The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-06
For the Standard.

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CO The Southern Loyal Unionists,n which de-
serves some notice The editor begins the
article by saying that /" a pretty strong effort
has been made in this State, but mostly In a
private way, to get up meetings In response
to the call of the Radical Convention Whlch
meets in Philadelphia on the 3rd prox."
So far as Guilford County is concerned,
there have been two public meetings held,
one in the south eastern party OF the County
at which there were about 500 persons, not
withstanding exaggerated stories had been
circulated by the opposition, in regard to the
object of the meeting. Citizens OF Alamance,
Randolph and Guilford were in attendance.
Another was held on the 25th of August in
the western part of Guilford, composed OF
men from Forsyth, Randolph and Gulltord,
where near 400 were in attendance. rms
meeting was advertised. Still another has
been held in Randolph, where some 300 at
tended, after only three days public notice.
| The Sentinel says, most OF the persons
whose names figure in these meetings are
obscure individuals not much known beyond
| their immediate precincts" Two OF the
| meetings were presided over by former mem
| bers of the State Legislature.
| In the other were men who have been,
and are, in places of trust. One was mem
| Der of the Convention, another Is member
of the Literary Board.
But apart from all this, the persons who
composed those meetings were quiet, orderly
cirizens. american citizens, If you please,
who think they still have the old fashioned
right to assemble together to consult tor the
common good of all. "Obscure individuals"
indeed Has it come to that pass, that the
commen men, the bone and sinew of the
land cannot hold meetings without being
ridiculed by the would-be masters and oil
garchs Of the country9 OF course packed
Conventions held by ex-Confederate officials
are all right and their action binding, though
they be attended by only II persons who
aspire to represent whole Congressional
| District.
The Sentinel says, at is fair to presume
that many of them are honest, and believing
the Radical policy will prevail, they there
fore think it is best to put themselves in
position to cover their heads if a storm
should arise" This is luminous. Does the
Sentinel mean to say, that another storm Is
about to arise? Who is going to raise an
other storm? Are the late Contederates go
ing to try to kick out of the traces again 3
Do they think Stanton is going to play the
Floyd and furnish them with arms IT they
do, they are Mistaken sure.
OF course, among several hundred men.
even in these degenerate days, we would
expect to fine some " honest men," :" Others"
| it says, 'are more intelligent" and capable
of understanding the Radical programme,
as we'll us the Presidents policy, &C.
I
vain enough to think that we know Il little
of both. We take the papers, and we read
them. We have studied rebels for four years,
and think we kmoac a little of them.
The Sentinel further says, They must see
that the principles and purposes of the
Radicals lead directly to the destruction of
the federal Union of the States and to the
formation of central government, &c" We
must confess we don't see it" in exactly
! that light. But we do see great danger in
one mans debating to States that they must
and shall pass this or that orGinance,--and in
pardoning men, notorious traitors, before
any Court, civil or military, acts upon their
cases.
| Speaking still further of these "obscure
individuals, the editorg goes on to say, some
of them were no doubt unjustly treated dur
ing the war. Some were improperly arrest
ed and hardly dealt with, &C." Yes sir
You now begin to talk sense. Not only
some but many" of US were hardly
dealt with" during the war" We We're
drafted, conscripted arrested, taxed, tithed,
exiled and otherwise personally abused by
| the tools of JEFF. Davis & Co. Women and
children of this part of the State, as we'll as
Others, were dragged away from their homes
to the camps of brutal rebel soldiers because
they were faithful enough to their husbands
and fathers not to betray them to stay-at-
home secessionists and conscript-hunters.-
! Old, gray-headed fathers have been shame
! fully abused because they could not or would
not betray the whereabouts of their sons
who refused to fight against the old flag
! The writer of this has seen beings calling
themselves taking woman to camp,
and she in condition when h0nle was the
| only proper place for her, and when even
savages would have been tender with her
Sick children were being dragged along in
the same company. Does the Sentinel or any
other self-constituted guardian of the people,
suppose that we want such men to rule
any more? We can afford to lioe among
them, but we think they should be deprived
Of official power. No community people
can ever prosper under the control of such.
Accusing the loyal men of wanting to get
office, the Sentinel asks if they have pond
cred the step they are taking?" Are they
| ready to sacrifice the old government of their
fathers and bring down upon the country
another fratricidal war" We answer,
haze pondered the question fully, and think
we understand the . situation" We are not
of thai rule or ruin class, who began the
war, and who having come out second best
in the fight, are now trying to regain their
lost power by political trickery. We think
like Andy johnson said, that loyal men
should rule, and we expect to see that state
of affairs brought about without the {. seas
of blood" to which the editor alludes, being
"spilled." This sounds like threat There
may be assnssins abroad, but open warfare
most of you have had enough of.
AS to the last query of the Sentinel in re-
gard to whether we will give countenance to
policy to break up the Union, inaugurate
a central government, degrade the white
race and bring about miscegenation, we
say, these are the very things we are warning
against. Let Congress and the Executive
act each in its proper sphere, and we will
have no central government. Let the negro
have the right to testify in all cases, and
miscegenation and amalgamation will be
forever crippled.
To the last sentence of the very able, toz-
Grant, and Christia7a-L5ke article which reads
thus =" And let them remember that those
who endorse the radical programme are
traitors to the Constitution, traitors to the
Union, and traitors to the government of the
fathers, ,"-we reply, not so, but we are, and
have been, traitors to the " Confederacy."
OBSCURE INDIVIDUAL.
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