The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-21
COn6scatiOn.

lie mas Deen suffering lof tlle pSSs 1hi 0o N"JS'
hopes to he able to resume his seat to-mor-
row. He will deliver speech early IN the
week, probably Tuesday, if he should feel
able. in support of his confscation bill. 1t
is expected that it will be one OF the most
elaborate speeches he has ever made, and it
is his intention to state the declaration OF
Mr.. johnson, made before his accession to
the Presidency that he would confscate the
lands of the rebels and cut them up in small
farms for the Union soldiers, as his own
views, and tnat he will agree with the Pres
ident in that policy"
The last Charlotte Democrat has the fol-
lowing sensible observations ON the subject:
eff the Southern people will keep quiet, and if
those who have been known as prominent in the
war or the secession movement, will content them
selves to take "back seats' in the reconstruction
programme, and not try to control the ConVen-
lions and promote themselves, we do not believe
there will b. any further trouble or the least
danger of contiscation. If North Carolina sub
mits in good faith, and shows disposition to do
the best she can under the circumstances, and
permits no strife and bad feeling to be promoted,
We can almost confidently say that her people
will be exempt from contiscation and all further
trouble. Let US get into the Union as soon as
possible under the Reconstruction Law, and then
it is to be hoped we shall have peace, security
and prosperity.
If those who have seized the Offices in the
Southern States since the close of the will
now retire. and agree to remain in private life for
few years, we need have no fears about contis-
cation; but if strife and contention is continued,
there is no telling what may be the result. We
want no office Ourself, and could not hold one II
we wanted it, butwe say let those who arc recog-
nlzed by Congress as ''lOyal' carry on the work
of reconstruction, and let us get our Representa-
tives into Congress as soon as possible. We are
in bad scrape, and we must get out OF it the
best way can"
The Democrat is correct in the view it
takes. Such papers as the Raleigh Sentinel,
which pursued a course calculated to defeat
the Presidents plan, and then told the peo-
pie they would do we'll to reject the How
ard amendment, will boot at the idea of con-
fiscation,, and may again mislead their
thoughtlcss and reckless followers. If the
people follow such leaders any further, they
will richly deserve the sufferings that will
come upon them. If the Republicans of
this State are let alone-if they should be
pers as the Sentinel, to elect one hundred
and twenty thoroughly loyal delegates to a
Convention, and if that Convention should
frame a suitable Constitution and assume
complete control of the State government in
all its departments, giving the election of all
the important officers to the people, and
placing the white and colored races on the
same footing of civil and political equality,
tho or will inlr b<
Sherman act in the course of twelve months
from this time, and confscation may be
averted; but if, as the result of the inter
OF the rebel leaders, suitable
Constitution should not be framed, and if
the work should be defective. and should be
rejected by the Congress, that body will add
10 its demands, an6 confsemtion ,cW certainly
tolIon. We give this opinion for what
it may be worth. We may be mistaken, but
do not think we are. Time will determine
A REVOLUTIONARY HERo-A friend who
has seen notices of the death of the "last
hero of the Revolution" recently published,
Informs US that another one of this heroic
band yet survives in the person of Mr. Jas
Farmer, who lives in the Yellow Branch
neighLorhood, in Campbell county. This
patriarch is now in his 1O6th year, and serv-
ed during the last campaign of the war
which established the liberty of America,
only to be wrested from its people by the
fanatics of our own day. Notwithstanding
his extreme age, the old hero enjoys remark
ably good health, is hale and vigorous, walks
about his plantation without assistance, and
on frequent occasions of late has mounted his
horse and ridden several miles to mill. From
appearance he bids fair to survive for some
time yet, to mourn over the dcsolation of the
land which he shed his blood to assist in
freeing from tyrants grasp, only, alas to
fall into hands still more vlndictiye and
neutrality-suspicious. Ne1s.
old veteran has lived through four wars,
every one of which has added to the glory
of his country and the perpetuity of its free
institutions: The war of 1776, the war of
1912, the war with Mexico, and the late war.
When Lee surrendered and the Confederate
cause went down, Virginia and her sister
Southern States were delivered from the
most corrupt and rigorous despotism that
ever existed over any civilized people. This
old soldier, who followed WASHINGTON
though the first struggle for independence,
might we'll have thanked his Creator when
the Union. armies put Davis to flight, and
saved from the very grasp of destruction
that great and benefcent Union which
WASHINGTON fought and suffered to es-
tablish.
Those pert scribblers and flippant Editors
who are constantly prating about the tyran-
ny of the national government, ought to be
taught some loyalty and common sense by
being reduced to the condition in which the
great body of our poor white people were
sunk during the rebellion. They ought to
be clad in the coarsest homespun, and fed
on wormy. peas, potato or rye coffee, bran
corn bread, and slice once week, as a rar-
ity, of Nassau bacon. They ought then to
be told that if they did not shout for the
Union, and denounce every one who did not
do the same, they would have their heads
shaved and be sent to the army to fight and
die for somebody's negroes. They ought to
be visited at least once week by con-
script officer, and turned over to Surgeon
more or less inebriated with mean Confeder-
ate whisky, who should examine them thor