Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1865-02-08

government but against the abuses OF those VINO
the government.
In contemplating the aspect of affairs and the
great odds against Us, some have grown faint apd
In North Carolina, party spirit. which should
have been buried in oblivion, was not allowed by the
democratic party to die out They treated those
who did not vote with them as alien enemies, and
as if they had not the sense to feel to resent The
war itself was made party question. All the lead
ers Of the democracy, with few exceptions, voting
for secession and convention, and the wings, with
here and there an exception voting against seces.
sion and convention. No effort was made by the
democratic governors, or the democratic party to
conciliate and unite the opposition who had so
warmly aid sincerely differed with them. The trl'
umphant and unbrided democracy did all they
could to wound the pride and rouse the resentment
of the opposition.
In 1862 the democracy were overthrow as par
ty. The leaders, deserted by the people, cry trea
son, treason" against those who have overthrown.
theui. They have caused the President and many
outside The State to look upon those who overthrow
them with distrust and suspicion.
The President has taken no steps or pains to Sc
cure to his administration the attachment ofNorth
Carolina and why Because they have been ali
enated from their attachment to democracy. The
leading statesmen of North Carolina in whom the
people con6de, have neither the ear nor the conf.
dence of the President He alluded to such states
men as his distinguished colleague on bis right Mr.
Gmer, and North Carolina's gifted representative
in the Senate, Gov. Graham.
The Presidents distrust and want Of confidence in
the people, and in those whom the people conhde,
has begoten the part of the people, distrust ana
a want of con6dence in the President No one IRON
North Carolina had the ear and confidence Of the
President except the secession Democracy or some
old Wing who had gone over to the Democracy
Mr. Turner spoke of the just complaint OF the PEG
pie against impressment and the suspension OF the
" writ Of habeas corpus" and the Partially and ia
voritism shown to Democrats, by filling most places
with the men of that party who were odious to the
people because they had deceived them, because
they promised to be in the vanguard when the war
should begin, and now the people found them in the
rear and sadly demoralized at that.
Mr. Turner deprecated the Pr. sdents policy OF arm
ing and freeing the slaves he said it made our sukju-
CATION inevitable and hurried the fatal day. The
instincts of brute, much less of negro, would teach
him to take sides with the enemy. When the Pres-
dent the slaves he seals the doom of the Coned-
eracy he may then speak to the undertaken and write
its eptaph.
MIR. Turner concluded by saying that the gentleman
from Mississippi had said 1--WE were only repeating
history" He sometimes feared might repeat the
history of the French Revolution. Bat we were now
repeating the War between Rome and Carthage, SO well
and so torcibly described by Victor Hugo.
eye-sore to Rome. Behold them drawing near FOR
the struggle tiut is to shake the world. Carthage,
DID, rich and crafty. Rome, young, poor and robust
They measure each other from head to foot
They gather all Their forces
Gradually the kiud.es 81
The world takes fire
The two nations, personifed in two men, Hannibal
and Scipio, close with each other, wreste and grow
nluriate The duel is desperate. The Struggle is for
life Rome waivers. She utterS the cry anouish
" Hannibal at the Gates"
But she rallies! collects all her strength for one
last appalling efort-throws herself upon Carthage
and sweeps her from the face of the earth.
The two colossal powers of the continent well
represent the two powers of the old. The North, old
rich, crafty, and more perhdious thun Carthage The
South. young, poor; robust and brave as Rome
Grant, the North man, bold, dashing and enterpri.
sing as the Carthagenian; Lee, God love him, pa
tient enduring and patriotic as sciplo lust May
What sight for Gods and men to look upon
Two nations of innocent children to be made father.
less. Two nations of unofendng matrons to be made
| widows
The Representatives of the two nations assembled
| The one at Richmond the other at Washington, look
on with breathless silence without effort at nepo-
tiation. What crime | What stain upon theil
humanity and civilization! They look upon Hanui.
bal and Scpio locked in deadly Strife wrestling from
the Wilderness to the James, each claiming yicto.
ry, each severely punished. Young Rome, if she ha:
not wavered, has uttered the cry Of anguish "Han.
| niba at the Gates"
Slaves to arms Save your masters from the ig
Monty that belongs only to yourselves Now that the
| two armies upon Powhatans parent stream impenG
like two clouds surcharged with electricity with whose
contact must come the thunderstorm. Now tina
Hannibal and Scpio eye each other from head to foot
Now, that they are ready when Spring opens to clos
again with each other. Now, while there is a paus
in the Storm in the name of God, in the name Of hu
mainly, let the Statesman say, 6 Peace be still"
Let the Statesman say, as Napoleon said to tn
King of England, after his hundred battles Sire is
Tot time for peace?"
And if peace follows not an honest effort at nego
tation THEN let young Rome gather all her forces 70
one last appalling effort, and God grant she MAJ
sweep perfidous Carthage from the face of the earth
| When Hannibal and Scipo meet again, if fondes
prayer avail on high-mine (said the Speaker) 70
Scipio shall not be lost. r
Deprecated Currency.
The following extrac: from one of Mr.. Webster
speeches in the Senate, in 1884, contains graph