Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-22

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600 Gonfederates who lived at the begin
ning Of the wal 70 draw the sword in their
countyys service. Our resources Of white
population have greatly diminished but
YOU had $50, 900 black men Of the same
ages and could Divine prophecy have
told US of the fiercenesS Of the enelny's
,death:grapple at our throats- eoald .wb
have known what we now know, that Lin
coin has confessed that without the 2OO,-
900 negroes which he stole from uss he
would be compelled to give up the contest,
should we have entertained any doubt up;
on the subjects! :. IA voice" We will
make him give it up yet"
feel thattlie time is rapidly coming on
when the people will wonder that they
ever .doub ted.. Let us say to every negro
who wishes to 60 into the ranks on condi-
ton of being made free" Go and fight;
you are free" If we press them, they
will 90 against MS We know that every
one who could fight for-his freedom has
had no chance The only side that has
had the advantage of this element is the
Yankees people that can beat us to the
end of the year in making bargains. Let
us initiate them in this-1 would initiate
them in nothing else. My own negroes
have been 70. me and said: Master, set
us free, and we will fight for you; we had
rather fight for you than for the Yankees"
But suppose it should robbe so-there is
no harm in trying. With all my early at
tachments end prejudices; would give mp
all. 1t can only be done by the States
separately. What State will lead off in
this thing2 "a voice" Virginia"] It
separate State couaseas had been followed.
we would now have been bound hand and
foot to the Yankees. What. State Ad off
in this RevQAntiopa South Carolina One
State after another wheeled into line, ,nll-
til at last, when there, far away in the
South, every eye was turned northward-.
'whenmen. were asking, day by day, what
OF old Virginia7-it was telegraphed that
she was going to desert the South, that
majority was in favor Of the Union. We
) honored Virginia as the mother Of States
and Of statesmen -gloried in her as part
Of our possessions. We had men from
Virginia ah sbont tbs, and were bound to
her by indissofuble ties. Day after day
came the same tidings Virginia will not
come. {" Who said it?'] Everybody
said it, and il was trne until Lincoln insult
ted you. Then the telegraph wires flashed
the news-Virginia has seeded! Such a
spectacle never before greeted my eyes.
Men whose faces looked like the parch-
ment upon which their bonds were writ
ten, rushed into the streets, danced, Rugged
and kissed each other. Cannon were
fired, and it was great day. South Car.
DINA, | know will follow Virginia, as we'll
as every other Southern State, if she but
give the lead, When shall it be done {?
["NoW." Nov. Let your Legislature
pass the necessary laws, and we will 'soon
have twenty thousand men down in those
trenches fighting for the country. You
must make NJ your minds to try that, Or
see your army Withdrawn from before
your town. | came here to say .disagreea-
unless some radical measure be taken.
i know not where the white men are.
1t is said there are quartermasters' clerks,
railroad employees, and men in bomb
proofs tell you there are not
enough able bodied white men in the
country. Do you suppose we have worked,
night after night, by this infamous gas
light you have here, and not found out
this thing2 My honorable friend has told
you that deserters and skulkers would
come in. Possible. But where is Ten
nessee, and otlior States that were former
. ly relied ONT You have part of Virgin
|: ia, part Of North Carolina, part of South
Carolina, and part of other States. What
edsea A voice" Texas She is be-
yond our reach Would that she were not.
Mr.. Benjamin then spoke of Louisiana
and her shattered brigades of Starke and
Stafford, VINO have laid down their lives
in our service of Nichols, who, wounded
and disabled, resigned his commission,
which the President refused to receive,
and placed him iq what some call s'bomb-
proc" the CONSUMPTION bureau Of
Louisiana; OF Harry Hayes, who was re-
peatedly wounded in the service and of
Yorke, who is in North Carolina, endea-
voring to raise recruits among the Irish
Catholics. Louisiana has done much, but
you cannot make a stop forward that she
will not follow you.
Mr.. Benjamin asked, what do our enc
mics propose to do Z and read from the
New York Tribune of the 9th instant a
review Of Buffers speech, which argued
that it was the duty. Of the government to
render justice to the negro~-to educate
~him-sto give him fair share of the lands
his fathers wrought upon-te leave him in
the State where he was reared, and to
furnish him with tile means to begin life.
After that, hewas to be let severely alone /;
that is. to take his place with other citi.
zens.
| Now, said Mr.. Benjamin, if Tiers be a
hell upon earth, it would be an universal
emancipation Of the negroes and the Yam.
KEGS to rule over us. Can you imagine
yourselves in city where the municipal
I officers were your former slaves. ina mill.