The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-11
ri-Weeklg STANDARD.
RALEIGH, N. g.
SATURDAY, AUGUST IL. 1866.
False Prophets.


they would consent to break up the Union
there would beno war. They next told them,
after the war had commenced, that it would
not last more than six months-that England
and France would soon take our part-that
the Democracy of the North would divide
the Northern States and help US out-that
slavery would not only be saved, but that it
would be stronger, and spread wider and
further than ever before-that the South
would, in the end, dictate terms to the North,
and establish government on the basis of
State rights that would last always. These
were the predictions and promises. They
have turned out to be miserable, wicked lies
The whole country see and feels that they
are lies.
And now these same leaders, instead of
shrinking into some obscure corner to hide
themselves from the curses of an indignant
and ruined people, are again before the pub
lie with their predictions and promises. and
have the assurance to claim that hley are
specially entitled to be heard and respected
They now say that North Carolina is better
off out of the Union than she would be in
it-that every step thus far taken to restore
her to the Union is nall and void-that all
she has to do is to wait until the Northern
Democracy shall divide the Northern people
and involve them in a fight among them
selves, or until the President disperses the
present Congress and recognizes the South
ern members and the Northern Democratic
members the true Congress and then,
they say, the South will get her rights
AS foolish and as wicked as their first pre-
wicked We pity any honest man who puts
the slightest confidence in them.
In the first place. we can no more stay out
of the Union than we could go out. We
complain now of hardships and expressions,
but we tell the people that these things will
increase more and more as long as we resort
to measures to keep out of the Union. We
are adding to our troubles every day by the
delusive idea that we can safely remain as
we are.
In the second place, if every thing we
have thus far done is null and void, as held by
Judge Ruf1in and other malcontents, then the
President is a usurper-then the radicals are
and if we repudiate him by repudiating his
work, then, according to the secessionists
themselves, we have NO friends any where to
care for or protect u.s.
In the third place, if we wait till the North |
ern people fight among themselves, or until |
the President, sword in hand disperses the
present Congress and sets up another, we
Of No
thing will happen. The next Congress will
be more strongly radical than the present
one. 1t will do its work. and that work will
stand. If Lee, and Johnston, and Beauregard,
and their gallant followers could not van
quish the Northern armies, what hope can
there be that the great people who raised
and sent out those armies, who mourn so
many of their slain, and who have incurred
such enormous debt to suppress the re-
bellion, will ever consent to restore the Union
on our terms? The idea that they will do so
is preposterous.
The President offered us his plan of resto-
ration, and we refused it. If we had accep-
ted it in good faith it would have forced its
way over all impediments, and we should
have been, this day, a. full member of the
Unions in good standing. Then Congress
offered its plan, which, we undertake to say,
though not so advantageous to us as the
Presidents, is, upon the whole. mild, reason
able and just The secession leaders, headed
by Gov. Worth, will not permit the people of
the State to accept it and why? Because 1t
leprioes them Of office unless two-thirts of
the Congress, after a full hearing and for
good cause, shall think proper to remove the
disability. This is the whole secret They
love Office better than they do the peace
anil prosperity of the country. They are
destitute of patriotism. They are intensely
selfish They do not care who sinks so they
can swim.
If we were back in the Union, we should
not only be heard and respected in the coun-
ellis of the country, but the thousands of our
citizens who have just claims against the
government for property taken or destroyed
oy the Union armies, would be paid and
N addition to this, emf gration and capital
would at once pour into our State-industry
would revive, the rich and the poor would
De benefited, aud our people would start
anew with bright prospects in the career of
and prosperity. Those, therefore,
who are keeping the State out of the Union
oy false predictions and false promises, are
lot only disunionists, but they are enemies
% the State.
We told the people the truth in 1860 as to
The result of secession. We told them the
ruth in 1868, when we implored them, at
The risk of our life, to stop the war and re-
store the Union. We told them in 1865 that
# they did not accept the Presidents plan
n good faith, worse terms would be impo-
'ed upon them. And we tell them now, if
hey do not accept the proposed constitu-
ional amendment, they will be overtaken,
within less than twelve months, by greater
evils than any they have yet had to endure.
Dur opponents may scott at this prediction,
out they will live to rue their conduct.
beware of false prophets.''
Wake County.
The full vote OF Wake County is for Rati-