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

loyal people of North Carolina will be au-
thorized to call Convention Ito take their
own affairs into their own hands," Then
our State will be recothed 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 ofthe national government, their horrible
threats, and their outspoken, unblushing JUS
LITIGATION of CONSUMPTION, Confederate con-
hscation, 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
they claimed to be free and independent, and
acre free in thought and action 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 now 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," Lincoln
ites,'' traitors" and tories",-then they
told the truth in regard to our loyalty, and
| now thew inter a falSphpO1
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 mainland loyalty be made respec-
table and honorable.
I 2. 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:
Nov what does Mr.. Lincoln promise the
State of North Carolina In what language
does he ciothe his gracious terms of anncs-
! tv and pardon? He saws 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 sworc to support
this proclamation, you would perjure your
self, Tor it is in direct violation of the Con-
stitution as you we'll know. Old Abe has
perjured 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
| onetcnth of the community, and publicly
executing your glorious chiettains, and every
officer from a Colonel up to Gen. Lee
How many perjurers are there in North
! Carolina to-day, therefore, according to Gov.
! Vance's test9 Do he and his friends hold
that Mr. Lincoln is still infamous in the eyes
of the civilized world? Who has been pub
licly executeda Who has lost property from
| confiscation
! In the same speech he said that President
! Lincoln desired g to set up government of
ten thousand perjured scoundrels." And
that if he, Vance, and his friends consented
to this thing they would deserve the fate of
dogs - --------------- -----------.----------
| The Conservative of April a7th, 1864, held
the following language:
! "If there are those in our midst who are
! for the - 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
ha hut
they are not Of us. They are Lincotnites at
heart, and the sooner they go north the bet
4 ter fog themselves and the State"
But they did not go North-they staid
|. here-those "Lincolnites at heart"-and
they iatend to stay and rule this country and
put dawn treason and traitors.
The following is one of the tests given to
show how "to know Holdenite,'' in the
Conservative, of May 4th, 1864:
HE says that good bargain can be
struck between the North and the South
He is of opinion that if North Carolina should
md members to the U. S. Congress they
would a,e received with applauding thunders
of cannon. He forgets to mention that The
Yankees have refused to consider any terms,
,except absolute submission and emancipation
of slaca-"
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that Congress would receive loyal members
, from the South with applauding thunders of
cannon Very good.
The Conservative of June goth, 1864, also
said:
Keep it before the people, that Mr.. Hol-
den advocated Convention in North Caro-
lima for the purpose Of taking this State out of
THE Constituency. The proof of this is over
whelming. Indeed Mr.. Holden of late has
mot eoen pretended to deny The charqe.n-
Aug. 81, 1864, the COnseroatioe, speaking
aus the organ of Gov. Vance and the latter
Glay -war-saints, said:
:" We have not changed one opinion about
reconstrsctionists. We have pot only here
sofore regarded them traitors, but we still
90 regard them. Not only so, but we think
that any man who so avows himself in favor
off reconstruction should be required to leaoe
tile Confederate States for such an one is a
Yankee at heart, and unfit to live among
Southern people -------------
Comment is unnecessary upon such ex-
Eacts- They cut through bone and mar
UM. We can almost hear these once-defiant
ebeis cry out Let the mountains fall upon