The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-10

SuOJuSttlOu VI tuC COuutiy. wv Voiuh
foresaw and feared this result. The true
Union men of the State began, therefore, in
1868, to agitate for peace on the best terms
they could get; and they were willing to re-
construct the government on the basis Of the
Constitution, and thus obtain peace. The
Confederate government, so-called, had be-
come despotism from the moment of the.
passage of the conscript law. 1t was tramp
ling on the States, and was threatening to
coerce them if they should dare even to call
Conventions to consider the condition of the
people and to act for them. "Good faith"
of which Gov. Worth speaks, had been
thrown to the dogs by Davis and his set.-
Every true man in this State, Mr.. Worth in
cluded, for he was true then,) painted for
liberty and pcace-for release from the hor-
rible despotism which mad settled upon us
in one mass of darkness There was no hope
for success-no hope even for the dream OF
independence. The true Union men OF this
State clamored for peace. They held meet
ings with this view. They demanded a
State Convention. They had fathers, and
sons, and brothers in the war, and they cried
out against the further effusion of blood
But Mr.. Davis said 'sNo! Good faith re-
quires that you should fight it out. You
shall fight it out. My neck depends upon
the result If you finch, North Carolina, 1
will pour my veteran troops into your bosom
and will desolate and trample you from the
sea to the mountains. Good faith gentle
men good faith You embarked with
me in this boat against your will, and in
tend to hold you to it to the last. Iknow my
Constitution sanctions the right of secession,
but if you attempt to secede ] will subjugate
you" Thus spoke Davis, and our Stateauthori-
ties said, Amen And so the peace men-the
true Union men were crushed, and the work
of death went on. And now Gov. Worth
can it be possible ?-Gov. Worth, the ultra
Randolph Unionist, endorses this work of
death, and declares that "good faith" re-
quired us to stand by Davis to the last This
puts him, we repeat, on the same platform
with Davis and Benjamin. The disloyal in
certain Counties, which gave him such large
votes, will rejoice to hear it; but every true
Union man will hang his head with sorrow
when he learns, from Gov. Worth himself
that he approves that fatal policy which re-
fused to listen to the voice of peace, and
which could haze the anarchy, the desola-
tion, thewoe and the ruin which have been
visited upon our unhappy country.
The Governor says there is not one disloyal
person in North Carolina. We wish we could
believe this. We fear there are thousands in
the State, all of whom voted for Governor
Worth, who do not love the federal govern
ment-who never will love it, and who
would rejoice at any calamity that might be-
fall it. But they submit, as the Devil sub
mitted after he was hurled over the walls of
Heaven. Every one is worthy of the conf
dence of the President, says the Governor
and vet at the moment he wrote this he knew
there was an Editor in this City-the second
one arrested for similar offence be tried
for uttering disloyal and seditious language.
/ The following extract from the first proc
lamation of Gov. Holden, of date June 18th,
1865, will refresh the minds of our readers
| with the sentiments of true and devoted
| Union man. These sentiments were received
| at the time as sound. Not whisper was
uttered against them. There was nothing
said then about good faith to Jefferson
Davis, but the people of the State were con
graduated on the fact that they had just
been delivered from one of the most cor.
rupt and rigorous despotisms that ever ex
listed in the world" Gov. Holden said:
| "And now, as Provisional Governor of thu
State, invite the loyal people thereof to resume
| with cheerfulnessS Sand with confidence in the fu
| ture, their accustomed pursuits; and l invite
| those who have been driven from the State by
despotic power to return; assuring all loyal cit
izens of the State that they will be protected iI
| their persons and property, and encouraged il
their exertions to improve their condition. al
so exhort them not to cease to take an interest il
| public af1BirS, but to unite with me in the pur
| pose to reconstruct the State government through
the aid of loyal citizens; and to be vigilant ant
| active in discouraging dislOyal sentiments, an(
in ensuring the election of known friends of tn,
Federal Government to every office. Your -ex
| periencc, fellow-citizens, during the rebellion
should attach you by the strongest ties to thu
government of the United States. You have jus
been delivered by the armies of the Union from
one of the most corrupt and rigorous despotism
that ever existed in the world Many of yol
have been forced, for opinions sake, and becaus'
of your love for the flag of your fathers, to fl,
from the land of your birth or of your adoption
and seek refuge among strangers, to escape tn
hand of arbitrary power. Many of you have beer
torn from your homes, or hunted down like wilt
beasts in the forest and forced into the rebel or
mics as conscrpts, to fight for the continued en-
slavement of the cOlored race, and also for stat
| of slavery for yourselves and your children
Some of you have been subjected to imprison
ment and tortures on account of your opinions
and all of you have been deprived for years, upt'
! recent PERIOD of freedom of speech and of tn,
press, and Of every essential guarantee of libert
and of protection to person and property, whicl
is contained in the Constitution of the Cnitet
States. You are once more free citizens OF tn
United States By your sufferings in the past
and by your hopes for the future, adjure you Il
| guard well your freedom Remember that al
you have, and all you can hope to be, and all o
good that is in reserve for your children, are in
dissolubly bound up with the American Union
The 'unity of government which constitutes u
| one people," should be more dear to us thai
ever, on account of the sufferings through whicl
we have passed. In the language Of WASHING
TON. it is of infinite moment that you shoult
properly estimate the immense value of your ma
tional Union to your collective and individua
happiness; that yoa should cherish cordial, ha
bitual and imnsovable attachment to it accus
toming yourselves to think and to speak of it a
the palladium of your political safety and pros
perity; watching for its preservation with jealou
anxiety; discountenancing whatever may sug
gest even a suspicion that It can in any event b
abandoned; and Indignantly frowning upon th
first dawning of every attempt to ALLEVIATE on
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