The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-11
from The Henderson On. c. Pioneer
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.


! We are warned bv the rising dark
! and boiSterous cloud that is fraught
with rage, and sending forth its peals
| of thunder and Shafts of fire, that the
pending storm is soon to burst upon
our heads. SiG3pS and arOudfrs
have gone before all important events
in every age Of the world. The de-
struction of the antidclurian world by
water-the confusion Of the languages
at the Tower of Babel-the capture and
ruin of j Jerusalem, and the destruction
ofSoiom and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with
the destruction of the more modern in
had their forewarnino signs.
And now, while the great American
Republic is passing through the squallv
and last ordeal of a ruinous and wicked
rebellion, phenomena of ominous import
are ever and anon appearing and disap-
pearing in our political horizon; and the
prophets and their sons " through
out the land, are beholding these chan
ging scenes with mysterious curiosity,
and sending forth their flaming prophe-
cies. Here are their predictions listen
to them
- Union men cannot STAY in this conn
try" We will now accomplish in
the Legislative halls, and at the Bar,
what we failed to accomplish by arms
1.-THE courts Will soon drive the Tn
ion men from the country" "Union
meh do not or cannot represent this
country If we fail to drive them
by law, we will put them out by force
9 The United States will soon fall and
be ruined forever ''The North will
soon take up arms and fight the North''
'President Johnson will dispense Con-
gress by force of arms :" The South
ern people will not endure this North
ern radical rule much longer ''There
will soon be another war" ssThe South
will not submit to negro equality, and
if the North forces it upon us, the old
stars and stripes will fall to rise no
more.' ''The South will yet have her
independence -
And we recollcct distinctly. that this
same class of prophets, and their sons,
opened their mouths and prophesied to
us few years ago, saying moreover,
g Secession will be peaceable, and there
shall be no war; CAL the blood
that will be spilled by secession, will
IL.
''The war will not last one month";
" The Union men who fed this country
and joined the Federal army will new
err come back again" "The Yankees
will never see Western North Caroliua."
g The brightest day has now come, for
eIgn nations are coming to our aid the
North has divided against itself, and in
twenty days we will have the indepen-
dence of our Confederacy."
But just at this critical time. the
months and books these prophts were
closed by the sudden smash and crash
of the rebellior, and the capture oftheir
beloved leader, Jeff. Davis. Gen Grant
bounced down upon them rather unex-
pectedly; but they are recovering from
the shock, and as above stated, have
commenced prophesying again, and try
ing to engender deeper hatred in the
public mind of the South against the
Federal Government, and against the
Union men in their own sections, by the
most disgusting and shameful false
hoods. But where is there a man in
all the land so base and so beastlv stu
pid and ignorant, that he can be deceiv-
ed again by rebels and traitors? We
cannot think there is any such man
amongst us, if there is, he should at
once be sentenced to the lunatic asylum
for safe keeping
Lo! we hear a voice in the distance.
l1ark!w can distinctly hear the words:
" Great National CoaaUentio,a?" ssRhiE
0dello/ss0 National Union CZub!''
There is to be Convention held in the
City of Philadelphia in August next.
Let lis stop and examine the animal.
1t has a large and elegant head and
ears, all covered over with " Union -
but when we look down, we see that
cioveu-foot estates Rights" and there
tore unhesitatingly brand it with ct CO.
ana turn I'm it over to the proper authori-
tles. The ball is III motion anain-an