The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-17
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cative of public sentiment, and show that
the people are alive to the great Importance
of the present crisis.
A friend writing us from Peach Tree
Grove. Nash Co., under date of March Oath,
says: s
."There are few Union men in Nash-I
am one have not forgotten how the Off
GERS in the rebel armies used to persecute
soldiers, who read the Standard. 1 used to
take it and suffered thereby I am the same |
Unionist now that was then, and thank
God, can now proclaim it. / hope your
Convention may be harmonious, and that we
may forever escape the evils of secession
hereafter" iF
The following is from distinguished gen
tlemen who writes under date of March 18th,
from Swift Island, Montgomery Co.:
5'a'" Since the passage of the Sherman bill I
have conferred with true-blue Union men, in
Stanly, Anson and Montgomery. They are
willing to accept it with one accord. Gov.
Worth can do as he likes, but as Union men
we intendto stand up to the military COM
mander. The Union element will show it.
self here, when we come to the ballot-box-.
We have but few colored people here also
that do not stand square up to the old flag.
My word for it. the secesh cannot control
them. We are rejoicing in our deliverance,
both white and black.
Now that we can see more clearly the
course that is to be pursued, we warn the
colored people and poor whites against the
secesh. An effort will be made to deceive
them, but it will fail God save our coun-
try from their grasp. For when the wicked
rule the people mourn.
Whenever l look towards the North-to-
wards Mt Vernon by the Potomac, my very
soul within me- is made to rejoice. Confeder-
ate RULES dead, and the Union established by
Washington and his compatriots preserved
and perpetuatedl aA
Icordially endorse the call for Conven-
tion. 1t is our duty to labor together and
at once take hold of the work of reconstruc-
ton. 1 see from your paper that Gov Wells
has done so Our old Quaker ran off to
| Washington, without taking any action, to
find out " hat he must do, with the act of
Congress before his eyes. DR.. Fisher ought
to cage the whole concern until they become
more quiet.
l hope the good work will 60 on. May
God prosper and direct our returning foot
steps. Let us act coolly and wisely, with
humanity and an honorable forbearance to-
wards our enemies. But let US neglect moth.
ing in word or deed to accomplish the great
purpose, which we have in view"
The following is taken from letter from
DR.. W. D. Whitted, dated Hendersonville,
Henderson Co., March 22nd, 1867:
"There is nothing that would afford me
more pleasure than that of being present on
the 9th, at your meeting and contribute my
mite towards restoring our State to her nor
NAL and original position in the Union.-
She bas been dslocated long enough ear.
nestly desire to see the luxation reduced
(surgically speaking,) and the erudite ply
sician, (the U. S. Congress) has proposed ol
indicated the appliances that are to be used
for the reduction of the dislocated limb, and
it only remains for US less distinguished as
surgeons or physicians to make these appli
ances, and the old North State will be her
self again both in body and limb.
1 am now, as ever have been, in favor Of
restoration of the Union on the best term:
that we can get. was in favor of all com
promises offered by the government during
the war, looking towards returning to the
Union. l was in favor of a State COnven
tion during the war. hoping thereby to make
our escape from Confederate rule and tyran
ny. was in favor of the Constitutions
amendment proposed in 1866, voted for it
&c. And am now in favor of the military
bill as passed by the 39th Congress, although
it deprives many good and true Union mer
from voting for delegates to the State Con
vention. You, have no doubt, will repre-
sent as nearly as any one man could the sen
tlments of the Union men of Western North
Carolina, and we hope that you will stant
square on the question as you have alway
done heretofore. Let us have no backing
down at this late day, after so so much suf
fering and privation on account of the per
verseness of the rebellious portion of tn
country"
Our friend, W. F. Gray, writes us from
Olip, Iredell County, under date of Marc
Goth as follows:
"The Unionists of this section of the Stat
have borne with great manliness the taunt
and prosecutions of their enemies. Whe
Congress in its magnanimity presented tn
"Howard amendment" we fondly hoped GU
; Legislature would have gladly taken hold G
it, as the only means of speedy adjustmen
OF our political troubles. But alas tn
golden opportunity was permitted to pas
unimproved, and Congress now seeing tn
disease OF the States prepares stronger dos
for their case. The question of the adoptio
of the Howard amendment" was brough
into the senatorial canvass last summer i
this County by Mr.. C. j. Cowles, the (Unio
candidate) who pressed it before the peopl
/, with all his energy, eloquence and ability
In some sections it was hailed as the harbir
ger of peace and prosperity to our peopl,
and in others as the angel of death and pei
7 sonal degradation. Had ourpeople of this di'
trict again the choice of an election betwee
the g Howard amendment and the Sherma
bill, methinks prophet would not b
wanted to divine as to the choice that woul
7 be made. Almost two long years have bee
given the people of the insurgent States
legislate themselves into the Union, an
/ shape themselves to the situation. And il
e stead of using this liberty and these exalte
! privileges allowed them by a abenignant Coz
gress in trying to place North-Carolina
!. the Union by the side of her great and pro
g porous sisters of the republic, with all b,
: forfeited rights restored; her losses forgo
ten, and her wounds mollifed,) seemingl
they have tried to widen the breach, and
possible, prevent the State from assumin
s her federal relations. Who is responsible ft
\ these things2 This is certainly the result
secession madness and rule. Had the 10y;
8 people been allowed to hold the offices {
: public trust, and administer the affairs (
the government, Congress had been spare
the necessity of claiming obedience to j
late law 1t seems to us that all of our II