The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16
North.Carolina Rebels.

Some of the Southern rebels talk in style
which indicates that they labor under the
delusion that the rebellion was successful,
and that it was Grant instead of Lee, who
surrendered at Appotomax Court House.
We have before us the Wilmington, N. c.
Dispatch of Dec. IS, in which is lengthy
editorial on the political condition of the
country, the wrongs of the South, and the
position of Congress and the Northern PEG
pie toward the late rebel States. The spirit
of the article is the same that possessed the
rebel press at the period when Union soldiers
were being starved by battallions, and tor
tured to death by thousands in the shambles
of Andersonville and Union Southerners
were being shot in the mountain georges, or
hung in their own door yards. The loyal
people of the North, and their representa-
tives in Congress- are villified by the spared
monument of their mercy who edits the Dis
patch, with the same bitterness which mark
ed the columns of the Richmond Examiner
during the war threats of another rebellion
are uttered, and the Northern Democracy
are appealed to and depended upon to aid
it. Just as they were expected to join that
set on foot in 1860, and the President is also
invited to become the leader of the rebels in
stuOllltT dppOdl w al uio III UCudlI VI euO ioSp
cause"
We quote the following paragraphs from
the Dispatch article, which are fair samples
of the whole: ..
"The people of the South are united, as
one man, In their opposition to the threat
ening policy of Congress. They have felt
the influence of that life giving power, free
dom They can not be made slaves through
ignorance, they can not be held in subject
ion to tyranny At the right time, if the
President of the United States stands firm
in his purpose to protect the Constitution,
the check to the march of despotism and ia
naticism will be given by these forces COM
bined. They will drive the usurpers from
their seats of power. They will restore the
Constitution of our country. They will pre-
serve free institutions to America.
There can be no reasonable doubt of the
result. Already the Southern people have
given evidence of their capacity as soldiers
With the North united against them, many
of their own people against them, no orga-
nized government sources, nothing to coal
esce them but principle, and on that thou
sands refusing to stand, they kept up an I'M
even contest for independence, for four years,
with valor uuexampled, a fortitude unpar-
alleled, and determination unexcelled. In
| this approaching conflict, for conflict there
| will be if Congress attempts to destroy the
States, they will have nearly half of the
| North as allies and will be themselves uni
| ted There will be no room for compromise
| after the first blow. There can be no divis-
| ions of sentiment on the side of Conserva
| tism and Freedom and Union. The Conser-
1 vatives will be animated by the most pow
erful considerations. They aoiU fight to the
knife, and then to the hilt."
"Congress had better count the obstacles
| in its way to success. 1t had better medi
tate upon the consequences Of a further pro-
gress in the career which its unwise leaders
have chalked tut. Those who advise to in.
temperance and fanaticism are unsafe
| guides .--s... ......
I" They do not know how pride can stoop,
/ When baffied feelings whitening droop:
1 They do not know how hate can burn
/ In hearts once changed from soft to stern,
1 And all the false and fatal zeal
1 The convert or revenge can feel. 5
| "They do not know the temper of tn,
Northern minority. They do not appreciate
the condition Of the Southern mind, or they
/ would pause, consider, advise Congress tt
/ consider, and once more learn to respect til,
flag of the Union and the Constitution of th,
American Congress-
| 1t is strange that this crazy rebel expects
the Democrats of the North to engage ii
armed resistance to the authority of Con
gress, after the experience Of the, late REBEL
ion. That bloody episode in our nationa
history would not have occurred, but for tn,
I expectation of assistance from the Democ
racy of the free States, which was CHERISHED
! by the conspirators. It had been PROMISE