The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-30
the name Of our State untarnished, BY keep

ing silent. ~
The following is extracted from the pro-.
ceedings Of the 57th N. 9. troops, at meet
ing held Aug. 9Th, 1858:
g Rssolped, That we have learned with re- +
eret the course pursued by some of the pa
ners in North Carolina, and deem their I
course in tile highest degree reasonable.
Resolced That we call upon our Governor |
and friends at home to use every endeayor to
suppress those reasonable sentiments which
these miserable croakers would try to instil
into the minds of our friends at home, and |
we hereby denounce them as towards and
tories"
At meeting of the 4th N. G. troops, Aug.
4th, 1868, the following:
Resolued, That we further recommend the
appointment by election of two officers from
each regiment to a general convention OF N.
C. troops in the Army of Northern Virginia,
for the purpose of consulting as to the best
means of SURPRISING the disloyalty and to-
rysm at home"
And the following at meeting OF the 54th
N. c. troops, Aug. 10th, 1858:
"Resolced, That while we are willing to
entertain propositions from the enemy for
arranging terms of adjustment, We do de-
nounce as dishonorable and disgraceful any
such proposals from us to the enemy, and de-
clare that, in our opinion, any scheme for
the reconstruction of the Union upon any
basis whatsoever deserUes to be met Nth the
halter at our hands,"
We copy the following from the proceed
ings of meeting held III the goth N. C.
troops, Aug. 9th, 1858:
.'Resolced, That we believe all such movers
and coadjutors of public meetings, and au-
thors of such articles as have lately appear
ed in the Raleigh Standard. to be enemies to
the cause of liberty; opposed to the indie
pendence of the Southern Confederacy; trail
tors to their States and friends to our enc
mics, whose despotic rule of vandalism has
| filled the world with horror, and at the reci-
tai of which, humanity hides her face in
| shame
| Resolued, That we think it is high time
that the county should know, in unmistak
| able terms, what that class of men mean by
| their public meetings, articles and editorials.
From their manifest spirit and tenor as de-
| veloped in those articles, &C., We believe
them to be reconstructlonists and for peace
on any TERMS
! Hes0lced, That he who asks or sues for
| peace on any condition than that of COM
| plete and entire Independence, separate and
apart from that cruel despotism known as
| the United States, and that any class of men
who advocate reconstruction are dastartls
and traitors unworthy OF their State, unwOr
thy of their country, and unworthy to live
and enjoy the sweets of civil liberty, are
enemies more vile than the unprincipled foe
which we are now fighting"
The list regiment N. G. troops resolved as
follows: . a.
"That the recent Union meetings held in
North Carolina meet with our hearty con
demnation, and the persons holding them W,
denounce as traitors to our best interests.
"That the chief of traitors and the mos
disloyal of citizens, W. W. Holden, in thu
course he has pursued, merits and receive
4 the condemnation of every honorable an,
loyal citizen"
!; The following is taken from the proceed
ings of the seth N. G. troops, Aug. 10Th
1868:
'Resolced. That while we would hail wit
Joy any offering of peace, securing the rhol
rights of the South, and upon no other terms
we unanimously sc0rn and spu7n any offer
/ of reconstruction or submission, rs preached
,, by the editor of the Standard for II muc
longer time than should have been allowed
and we denounce him as traitor to his com
try and earnestly entreat that his tory shet
be immediately suppressed" &c.
And the following from the list Bat. \
c. Art, near Wilmington, Aug. 18th, 1863
Resolced, That we are driven against OF
will from the general tone and character {
the Standard, to regard w. W. Holden as
c tory, without an equal in the South, the ce
0 tain ally of Abraham Lincoln, the most pow
erful and inveterate foe, and at the same tin
the most insldious enemy the Confederac
: has in the old North State.
Resolued, furthermore, That w. W. Holde
: by the publication of cowardly and submit
sion editorials in the recent issues of Il
;. Raleigh Standard has disgraced himself
the eyes of all true men, is disgrace to IL
d place of his birth, and that he has made hin
t self too contemplate to receive the commc
:. courtesies of civil life from patriotic Mort
Carolinians, and that he is unworthy q hon
: in the South"
We will close these extracts from arm
meetings with the following from the arm
~ address, as it was called, issued by hal
> dozen crazy Confederate officers, about Il
middle of August. 1t is understood to ha
been written by Seaton Gales, of the iSentin
who refuses to walk under the National CT
. ors. The extract reads as follows:
But there is yet consideration to whic
your attention has not been invited. IT
systematic violation of all the laws of civ
It lied warfare by the enemy. has not be-
n, without its natural influence in infamir
r. our resentment and exciting towards hi
extreme hatred. He has paid no respect
'f the inviolability of private property or t
Or personal liberty of non-combatants He h
se made war upon innocent and defenceless o
r men, women and children, by driving the
;, as refugees from their homes, burning thu
III dwellings and taking from them their mea
n of subsistence He has employed in his servi
re in command of his armies, beasts in
re- man shape, who have not hesitated to inf1i
!, upon ladies of the greatest refinement, t
Nc most cruel insults. His cruelties to our DC
OF pile have been limited only by his power.
al Surely there cannot be a man of honoral
impulses or generous nature in our who
!. State, who has not felt his heart swell wi
indignation at the recital of the inhum
ne barbarities of our foe. But it must occur
n you as matter exciting the greatest asto
at ishment, that the employment of the slay
so of the South and the free negroes of
~ North. to murder our citizens and oppose