The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-02-07

substance about this law when it was passed,
and we say it now. Ifa conscnpt who de
serted is to be branded as infamous, what
should be said of Mr. Davis, who fed like d
frightened felon from Richmond, clutching
all the gold he could lay mis- hands on, and
endeayoring to- escape the consequences of a
movement in which he had never perilled
even hair of his head He is the biggest
and the most infamous deserter that history
records. Weld your tomahawks on him.
gentlemen Of the secession press. He had
"plighted". his "faith,n yet he had neither
the courage to fight northe shrewdness to run
at the proper time to save himself Again,
there are hundreds of secession leaders in
civil and private life who swallowed great
flakes of fire, and declared they would die
before + Yankee" should set foot upon ouI
soil. They survive. They deserted. Z 7hes
set the example to the poor conscript, whose
wife and children were. starving at home
while he was required to fight against his
will ALI such leaders should have died in
the war; a 3t5 i-
We observe that Gov. Wise and the seces-
sion presses of Virginia and this State, ART
disposed to produce the impression that
Confederate soldiers are regarded by Union
lists as "disgraced and dishonored" men,
The object of this is apparent It's to ex-
cite the returned soldiers against the Union
men and against the government so as tc
secure their votes for the secession leaders.
No citizen, in any portion of the country, re
CARDS Confederate soldiers in this light 'Thes
fought in abad cause, and Providence dcci
ded against them; but every one, from the
President and Gen. Grant down to the hum
blest citizen, respects them for their fortitud,
and courage, and 'sympathises with them II
their personal misfortunes. In the touching
language of Mr.. Seward, in his speecl
at Gettysburg, in 1868, "We are now nea,
the graves of the misguided, whom WI
have consigned to their last resting place.
with pity for their errors, and with the
same heart full of grief with which W,
mourn over brother by whose hand.
raised in defence of his government, that
misguided brother perished" Side by side
in their innumerable graves, in thousan6
hills and valleys, sleep the soldiers of the re
bellion and the soldiers of the Union. Thes
were men. Their valor, whether properl.
directed or misguided, is a part of the re-
nown ofthe whole country. THERE'S no man in
any part of the Union who would dishonol
Confederate soldiers in their graves, or who
would cast reproach upon their comrades
who survive them. No, no, it is not thc
Southern soldiers who are obstructing the
work of restoration. As general rule they
are submitting in good faith to the national
authority but there are ex-offieers, like th.
Editors of the Dispatch and Journal, and Sc
cession leaders in public and private life, and
latter-day war men, who are not disposed to
reconstruct the Union unless it can be done
under the lead, so far as the insurgent States
are concerned, of men of their peculiar
stamp. Their motto before the war was, rule
or ruin. Having ruined, they are still deter
mined to rule. We tell members of Con
gress, and we tell the North, that this facl
solves the whole riddle of Southern politics