The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-24


cordlng to the new theory, he would have
stood on too lofty 9 pedestal to have been
taken down q criminal. But for the life of
me cannot zee how the same Government
that assisted Virginia to convict John Brown
can refuse to try JeE Davis. If John Brown
was held responsible to the outraged law,
why is not Likewise Jefferson Dayis7
John Browns surviving kindred can take
to their souls one fattering JUNCTION at least,
to wit, that he did not die in vain. have
again and again seen thousands of Union
soldiers marching into battle singing
"John Browns body lies Wondering in the
grave, ~
While his soul goes marching on"
There is one man on this continent at the
head of Government that has exhibited
nerve enough to rule When usurpers and
traitors are captured and convicted in Mexico
we hear at one and the same time Of their
stern sentence and prompt execution. Pres
ident Jaurez, however, is saluted for his sig
nal exhibition of decision and firmncss with
bowls of horror from the same mercy-beg-
ging lips that are eternally whining about
the mercy due to jeff. Why do men probes
sing to love liberty manifest an interest so
deep and strange in the fate of the vaulting
ambition of royalty when it presumes to in
wade this republican continent and overleap
itself2 Has monarchical Government friends
here whose sympathies are too keen to be re-
strained when tribulation overtakes top
pling throne, and do they presumptuously
propose to educate the popular mind of men
born free on American soil to catch readily
at excuses to denounce republicanism and
condole with mourning nobility over execu-
ted emperors2 deplore, Mr.. Speaker, such
exhibitions of party violence as have been
again and again recently exhibited on this
floor. 1t serves to remind me mournfully Of
the debates we had on this floor just before
the war. Rebels Men used very much such
language as their friends employ here now;
but it is to be deprecated for better and
higher reasons still, and one Of them is the
consequences which legitimately flow from it
to the South. II the Democracy of the
North had not taken the South under its
wing, those States might and probably would
have been in the Union to-day. Well may
the South exclaim save US from our
friends" E2i' Ha
TRUST, Mr.. Speaker, that we will pass such
bill as may be understood. properly con-
strued, and theoretically executed, and that
when it is that it will leave the southern
State governments in the hands of men loyal
and true and forever prevent disloyal men
from employing power and place to foment
treason. 1t is not when they come, but how
they come that is the alI-important query
with me- / would be glad to welcome them
back tomorrow if were satisfied they were
rcorganized Alright, but it is my intention to
vote as long as have a vote here to keep
them out until they can come in on the
broad basis Of loyalty to the Government
And when they can do that am willing to
receive their representatives 70 the Halls of
our national Legislature, and will assist to
protect them against anything anywise pre-
judicial to any of their legal rights or inter
ests as States. l have seen quite enough of
carnage and private and national distress,
and long to see the day come again when we
shall be as peaceful, prosperous, and happy
as we were before that crawling serpent Sc
cession sought to strangle us in our national
cradle. Tha. day may soon come again if
the South will rise up sternly resolved that
they will follow Naaman through the Jordan
of repentance, until the leprosy of treason
and Democracy shall be washed out Of their
political systems. How much they have
been benefited by the sympathies of the
Democracy they ought by this time to be
able to estimate and appreciate. The hour
they discover they possess the good sense
and courage to repudiate openly and en-
phatically treason and embrace warmly and
sincerely loyalty, they will see dawn upon
them the bright morning of their regenera-
ton and deliveranee.