The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-09

a startling ANNOUNCEMENT ffom cen.
Sheridan.
a Telegram was published in all the pa
pers this morning and we transfer it to our
Ecolumns this evening Ito the effect that Gen.
Sheridan has said that 9" he late riot in New
Orleans was not the effect Of a hastily con-
| gregated mob, butthe result of preconcer-
| ted plot of the Rebels to slaughter the lea
| ding Union men of the State" and that 4" it
| Is but the commencement of the rebel plan
to rid Louisiana of Union men," ~ - e
Whether Gen. Sheridan has said this for
maly in dispatch to Gen. Grant or not it
is undoubtedly true. The evidence of pre-
| concert is overwhelming, and the e unneces-
sary sacrifice of life" on the fatal Monday,
can only be reconciled upon the principle
| that the rebels have resolved upon extermi-
nation.-Albany Ecening Journal.
If the Editor of the EDening Journal would
reside in the South a few months he would
cease to be startled by such announcements
Men of honor, devoted friends of the Union,
might as well be slaughtered as to be. tor
| tured by the insult, constantly thrown in
| their faces by rebel State governments in the
South, and practicalized by action on the
part of those governments, that unconditional
Union men are degraded beings, because
y,
fill any place of trust, honor, or profit. This
is the rule in this State, and the same rule
still more rigidly applied, exists in all the
States south ofus. If the good name of our
Union people is to be taken away-if they
are to be marked and to go down to posteri-
ty as infamous because they were and are
true to the Union, then it does not make
much difference whether they are slaughtered
or not. Men who would have rejoiced, if
they had dared to do so, when they heard of
the assassination of President Lincoln, and
who speak of the Union flag as 90 a rag" and
refuse to walk under it, are held in high es-
TEEN In this region, and the associates and
friends of such occupy all the offices that
could be bestowed upon them by our rebel
Governor; while Union men, who suffered
for long years because of their attachment to
the government Of their fathers, are cast out
OF office like dogs, and marked as traitors to
their country-that is, to the Southern Con-
tederacy. For we tell the Ecening Journal
that traitors here, in the estimation of those
who are lording it over us, are such persons
as were not true to the Richmond governmet
1t such things are permitted to continue,
the day Is not distant when the South will
be to the Union what Poland is to Russia
Every loyal voice will be hushed, Though
many will still cherish love of the Union
in their hearts, and no voice will be heard
save that of defiance for the government and
contempt and scorn tor the :. Yankee" HE
that hath ears to hear, let him hear" So far
as we are concerned, our purpose is fixed. Ii
we cannot be national in our aspirations and
views we will he nothing, and say nothing.
We will never cooperate with unrepentant
traitors, who deliberately and persistently
sought the life of the nation, nor with those
copperheads who annoyed and hung on the
TANKS ofthose true men who fought and suf-
fered to save it.