The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-17
Disuaion Feeling in Kentpcky.

address to The Union men of Kentucky :,
gives the following very unfavorabIe picture
of the political feeling of Kentucky, as ex-
hibited in the reception Of returned Union
soldiers on the one hand, and to returned
Confederate soldiers on the other
Many of the soldiers, after four years of
service, have, during the past twelve months, re-
turned to the State, in obedience to whose behest
they went forth T" do battle for the right No
public demonstrations of kindly greeting have
furled their banners all rent and torn with the
missiles of battle, and clotted and stained with
the blood of their fallen comrades, and without
having heard one utterance of "well done, thou
good and faithful servants" they after depositing
in the Capitol the trophies of their valor have
sought their homes, many Of them to be murder
ed by marIuders before reaching their thresholds.
Those who have given the highest evidence of
patriotism by offering up their lives for their
country, now forgotten and unhonored, sleep in
their unmarked graves, and the feeble meanings
of our MANNED brave are drowned in the bolster
GUS plaudits of welcome extended to those who,
throughout the war, have labored to strike down
our national emblem, to end our national history,
and to blot out our national existence. We owe
1t to our soldiers to reunite, SO that we will be
enabled to redeem the pledges we made to them
when we urged them to enlist for the defence of
the State and nation.
entertain no unkind feelings toward the re-
turned Rebel soldier lam for amnesty and peace.
But to my mind amnesty does not signify praise
and reward for an evil deed or an erroneous ac-
ton, and peace does not necessarily involve be-
stowal upon them of all the officers and emolu-
ments in the gift of the people"
What this writer says is in good taste, and
is strictly true so far as the status of the
soldiers on each side is concerned. We have
nothing to say against the soldiers on either
side They obeyed orders and performed
their duty like men, and they deserve credit
for it. Let the Union soldier and the Con.
federate soldier sit down together in the
same neighborhood, and live like brothers;
and they would do 50, but for wicked and
designing men who rouse their prejudices
and infame their passions against each
other. Do not censure the soldier, but hold
the leaders responsible That is the true rule
to be adopted in this matter.
What is to come of this bitter feeling
against Union men? Are the Union men of
the South to be put anil kept under tile ban
The federal armies. in their progress Of
devastation, made but little if any distinction
between the sincere Unionist and the rabid
Secessionist. All, as a general rule, were
alike "bummered" and stripped of their per-
sonal property. And the same is true, to no
small extent, of certain subordinate federal
officers, who, from some cause or causes, have
in numerous instances granted favors to
Secessionists and given the "cold shoulder
to Union men,. If these things are to con-
tinue-if those who plotted rebellion, who
actively engaged in it to the last, and who
resisted every effort for peace until it was
dictated at the point of the sword over the
ruins of the whole country-if such as these
are to be honored, while the Union men are
whistled down the wind, what is it to the
latter that the federal Union has been re-
stored2 If the test of merit is to be fidelity
to Jefferson Davis, then of all men the
Unionists of the South are most miserable.
To the Editors of tile Raleigh Standard:
DEAR SIRs: Might solicit the privilege
of place in your columns to meet the at
| tacks which Mr.. Pool, editor of the Colds
boro Daily Neos, persistently makes upon IN,
| through the columns of his paper2 shall
be as brief as possible.
Mr.. ]. B. Whitaker, in the early stage o
the late rebellion, organized a company
| His object in doing so, as understood hin
then, and as he has frequently declared since tn
| Union troops drriced here, was, that he nigh
| be the less liable to suspicion, when he shoul(
see fit opportunity to resign. believed
Mr.. W. all along to be Union man, an(
never hesitated to let him know my senti
ments with regard to the war. l wrote anC
| dedicated to Capt. W. some verses, adapted
to the air of aula lang syne, an efusion tt
which Editor Pool attaches, it appears, con
| siderable importance My object in writing
| these verses was to strengthen the delusiOI
which believed Mr. w. designed to play OF
on the rebels. also, at the request of Mr.
| d. A. Powell, a printer in the Tribune office
GoldsborO', wrote some verses to cloak m.
own disloyaltyQ)-a assimilation for which
the following facts are my excuse. l haC
been, was told, reported to the Proves
Marshall, Capt. Jno. b. Griswold, and Mr.
Loring, my informant, SO softened the mat
ter that no notice was taken OF it at thu
time. Again Col G. W. Moses, Sheriff Coor
and Capt. VIM A. Thompson had formed ,
plot to come and hang me- This piece o
agreeable news had from Mr.. Whitaker
who very kindly put me on my guard as tt
their friendly intention. Other instances o
similar import might be related, but deem
what have stated as sufficient justification
of my course in order to keep my neck gu
] of the halter.
As to what Editor Pool may think or as
sert it concerns me but little His malevo
lent mendacity is, at the present time, in sucl
a state of efferyescence (perhaps the acids o
treason coming in contact with his crude al
kaline loyalty that it must be in commotion
Hence the efforts to distort the facts hav
stated.
On taking my leave of rebeldom, Mr.. W
| was one of the last, if not the last in Colds
boro' to whom made my departure known
aud with whom have frequently converset
on these occurrences since my return; ant
what surprises me is, that as partner, as
supposed him to be, in the Daily Ne,os con
Germ. he has thus far permitted the cacomach
GUS Mr. Pool to indulge his penchant for vitu
peration without remonstrance.
| Before concluding, may be permitted tt
say few words in my own behalf, since m,
return to my home. Far from indulging
spirit of vindictiveness, / have always mad
use of whatever influence 1 possessed will
Union officers in behalf of our citizens, fac
well known to the inhabitants here, ant
which believe they have the candor to con
TESS. 1t is true that-in wishing to cal
things by their appropriate names-I gener
ally apply the term rebel, instead of GonJed
erate This may have excited the ire Of til
| Gallant Col p when taken in connection wifi