The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-11-28

80 s.s.a For the eeeroaru
70 IT 1rrr1 I MEN FROM AMUNIONIsT'
Deluded yoters---R epresents tien---Ai'
the oficess--BlessinE BreShren.'.Con-
sratuiatlons u Congress-.-sootneln
I,eaders..-LoyaI Thunder, &C., &C.
Tbere ia now and has been all the time, an
;ntell;oent respectable and highly moral
class If citizens, in all the insurgent STATES,
who do not desire, and never dld desire, u
seeregate themselves from the benign gov
eminent Of their fathers. ....,.
I These are the persons to whom we wouio
address few remarks; these are tney VINO
have been SO grievously abused lot tnelr
opinions sake, during the rebellion, Tor four
calamitous years. These are they now, VINO
are deprived Of all. part in the governments
of the so-styed Southern States. Who are
frowned upon at the White House, and who
are not at all regarded at the Capitol. These
| persons have proved, it appears, too honest,
| too courageous, and but too true prophets to
| suit the caprices of the tyrant-trodden peO-
! ple of the South. The deluded Southern
people seem to prefer prevarication with
| iattery so soothing to their vain imaginings,
| to unfiattered truth with stern facts and stub
born realities. They want no foretelling of
| imnendino doom. no logic of unalterable
destiny to be indexed upon their better judg-
| ments in that unglossed truth which in the
end must prevail without leaving any fowery
plains for imagination to play. These poor
power-forsaken people, for whom we almost
feel fit to -exclaim, as Rudolph did of old,
"pious brethren give US your curses hereat-
| ter, your blessings roost on the wrong perch n
| For Heavens blessings at the answer Of some
of these blessings brethren" judging by
| theil past efficacy would at this untoward
time, be irretrievable destruction. The con-
dition of this class of our population, the
general government-the law-making and
the law-executing powers-knows them well
enough to be the only fire-furnaced tried adj
herents of the Union of all the States. Both
these departments know this well enough.
Whether they choose to act on the infOrma-
ton is another question. And these are the
portion of the people, that the chickering's of
| the two independent branches irreparably
injure, SO long as at the present public affairs
continue. How long shall the patience of
these altogether innocent people be abused ?
Where would our groaning land bea what
| the difference be now and the late Confeder-
| ate times if their waning patience should
| at last become exhausted? When shall the
last straw be laid on their unoffending backs
Their fate is hard, but let US ask those
who have already endured SO much, to en-
dure yet little more; and yet little longer
| to abide their time Matters now must be
at their worst, the fates can not possibly
hold in store for them but little more tribu-
lation. Something we know not what, it
can not be worse, must ere long be DONE
And the truth then will be asserted, and jus
tice fully sustained The Congress meets in
a short while. The elections for the present
are all decided and proved decisive. The
voters of seventeen loyal States have told
Congress, in tones of thunder, loud enough
for all to hear, by more than four hundred
thousand majority, that the Union of 1850,
shall be constructed and that construction
perfected in terms and mode prescribed by
| themselves. A few score of the political
leaders of the South during the rebellion,
and who as they took the lead then, now
take the roadway and still presume to act as
old stagers of the team, and "bully leaders"
| they are, in baulk," all other cattle must
be harnessed to follow their guidance, wher-
ever or whenever they choose to give the only
true and proper direction. But have not
these "old hacks" had fair and double
trial in two Congresses, at Washington and at
Richmond, the two great capitals of the late
United-States and Confederate States of
America And what has been the result p
The world sees it. And the world con-
dennis it.
If there are any statesmen left in the land,
and who can donbt itl The burthens now
most weighty on innocent and unoffending
| citizens, these statesmen will soon remove.
We tell them that anything is better than
uncertainty. The whole country demands
reconstruction at their hands. Two years,
and there is yet no peace The men who
saved the country in extremis can certainly
cure it after the throes of its paroxysm are
past Let them apply "one leech" to the
suppurating flesh of the body polite, and if
this one will not draw, then that other
leech," the good bloodsucker" that will re-
move all putridity, and pour some salubri-
Gus ointment on, and bind up with healing
| salve, the still gaping sores of the diseased
country.
But where are the once yaunted statesmen
of the South Where are the races of Man
gums, Gastons' and Badgers of North Car
Olina9 These were all honorable men, they
loved their country more than office how
ever so exalted the station. YE GODS Is
there now no honor left among our pubic
| men9 except that honor" that is found con-
| Jointly with those charming bread and but
ter words, "trust and profit" And is this
all the g honor" that our public men shall
| hereafter seek And shall our poor deluded
people put honor and trust again in the
cclutching fists of such meme Heaven forbid
| it. Men who have been tried and trusted
| with everything and who finally preserved
nothing, save their inordinate thirst and era.
wing appetites, like poor little Oliver beseech-
ing the people "to give them more" Are
these the men who have fed fat all their
lives, and who are still to be compelled" to
swallow all the gravy of all feshpots Cato
the Censor, as well as King Solomon, said
beware of fool But in these there is
| unity OF knavery with folly, and ye hug them
the closer to your bosoms. You talk about
guarantees from Congress before the adop-
ton of constitutional amendments. And In
the next breath send men to represent the
Interest, the welfare, the honor and dignity of
the people, with ungu2ranteed and untiring
confidence The self same men who destroy
ed the whole land once, and who would
coolly say now, as they have exclaimed be-
FORE we never intended it! They always
supposed the States had constitutional
right to secede, and under chartered rolls OF
record, to set up new governments whenever
| thew desired They never intended war,
thew were ever for peaceable proceedings
| No hodu 10 ,r,iurr