The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-26
threatening the people with new war and

say you will instruct your delegates to take
the State out Of the Confederacy, because
when it is out it is relieved from the obliga.
/ lions of the constitution and rests upon a
separate and Independent basis. Surprising
also, that it is not your design to join the
United States government again, but only to
20 out as an independent sovereignty, for
the purpose of securing peace to yourself, and
possibly effecting 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 peace? Will that re-
store ysur sons and fathers to their homes
Will that hush the cry of the orphan or dry
the widows tears2 Will that fill your land
with plenty and prosperity? So far from it,
can assure you. my fellowcitizens, 1T aoiU
inUoIUe you IN neV aoar, bloodier conflict
than you now deplore. But" you may
say, " Mr.. Davis and his government will not
dare make war on seeding 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 constituticn-you have
gotten from under its obligations and sworn
you would have nothing to do with it. Do
you expect the Confederacy to be bound by
a document you refuse to recognize as affect
ing yourselves? So soon as you announce
to the world you are a sovereign and indie
pendent nation, as matter OF course the
Confederacy has right of declaring aoGr
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 brutal war of coercion;
they claimed the right to secede peaceably;
and they formed new constitution with
that principle fairly incorporated in it; but
when North Carolina claimed the right of
secession at will, Gov. Vance threatened her
people with 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 he still re-
sisted the Union armies, and proclaimed
them band o. thieves and murderers. What
political proiigate
Thus we see that traitors were driven step
by step from their false and untenable posi-
tions, for "truth is mighty and will pre-
vail I"
Gov Vance did not indulge in such state
mems IS the above, without being backed
by the highest Confederate authority. For
tits historical fact, that JEFF Davis rendered
him troops to coerce the people of North
Carolina, should they attempt to sccede from
the Confederacy!
Let us now look at the matter of slavery.
1t is well known that mans patriotism was
measured in the Cotton States by the num-
Der of slaves which he owned. However,
some of the largest slave-owners of the
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. -..a..s-.--,.--------.--
The military authorities of the Confeder-
ate States, in 1862, first began to employ ne
groes in small numbers to build fortifica-
as their armies grew weaker,
the sable sons of toll were drafted in large
numbers. The Legislatures of the various
Southern States periodically voted to pay
owners of slaves for the loss of their human
thus employed-but forgot to re-
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.
rice arose from no love for the negro, but be-
:ause theyfeared the influence or disaffection
If the wealthy master, deprived of his proper
y without compensation. In the same spirit
vas the exemption clause inserted in the
law, shielding the owner of
wenty slaves from military duty. Again we
ay, let poor conscripts remember that!
But as the war advanced and the rebel
armies dwindled gradually away, the leaders
If the rebellion became desperate Having
orced ev cry white man into the field, whom
hey could reach, and still feeling weak, with
Grant cro'wding Lee into his Notifications,
md Sherman advancing through the swamps
If Georgia, they first proposed to conscript
very man, but recoiled from that PROPOSE
ion so soon as it became evident that they
90 would have to go in, at the front, " close
lndcr the flashing Of the guns" What was
eft them,2 Only one and the last desperate
esort-'; arm the negroes, they said, land
ct them free p
Thus they justified the emancipation and
nlistment of colored troops by the wise and
'atriotic Lincoln.
The Confederate of Feb. list, 1866, said:
"We are sa tisfed that if Congress and the
states had taken steps early last Fall to have
.iven Gen. Lee two hundred thousand ne
roes, we should scarce to-day have had
ankee foot print On Southern soil"
The same paper of March list, 1865, said
&c If Congress were to pass the boldest
measures, take 200, 900 negroes, add to these
or reserve 100000 more, call upon the peo-
lie to bring them up, and pile on the taxes,
nd the people--all the people-were to say
men, there is no telling the wonderful eff
ect such a spirit would have on the univer-
al yankee nation"
The same sheet, under date of January
9th, 1865, spoke as follows:
"Since the attest Of our military leaders
ON two points of OBJ servation has declared
l favor of the employment of negro SOL
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