The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-06-06


attack on the Senior Editor of this journal,
without provocation. 1t charges that we
have spent years of toll in the low, grovel-
ling business of blackening regulations, and
states that we have not grown more wise. OF
considerate, or virtuous as we have grown
older.
1t also charges that, without cause, we
have attempted to blacken the reputation of
"a distinguished minister of the gospel"
This refers to Dr. Deems. Now, so far as
DR.. Deems is concerned, we stated inciden-
tally, in notice of his secession paper, that
he had declared in one of his stump speeches
in this State, that he would as soon doubt
the truth of the Christian religion as the sue
cess of the Confederate cause. DR.. Deems
pronounced this statement calumny, and
forced upon US the necessity of proving it
We proved it. He called us liar, and We
told the truth, and that he had not told it.
That is ALL If his reputation has been
blackened, we are not TO blame for it. If
necessary, we think we might go further and
prove that Dr. Deems said, in one of his
stump harangues II will stake my souls sal
walton on the success of the Southern Con-
federacy. If that fails l will stamp the
Bible under my feet as untrue" This was
an awful declaration, but it is simply in sub
stance what we have already proved on the
Doctor by COL Harris, of Rutherford.
And now, Mr.. Pell and now, Mr.. Gales,
who are you, that you denounce US as low
and grovelling9 Who authorized you to re-
fer to our age and to assume that you are
wise and virtuous, while we are low and
grovelling? With what face do you, who
owe your lives and the fact that you are al
lowed to remain here, to the clemency of the
national government, assail and villify
loyal, honest man? Both of you have shown
by your conduct that you hate the flag, and
that you are enemies to the government
You, Mr.. Pell, who talk about wisdom and
virtue, and assume to be wiser and better
than other people-where are the evidences
of your charity, your love for the country,
your consistency, your honesty, or your fidel-
ity even to the religion you profess Fidelity
indeed! For long years you lauded Jefferson
Davis and his prime minister-that monster
OF moral iniquity, Judah P. Benjamin-while
the latter was writing, and both were Issuing
of E..
Contederacy, in which the very existence of
Jesus Christ was ignored You bore this in
silence-you, preacher of the Gospel-or
but teebly protested against it. This person
Benjamin cast the Saviour from his mediate
rial seat-he denied him, and you, because
party ordered it and fanaticism sanctioned
it, groaned and said amen! There was
nothing in earth, or hell, or heaven that YOU
would not have sacrificed to aid the rebel
lion; and now, forsooth, yoa are loyal, and
Union men who were mobbed for their prin-
clples under the lead of such as you and Mr.
Gales, are not to be trusted. Five thousand
federal prisoners were starved and tortured
to death at Salisbury, and you said amen
Thirteen thousand were consigned to the
same fate at Andersonville, and you said
amen. The war went on, thousands were
slain, thousands were beggared, thousands
were starved or famished the earth was red
with blood, and yet you called for more
horrors and more blood. You begged God
to rain his last and his reddest fires on the
Yankees. You impiored him to blight, con-
sumo, exterminate them. You told him in
an authoritative tone that the Confederacy
was His work, and you almost dared Him to
desertit. You pursued and prosecuted Union
men. You called them tories, traitors,
Wretches When they were tortured or hung
when poor Uniop boys were fastened by
Their necks to the trees, and strong men took
hold OF their feet and pulled them, while
other strong men jumped on their backs and
broke their necks, you thanked God that the