The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-14

mad" They, therefore, made most of the |
friends of Breckenridge in the South, and
few others mad Immediately after his defeat |
as candidate for President in 1860. Since
that time, after running themselves and so
many others by their conduct, it would seem
that like the prodigal son, they would p" come
to themselves" again. Especially would it
seem so in view of the Congressional events
lust developed. reducing them to such straits
! But not so. The occurrence at our Court on
Monday last, which shall communicate, is
sufficient to remove all doubt upon the SUBJ
iect Of their political insanity.
Sixteen gentlemen recently appointed by
the Legislature were sworn into office as
magistrates. All were either original seces-
sionists or such as vote with them except
two or three. believe The justices of the
peace were called into the courthouse Of
course the destructives, rs they are sometimes
denominated, greatly predominated. The
Chairman brought one or two matters to
their attention, when he asked a magistrate
to take the Chair, as he was compelled to at
tend to some business without. A special
court was then elected If integrity and jul
dicial ability alone influenced all in choosing
men to sit as judges, then these qualities
too, were found to predominant on the de
structive side The special court, however,
is q good one, and nobody complains for
any thing done up to this period. But when
motion was made, put and carried to go
into an election for Chairman, "a majority of
the magistrates being presently which result
ted in turning out a good Union man and
putting in q prominent, former secessionist,a
more manifest and unusual case of proscrip-
ton on account of ones political views was
never exhibited in or out of court. The law
provides that a Chairman shall hold his of
flee until successors appointed. DR.. VIM.
Barrow was elected Chairman twenty years
ago. No election-for such officer has been
held since. He was willing to act as such
longer, SO far as any body knows, although
he was not consulted about the matter as he
knew nothing of the election until it was
over. For so long a period through all the
mutations of parties and political crecds, no
one ever thought before of going into such
an election. Without making any invidious
comparison or distinction myself, think l
hazard nothing in saying that in the opinion
of majority Of the people in the County,
he stands higher than any other magistrate
i'll judicial and administrative ability. He
was raised here, and possesses moral char
acter as white as snow. OF four candidates
as delegates for the Convention of 1865, his
fellow citizens gave him the largest vote;
yet such man on account of his strong
| Union sentiments must be prescribed by
those who were formerly strong secessionists
and their presr Mt sympathizers. There was
no candidate for the office Even the gentle
man who was elected begged that his name
should not be used. But so eager were they,
or large majority, to get such man ont Of
office, however undesirable, that they threw
IN another nolens roleas. Their action re-
minds me of the old Parsons views on sin
i ming by the profane. Satan said he, caught
sinners by fishing with hook. and using
| Il Iait 2 l,
ted to catch drunkard, he baited his hook
with bottle of whisky. But the habitual
swearer, said he needed no bait, for he al
ways bit at the naked hook In this case
they have not the usual excuse for removing
: a faithful public officer by pleading that they
felt under obligations to confer a favor on 4
= personal as well as political friend The Of
l flee is one of some labor without any rcmu-
e neration and therefore, no one wanted it
: They went out of the way to make up /.
q case of prescription. They sinned without
a sufficient incentive. They bit at the ma
ked hook
This whole matter may seem uninportant,
but " straws show which way the wind
C blows" The very insignifcance of the case
: makes the display of that hatred which ran
. kles in the bosoms of some towards uncon-
ditional Union men the more glazing. Ii
I further proof of thirst for vengeance were
V would tear away the last veil of doubt-a
time when the edict had virtually gone forth
that many of them can no longer vote or
hold office unless an unmistakable record OF
: loyalty to the Union is exhibited If men
: will do these things in green tree, what
r shall be done in the dry?' OF course their
. right to act is not questioned. The aninaus
alone which [ have alluded to must appear
to all conservative men to be wrong. If /
am mistaken as to the controlling motive,
then the people too are, who are cognizant
OF the circumstances.
t What great sin have Union men commit
: ted, that they should be prescribed and de-
81 ised? I speak not of buffaloes, as certain
, men are called in this section of the country.
speak now especially of such men as were
. called conservatives in this State during the
0 war-men who originally opposed secession,
: but became separationists after the war com
menced, through necessity. Men who went
along down with the great popular current.
making no resistance-giving sympathy to
4 their kith and kin, and aid to their friends
. and the war. But ever and anon, from the
v most patriotic motives, they warned their
countrymen of that whirlpool of destruction
to which they were probably tending, and
E begged those who governed to pause, to con-
slider. to compromise. Has not time demon
strated that such men were right? There
. are now too wings of this class One has
= coalesced with the original secessonists. or
f 0ice cersa, making them as strong to-day,
= whether they designed it or not, as they We're
3 during the war The termination of the
= war has given those of the other wing an
opportunity of taking their true position
and planting themselves, where they love to
stand, on the solid foundation of the Union,
!, with gulf rolling between them and those
demented, if not wicked men, who original
ly advised that the life blood of the best gov
? eminent on which the sun ever shone, should
be taken. Iprofess to belong to this wing.
1 acknowledge myself to be a rebel, and like
the guilty Irishman on trial, ASK for mercy,
: and not for justice. If 1 am to be proscrib-
ed by the movers and origInators of the re-
bellion, because, heretofore, 1 have not
shouted that they were right; if they and
their late sympathizers are to place me under
ban on account of the position which now
occupy, and of the fact that do not hurl
D anathemas on the heads of all yankees then
l say, for the sake of protection, prefer mil
itary rule, Notwithstanding my antipathies
: early imbibed against military despotism.
This hatred towards Union men should
not be nourished. We are again to live in
Union. Must man never again say that he
loves it, and the government under which he
| and hoe ta -