The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-24
For the Standard
TO UNION MEN FROM AN UNIONIST.

morrow morning II o'clock.
| For the Standard.
TO UNION MEN FROM AN UNIONIST.
| Deluded acknowledgements
the offices---Blessing Brethren---COn-
| gratuIatIOns in CORgress---SOuthern
Leaders---Loyal Thunder, &C., &c.
There is now and has been all the time, an
intelligent respectable and highly moral
class of citizens, in all the insurgent States,
who do not desire, and never did desire, to
segregate themselves from the benign gov
eminent of their fathers.
These are the persons to whom we would
address few remarks; these are they who
have been so arievously abused for their
opinions sake, during the rebellion, for four
calamltOus years. These are they now, who
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-
pie of the South. The deluded Southern
people seem to prefer prevarication with
tiattery so soothing to their vain imaginings,
to unfattered truth with stern facts and stub
born realities. They want no foretelling of
impending doom, no logic of unalterable
destiny to he indexed upon their better judy
ments in that unglOssed truth which in the
end must prevail without leaving any flowery
plains for Imagination to play. These poor
pOwer-forsaken people, for whom we almost
feel fit to exclaim, as Rudolph did of DID,
"plous brethren give us your curses hereaf-
ter, your blessings roost on the wrong perch -
For Heavens blessings at the answer of some
of these blessings brethren" judging by
then past efficacy would at this untoward
1x,r -. IL
dition of this class of our population, the
general government-the aw-making and
the law-executing powers-knows them well
enough to be the only fre-furnaced tried adj
herents of the Union of all the States. Both
these departments know this we'll 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 2
Where would our groaning land be 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 2
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 |
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 |
majority, that the Union of 1860, |
shall be constructed and that construc ton |
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 at as |
old stagers of the team, and I" 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
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-
lemns it.
If there are any statesmen left in the land, |
and who can donbt it The burthens now
most weighty on innocent and unoffending !
We tell them that anything is better than
The whole country demands j
at their hands, Two years,
md there is yet no peace. The men who |
,aved the country in eXtremis. can certainly
cure it after the throes of its paroxysm are ]
past Let them apply lone leech" to the
flesh of the body polite, and if
his one will not draw, then that other !
eech,'' the good bloodsucker" that will re-
move all putridity. and pour some salubri-
'us ointment on, and bind up with healing
alive, the still gaping sores of the diseased
country.
f the South Where are the races of Man
um's, Gastons' and Badgers of North Car
lima These were all honorable men, they
oved their country more than Office how
yer so exalted the station. YE GODS is
here now no honor left among our public
len except that honor" that is found con-
unity with those charming bread and but
,r words, "trust and profit" And is this
IL the " honor that our public men shall
GREATER seek 4? And shall our poor deluded
eople put honor and trust again in the
utching fists of such men2 Heaven forbid
:. Men who have been tried and trusted
18th everything and who finally preserved
othing, save their inordinate thirst and era
ing appetites, like poor little Oliver beseech
lg the people " to give them more" Are
lese the men who have fed fat all their
yes, and who are still to be compelled" to
vallow all the gravy of all feshpots ? Cato
he Censor, as well as King Solomon, said
eware of fool But in these there is a |
nifty of knavery with folly, and ye hug them
le closer to your bosoms. You talk about
from Congress before the adop-
on of constitutional amendments. An in