The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-09
LOyalty.l

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must be faithful, honest, and true. There
must be no mental reservation, no evasion,
no treachery, no disposition to break plight
ed faith. G,sT .si
There are three classes of loyalists in this
country e ~f1.a ~ ~
First, those who have meyer broken, but
who have constantly maintained, in heart
and by act, their allegiance to the national
government. Such are the great mass Of the
Northern people, and those Southerners who,
like Andrew johnson, escaped from their
States and took sides during the rebellion.
with the government. We except from this
| great and meritorious class those copper
heads North, represented by the New York
World, the National IntelJageneer, and SINH
lar journals, who sympathized with the So
called during the rebellion, and who are
now doing all in their power to perpetuate
| strife and disunion.
| Second, those Southern Unionists who
| could not leave their homes, but who main-
tanned their integrity as loyalists as far as
they could; who struggled at the peril of
their lives to stop the war and make peace
| on the basis of restored Union who al
ways cherished the Union in their hearts,
and rejoiced when the Confederate despot-
ism fell, and who cordially accepted the re-
suits of the war, and submitted themselves
| cheerfully and dunconditionallyt to the nation
al authority There are at least thirty thou
sand white Unionists of this stampin Nerth-
Carolina. f.F Sif9 sa1 s
Third, those original sscessionists, who,
having seen their error and felt regret for it,
submitted Internationally who have since
shown their faith by their works, in incul-
eating national sentiments, and laboring
honestly and cheerfully to restore the
Union We know persons of this char
acter. 1t affords US pleasure to offer them
| the right hand of fellowship and to hail them,
as brothers. The best evidence of their con-
version and of their fidelity is, that the un-
repenAnt secessionists hate them more than
they do the original Union men,
OF course we include among the loyal the
entire colored population of the South
They attach themselves to Union men, and
| adhere to the Union cause, Just as the ami
| mails of the desert seek for and find water, or
| as the child runs to its mother. Theirs is q
loyalty unaduterated, disinterested, pure
| t. = mr.
treachery, but is candid, honest and open as
| the day. Ht al4s.z zz.1f
We know but few if any latter-day war
men, as they are called, who are loyal. The
snake of secession hurt those most whom
it bit last. These are they who wen. into
the war with consciences against the war,
but who, from ambition, or selfshness, from
fear of losing their slave property, or from
malice and ill-will because they suffered hard
ships at the hands of the federal forces, or
from some other cause or combination of
causes, forget their first love, scared their
consciences, committed themselves soul and
body to the Confederate despotism, turned
friends, and submitted at last only because
they had lost the power to resist. Such are
the worst of all conscious traitors" There
is more hope OF original secessionists than
there is of them. eR7
We have said there are thirty thousand
voters in this State of the second class above
described. To these may be added five to
six thousand more, who fled the State, OF
who took service in the federal army
| But it is said that everybody submits to the
laws True enough. 1t is impossible to re-
sist the laws. But suppose a Church mem
Der should say he submitted to all the rules
of the Church, and should claim credit for SO
doing, while at the same time he was con-
stantly engaged in ridiculing and disparag-
ing the Church, in characterizing it as want
ing in justice and charity, declaring that he
joined it only because he could do no bet
ter, and in sowing discord and strife among
the members is it likely that those older
and better members who had heretofore gov
erned the Church, would be willing to see
him take part in its government We think
not. They might bear with and pray for
such a brother, but they would be unjust to
the Church and to themselves if they per-
mitted' him to govern or control it. i
! But it is said by many original secession
lists, and especially by the case-hardened,
conscience-seared latter-day war men, that it
cannot be expected of them that they should
4 feel or express attachment for the Union
4. Granted. We regret that they can II vt SO
feel and so express themselves !; but, on that
very account if they really have the good of
the country at heart, if they wish to restore
| the Union, and if they are disposed to act
justly and oandidly, let them retire from Of
flee, and, if necessary, from the balles box,
1 and permit those among us who are attached
to the government to conduct public affairs.
The government is entitled to the cheerful,
hearty, loyal support of every citizen and
especially is it to be expected that none will
be allowed to hold office who are not devo-
| tedly attached to the Union, and who will
not labor at all times and in every proper
way, to restore to the bosoms of all our peo-
pile, without regard to section, that enlarged
national feeling which prevailed previously
to the rebellion.' If the government, should
pass into the hands OF those whose only re-
gret growing out of the rebellion is that they
faiIedto destroy it, or if such persons should
succeed in obtaining any considerable con