The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-06-13

the Union men defy them. They laugh at
their efforts to work themselves into respect
ability, or to shake from their shirts the
stains of treason. They are marked Even
now, after all their baseness, if they will re-
pent and submit they may be spared but
unless they do this they will be pursued,
exposed. and held up to the country in their
true colors until all good people will shun
them, and until history shall record them,
first, as the authors of their country's ruin,
and then as fomenters of strife and sedition
after they had professed to repent, and had
solemnly sworn to walk humbly and meekly,
as it was their duty to do, as the only expia-
ton they could offer for their crimes. The
Union men are backed and sustained not
only by consciousness of right, but by the
whole prestige and power of the government.
The result of the contest now going on be-
tween true men and traitors cannot be
doubtful. Treason acW be made odious, and
.sconscious traitors acM be punished. Sc
cession radicals may eXult for season in
the midst of the ruin they have wrought, but
in the end they will be covered with confu-
sion, and consigned, with their latter-day
allies, not only to the shades of private life,
but to merited obloquy and contempt.
Persecution of Union Men in Western
NOrth-Carolina.
We alluded recently to the persecution of
Union men in the Western part of this State,
and we have since learned that at the late
term of the Superior Court for Clay County.
Mr.. Solicitor Coleman caused one hundred
and secenty-tAree indictments to be found
against Union men, and only three against
secessionists!
We have learned this from w. H. Hogshed,
of Clay County, who has travelled three hun
dred and seventy-five miles to appeal to Gen.
Ruger for Justice in the name of the persecu-
ted Union men of Western Carolina.
1t is reported that President Johnson has
also been appealed to on this subject, and
that he has called the attention of Gov.
Worth to these things. There is no ground
for hoping that Gov. Worth will do justice
to the prosecuted Union men of this State.
He is in full sympathy with such men as Mr.
Solicitor Coleman, and his organ, the Sentinel,
is constantly engaged in assailing and ridi-
culing the true Union men of this State.
The Provisional Governor appointed R.
NJ. Henry ESQ.,, loyal man, Solicitor of the
mountain Circuit, but the last Legislature
elected this person Coleman, a bitter rebel,
in his place
Such are some of the fruits of Governor
Worth's administration. No wonder Presi-
dent johnson declared in November, that
his election was most damaging to the cause
of restoration The practical result of his
election has been that Union men are perse-
cuted and oppressed, while traitors are
placed in office to lord it over the friends of
| the national government. Ifthese things are
to continue, our Union people will become
indifferent and lose all heart. tits hard that
the incoming of the Union forces, and the
unfurling Of the old flag, should bring no
relief to those who were oppressed and per-
secuted by the rebel governments at Rich
mond and Raleigh on account of their Union
| principles.