The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-22

The Editor of the Danville Times, atee'
having obtained his pardon from the rresi
dent, proceeds to denounce the rufhan
armsn of the United States. and to denouncf
the Supreme Court as "foul and corrupt
and ready to betray its intamy TO Cne CIV
ilized world" Hear what he says:
NTbe elections in the North demonstrates
tb.t tho majority of the people there are OPP
nosed to the South having representation In
1,ouoress until we acknowledge ourselves the
mea9est of traitors, and>contess to such un'
,,,;tigated scoundrels as Butler and Brown
low that we owe our lives and property ell,
tireiy to their mercy. In Il word, If we tarn-
isb our honor and disgrace our posterity-if
we make the son of Ham our superior-then
they will consider our right to representation
in CONGRESS but, even in that event, they do
not agree to let the South be represented
Stran1e to say creatures calling themselves
,,ENemen of Southern birth-arc found
willing to bow the neck to any amount OF
dishonor, shame and degradation exacted-
Aud for what What will we gain by dis
bonoring ourselves Representation In Con-
.yress Perhaps so, and perhaps not. But
admit that we get representation in Congress,
by base self Clishonor, what good will 1T avail
uss We hold that men base enough to DIS
homer 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 amendment"
to STAY out of Congress, as you have been do
inc. and carry the right of Congress to impose
taxes on you without representation, to thei
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-Inen of honor-stand firm
in opposition to voting base dishOnOr on
your heads-and 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-
fiict of arms 1t scorns the idea that the ma
tionai government was right in SURPRISING
the rebellion 1t says:
WAR 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 dlvid-
ed the sections Of this country are settled,
and that the principles for which the South
commended are determined to be wrong, is
stuff. 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
isied even or that point, but are ofthe opin-
ion that with the same chances and the rev
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 triunphed
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 tacitiy acknowledge that the war
has ended in the triumph of Il principle and
in the vindication of its merit; and admit
that, because conquered, they Nere wrong
War is the instrument that brute force en-
pluys to commit injustice; not the court in
which justice is distributed
Great is Secessial 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 Unionlstsi How long is this to endure