The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-14

the part Of those Southern leaders who
acknowledged Mr.. Davis as their master.
Every thing he ordered they did. He
conscripted them, heimpressed them, he
plundered them, he beggared them, he
tore their tender boys from their en-
braces to fight for him and his minions;
he insulted and degraded their States,
and threatened to pour his troops upon
them if they should dare to assert the
very right for which they were fighting,
that of secession; he told them at last
they must depend on their own slaves
to achieve their independence; and so
abject were they in spirit, so fanaticized,
so sectionalized, and SO set in their
hatred to the yankees that they
shouted amen! and still hailed him as
their benefactor and saviour. Our
neighbor did all that; and yet he calls
us coward, because we desired peace
under the flag and in the Union of our
fathers. And our neighbor, be it re-
membered, is the organ of Gov. Worth,
and of six of the nine members of Con-
gress who are knocking for admission
from this State.
The Editor of the Sentinel not only
.1l o.,x,ord ~, oooount of orr com
sistent Unionism, but he claims that the
Senator from Sampson and himself are
better Union men than We are. This
provokes us to say what we would have
avoided if we could. We have borne
these taunts and comparisons long
enough. We now declare that the
Editor of the Sentinel and those for
whom he speaks, are not Union men,
They are simply whipped, unsubdued,
incorrigible secessionists. They submit
as Satan did, when "hurled headlong
flaming from the ETHEREAL sky;" and if
they cannot approach the portals of the
Union and knock for admission in their
own way, with their own men, they do
not wish to approach them at all. Their
motto before and during the war was,
rule or ruin; and now, having ruined,
they intend to rule. They boast that
they keep the letter of their oath while
they disregard its spirit. In their hearts
they hate the President. In their hearts
they hate the "radicals" and moderate
Republicans. In their hearts they love
all secessionists,. all malcontents, and all
copperheads. For one, as friend to
the Union, having suffered prosecutions,
contumely, and outrage on account Of
our Union principles, sce do not acant
such men to rule over as. Why, where
were these people nine months ago? In
the very dust of submission. The Presi-
dent told them then, as he tells them
now, that the friends of the sick man
must nurse the sick man''-that those
who were conspicuous in making and
conducting the war must not be EN-
trusted with the work of restoration
that las particular friends, the true
Unionists-the enthusiastically loyal, if
only FIVE thousand in a State" are the
proper persons and the only persons to
perform this work. Nine months ago
not one of these persons would have
aspired to the office of constable. To
all appearances they were submissive
and loyal. They seemed entirely to
concur with the President in his de-
termination to restore the State through
the instrumentality of loyal men. Their
behaviour was such as, if possible, to
have deceived the very elect" They
crowded to Raleigh and Washington
for favors and pardons, and they seemed
pleased that genuine Union men had
taken the work of restoration in hand.
They felt then that they were conquered
they had got what they bargained
for; they knew in their hearts that ifthey
had been the conquerors they would
have scourged the Northern people after
they had surrendered, and they feared
that even their lands and houses would
be taken from them. They were then
in condition to be reconstructed.
But behold the change! 1t is useless to
describe the present condition of things.
1t is sufficient to say that the original
secessionists and latter-day war men
have complete control of the State; that
the true Union men are under the ban,
and are denounced as towards, because
they desired to stop the war and restore
the Union; that every candidate for
Congress except Mr.. Jones, who told the
people he could take the test oath, render
ed himself odious, and was beaten by an
immense majority; that the member OF
Congress from the metropolitan Dis
trict, an unpardoned rebel, defeated
true Union man, and declared upon the
stump that he would not support An
drew johnson for reelection to save his
life; and that generally and specially,
the spirit of disafection and of hatred
10 the Nnrtha,n naonla is on the In