The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-11-21

MEN--men lof Southern birth-are found
| Wiling to bow the neck to any amount OF
dshonor, shame and degradation exacted..-
| And for wbst9 What win we gain by dis-
honoring ourselves Representation IN Con-
yress Perhaps so, and perhaps not. Dut
| admit that we get representation in Congress,
by base eltdishonor what good will 1t avail
US 2 We hbld that men base enough to ois-
honor themselves have no right to entail dis
honor on the posterity.
What, then, is our duty, as MEN--men OF
honor and common decency Would you
know Then listen Refuse to endorse
the Constitutional Northumberland
to stay outtof Congress- as you have been do
ing, and carry the right of Congress to impose
taxes on you without representation, to thel
Supreme Court of the United States That
Court if Court it can be called, being as fou
and corrupt as any dead carcass that ever
hatched vermin, will no doubt decide against
you, but then it will betray its intamy to the
civilized world.
Southern men-men of honor-stand firm
in opposition to voting base dishonor on
your heads If entailed upon you by
ruffian arms of corrupt oppressors, you can
at least have the proud satisfaction OF ex-
claiming to generations in ages far yet to
come, "Thou canst not say did it %
The Wilmington Dispatch is not sure that
the South would not succeed in another con-
f1ict of arms. It scorns the idea that the ma
tional government was right in suppressing
the rebellion. It says:
"Was never settles principle. 1t only de-
cides how far principle may be asserted;
and whether the party claiming to be gov
erned by it has the power to command re-
spect for it. The doctrine preached by Nor
them papers that the questions which diyid-
ed the sections of this country are settled,
and that the principles for which the South
commended are determined to be wrong, is
sstuff No rights have been determined by
the defeat of the Southern people in their eff
forts to achieve independence. The only
question which has been determined is that
as to whether the South or the North is
strongest Some minds are not SO fully sat-
isfed even on that point, but are ofthe opin-
ion that with the same chances and the new
experience which the South has acquired. the
result obtained, in another conflict, would be
changed. Of this we are in doubt. though
we are inclined to believe 1t is so; but this
does not and cannot affect the question as to
whether the North or the South ought to
have triumphed.
So far as we are concerned our opinions
are the same to-day that they were in 1861,
only little more so; and we believe that
the truth will yet be indicated If not in
our generation, at least in those that follow.
We think that the Southern people are very
foolish to tacitly acknowledge that the war
has ended in the triumph of a principle, and
in the vindication of its merit; and admit
that, because conquered, they ere wrong
War is the instrument that brute force en-
ploys to commit injustice; not. the court in
which justice is distributed"
Great is Secessia! And yet these are the
men who are demanding their rights" at
the hands of Congress These are the men
who are ruling and domineering over South
ern Unionlsts! How long is this to endure