The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-30

possibly efecting the same desirable end to
all parties. Well, you pass an ordinance of
secession-take another dose of this political
hoarhound tea-and nothing I know of is
more bitter unless it is boneset decoction,
Qaughter)-and set up for yourselves. Is
that going to give you peace2 Will that re-
store ysur SONS and fathers to their homes
Will that hush the cry of the orphan or dry
the widows tears Will that fill your land
with plenty and prosperitya So far from it,
can assure you. my fellow-citizens, it aeiU
incolce you in a neao ioar, a bloodier conflict
than you now deplore. But,n you may
say, Mr. Davis and his government will not
dare make war on seceding State, because
the right of secession is recognized in the
constitution of the Confederacy" So it is,
my friends; but. you see, by that time you
have thrown offthat constitution-you have
gotten from under its obligations and sworn
| you expect the COnfederacy to be bound by
document you refuse to recognize as affect
ing yourselves? So soon as you announce
to the world you are a sovereign and inde-
| pendent nation, as matter of course the
Confederacy has right of declaring ioar
against you, for sufficient reasons, equally
with the right she holds of declaring war
against England. France or Holland. This
right is inherent in all sovereignties."
| Thus the matter stood: Gov. Vance, his
secession sympathizers and supporters, de-
nounced President Lincoln as despot and
usurper, waging a brutal war of coercion;
they claimed the right to seccde peaceably
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that principle fairly incorporated in it; but
when North-Carolina claimed the right of
secession at will, Gov. Vance threatened her
people with a new war he said the Confed
eracy would coerce them-in other words,
he admitted the justice of the war waged by
President Lincoln for the purpose of resto-
ring the American Union, though hesil re-
sisted the Union armies, and proclaimed
them a band of thieves and murderers. What
political profigate
Thus we see that traitors were driven step
by step from their false and untenable posi-
tions, for truth is mighty and will pre-
vailI"
Gov. Vance did not indulge in such state
mems as the above, without being hacked
by the highest Confederate authority. For
tits historical fact, thai JEFF Davis rendered
him troops to coerce the people of North
Carolina. should they attempt to secede from
the Confederacy!
Let US now look at the matter of slavery.
1t is we'll known that mans patriotism was
measured in the Cotton States by the num-
Der of slaves which he owne,l. However,
some of the largest slave-awners ofsthe
South were Union men, because they
knew that secession was practical emanci-
patton. We do not refer to such slave-own-
ers in this article
The military authorities of the Confeder-
ate States, in 1852, first began to employ ne
groes in small numbers fS build fortitica-
tions- gradually as their armies grew weaker,
the sable sons of toll were drafted in large
numbers. The Legislatures of the various
Southern States patriotically voted to pay
owners of slaves for the loss of their human
property, thus employed-but forgot to re
munerate poor white females for the destruc-
ton of their husbands sons or brothers. Let
the orphans of poor Southern soldiers re-
member that!
This paying for slaves who died in the ser.
vice arose from no love for the negro, but be-
cause theyfeared the influence or disaffection
of the wealthy master, deprivedof his proper
ty without compensation. In the same spirit
was the exemption clause inserted in the
conscription law, shielding the owner of
twenty slaves from military duty. Again we
say, let poor conscripts remember that!
But as the war advanced and the rebel
armies dwindled gradually away, the leaders
of the rebellion became desperate. Having
forced every white man into the field, whom
they could reach, and still feeling weak, with
Grant crowding Lee into his Notifications
and Sherman advancing through theswamps
of Georgia, they first proposed to conscript
every man, but recoiled from that PROPOSE
tion so soon as it became evident that they
too would have to go in, at the front, " close
under the flashing Of the guns" What was
left theml Only one and the last desperate
resort" arm the negroes" they said, "and
set them free p
Thus they justified the emancipation and
enlistment of colored troops by the wise and
patriotic Lincoln. fH7
The Confederate of Feb. 1st, 1865, said:
ave are satisfied that il. Congress and the
States had taken steps early last Fall to have
given Gen. Lee two hundred thousand ne
groes, we should scarce to-day have had a
yankee foot print on Southern SOIL"
The same paper of March 1st, 1865, said
eff Congress were to pass the boldest
measures, take 100000 negroes, add to these
Z for reserve 100000 more, call upon the peo-
pie to bring them up, and pile on the taxes
and the people-all the people-were to say
amen, there is no telling the wonderful ef
feet such spirit would have on the univer-
sal yankee nation:" 81
The same sheet, under date of January
18th, 1865, spoke as follows:
"Since the attest of our military leaders
from two points of observation has declared
( in favor OF the employment of negro sol
dicrs, the spirit of the press is very properly
conforming to this standard authority Oh
: the right we never doubted !; OF the expedi-
4 ency we are now convinced. II the South
4 ern negro be appealed to. with proper moral
inducements to enlist his sympathies, we