The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-29
General Amnesty in this State.

Tn MANY of the Western Counties the Courts
have been so organized, as the result OF the
appointment of disloyal magistrates by the
last Legislature, that it is almost impossible
to find true bills against secessonists, while
true bills against Union men are found at
once Mr.. Caldwell thinks, and justly, that
if the secessionists cannot be punished Tor
their crimes, the Union men ought not to be-
and so he proposes sort OF general amnesty.
Such a condition of things in State that
processes to be loyal, lisa crying shame. How
long are the Union men of this State to be
thus put upon and trampled under foot
During the rebellion, under orders from Gov.
Vance and J. Davis, Union men in our noun
tain Counties were shot and hanged like
dogs. Their bodies hung on the trees until
they purified; they were slain in the valleys
and gorges of the mountains; they were
hunted down like the wild beasts of the
forest: and now, when peace is said to pre-
vail and the flag of our fathers is again
floating over us, Union men who in their
desperation retaliated for these prosecutions
and crimes, are indicted and punished by
grand juries, while secessionists and rebels
who began these murders, are screened from
punishment Such are the fruits of the adj
ministration of Gov. Worth. Suppose twelve
months hence, with Gov. Worth in office,
and the State restored to the Union under
present auspices, secessionists should be ac
Quilted in the Counties referred to, and Union
men should be found guilty-docs not every
body know that the rebel pressure on the
Executive would be so great that he would
not dare to pardon a Union man LET
him catch it," would be the cry" he was
an enemy to our beloved Contederacy. He
was desertcr, and ought to be hanged any
way. He skulked, and would not fight the
vandal Yankees. He was cowartlly, thieving
Union man, while the true men were rallying
to the immortal Lee and the peerless Beaure
gard. Give it to him - Such is now, and
such would then be the cry. Is there no
remedy for these evils {? Is this the Confed-
eracy, or is it the United States of America
We learn from a member of the Conven-
ton, who is we'll informed in these matters,
that in one instance Union man who had
been shot and wounded, was pursued to his
house, and taken out before his family and
hanged, while in dying condition; and
that in another instance a young woman was
hanged by some of Gov. Vance's home
guards to make her tell where some of her
Union male relatives were, and that she was
so near death from this horrible treatment
that she did not recognize any one for two
or three days. We have all heard of the
E of oh
of Union families, and of cruelties inflicted
on such, and on helpless old men and
women, that should cause ii demon even to
blush for shame. And these wretchcs the
otfscourings of hellish rebellion, are to go
UNPUBLISHED, while Union men punished
because they tried to be faithful to the flag of
their fathers! Forbid it, justice forbid it,
Almighty God!
All these wretches are Worth men. The
miserable brute who put the thumbs of a
Randolph woman under the fence to make
her tell where her husband was. voted for
Gov. Worth in November last. She told at
last, and her husband was shot. Who muir
,lered Bill Owen! Are there no grand juries
in Randolph County?
A CALL FOR PUNIsHMENT.-Thc Char
lotte Times, an ardent Worth, Graham pa
per, calls as follows for the punishment of
those federal officers who have "tortureda
Mr.. Davis to the verge of the grave:
at is impossible that President johnson
can now sanction the Imprisonment of Mr..
Davis for another day without imperilling
his own fair fame. The honor of the nation
demands that the men who have tortured to
the verge of the grave a noble and illustrious
State prisoner shall not be permitted to es-
cape punishment. DR.. Coopers official re-
port renders it necessary that the President
should hunt down and punish the guilty
parties, in order that the Government may
not be held responsible for their acts
How long are such UNANIMOUSLY traitorous
sheets as the Charlotte Times to be allowed
to exist among US, poisoning the minds of
our own people, and banding the Northern
people still more against the recently insur-
gent States? High times, indeed, when a
rebel newspaper calls for the punishment of
federal officers for performing their duty in
holding Mr.. Davis in prison under orders
What next?
Will the Sentinel be good enough to tell us
why it is that Gov. Graham, Gov. Vance, and
Josiah Turner, Jr., are not yet pardoned 3
Holden was to blame seven months ago, for
the non-pardon of these gentlemen-that is,
the Sentinel said he was to blame; but who
is responsible MOVIE
Gov. Graham said last December that all
he wanted was half hours chat with Presi-
dent Johnson to ensure his pardon. Well, he
has had the chat, and he is not pardonedIyet
Where is Gov. Worths vast influence, that he
does not come to the rescue of his friends
1t is believed that Gov Graham maze him a
candidate and had him elected, because he
was not pardoned. One good turn deserves
another Let Gov. Worth procure the par
don.
Oh how the Sentinel would denounce An
drew johnson, if it only dared to do SO!