The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-09
Extracts.

the people are alive to the great importanc
of the present crisis.
A friend writing US from Peach Tire
Grove. Nash Co., under date of March 24tl
says:
"There are few Union men in Nash
am one. L have not forgotten how the off
GERS in the rebel armies used to pcrsecut
soldiers, who read the Standard. / used t.
take it and suffered thereby 1 am the sam
Unlonlst now that waa then, and than
God, can now proclaim it. 1 hope yort
Convention may be harmonious, and that W
may forever escape the evils of secession
hereafter"
The following is from distinguished gen
tlemen who writes under date of March 10th
from Swift Island, Montgomery Co.:
" Since the passage of the Sherman bill
have conferred with true-blue Union men. il
Stanly y, Arson and Montgomery. They ar
willing to accept it with one accord. Gov
Worth can do as he likes, but as Union mer
we intend to stand up to the military COM
mander The Union element will show it.
self here, when we come to the ballot-box.-
We have but few colored people here also
that do not stand square up to the old flag
My word for it. the secesh cannot control
them. We are rejoicing in our deiverance
both white and black.
| NOW that we can see more clearly the
course that IS to be pursued, we warn the
colored people and poor whites against the
secesh. An effort will be made to deceive
| them, but it will fail. God save our coun-
try from their grasp. For when the wicked
rule the people mourn.
Whenever look towards the North-to-
wards Mt. Vernon by the Potomac, nv very
soul within me is made to rejoice. Confeder-
ate rule is dead, and the Union established by
Washington and his compatriots preserved
and perpetrated
Icordially endorse the call for Coiaven-
ton. 1t is our duty to labor together and
at once take hold of the work of re0Dnstruc-
ton. see from your paper that Gov. Wells
has done SO. Our old Quaker ran off to
Washington, without taking any action, to
find out " hat he must do, with the act of
Congress before his eyes DR.. Fisher ought
to cage the whole concern until they become
more quiet.
I hope the good work will go on May
God prosper and direct our returning foot
steps. Let us act cooly ard wisely, wish |
and an honorable forbearance TO- |
wards our enemies. But let us neglect moth /
ing in word or deed to accomplish the great
purpose, which we have in view"
The following is taken from letter from
DR.. w. D. Whitfield, dated Hendersonville,
Henderson Co., March 22nd, 1867:
There is nothing that would afford me
more pleasure than that of being present on
he 9th, at your meeting and contribute my
mite towards restoring our State to her nor
nal and original position in the Union
l. %,l
lestly desire to see the luxation reduced,
,ician, (the U. S. Congress) has proposed or !
or the reduction of the dislocated limb, and
It only remains for US less distinguished as
surgeons or physicians to make these appli-
lnces and the old North State will be her
self again both in body and limb.
am now, as l. ever have been, in favor of
restoration of the Union on the best terms
that we can get was in favor of all COM
promises offered by the government during
the war, looking towards returning to the
Unlon I was in favor of IA State Conven-
ion during the war, hoping thereby to make
our escape from Confederate rule and tyran-
n.y. 1 was in favor of the Constitutional
amendment proposed in 1866, voted for it,
&C. And am now in favor of the military
bill as passed by the 39th Congress, although
it deprives many good and true Union men
from voting for delegates to the State Con-
vention. You, l have no doubt, will repre-
sent us nearly as any one man could the SEN
t1ments of the Union men of Western North
Carolina, and we hope that you will stand
square on the question as you have always
done heretofore. Let us have no backing
down at this late day, after so so much suf
fering and privation on account of the per-
= h. Ill h.
country"
Our friend, W. F. Gray, writes us from
DIN, IredcIl County, under date of March |
Goth as follows:
"The Unionists of this section of the State
have borne with great manliness the taunts |
and prosecutions of their enemies. When
Congress in its magnanimty presented the |
s. Howard amendment" we fondly hoped our
Legislature would have gladly taken hold of
it, as the only means of a speedy adjustment
OF our political troubles. But alas the
golden opportunity was permitted to pass
and Congress now seeing the
disease of the States prepares stronger dose
for their case. The question of the adoption
of the Howard amendment" was brought
into the senatorial canvass last summer in
this County by Mr.. G. ]. Cowles, the (Union
candidate) who pressed it before the people
with all his energy, eloquence and ability
In some sections it was hailed as the hardin
ger of peace and prosperity to our people,
and in Others as the angel of death and per-
sonal degradation. Had ourpeople of this dis
trict again the choice of an election between
the " Howard amendment" and the Sherman
bill, methinks prophet would not be
wanted to divine as to tue choice that would
be made Almost two long years have been
given the people of the insurgent States to
Iegislate themselves into the Union, and
shape themselves to the situation And in
stead of using this liberty and these exalted
privileges allowed them by benignant Con-
gress in trying to place North-C Carolina in
the Union by the side of her great and pros
porous sisters of the republic, with all her
forfeited rights restored her losses forgot
ten, and her wounds mollifed0 seemingly
they have tried to widen the breach, and if
possible, prevent the State from assuming
her federal relations. Who is responsible for
these things? This is certainly the result of
secession madness and rule. Had the loyal
people been allowed to hold the offices of
public trust, and administer the affairs Of
the government, Congress had been spared
the necessity of claiming obedience to it's