities and SO no election
was held at several precincts"
And this in enlightened, free, independent North
Carolina If these grievances are to go unredress-
ed, what may we not expect hereafter? We trust,
f6fsalEs of the Cause, ard for thersliet Of those
thus injured, that the Confederate authorities will
take steps to prevent such outrages in future.
Worse AND WoRsE.-The last Fayetteville o.
server says:
"The proceedings Of meeting at Coats District.
in Johnston county, on the 9Th inst, are published
in the Standard This was but precinct meeting
The County meeting was held in Smithfield on the
7th Its proceedings are not yet published. 1t was
for this county meeting that the resolutions were
prepared in Raleigh"
First, the Observer said that the resolutions for
the Johnston meeting were prepared in Raleigh
We denied this, and now the Observer says the res
oluons were prepared not for the district but for
the County meeting" Now, the County resolu.
tions are, word for word with two exceptions,
the same resolutions that we're adopted by the dis
trict meeting What new falsehood will the o.
'srosr start the subects If that paper does
not change its conduct, and that promptly and
thoroughly. it will win the reputation accorded by
Blair to Duff Green, that be never told the truth
when falsehood would suit hs purpose better.