The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-06-09
From the Raleigh (N. g. Express
Driving Out the Quakers---ExO-
dIs from the south.

We have already noticed the arrival of n
party of some twenty five persons belonging
to the Society of Friends, in Washington
city, en- route for the North, and now we
learn that on Monday night about eighty
more passed through this city for the same
destination, and that one hundred and fifty
more will follow in few days. This is a
cheerful picture truly. While ,chite laborers
are invited from abroad the best white la
borers already here are leaving us, and
leaving because they are denied that equality
and protection which they feel they ought as
loyal citizens to enjoy.
The Quakers, as these people are com
monty called, are a pat,Snt, pcaccable, in
dustrious, aw.abiding set of people; they
will have no strifes among themselves or
with other peoples they took no part in the
late war beyond what they were forced to do
at the point OF the bayonet: they were true
to the United States Government at heart
and in act as far as possible, all the time,
and they hailed the day of their deivcrancc
rs an era Of great joy. They did their own
work, would never own slaves, and did not
look on slavery as the greatest Of blessings,
or shareholders as being any better than
other respectable people They have not
given any one just cause Of ollense, and yet
because they would take no voluntary part
in the war against the Government, and
hailed with joy the coming of their deliver
ers, they are driven ont from the land OF
their nativity and the homes Of their child,
hood by prosecutions and expressions hcaped
upon them by the dsalectcd. These Quak.
ers arc honest and straightforward, frank and
| truthful; these are the tales they tell here
before leaving. and they will repeat the same
at Washington and as they journey North.
and the simple recital will have a more pow
criul effect upon the Northern mind and the
Congress of the United States than the
| studied stories Of all the witnesses that have
been before the Joint Committee on Recon
strnction relative to the condition of affairs
| in North Carolina. They tell that they are
driven out by prosecutions, and that they
have been hunted down because of their
| bppbSNloH W Ihc war TEu tnelr ucNOtlOn
the Union, and all tie smoothing over of
Mr.. Graham and Others as to the harmony
! and loyalty which they assert exists here will
not counterfeit their simple narrative.
Every man in the South that refused to
| have anything to do with the war, and who
chung to the Union all the time, was odiouS
while the contest lasted, and is odious now,
and the majority are not willing to recon
strnct unless they can have it ncliiinated in
the bond that they have done nothing wrong.
| that the cause of TIC rebellion was a holy
cause, and that the only thing wrong about
it was it's failure. This is the feeling in this
and ali the States, and if Congress yields and
allows those who ruled in the insurrectionary
States before the war, and whose reasonable
plottings and conspirngs plunged the people
into woes unutterable, to rule again, there
will be no peace OR safety for the Quakers OF
other persons at the South who have been
and are true to the General Government.