The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-23
The''aat,rrktp taudard.
wEDNEsDAY. JANUARY %, 1867.
THE RECORD
s2s5.J OF THE 80,
lNSTlGA1ORS AND LEADERS
OF THE
REBELLION.
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READ AND CIRCULATE--READ AND PRESERVE.
REBELLION.
READ AND C1RCrLATE-.READ AND PRESERVE.
Treason must be made Odious.
rAxDprw JOHNSON

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The time is rapidly approaching when the
loyal people of North-Carolina will be au-
thorized to call Convention "to take their
own affairs into their own hands, Then
our state willbe reclothed in the pure and
unspotted garments of loyalty. 1t is not,
therefore, without sufficient reasons, that
we refer to the past and call up the RECORD
of the leaders of the Rebellion their vile
and infamous denunciations of Union men
and ofthe national government, their horrible
threats, and their outspoken, unblushing JUS
LITIGATION of CONSUMPTION, Confederate con-
fscation murders and robberies. We shall
not rely upon Union men or Union presses
to substantiate their reasonable utterances
and actions. We shall refer to their own
presses, their-own speeches, addresses and
official documents written and spoken when
thew claimed to be free and independent, and
,oers free in thought and actisn;; and exercis
ed that freedom, in the most unlicensed
manner, by numbering, insulting and con-
scripting, Union men, and waging the war
with every weapon, honorable and dishon-
orable, upon which they could lay their
bloody hands. Out of their own mouths let
them be Judged, and we are willing to abide
the same test for though they moo affect to
consider true Loyalists as equally disloyal
with themselves to the United States gov
eminent, then they denounced us collectively
and Individually as Unionists, 80 Lincoln
ties" TRAITORS and tories then they
told the truth in regard to our loyalty, anc
now they utter falsehood. --,.r...l- s- ..
We advise every Union man to read these
extracts to his neighbors, and preserve the
papers containing them. Let the people be-
hold the hideous deformities of these unre-
pentant traitors, until treason shall become
odious-a stencil in the nostrils of every
honest man-and loyalty be made respec-'
table and honorable
Z.B. Vance delivered his speech at Wilkes
borough, Feb. %, 1864. In referring to the
terms offered by President Lincoln in his
Amnesty Proclamation of December, 1868,
he said:
snow what does Mr. Lincoln promise the
State of North Carolina In what language
does he clothe his gracious terms of amnes-
ty and pardon9 He says if one-tenth of the
people of any State will take an oath to sup
port-what? The Constitution Nay, take
an oath to support his proclamation abolish
ing slavery, his proclamation melting your
slaves to burn your homes and murder you
and your families! If you swore to support
this proclamation, you would perjure your
self, for tits in direct violation of the Con-
stitution as you well know. Old Abe has
peJured himself, and he wishes to put you
in the same category of villainy Not only
must you swear to endorse his Infamous doc
ument-so pronounced by the civilized
world-but you must also take an oath to
support all the acts of Congress which have
been passed, abolishing slavery, confscating
your property, placing you in subsection to
one-tenth of the community, and publicly
executing your glorious chieftains, and eyery
officer from Colonel up to Gen. Lee.r
How many perjurers are there in North
Carolina to-day, therefore, according to Gov
Vances test? Do he and his friends hold
that Mr.. Lincoln is still infamous in the eyes
of the civilized world? Who has been pub
icly executedl Who has lost property from
confscation2
In the same speech he said that President
Lincoln desired " to set up government of
ten thousand perured scoundrels I" And
that if he, Vance, and his friends consented
to this thing they would deserve the fate of
dogs p a''!iS ''9 $3.50 fa
The Conservative of April 9th, 1864, held
the following language: s--
fIthere are those in our midst who are
for the I" Constitution as it is, and the Union
as it was" whatever may be their profess
ions, in point of classification they do not
belong to the Conservative party of North
Carolina. Such men may be aoith us but
they are not Of us. They are Lincolpites at
heart, and the sooner they go north the bet
ter for themselves and the State"
But they did not go North-they staid
here-those Lincolnites at heartn-and
they intend to stay and rule this country and
put down treason and traitors
The following is one of the tests given to
show'how ito know Holdenite," in the
Conservative of May 4th, 1854:
"He says that good bargain can be
struck, between the North and the South
He is ofopinion that North Carolina should
send members to the U. S. Congress thew
would perceived with applauding thunders
OF cannon. He forgets to mention that the
Yankees have refused to consider any terms.
except absolute submission and emancipation
Of slaces."
All very true. Weare still of the opinion
that Congress would receive loyal members
from the South with applauding thunders of
cannon. Very good.
The Conservative of June 10th. 1894 aIso
said:
Keep it before the people, that Mr.. Hol-
den advocated a Convention in North Caro-
lima tox the purpose Of tsbing this State outef
me Coyederacy. The proof of this is over.
whelming. Indeed Mr.. Holden of late has
not euen pretended to deny the charge"
Aug 3D., 1884, the Conservatism, speaking
as the organ of Gov. Vance and the latter.
day-war-saints, said:
I'VE have not changed one opinion about
reconsTuctionists. We have not only here
tefore regarded them as traitors, but we still
80 regard Them, Not only so, but we think
that any man who SO avows himself in favor
OF reconstruction should be required to saos
the Confederate States, for such an one is
Yankee at heart, and unfit to live among
Southern people!" :. 90 q 81 2, = N-sD,e
Comment Us Is unnecessary upon such ex-
tracts. They cut throuoh hone 81