The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-19

confessed traitors step aside They SAID
they would not engage in this work year
before it commenced, but they haze done so,
and thus far succeeded in thwarting its full
filment. They should be held up to their
promises, both high and low. Let them be
forced out of Office. 1t is q part of the bar
gain-they have acknowledged it, and now
all that we claim is that they be made to
stand up to tile contract.
1t is only necessary to say that John D.
Hyman the writer of the above extract, was
q candidate for the Legislature and detea-
ted last Fall Has his mind changed?-
Is he prepared at length "ta be exalted
upon the downfall and ruin of his coun-
try?" Or was he only seeking position
under the government to again betray
it, and pull down upon us all universal
and irretrieXahls -EaiE- 4----------~---------
The confiscation act of the so-called Con-
federate Congress was approved by Mr.. jeff.
Davis, August 30th, 1861.
1t declared "that all and every, the lands
tenements and hereditaments, goods and
chattels, rights and credits within these
Confederate States, and every right and in
terest therein held, owned, possessed or en-
joyed By or for any alien enemy since the
21st day of May, 1861, except such debts
due to an alien enemy as may have been
paid into the Treasury of any one OF the
Confederate States of America prior to the
passage of this law, be, and the same are
hereby sequestrated by the Confederate
States of America"
The 2nd section made it the duty of erery
citizen to give information to the officers
charged with the execution of the above.
| The 3rd section declared any person will
fully failing to give such information, or
rendering az account of sequestered property,
guilty of high misilemcanor, and upon
conviction should be fined $4,000 and impris-
ed not longer than six months
| Under this law officers were appointed,
who executed all its provisions promptly =
Debts due to Northern merchants were paid
to Confederate Receivers, under fear of fine
and imprisonment. and they were then paid
to the Treasurer of the Confederate States,
and of course all lost Our people acre thus
deliberately robbed by traitors ; while citizens
of the loyal States were likewise plundered
of their real estate and other effects, which
were sold and used for four years by rebels,
and for which no compensa alton has been
given or thus far demanded We learn
that in one instance even n hat shirt and
bride belonging to a Northern man, were
publicly sold by one of these Receivers! What
then can those, who justified such outrageous
measures, say in opposition to the contisca-
ton laws of the United States, which, with
remarkable magnanimity, have not thus far
been enforced They can only rely upon
Let those, also, who suffered themselves to-
be imposed upon by the confscation act of
the socaled Confederacy, and who are to-
day laboring, as they never labored before,
to make enough money to pay off these debts,
which have been already pail under COM
pulsion, rememember achO it aeas that robbed
| them
The Unionists of North Carolina, at that
early hour of the rebellion. did not dare to
demonstrate openly or organize resistance to
| this law, but many of them concealed their
| debts and allied so far as they could to pre-
vent the confiscation of property. Weknow
several instances-one in particular-in
which gentlemen for four years ran imminent
risk of fine and imprisonment under this
la ". Since the surrender, they have paid
off their debts to those justly and lawful
" entitled to claim them. ..,-.----.---.-
On the 21st of Sept. 1864, Jno. D. Hyman
retired from the editorial control of the
Coassrratipe VIM E. Pell, now Editor of
the Sentinel, then of the Adcocate. commenced
| writing for the Vance organ. He continued
to do so until NJ. s. Robins took control,
| and perhaps afterwards, for there are many
| "gcdly comments" in the paper subsequent
to Robins advent, which strongly SAVIOR of
Brother Pell. The Conservative of Septem-
Der 2sth, 1864, said:
"The Rubicon is passed, and we cannot
retrace our steps without dishonor. The
time was when many of us battled against
the eau ,es which brought on the war
The crime of bringing it on does not rest on
our hands What then. shall we, after hay
ing spilled so much blood, sacrificed so
many lives and so much treasure in defence
of the principles of right, shall we back
down Z Never Never
"Our people do not mean to back. No
such craven heart beats among lis. We must
be up and at the foe. The country needs
every man that can be spared. Let the peo-
pie at home, yea the women, if need be, go
on with the work of enrolling and the du-
ties of commissary and quarter-masters de
partments, and let the men now employed
in these duties, but versed' in the duties of
soldiers, go into the fight. We are strongly
impressed with the idea that the present is
the crisis-the pinch with us. Let the South
for the next two mouths bring her strength
unto the contest, and let our battle-cry be
God and our country and peradventure
We shall roll back the tide that threatens to
overflow u.s."
The above is from Brother Pell. 1t bears
the earmarks and shows also where he then
stood--adcocating the conscription Of every man,
the most rigorous and bloody prosecution Of
the aoar, and the employment Of our female pop
ulation in the same acork, thus endeavoring to.
involve ALL even the most tender and innocent.
in the terrible and inevitable disasters at
tendant upon the close of the rebellion.
The Conservative of October 18th, 1854,
| A..