The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-29
/ the name of our. State untarnished BY keen

ceedings of the 57th N. @. troops, at a meet
ingheld Aug. 9Th, 1868:
g Resoloed, That we have learned with 70
greet the course pursued by some of the no
pers in NOTWITHSTANDING, and deem tbo;,
course in the highest degree treasonable ''
Resoteed, Thst we call upon our Govern.
and friends at home to use every endeavor ~
suppress those reasonable sentiments wb;ap
these miserable croakers would try to inst;i
into the minds of our friends at home snd
we hereby denounce them as towards NY
tories"
At meeting of the 4th N. C. troops Ano
4th, 1868, the following:
"Resolced, That we further recommend ~,
appointment by election of two officers fros
| each regiment to general convention of NJ
G. troops in the Army of Northern Virginia
for the purpose of consulting as to the best
means of suppressing the disloyalty and to-
ryism at home"
And the following at a meeting OF the 18th
N. c. troops, Aug. 10th, 1868:
"Resolred, That while we are willing ~
entertain propositions from the enemy fnr
arranging terms of adjustment, we do do
nounce as dishonorable and disgraceful anv
such proposals from us to the enemy. and IL:
clare that, in our opinion, any scheme for
the reconstruction of the Union upon anv
basis whatsoever describes to be met eiN III.
halter at our hands,"
We copy the following from the proceed.
ings of meeting held ill the Goth N. C.
troops, Aug. 9th, 1868:
"ResolreR, That we believe all such movers
and conductors of public meetings, and an.
thors of such articles as have lately aDDcar-
ed in the Raleig Standard, to be enemies to
the cause of liberty opposed to the indie.
pendence of the Southern Confederacy; trai.
tors to their States and friends to our enc.
mics, whose despotic rule of vandalism has
filled the world with horror, and at the reel.
tai of which, humanity hides her face in
shame.
ResoI0ea, That we think it is high time
that the county should know, in unmistak-
able terms, what that class of men mean bv
their public meetings, articles and editorials,
From their manifest spirit and tenor as de-
veloped in those articles, &c, We believe
them to be reconstructIonsts and for peace
on any terms.
Res0lDed, That he who asks or sues for
| pCttCC Ou any ludil tilal OF COM
plete and entire Independence, separate and
apart from that cruel despotism known as
| the United States, and that any class of men
who advocate reconstruction are dastaras
and traitors unworthy OF their State. unwor
thy of their country, and unworthy to live
and enjoy the sweets of civil liberty. are
enemies more vile than the unprincipled foe
which we are now fighting"
l. ~ . 49,
The 1st.regiment N. C. troops resolved as
follows:
"That the recent Union meetings held in
| North Carolina meet with our hearty con-
| demnation, and the persons holding them we
| denOunce as traitors to our best interests.
THAT the chief of traitors and the most
disloyal of citizens, W. W. Holden, in tho
course he has pursued, merits and receives
| the condemnation of every honorable and
loyal citizen"
The following is taken from the proceed
ings of the Both n. C. troops, Aug. 10Th,
1868:
"ResOlred. That while we would hail with
JOY any offering of peace, securing the uhOls
rights of the South, and upon no other terms,
we unanimously scorn and spaern any offers
of reconstruction or submission, as preached
by the editor of the Standard for much
longer time than should have been allowed,
and we denounce him as traitor to his COM
try and earnestly entreat that his tory sheet
be immediately suppressed, &c.
And the following from the 1st Bat. N
C. Art, near Wilmington, Aug. nth, 1868:
" Resolcea, That we are driven against our
will from the general tone and character of
the Standard, to regard w. w. Holden as a
tory without an equal in the South, the GER
tain ally of Abraham Lincoln, the most pow
erful and inveterate foe, and at the same time
the most insldious enemy the Confederacy
has in the old North State.
ResolreI. .turtltermore, That W. W. Holden
by the publication of cowardly and submis-
sion editorials in the recent issues of the
Raleigh Standard has disgraced himself in
the eyes of all true men, is disgrace to the
place of his birth, and that he has made him
self too contemplate to receive the common
courtesies of civil life from patriotic North
Carolinians, and that he is unworthy home
in the South"
We will close these extracts from army
meetings with the following from the army
address, as it was called, issued by half
dozen crazy Confederate officers, about the
middle of August. 1t is understood to have
been written by Seaton Gales, of the Sentinel,
who refuses to walk under the National col
ors. The extract reads as follows:
"But there is yet q consideration to which
your attention has not been invited. The
i,,lo Of oil lo1 If
lied warfare by the enemy. has not been
without its natural influence in infaming
our resentment and exciting towards him
extreme hatred lie has paid no respect to
the inviolability of private property or the
personal liberty of non-combatants. He has
made war upon innocent and aefenceless old
men, women and children, by driving them
as refugees from their homes, burning their
dwellings and taking from them their means
of subsistence. He has employed in his service
in command of his armies, beasts in hui
man shape, who have not hesitated to ln1llct
upon ladies of the greatest refinement, the
most cruel insults. His crueities to our Peo-
pie have been limited only by his power
Surely there cannot be man OF honorable
impulses or generous nature in our whoie
State, who has not felt his heart swell WITH
Indignation at the recital OF the lnhuman
barbarities of our foe But it must occur TO
you as matter exciting the greatest aston
ishment, that the employment OF the slaves
of the South and the free negroes OF the
North, to murder our citizens and oppose Us
in honorable combat as soldiers should MOI
have fired the soul of man in the South, anu
raised every strong arm in her defence. ho
who bears this enormity with patience, is
coward or a brute, whom it would be Dase