The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-08-28
TIE IsrIDEL,s PRAYER.

soul, 1T IsitG0e one, prayed tne weak
lSneed infidel in the hour Of bis ADVERSE
~: Register, Register! Register |!
writes the rebel press throughout the
State. accept the Reconstruction plan
of Congress, thus far, that we may be
able to incorporate our secession doc
tlines into the new State Constitution,
if we find ourselves strong enough.
g After denouncing the reconstruction
measarcsof Congress with all the venom
and bitterness Of disappointed and sell
fish party-hacks, after hurting all the
vie interpretations conceivable against
z th +, authors of the reconstruction bills,
after vainly endeavoring to cheat the
people OF the United States, through
the Interpretation of a soul-hired At
toiney-General, when the emphatic
voice of the loyal masses OF the Union
proclaims itself in the recent supple
mental bill of Congress in unmistaka-
BILE tones of earnestness, the croakers
! of the "Lost Cause y suddenly drop
thsir belligerent tone, and advise their
deluded followers to comply with the
reconstruction acts, at least SO far as to
Register. ~
This sudden change of position on
the part of the enemies of the govern
ment, may well arouse the suspicious
of the loyal men of the South. Why
does rebel press advise registration
under attachments and provisions of
Congress, which but a few days ago,
they pronounced as humiliating and
degrading to the people of the South?
A few of the small fry of the crew have
let the cat out of the bag, plain language
had to be used to those that "wont be
reconstructed,n in order to continue
them in the ranks of the secession
lenders, and accordingly tits insinuated,
what was apparent to observing Union
men in the beginning, that the Rebels
advise to register, and the registration
onethe part Of avowed enemies of the
government is not an evidence of their
conversion to the cause of justice and
peace and harmony, but that it is only
one more attempt at reviving the Lost
Cause" asssa ~
Driven to desperation by their failure
to establish government whose strong
hold should be slavery, the leaders of
the rebellion and advocates of secession
have at last resolved that if they cannot
rule they will use their best efforts to
ruin the land They will register in
The hope of defeating reconstruction.
Should they find themselves strong
enough, they will use all efforts to keep
the South out of the Union, hoping to
gain through subsequent enactments
more favorable opportunities for the
elevation of the enemies of the national
government. The masses are advised
to register, not for any specific purpose
or object now proclaimed, but that
they can be used against the govern
ment Of the United States, as the emer-
gency may arise, in the course of recon-
struction. What can be more con-
tempti5le, in the eyes of honest men,
than the desperate measures of these
secession leaders? Men who in one
moment denounce the enaetments of
Congress as inimical to the South-as
humiliating and degrading-and in the
next moment ask their followers to /
avail themselves of the opportunity
protfered to comply with one provision
Of the acts, for the sake of defeating
them as whole. This is what party
blindness is asking of honest people
Will they find dupes enough to come
at their bidding? We think not.
From all indications, thus far received,
the men who during the rebellion held
sway are daily sinking lower and lower
in the estimation of the honest citizens
of North Carolina. Their aims of self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT are becoming more
and more apparent, and we doubt not
the white Union vote of the State is
stronger to-day thanit has been at any
time since the close of the war.-Neao-
bern Republicans.
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