The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-15


the government of which they are subjects.
They were defeated by the United States in
an attempt to perfect a long cherished
scheme which must have resulted in the
greatest benefit and advantage to themselves.
They were human, and they could feel moth.
ing else than bitterness for those whose tri-
umph was in the ruin of their hopes and the
blasting and crushing out of their aspira-
TONS They do not love the government of
the United States-the " Stars and Stripes"
excite no emotions of pride in their bosoms,
for they have seen it trailed in defeat too Of
ten as their starry crossed battle flag waved
victorious in the summer sunlight.
The glory and strength of the nation and
its reputation abroad is matter of small
concern to the Southern captives. No hope
of future national grandeur dazzles them, no
dream of the American Eagle with one foot
on the North and the other on the South
pole, with the tip of his tail in the Pacific,
and the beak of his bill in the Atlantic
ocean, ever awakens the proud reflection that
they are American citizens, but on the other
hand they sneer at this proud bird of free
dom, and actually refer to him sometimes as
a 6uzzdrd! They predict that the time will
come when &C one and indivisible" shall mean
hundred little municipalities preying on
one'another.
They have no veneration for the govern
ment, no love for the flag, no feeling of Sc
curity for their interests, no very great de
sire to continue under the government any
longer than necessarily compelled by coer-
cion. If they had the power to establish
Confederacy before they were whipped they
would have established it, and it is reasona-
BILE to believe that if they could establish it
now they would do so, butfor their 01ths OF
allegiance These oaths were to the effect
that they would support the Constitution;
should they ever be required to do more, or
should the Constitution be subverted, these
oaths are worth nothing.
1t strikes us that to the Government ofthe
United States eleven conquered provinces,
for such at present the Southern States are.
of population one-half as great as that OF
the government which holds them in sub
lection, burning with the memories of wrongs
and with hearts ranking with the most bit
ter hatred and longing for vengeance, only
restrained by their pledges of honor which
they desire faithfully to fufll-it strikes us
that such provinces would be an element OF
weakness rather than strength, and that the
closer the Constitution which they had sworn
to obey and support was observed, the great
er would be the chance of preventing out
break, for if their fidelity to promises be the
only safeguard, the bargain be not performed
on both sides literally. then there is no bar
gam, no promise, and no safeguard against
passions being inflamed into violence"
The Editor of the Neacs is Capt Benjamin
Robinson, who was arrested and brought to
this City some months since, on charge OF
sedition, for expressions not half so violent
and scditious as the foregoing. Gen. Kruger
kindly released him on his parole; and il
was understood at the time that Gov. Worth.
then Provisional Treasurer, interceded for him.
and agreed to he his surety that he would do
better in future.
We make the following extract from the
North Caroliaian, printed at Wilson, in this
State:
Returning reason may restore that gov
eminent to its pristine glory, but we, who
venerate wisdom and love honor, must ever
detest the vile puppets who have usurped in
the councils of the nation the places once
filled by honorable men, and we laugh to
scorn their futile attempts to impose on Us
terms which no people, not entirely devoid
of common sense, could accept.
We have asked for restoration, but we
cannot accept it on the basis of New Eng
lands q" blue laws nor will we have It with
a portion of our lellow-citizens disfranchis-
ed, for having done what they deemed their
duty, and what, before Almighty God, we
could not hesitate to do again.
The following is from paper called Tie
State, published at Weldon, in this State:
"A strong man armed, comes into your
house, despoils you of your goods, robs,
burns, ravishes, destroys and lays waste
\ on rise in arms against him. But he says.
Hands off; | have your dear fathers :
garments, and as you love and regard him.
and are loyal to his memory, respect and
reverence my person '" Now, what is it to
you that the rulfian has on your fathers old
clothes Does it excuse his crimes and
enormities, or does it not rather exagerate
them and make them more hateful He is .
to yOn, as one who has stolen the garments
Of heaven to serve the devil with. What is
it, to the citizen that in the name of the
Union, and under the flag like enornlities
are c Nmmittcd? Is his outburst Of indgna
t N to be hushed his revolving sense of in ,
justice and wrong to be smothered and re-
pressed with the shallow and meaningless.
cry Of loyalty Men crowd anguish die
in prison, thrust there to rot, without charge
without crime. Men-and, aye, women
are hung, without Indictment and without
trial by jury, or any other mode known tc
the Constitution and the law Citizens are
executed, under the sentence of court-mar-
tials military commissions organized, il
the main, to cOnctct men, not to t1.y them
The American, the Anglo-Saxcn respect foI
liberty and law IS daily outraged and violat-
ed Freedmen's Bureau, Civil Rights bills
crowd our statute books, in high-handed
scOrn and defiance of the Constitution, the
rights of the States and the citizen. But you
must stand dumb, like sheep before the
shearers, for fear some patriot, ignorant as
arrogant, will cry loyalty or 'disleyalty,
as the case may be-"
The following is from the Petersburg
Lnder:
"There is no guaranty, and can be none
for the future maintenance by this people,
North or South, of our form of government,
except a conviction that it is blessing. To
the South it Is now nothing but curse,
knoHni to &ler people solely through the tax
gatherers, the confscation agents, and the
present and past plunderers, revilers, and
disturbers of the peace of her people.
Can you afford to make this condition of
things perpetual2 Brute force may enforce
this relation for time, hut it cannot for all
time"
The following is from the Richmond E.r-
GEniner:
''The South God help us y lies PROSTATE
beneath majority that has prostituted the
freest form of government under heaven to
the worst purposes of tyranny. Caligula or
Nero would be better ruler than the infuri-
ate mob that To how