The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-12
Spring Term 1867 of the Superior Courts
of Law will be held as follows:
North-CaroIina Rebels.

and that it was Grant instead of Lee, who
surrendered at AppotomaX Court House
We have before US the Wilmington, n. Z.
Dispatck of Dec. 10, in which is Il lengthy
editorial on the political condition OF the
country, the wrongs of the South, and the
position of Congress and the Northern PEG
ple 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 shamble9
of Andersonville and Union Southerners
were being shot in the mountain gorGes, or
hung in their own door yards. The loyal
people of the North, and their representa-
tives in Congress, are villifed 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 rs 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
another appeal to arms ip behalf OF the lost
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
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 mp an I'M
even contest for independence, for four years,
with valor unexampled, a fortitude unpar-
alleIed, and determination uneXcelled. In
Thu, 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-
yatives will be animated by the most pow
erful considerations. They eoW fght TO the
knife, uad then to the hiH.n
Congress had better count the obstacles
in its way to success. 1t had better medi-
tate upon the consequences of a further pro-
eress in the career which its unwise leaders
have chalked eut. Those who advise to in
temperance and fanaticism are unsafe
guides
~They do not know how pride can stoop,
When baffied feelings whitening droOp:
They do not know how hate can burn
IN hearts ence changed from soft to stern,
And all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel
"They do not know the temper of the
Northern minority. They do not appreciate
the condition of the Southern mind, or they
would pause. consider, advise Congress to
consider, and once more learn to respect the
flag of>the Union and the Constitution of the
American Congress"
1t is strange that this crazy rebel expects
the Democrats of the North to engage in
armed resistance to the authority of Con-
press, after the experience Of the late REBEL
ion That bloody episode in our national
history would not have occurred, but for the
expectation of assistance from the Democ-
racy of the free States, which was cherished
BY the conspirators. 1t had been promised
to them by prominent members of the Dem
ocratic party, but the patriotic instincts of
the masses overwhelmed their traitorous
leaders, and the latter were powerlcss to give
the aid they had promised, although they
did succeed in embarrassing the action Of
the Government at several critical periods of
the struggle. IF those Democrats who de-
sired the success of the rebels could not as
sist them, either by furnishing men or mon
ey, when the South was much stronger in
the elements Of successful war than now, it
is certain that no party in the North will in
yoke destruction on their own heads by at
tempting ah instruction in the future, on
behalf of the malcontents who, having been
treated with unexampled magnanimity by
the victorious loyal people, now threaten
another civil war because they are not per-
mitted to govern the nation they attempted
to DESTROY.
But it must be admitted that the North
Carolina rebel from whom we quote has some
reason for believing the Northern Democracy
to be like himself Their strenuous opposi-
ton to every plan of reconstruction that
does not involve surrender to the late re-
bellious States their invocations to the
President to force rebel representatives into
Congress at the point of the bayonet, and
the Incorporate language of many of their
organs during the recent political campaign,
might impose upon the unrepentant rebels
of the South if their former experience had
not been sufficient evidence that threatening
words, spoken in the heat of political con-
troversy, are unsafe evidences of a willing
ness to martyr" fer the benefit of the tur-
bulent, gallows-deserving traitors
We do not doubt that Congress will" med
itate" upon the consequences of its course
towards such rebels as this North Carolina
editor, and we are certain that its medita-
tions will strengthen its resolution to abate
not single condition heretofore proposed
to the South as a preliminary to it's repre-
sentation in that body, and that if there is
not more loyal spirit speedily manifested
in that section, it will impose more stringent
terms, and inaugurate policy less favorable
to the secessionists than that which they
now contemptuously reject. The day when
Southern measures or policy could be car
RED by threats, ended with the opening of
the bombardment of Fort Sumpter.-Indi-
ana State Journal.