The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-12-04
Deserved Compliment. !.

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The Hon. Thos., w. Conway, writing to
the Washington Chronicle from Augusta,
Ga, pays the following compliment to Judge
Edmunds. President of the National U. L
A., and to Hon. Thos. L. Tullock, Secreta-
ry of the Congressional Committee: s'ssa
Z 1t requires but little effort to discover
the fact that but for the efforts of the Con-
gresslonal committee, of which Senator
Morgan, OF New York, is Chairman, and
Hon. Thomas L. Tullock Secretary, Joined
with those of the Union League of America,
of which Hon. j. M. Edmunds is President,
the Congressional plan of reconstruction
would have proved an utter failure in most,
if not in all, of the Southern or rebel States,
have now travelled pretty extensively in
nearly all the States formerly in rebellion.
and at all points hear OF the work of these
patriotic agencies. The names of Hon. ].
NJ. Edmunds, Hon. Thomas L. Tullock, and
the other gentlemen who have been actively
engaged IN laying the groundwork of Re
publican victory in all the South will be
iimperishably inscribed upon the pages of
the wonderful history which will give future
ages a true picture of this great work now
going on throughout this once slaveholding
region. Already the few men in the South
who cherish the love Of freedom within a
white as we'll as a black skin, use the names
OF these true men with such manifest evi-
dence of the love and esteem which they en-
tertain for them that one naturally believes
that great service must have been render
ed by them as the reason for this FEELING
And the evidence presented on every hand
goes to show that vast work has been done.
have entered cities, and small towns, and
remote country localities, and at every point
found organizations for the promotion of
the Republican cause. There are councils
OF tue Union League for the most part, each
bearing charter from the respective State
organizations, acting under authority of the
national organization in Washington.
These councils are all well supplied with
loyal literature by the Congressional Com.
mittee and by Judge Edmunds. The
speeches of Wilson, Logan, Kelley, and
Others are to be found pretty generally cir
culated.. How some organizations are able
to live amid the hostility of the rebel ele
ment and the almost universal hate existing
in rebel breasts against Congress, is only ac
counted for by the peculiar adaptation o
the League to the emergency now existing
throughout this section. The men wht
originated this organization in the noun
} tnins of Tennessee knew exactly what safe
guards We're needed against tile dangerou
!, Vaccinations of the rebel element. TIL
/. dangers then existing in Tennessee, whel
Union men were hunted down and murder
ed by organized rebel bands, were simila
: to those which have surrounded every loya
family and hamlet in the Southern State
. from that day to this. The Congressions
Committee, in accepting the League as the
best engine for the promotion of the loya
cause in the South, did a very wise thins
and showed the practical, clear-sighte
sagacity OF the patriotic gentlemen compos
ing that committee"
Mr.. Conway adds:
"The Union, men of the South are 6
, deeply and bitterly hated by the rebels tina
were it not for thorough organization, an
the fostering care of Northern organization
t like those haze named, they would be III
I terly crushed 81 t3a *
The more travel over the South, IL
more see of the lingering flames of treaso
J and hatred toward the loyal men of tt
country, and especially toward our 10y,
: Congress; the more see how thorough
Systematically, and wisely the Congression'
: Committee and the Union League hay
aided the Union men of the South, bot
black and white, and how well they hav
: helped on the good cause of loyal reconstru
ton. with impartial manhood suffrage I
|. the chief cornerstone, the more / feel lii
E saying "God bless the noble men who ha,
done SO WELL 3.1iat yfoF H3iii Jsft!