Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-02-07

administer the goyernmentrv( 70 EessfE s.cEs so
In contemplating the aspectcof affairs and the
great odds against as, some have grown faint and
weak hearted e. III ~
have been buried in oblivion, was not allowed By the
democratic party to die out They treated those
who did not vote vita them as alien enemies, and
if they had not the sense to feel 10 resent. The
war itself was made party question. All the lead
ers Of the democracy, with few exceptions, voting
for secession and conventionS and the wings, with
here and there an exception voting agaiRstseces
sion and convention. No effort was made by the
democratic governors, or the democratic party to
conciliatc and unite the opposition who hadsso
warmly ard sincerely differed with them. The tri
nmphant and unbridled democracy did all they
could to wound the pride and rouse the resentment
Of the opposition. --..sta--ss t.
In 1882 the democracy were overthrown as a par
ty The leaders, deserted by the people, cry Urea
son, treason" against those who have oYerthrown
them. 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 OF North
Carolina and why2 Because they have been ali
enated from their attachment to democracy. the
leading statesmen of North Carolina in whom the
people eon6de,. have neither the ear nor the ecan.
dence Of the President. He alluded to such states-
men Is bis distinguished x =
in Che Senate, Gov. Graham
The Presidents dstrust and want of confidence in
the people, and in those whom the people conHle,
has begotten the part of the people, disrust and
a want of confidence in the President No one from
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 poo
pie against impressment and the suspension of the
writ of ha6eas corpus" and the Partially and IA
vortism 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 wheD the war
should begin, and nOU the people found them in the
| rear and sadly demoralized at that.
Mr.. Turner deprecated the Presidents policy of arm
ing and freeing the slaves he said it made suhju
cation inevitable and hurried on the fatal day The
instincts of brute much less of negro, would teach
him to take sides with the enemy. When the PreSi-
dent arms the slaves he seals the doom of the Confed
eracy lie may then speak to the undertaken and write
! its eptaph.
Mr.. Turner concluded by saying that the gentleman
| from Mississippi had said 1--WE were only repeating
history" He sometimes feared we might repeat the
history of the French Revolution. But We were now
repeating the war between Rome aud Carthage, so we'll
| and so forcibly described by Victor Hugo.
Rome begins to perplex Carthage, and Carthage is
an eye-Sore TO Rome. Behold them drawing near for
| the struggle that is to shake the world. Carthage
old, rich and crafty. Rome, young, poor and robust
They measure each other from head to fOOtl
| They gather all their forces
Gradually the war kind!es!
| The world takes frel
The two nations, persOnifed in two men, Hannibal
and Scpio, close with each other, wresIe and grow
inturate. The duel is desperate. The struggle is for
| life. Rome waivers. She utters the cry of anguish
| " Hannibal at the Gates"
But she rallies collects all her strength for one
last appalling ehort-throws herself upon Carthage
| and sweeps her from the face of the earth.
The two colossal powers of the, new continent we'll
represent the two powers of the old The North old
rich, crafty and more perhdious than Carthage The
| South, young, poor, robust and brave as Rome
| Grant, the North man, bold dashng and enterpri-
| sing the Carthagenan Lee, God lovo him, pa
tient, enduring and patriotic Scipo met last May
| in the Wilderness.
! What sight for Gods and men to, look upon
Two nations OF innocent children 10 be made father
less. Two nations of unofending matrons to be made
| widows.
The Representatives of the two nations assembled
The one at Richmond, the other at Washington look
on with breathess silence without effort at nego-
| tiaton. What a crime What stain upon their
humanity and civilization They look upon Hanni-
bal and Scipo locked in deadly strife wrestling from
the Wilderness to the James, each claiming a victo-
ry each severely punished. Young Rome, if she has
not wavered, has uttered the cry of anguish "Hau-
| nbal at the Gates"
! Slaves to armsl Save your masters from the TO-
nomy that belongs only to yourselves Now that the
| two armies upon POwhatans parent stream impend
like two clouds surcharged with electricity with whose
| contact must come the thunderstorm. Now that
Hannibal and Scpio eye each other from head to foot
Now, that they ready when Spring opens to close
again with each other. Now while there is a pause
in the storm, in the of God, in the name of hu-
mainly, let the Statesman say, " Peace be STILL"
Let the Statesman say, Napoleon said to the
King of England after his hundred battles, "Sre is il
| not time for peace2"
And if peace follows not an honest effort at neoo-
tiaton, let young Rome gather all her forces for
! one last appalling effort, and God grant she may
sweep perfdious Carthage the face of the earth
When Hannibal and SciPio meet again, if fondest
| prayer avail on high-mine (said the Speaker) for
| Scipio shall not be lost.