Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-06-01
TO the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Upwept, unnonorsd and unsung."


Unwept, unnonorsd and unsung."
A never fitting ever accusing sense Of justice will
whisper to their guilty consclences:
IT'S there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden vengeance in Heavens arsenal
Red with nncoalnon wrath. to blast the men,
VINO owe their greatness to their country ruin?'
In reply to the argument of "necessity" the
country asks when and where is this encroach-
ment upon States rights to end. In the Inaugural
ton of this great struggle there we're not want
ing those gallant defenders and champions of these
great principles every where candidates for Office
and candidates for renown, who were loud in their
denunciations Of the general government for its en-.
croachments upon States Rights and anxious to
preciptate a.sspAict for their maintainance, who
are now tame and willing and quiet submissionists.
We are engaged in great and patriotic struggle
for independence and freedom. Shall We sacrifice
these principles among ourselves while CALAMITY
defending them against invasion by others5 Is our
devotion TO these great landmarks less than at
the commencement of the war? Their unnecessa.
ry suspension is but the entering wedge to military
despotsn, aud contrary to the genius of free gov
ernment The tendency of power is always to
steal from the hands of the many to the few, Its
march is stealthy and clandestime-always under
false GARD, most generally that of the tyrauts
plea, necessity" If it can be made reoonciliable
to the feelings and interests of the country to &C
ieel the same lively repugnancc to it hereafterp 1t
has been truly said that no man ever became per-
fectly wicked at once, aad it may be affirmed with
equal propriety that q nation meyer becomes en-
shaved at once Men. must be initiated oy degrees
and their repugnance gradually overcome. These
laws form in the estimation Of uiany great and good
men complete tyranny tyranny Of tie most
odious kind, because established undor the mark of
liberty. Was the tyranny Of Robespiere less in
f,Jp oISHi,l haca ina ;otod IN
the name OF the peope, than like tyranny in Tur-
key under the Grand Seignior2 Why should we
cool our zeal or abate our srdor for republican
principles? Is 1t not fresh within the recollection
Of gentlemen With what feelings of opposition and
indignation the very first advancesof tyranny and
oppression were met in this Statef Who has for
gotten what feelings elected by an official an
nouncement of politician in this State in 1861 or
1862, clothed with authority from the Secretary of
War, calling upon our citizens to surrender up
their private arms and weapons of domestic defence,
under the penalty of seizure and con6ssation p
And how the public heart rejolced when Gov.
Clark forbade its execution and protected the rights
of individuals by solemn proclamationl
But is this ali This very hall was the theatre
ofa scene which will be recorded upon the bright
est pages of history. And wbatever may be the
fate Of civil freedom in this country viii 60 down
to posterity, theme of admiration, long after the
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tempted mischief shall have been despised or for
gotten. 1 aHude to the attempt to fasten test
oath Of loyalty upon the public.
We ell remember how the public mind was
shocked at even these attempts on constitutional aud
individual rights. But who can picture with what
storm of Indignation and resistance, violation of
the most sacred and consecrated rights ofofreedom
and citizenship as contained in the privileges of
habeas corpus and the pursuit of industrial occupa
tinns without military restraints, would have been
met by that patriotic body? They: would have
ssid that North Oarolina had given up her peace
her wealth and her children, but cosad not surren-
der her soyeignty, her liberty and her honor.
For more than six hundred years nnce the stur.
dy Barcns Of England, wrested from King John at
Runnymede the great Charter Of liberty tners have
been guarantees in British Jurisprudence, perys-
ding the very spirit of English laws and Enelish
customs, wherever they have gone, which have led
80 firmly 70 the establishment Of the great priaci
plesof as tostamp it part Of tie mu.
:nicipai law of the Anglo.saxon community.
Without attempting an argument upon the I'm.
constitutionalty of the suspension BY the late act
which think Is clearly demonstrated by. Gov.
Brown, Vice President Stephens and Gov. Vance
IN his late admirable message it is to be
rs matter Of political policy. II is plain to me
that there is less necessity now for such measure
~ this, than there might be even IN time of ,esce
For now almost every b9dy is soldier toGscrip-
Aon enbracss all persons besweenthe q ,as Of ~,
s,sfsen and fty years Except a Few eli .Sap,s by
courtesy who arc uhier the control Of ths Execu-
tive Coamenderin. Chief and subject "a martial
law. The Pfesieut has then all IN, ,t n .,bict