The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-03-27

A REVOLUTIONARY HRRo.-A friend who
has seen notices of the death of the I" last
hero of the Revolution, /" recently published,
informs Us that another one of this heroic
band yet survives in the person of Mr.. Jas.
Farmer who lives in the Yellow Branch
neighborhood, in Campbell county. This
patriarch is now in his Tooth year, and serv-
ed during the last campaign of the war
which established the liberty of America,
only to be wrested from its people by the
fanatics of our own day. Notwithstanding
his extreme age, the old hero enjoys remark.
ably good health, is bale and vigorous, walks
about his plantation without assistance, and
on frequent occasions of late has mounted his
horse and ridden several miles to mill. From
appearance he bids fair, to survive for some
time yet, to mourn over the desolation of the
land which he shed his blood to assist in
freeing from tyrapt's grasp, only, alasl to
fall into hands still more vlndictive and
blood Thirsty II Lsae5 55urg -Ness.
What Ridiculous nonsense /! This noble
old veteran has lived through four wars,
every one of which has added to the glory
of his country and the perpetuity of its free
institutions: The war of 1776, the war of
| 1912, the war with Mexico, and the late war.
When Lee surrendered and the Confederate
cause went down, Virginia and her sister
Southern States were delivered from the
most corrupt and rigorous despotism that
ever existed over any civilizedpeople. This
old soldier, who followed WASHINGTON
through the first struggle for independence,
might we'll have thanked his Creator when
the Union armies put Davis to fight, and
saved from the very grasp of destruction
that great and benefcent Union which
WASHINGTON fought and suffered to es-
tablish.
Those pert scribbaers and fippant Editors
who are constantly prating about the tyran-
ny of the national government, ought to be
taught some loyalty and common sense by
being reduced to the condition in which the
great body of our poor white people were
sunk during the rebellion. They ought to
be clad in the coarsest homespun, and fed
on wormy peas, potato or rye coffee, bran
corn bread, and slice once week, as rar-
ity, of Nassau bacon. They ought then to
be told that if they did not shout for the
Union, and denounce every one who did moi
do the same, they would have their heads
shaved and be sent to the army to fight and
die for somebody's negroes. They ought to
be visited at least once week by con.
script officer, and turned over to o Surgeon
more or less inebriated with mean Confeder
ate whisky, who should examine them thor
oughly, punch their sides and chests for con
sumption or pneumonia, stand on theil
crooked limbs to see if they really had the
rheumatism, and then send them home with or
order to return to 60 through the same or
deal every week for the next six MONTHS
This would be taste of what they gave til.
white Unionists of the South during the re
bellion. Let them have it. Their lives have
been mercifully spared by the national gov
eminent; their lands have not yet been ia
ken from them; they are getting fat agair
on cotton and tobacco, and, forgetting th'
hand that has lifted them up from the mir
of treason and kindly treated them, the!
are playing the rebel over again and endeay
oring to excite the people against the gov
ernment. About six months treatment ac
cording to the above prescription would q
least silence, if it did not cure them.