The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-02-06
Che aYerklp Standard.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY e.lss7.
The North Carolina Rebels ON their
Knees to the Radicals.

The North.Carolina Rebels ON their
Knees to the Radicals.
"The great mass of the people OF TINS
Commonwealth would, in the OPINION OF the
4 Committee, prefer to commit themselves,
Il their honor and their interests to Congress,
as now composed, rather than to those whose |
only hone of ruling, lies in the disfranchise-
ment and oppression of more loyal and bet
ter men,"
The above is an extract from the report of
the Committee of the present Legislature of
North Carolina against the ratification ofthe
Unconstitutional amendment. This report was
adopted by the Legislature, by a large ma
iority in each branch. The above is a re-
markable proposition in more respects than
one, considering the source from which 1t
emanates. In the first place, it strikes one
as little strange that in contemporary de-
clining the terms offered by Congress, these
trembling traitors should not have noted
q the Inconsistency of their abject proposal
"to commit themselves their honor and their
interests" to that body Men olso hare honor
commit it to the keeping of no one But
the arrogant scorn of these secessionists for
the despised " Radicals" could not be con-
cealed even in the act of making pretence of
3 a most abiect and unmanly humbling of their
pride To impress upon the mind how great
a sacrifice they are willing to make, they
4 would commit their honor to Congress, as
no,o composed" as much as to say, that as
mean as they consider the present members
i of Congress, they will condescend to commit
j heir honor to it tor the sake of not being
made incapable of holding Office, as is pro-
posed in the Constitutional amendment
! The members of Congress have honor enough
to despise this miserable cant, and they are
not over anxious to take charge of such hon
or as is offered to be prostituted for office.
Il But the meaning Of all this is, they wish
to tell how much they hate the Union men
of the State. AS much as they despise and
hate the Congress, they hate Union men
more. And this they would pass off as 10y
aNyto the Union. Their loyalty consists in a
q love of treason and traitors, and hatred of
"the Yankees and the Union" We remem-
4 Der the violent and vulgar denunciations of
u Union men in 1861, and during the rebellion,
and the same cry is still kept up, and the
same malignant and vindictive spirit is still
displayed towards them by the beaten trait
ors whose purposes they helped to thwart.
Thousands of loyal men in this State were
murdered or starved to death in the prisons
at Richmond and Salisbury. Thousands were
conscribed and dragged ANONYMOUSLY in
handouts and chains to an unwilling war
fare against the flag of their country. Their
families were outraged in every way that the
most british cruelty could suggest. Women
were tortured to be made to disclose the
j places of their husbands conccalment-were
taken from their starving infants and kept
in pens in out of. the way places, at the dis
posal of depraved guerrillas and scouts, unit
their breasts, in some instances, actually
burst from the accumulation of milk, o.
from worse and more loathsome treatment
The thumbs of one poor woman in Ran
dolph, in the presence of her weeping chill
dren, were put between the rails of fence
and two fendish soldiers sat upon the tor
and enjoyed the agony of their screaming
y victim, until she was forced to betray hel
! husbands hiding place and consign him tx
4 death. But these were only the wives anC
daughters of detested Union traitors" whit
refused to fight for the "beloved Confedera
cy;" and no man then dared raise his voic
to cry shame The secessionists, high ant
low, approved it Especially, the rantins
who prostituted the churches of the ever
living God to purposes of treason and blood
And it was encouraged by many of their ap
proving hearers, who, lounging in cushioned
pews, required for their depraved hearts sucl
religious consolation. Ii Union man daret
raise his voice in defence of humanity, h
\ was threatened as traitor to the cause" in
suited, cast into prison or mobbcd.
a The proof of these outrages is at hand, il
more than hundred instances, and could b.
a obtained in more than thousand. In tn
a instances cited above, respecting the treat
4 ment of females. the proof is of record 70
the Hon. Thomas Settle, of Rockingham,
true and devoted Union man, in whose neigl
borhood they occurred, brought them to til
attention of Coy. Vance by letter, at tn
time, and he has now in his possession tn
written orders of Gov Vance, under whic
they were committed, and letters from hir
evading an investigation of them. But n
81 true Confederate" was ever prosecuted O
punished for crime committed on Unio
4 man or his family in North Carolina, PROV
died he wore traitors uniform when he CON
mitted it. If the crimes and cruelties pei
petrated on Union mer and on defenceles
women and even children in this State du
ring the rebellion, were brought to ligh
by proper and thorough examination an,
published to the world, these brutal traitor
and their guilty leaders know that the hop
of preserving the honor of their rebelio
would be lost, and their merited infamy reu
dered immortal. They hope to escape expo
sure by holding the State government i
their own hands, Their Legislature has re
Gently passed an act Of" general amnesty" t
cover these crimes and prevent an III
thorized exposure of them. Should th
State government be committed to th
hands of loyal men, thew fear there Woul