The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-22

and government, in the various corporations,
and in all the ramifcations of business The
fact that they are decided, ultra, uncondi-
tional Union men is a badge of disgrace.
When they summon sufficient confidence to-
proclaim themselves Union men latter the
straitest Sect and to claim as such the re-
spect of society and popular suffrage, they
are called hypocrites and towards by the con-
fidential organ of Gov. Worth, and are told
they must stand back and give place to the
I" true men ''who fought it out against the fed
eral flag! And when they look abroad for
encouragement and succor, they are met with
the false and chilling declaration that all
Southern citizens were rebels, and a respect
able and highly influential journal like Har-
per's Weekly, tells them that the emancipated
slaves of the South are better Unionists than
they are
Now, gentlemen of the North, none of
these things move us, except to mingled in
dignation and sorrow. We tell you if you
blot out the Union men of the South you
will have none left here, except the col
ored race to respect or esteem you-
If you ignore the Union men, and gov
ern here without their aid, it will be an iron
government on the shoulders of people who
hate you now, and who will educate their
children, as they have been educating them,
to despise the very sound of the word g Yam
kee" You cannot safely trust the original
secessionisty and tile latterday aoar men Of this
country. Would that we could sound this in
your ears like seven thunders uttering their
voices They do not like you, or your gov
eminent, or your flag. They submit simply
because they could do no otherwise. They
express regret that they revolted and
fought you. They do not even admit that
they were mistaken. On the contrary, they
glory in the fact that they fought it out. and
they cover the peace men OF the South with
reproaches and insults. They are not at all
penitent. They say they were right in resist
ing your authority and that, because they
were true to the confederacy, they will be
true to you Trust them at your peril. If
they could, they would rend the temple of
the Union and trample on the flag. Their
hearts are not now and never were in the
work of restoration. They do not want it,
unless they can Aeve it with their own men
in power. They want to get back just now,
as they are because their heel is on the necks
of the true Unionists, and they hope to keep
it there. God knows we desire the restOra-
ton of the Union. But we want no patch
work, no Union with secessionists over Union
men, and no defiant, unpardoned rebels to
represent us in Congress. President johnson
has exhausted patience, and Kindness and
magnanimity with these secessionists and
latter-day war men. His Provisional Gov
errors have done the same thing. 1t was
well that they did. We approve it. It was
worthy of a great nation. But the wheat
has been sifted from the chat. We see now,
clearly and conclusively, who the friends of
the government are, and who are its enemies
We ut last that there is no hope but in
- Enthusiastically" loyal men. We see that we
must build upon rock if we expect the edi-
flee to stand. and that that rock is the loyal
element of the insurgent States. All else is
shifting sand.
We have no suggestions to offer as to the
future We confess shat darkness is round
about u.s. and ahead of Us. We are under
the ban. with other true Unionists, and we
feel that silence on our part would be more
becoming than any attempt to dictate. or
even to suggest. We shall simply defend
ourselves Unionists and await results
We have full confidence in the President and
Congress We look to them to vindicate the
true men of the South-to maintain the Con-
reconstruct the Union on Just,
solid, and enduring basis, and to give peace
to an afflicted, unhappy people. The great
body OF our Northern felIow-citiZens have no
of the sufferings through which
our people have passed, or of their present
deprivations and poverty. Gentlemen Of the
North, what you do do quickly. Your delay
in restoring us to the Union is drying up the
last precious drops Of our prosperity. If it
is your will that the States shall return to the
Union with your enemies and our enemies in
power say SO, and let us know our fate; but
if they are to return with the devil of seces--
sion cast out of Them and with the true
Union men at the head of our affairs, say so,
and then take the necessary steps to accom-
phi sh the result.