The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-23

We can1bs q peaoas nith ueux NerthevN ..sne-.
mics What Is the use of our attempting to |
negotiate, when we are met at the Threshold
with conditions the acceptance of which
by us, would be Indispensable and disgrace
fol in the extreme r.
What degrading confession! Who now
is the dishonored and disgraced traitori-
Hereafter let such canting hypocritcs cease
prating of their honor" and putting on
airs. Such things belong to the past; and,
when they say they intend to eat no more
dirt, let some friend gently remind them
that they can't do it, for they are already
chock full.
Such extracts, however, plainly exhibit
the secret of their present opposition to the
Stevens bill Of reorganization and its test
oath. They wsretree in 1884 to cay sehat they
thought, and they then deliberately rejected
Mr.. Lincoln's terms ofsAmnesty, upon which
that bill is founded. But zoe were fettered
hand and foot, and spies set to watch our
outgoing and incoming. We dared not
openly proclaim our preferences, or speci6cal-
ly detail our purposes We could only cry
"give us PEACE |" Even for that our Union
friends were shot, mobbed and conscript-
ed--murdered But still we called tor peace,
because we were aciiling to accept the terms.
And as we were willing to accept those
terms then, so we are willing to take them
now But traitors, who were opposed to
them then, are not willing to yield even
now. They are still unsubdued-still de-
faint. They have not changed their minds,
neither have we ours-that is all.
As a further evidence of this fact we ap-
peal to their own platform, published in the
Conservative of April 9th, 1854, and and up
on which Mr.. e. B. Vance stood as candi-
kate for Governor, and was opposed by MIR.
Holden:
"No reconstruction or submission, but
perpetual independence"
They could never induce the true Union
men of this State to endorse that at the polls
But the Secessionists and latter-day-war-
saints advocated it with fire and sword, and
they still adhere to it. For it is their deter
mination never to submit, while there is left
them means and opportunity to resist, at the
polls or anywhere else.
We shall close with two choice extracts,
one from the Conservative of Oct. 9Th, 1854,
written by Brother Pell:
"Indecd, no foot of our vile foe has trod-
den our soil anywhere scarcely that has not
been marked by lust and rapine and blood. A
faithful record of his atroci0us deeds will
chill the blood for ages to come. What a
holy falsehood j And shall not faithful
record be made of them, &c"
And the following from the Confederate of
July 18th, 1854:
FOURTH OF JULY.-It was once a day Of
sacred recollections concentrating as it
did, the pledge of fortune, life and sacred
honor to the principles of elfgovenmcnt-
to the declaration Of the fright of people to
alter and abolish form of government
which becomes subversive of their happiness
and prosperity, and to establish new gov
ernment, deriving its just powers from the
consent of the governed" Celebrated
through four score years with bonfres and
rejoicings, the 4th of July had come to be
considered as the natal day of Liberty !; and
everywhere throughout the wide, wide
world, age and youth, men and women, boys
and girls, the rich and poor, were taught its
glorious associations and bowed in homage
to its holy aspirations. It was left to the
hated and detested yankee to make it day of
loathing and scOrn. False to every precept
which it taught, faithless to every pledge it
recognized. they have desccrated its charac-
ter and converted it into derision and by
word.
When history records the infamy of their
short comings, as they are now summoned
to abide the test, it will require neither in
victlve or abuse to stain the page-the reel
| tai of ignominious treachery, untruth and
apostacy, couched in the simplest form of
narrative, will start.e the world for their mean,
depraved vice, as concentered and developed
| in the yankee nation"
Who that has recently witnessed a Fourth
of July in the South can escape the conclus-
ion, that those who applauded such senti-
ments in 1854, still secretly cherish and
approve them that the natal day of
Liberty yet remains unto traitors day
of loathi ng and scon p And what North
crn gentleman, after reading the above, can
school himselft to affiliate with such creatures2
MARI3IAGEs.--We are indebted to VIM.
Maxwell, Esq, County Court Clerk, for the
following statement showing the number OF
maria ges in Mecklenburg County during
the year 1856:
In january 90, FEBRUARY 10, March II,
April 9, May Is, June 8, July 10, August g.
September 9, October "a, November II, De
ccmber 81.
| Total number whites 10.
Colored marriages 101. Charlotte Dem.
We learn from our County Court CLERK
that there were 80 marriages in Wake from
LIST December, 1855, to 18th January, 1857
26 Of these were white, and "a colored.
How a Man Freezes to Death.
NJ. Pouchet lately read an interesting pa
per on this subject before the French Acad