The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-25

where deserved, be equally hazardous. The
occasion of enormous offences against gov
ernments is their predestinated opportunity
of organic confederation, by the resolute IN
Fiction of exemplary punishment on the Of
Tenders. Its neglect involves not only the
the general contempt incurred by suspected
weakness, but the fatality of lesson with
held, when the public safety consists
in nothing so much as in that very lesson
The fierce conf1agration of Southern ambi- |
| ton drew off the one-third of the federal |
States into rebellion against the federal gov
eminent. The torch ofintestine war blazed
in rebellious hands with dire malignancy,
devasting counties, ravaging neighborhoods,
desolating homes and accomplishing drea-
ry waste of suffering and horror. -Four dis
NAL years witnessed unparalleled strife The
blood OF fearful battles stained red the door
posts of every dwelling in the land; contin-
uous contributions exhausted the substance
of the people; barbarous punishments, fero-
ciouSly inflicted by remorscless rebels upon
fathers, brothers and sons, narrowed loyal
bosoms, and shed the nations tears; each.
years contingent demanding new sacrifices,
year after year scored the names of dear ones
upon the hearthstone-a sacrifice to country.
Such were the fearful orgies of the fell Mol
och of Southern rebellion. 1t does not i'm
port us to inquire who were the instigators,
or to what especial persons these atrocities
should be imputed. Their responsibility
was assumed by the so-called Confederate
government in Richmond. Over that gov
eminent presided Jefferson Davis The for
tune of arms delivered him to the govern
ment his mad ambition had assaulted, and
straightway philosophical Pigments, project
ed upon a fragmentary philanthropy, parti-
coored plot to extricate this colossal crimi-
nal of his time from the painful pressure of
personal restraint and to inhibit even the
legal examination ofhis crime Itassuredly
is not for us to delve into noisome mines for
the complications of human motive 1t is
enough that considerations sufficiently obvi-
Gus detect the spurious nature of that which,
under the guise of mercy, has been preten-
tiously invoked to the release OF the prisoner
held in ward by the nation. Of the agones
of conflict and its throes of anguish We
make no account: of the gloom of uncertain
ty or the fierce disaster of treasures wasted
and our buried dead we take no heed: over
the widows weeds we drop the veil, nor lis
ten longer to the mothers PRAYER We
simply point to a secuted constitution and
country rent, and summoning into presence
the invaded institutions OF a free people, in
their name we ask if the violator of internal
peace shall not be arraigned for his violence,
and the ruthless invader IF national sanctity
| shall not bend before the laws he hoped to
overthrow. This question appeals to the
heart, nor will it be baked by the Judgment
of the people Chiefly does it concern those
whose victories in the field inscribed treason
upon the Confederate flag. The soldiers of
the war must first be convinced of their own
disloyalty before they can accord to the trai
tor whom their arms reduced the immunities
of patriot. There are not lacking the liv-
cried servitOrs of conventional benevolcnceS
I-pretentlous teachers, masters in the market
places, with broad phylac teries, perverting
to eleemosynary creeds of universal forgive
ness the essential principles of national ex
istence. These he they whose fearful appre.
tensions signalled war the knell of ma
, tional doom, and who implored the fracture
of the Union rather than the forcible re-
straint of the States that threatened it,
These be they who. with agued hearts, has
tened to the camps of rebellion with defiant
f or fearful notes as chance diet either filled
them with dispeptic courage or left them
; without stomach for the fight. These be
they whose cOunsels in the national convu-
sion dwintlled from the big, manly voice of
confident peace to childish trebble; whose
founded eouanimity of repose the conflict of
arms dissolved and whose terrors at the
thunder's roll found solace in the squeaking
+ of mouse. Such men move their arms in
marching and their legs in fighting. They
, snore louder in bed than they shout in bat
tie But such are not the men either to con-
duct beligerent people successfully through
, tue fuctuating fortunes of lethal war or to
advise, at its termination. the measures of
peace Should they speak from the rostrum
the orator deceiyes; should they exhort
5 from the puipit-the preacher misleads ;
should they dogmatize from the press-the
/ oracle philippines The people alone are
5 competent to this EFFICIENCY of peace as they
: only were adequate to the emergencies of
r war. And among these none are so trust
! worthy and qualified as the surviving com
: rades of those whose remains harbor at the
last in that Southern earth they have conse-
Grated to the Union. Soldiers of the war !!
z what say you? Shall Jefferson Davis escape
without trialg
, A LIGHTHOUSE AT LONG SHoAL PAMLIco
SOUND, NORTH CARoLNA-A screw pile
: lighthouse has been erected at Long Shoal,
Pamlica Sound, North Carolina, to take the
place of the light vessel now stationed there
and will be lighted for the first time on the
, evening of the 31st inst The lighthouse
. stands in nine and half feet depth of water
' mean tide, distant two and a quarter miles
: northwest, one quarter west from the light
: vessel. 1t is placed on the highest part of
1 the shoal, the water gradually deepening all
around it. The iron work of the foundation
is painted red; the superstructure is painted
white. The illuminating apparatus is
Fresnel lens of the fourth order and should
be seen in clear weather distance of ten
miles. The focal plane is elevated thirty-fv
feet above mean tides.