The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-26

= fsv,,p A,rt.vs y,f,,, RI,n1,1 If Union men.
sinarting under injuries inflicted by traitors,
take it into their heads and hearts occasion
llly to- chastise the guilty parties, OF cause
them toleave the country without sumcient
time to adjust their private affairs, terrible
,lowl is raised--exagg erated statements are
published in all the rebel papers of the South
-Coleful accounts are given on board of the
cars-abusive epithets are piled upon the
Union party-false statements are sent to
Washington-and whining and vilaninous
appeals are made to the civil and military
authorities to correct the alleged outrages. !.
During the dark and bloody days OF
'61-2-3 and 4, no such deep concern was
felt or manifested for the suffering Union
men and families by any of these parties
when the rebel authorities gave all Union
men forty days to turn traitors in or leave
the country This was all right, and the
confiscation of their property as means OF
aiding the cause of treason, was all marvel
ously proper, and openly advocated by these
same sympathisers Nay, some of them were
enrolling and c0ntscating officers! Right
were thrown into jails by hundreds, without
regard to age or innocence. They We're
marched out of these jails to the several de-
pots, with their arms pinioned and bound
with ropes, and shipped to Richmond, Ma
con, Tuscaloosa and Mobile, where they
starved, suffered, fingered and died, with no
kindred hand to wipe the cold sweat from
out and hanged; others were shot down in
cold blood upon our streets, and upon the
public roads of the country; and Others were
tied to wagon wheels and trees and whipped
upon their bare backs some fainting and dy-
ing under the operation Innocent and un-
offending females were taken into their own
wards tied up and whipped or hanged, to
make them tell where their sons, husbands
and brothers were, that the conscripting Off,
GERS night capture them, and force them to
fight against their country Their houses
were robbed-their stock taken-their fences
destroyed. and many of them reduced to
poverty and want, because their proprietors
were fighting in the Union army, or hiding
out in the mountains, rather than make wal
upon the old government. More and worse
than this TRANSFERRED right here, and it was all
approved by these rebel Williams, who are in
solently claiming protection from the Courts
of the country, and from the civil and mill
tary authorities of the nation. Nay, it was
openly and everywhere proclaimed by these
scoundreIs that if they achieved the indepen-
dence of the Confederacy that no Union man
or family should remain in the country-at
the same time avowing that if they lost they
would leave fer parts unknown.
We are not astonished that some acts OF
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rebel cruelties, but we are, and have been
all the time, surprised that so feoo of the gull
ty parties have been made to suffer. 1t can
only be accounted for upon the ground that
our people are the most patient and forglV-
ing race of men on earth. Certainly those
who were prominent in these acts of oppres-
sion, murder and robbery, have no right to
complain when they are made to atone fol-
their sins To be allowed to live at all, is all
they have right to ask, and they should be
willing to live in other lands, over the hills
and far away"
Gentlemen who acted with the rebels
took no part in depressing Union men-ac
uuiesce in the overthrow of the rebellion
stand by law and order-and behave like
gentlemen and patriots. we are opposed tt
see treated otherwise than as gentlemen anc
patriots, AMI we will come to the rescue o.
all such as vigorously as any other man. Ano
we are pleased to know that there are many
SUCH We would to God they were more nu
merous-there would then be fewer com
plants of outrages. -KaorOiHe Wing.