The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-24

roads lawyer, to beg his life for the sake Of
his wife and children. Is there any man in
North Carolina willing to see this2 [Sensa-
tion and cries of Never # there be, sex-
claimed Gov. ", there are no words in the
lexicon use. capable of depicting the base
brutality of his soul. No. sIrs, we mean to
| resist such demands. To submit % not better
than the ertrenaest resistance and he scho sub
naits is a mean dog! This is not the language
of passion, but of fact. Gov. V. did not be-
lieve the people of North-Carolina would
submit. When they understood the true
issue, they will resist. What is your prop
erty and broad lands, he asked, if the mas
ter feels he is slave and dishonored dog!"
Not one word of the above has ever been
retracted. There is no evidence of repentance
for such reasonable and dsgraceful ha-
rangues. 1t only remains to inquire, who
now is 1" the slave and dishonored dog2"
We copy the following from the Conseroa-
tive of March 18th, 1866:
! Capt JOS Davis, 47th N. c. Regt, who
was captured at Gettysburg, and a paroled
prisoner from Johnson's Island. will speak
in Louisburg on Thursday of March Court,
upon the facts Of his Imprisonment and the
state Of the country"
What did paroled prisoner, who was
sworn to neutrality, have to do with public
speakings; infaming the minds of the peo-
pie and encouraging them to resist the ar
mics of the United States Did any other
paroled North Carolinian ever offer to do
such thingg2-
Let US return to the spring of 1864, when
the Confederate of April 18th, let off the fol-
lowing sky-rocket:
"Take heart, o coantrymen! Our cause
was never half SO hopeful as now; our
strength never half 80 Formidable; our re-
sources never half So abundaut or so readily
within grasp.n
Whatbaldfaced falsehoods! But in its is
sue-of May 4th, 1864, it spoke in another
strain. 1t was thlrsting for blood. Read it
ave hope the Eastern counties will soon
be cleared of the Yankee allies and protec-
tors of the infamous herd of BuffaloeS, when
the loyal citizens will have an opportunity
OF taking their own affairs into their own
hands,, by inJ7icting summary jpstice upon
them. There is fearful day of retribution
IN store for them; and not only these, bit
many others ,oho esteem, themselves out efhn,ms
'o"y, .Jar IN the rear, too cowardly to take up
arms, or, shoot n Confederate soldier, but
none the less dangerous in plotting mischief
and sowing the seeds Of discord and strife"
Who, after reading the continued extracts
from these, the leading secession journals of
the State-all of similar tenor-can doubt
this fact, that if the Confederate arms had
succeeded, Union men, and all ,oho sympathized
10Th them, ,ooulI hace been dricen ont of the
State, some murderedand othersmaimed torlite,
Aeirproperty destroyed and their families nal
treated and abused? But how different has
been the action of Union men since the sue.
cess of their friends With more causes for
vengeance, they forgave their foes and treated
all kindly. Truly they are the "salt of the
earth" But they have met with the ingrati-
tude of the viper, that was warmed into life.
Hereafter, they will exercise a little more
justice and less mercy. Amen.