The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-07
War ON Loyal Men by Rebels.

Mr.. Hunnicutt, the Editor of the Neao Na-
ton, in Richmond, and one OF the delegates
elect from that City to the Convention, has
had his life repeatedly threatened by rebel
rufians. These cowardly creatures thus
combined against one man because he is
true to his country, first threaten him with
assassination if he will not leave the State
and then, when he states the fact to the pub
lie and declares that if he is murdered his
death will be avenged by his friends, they
hold up their innocent hands and call him
an " incendiary!' Recently. his printing
office was attacked, of which he gives the
following account:
About II o'clock ON Thursday night, the
office of the NeW Milton was attacked by a
body of men who poured stones, brickbats,
and charcoal into the windows, completely
demolishing the panes as they made their
passage. No policemen were on the beat,
and failed to arrest the midnight intruders.
The stove-pipe was knocked to pieces by the
force and weight of the bricks, and several
cases of type knocked almost entirely into
"pi." The proprietor of the NeU Nation re-
ceived an epistle from some unknown per-
sons, ordering him to leave the city, and it
is expected that the stones and bricks cma-
mated from the same source. The colored
men acted nobly on the occasion, doing all
in their power to arrest and bring to light
the perpetrators of the dastardly act. The
lives of the hands and proprietors have been
threatened, and it is deemed unsafe to walk
the streets after dark, unless we'll guarded
and armed. The animus of the citizens has
al,o1 or,1 MI
thing is done, and that quickly, loyal men
cannot with safety live in Virginia.
Of course the Rebel papers of Richmond
pronounce this false. They ridicule the
whole thing, and say it never happened, just
as certain Rebel leaders in this State make
merry over the fact that the Standard office
was mobbed by Confederate soldiers in 1868.
These leaders arc predicting a war which
they have already begun; and any one who
will dispassionatey read the Rebel papers of
Virginia and North Carolina must be forced
to the conclusion, that but for the pres
ence here of federal troops and the fear OF
ultimate consequences, terrible civil war
would at once break out in all these South
ern States. Desperate rebels, under the
sanction of the existing civil organizations,
would at once begin war of force on the
Republicans of both races, which would
rage with a fury unexampled since the mas
sacre in La Vendee. The Republicans would
not resist until all hope of peace had fed,
and they would then sell their lives as dear
ly as possible. 1t is Indispensable, there
fore, that these States shall not be restored
to the Union until the amplest and most
lasting guarantees of protection to "life,
liberty and property" shall have been provi-
ded for our loyal people. These guarantees
will not injure any, but will really protect
all from the danger of civil war and blood
shed; and until this is done, and until it is
considered at least as honorable in the South
to be Republican as worshipper of the
"Lost Cause" we can expect no immigra-
ton, no capital from the North or from
Europe, no quiet, no peace, no prosperity.