The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-06-27
SYMPATHY FOR RraEra-If 1Tn;on

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SYMPATHY FOR REBELS-If Union men.
smarting under injuries inflicted by traitors.
take 1t into their heads and hearts OCCASION
ally to chastise the guilty parties, or cause
them to leave the country without sufficient
time to adjust their private affairs, terrible
howl is raised exaggerated statements are
published in all the rebel papers of the South
-doieful accounts are given on board of the
cars-abusive epithets are piled upon the
Union party-false statements are sent to
Washington whining and vilIaninous
appeals are made to the civil and military
authorities to correct the alleged outrages
During the dark and bloody days of
6l-2-3 and 4, no such deep concern was
felt or manifested for the suffering Union
men and families by any of these parties
when the rebel authorities gave all Union
men forty days to turn traitors in or leave
the country This was all right, and the
confiscation of their property as means of
aiding the cause of treason, was all marvel.
ously proper, and openly advocated by these
same sympathisers Nay. some of them were
enrolling and coafscating officers! Right
here, in loyal East Tennessee, Union men
were thrown into jails by hundreds, without
regard to age or innocence They were
marched out OF these jais to the several de-
pots, with their arms pinione,l and bound
with ropes, and shipped to Richmond, Ma
con, Tuscaloosa and Mobile, where they
starved, suffered, fingered and died, with no
kindred hand to wipe the cold sweat from
their emaciated faces. Others were taken
out and hanged; Others were shot down in
| cold blood upon our streets, and upon the
| public roads OF the country; and others were
| tied to wagon wheels and trees and whipped
| upon their bare backs, some fainting and dy-
| ing under the operation! Innocent and un-
offending females were taken into their own
yards tied up and whipped or hanged, to
make them tell where their sons, husbands
and brothers were, that the conscripting off
GERS night capture them, and force them to
| fight against their country! Their houses
were robbed-their stock taken-their fences
destroyed, and many of them reduced to
poverty and want, because their proprietors
were fighting in the Union army, or hiding
out in the mountains rather than make war
upon the old government. More and worse
than this transpired right here and it was all
approved by these rebel Williams. who are in
solently claiming protection from the Courts
of the country, and from the civil and mill
tary authorities of the nation. Nay, it was
openly and everywhere proclaimed by these
scoundrels, that if they achieved the indepen-
dence OF the Confederacy that no Union man
or family should remain in the country-at
the same time avowing that if they lost they
would leave fer parts unknown
We are not astonished that some acts OF
violence should occur, growing out Of these
rebel cruelties, but we are, and have been
all the time, surprised that so .teao of the gull
ty parties have been made to suffer. 1t can
only be accounted for upon the ground that
| our people are the most patient and forgiv
ing race of men on earth. Certainly those
who were prominent in these acts of oppres
sion, murder and robbery, have no right tt
complain when they are made to atone fo
their sins. To be allowed to live at all, is al
they have right to ask, and they should b.
willing to live in other lands, over the hill
and far away"
Gentlemen who acted with the rebels
took no part in expressing Union men-ac
quiesce in the overthrow of the rebellion
stand by law and order-and behave lik'
gentlemen and patriots. we are opposed t,
: see treated otherwise than as gentlemen ant
patriots, and we will come to the rescue o
all such as vigorously as any other man. Ani
we are pleased to know that there are many
such. We would to God they were more nu
merous-there would then be fewer com
plants of outrages .-Knorcille Wing.
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