The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-15
A Startling Announcement from Gen.
Sheridan.

A telegram was published in all the pa
pers. this morning-and we transfer it to our
columns this evening-to the effect that Gen.
Sheridan has said that the late riot in New
Orleans was not the effect of hastily con-
gregated mob, but the result of preconcer-
ted plot of the Rebels to slaughter the lea
ding Union men of the State" and that Z" it
is but the commencement of the rebel plan
to rid Louisiana of Union men,"
Whether Gen. Sheridan has said this for
mally in dispatch to Gen. Grant or not it
is undoubtedly true The evidence of pre-
concert is overwhelming. and the "unneces-
sary sacrifice of life" on the fatal Monday,
can only be reconciled upon the principle
that the rebels have resolved upon extermi-
nation.-Auany Ereaing Journal.
If the Editor of the Eeening Journal would
reside in the South few months he would
cease to be startled by such announcements.
Men of honor, devoted friends of the Union,
might as well be slaughtered as to be tor
tured by the insult, constantly thrown in
their faces by rebel State governments in the
South, and practicalized by action on the
part OF those governments, that unconditional
Union men are degraded beings, because
traitors to the Confederacy, and unworthy to
fill any place of trust, honor. or profit This
is the rule in this State, and the same rule,
still more rigidly applied, exists in all the
States south Oft If the good name of our
Union people is to he taken away-if- they
are to be marked and to go down to posteri-
ty as Infamous because they were and are
true to the Union. then it does not make
much difference whether they are slaughtered
or not. Men who would have rejoiced, if
they had dared to do so, when they heard of
the assassination of President Lincoln, and
who speak of the Union flag as "a rag" and
refuse to walk under it, are held in high es-
TEEN in this region, and the associates and
friends of such occupy all the offices that
could be bestowed upon them by our rebel
Governor; while Union men, who suffered
for long years because of their attachment to
the government of their fathers, are cast out
of office like dogs, and marked as traitors to
their country-that is, to the Southern Con-
federacy For we tell the Eoening Journal
that traitors here, in the estimation of those
who are lording it over us, are such persons
as were not true to the Richmond governmet
If such things are permitted to continue,
the day is not distant when the South will
be to the Union what Poland is to Russia.
Every loyal voice will be hushed, Though
many will still cherish love of the Union
In their hearts) and no voice will be heard
save that of defiance for the government and
contempt and scorn tor the Yankee" HE
that hath ears to hear, let him hear.pf Sofar
as we are concerned, our purpose is fixed. If
we cannot be national incur aspirations and
views we will be nothing, and say nothing.
We will never cooperate with unrepentant
traitors, who deliberately and persistently
sought the life Of the nation, nor with those
copperheads who annoyed and hung on the
fanks OF those true men who fought and suf-
fered to save it. .r