The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-22

VIC Cdu De at peace Win our NOrCuern enc
mies2 What is the use of our attempting to
negotiate, when we are met at the threshold
with conditions the acceptance of which
by US, would be dishonorable and disgrace
full in the extreme
What a degrading confession! Who now
is the dishonored' and disgraced traitor p
Hereafter let such canting hypocrites cease
prating of their "honor," and putting on
airs. Such things belong to the past; and,
when they say they intend to eat no more
dirt, let some friend gently remind them
that they can't do it, for they are already
chock full
Such extracts however, plainly exhibit
the secret of their present OPPOSITE on to the
Stevens bill of reorganization and its test
oath. They aoere free in 1864 to sag achat they
thought, and they then deliberately rejected
Mr.. Lincoln's terms of Amnesty, upon which
that bill is founded. But zoe were fettered
hand and foot, and spies set to watch our
outgoing and incoming. We dared not
openly proclaim our preferences, or specifcal-
ly detail our purposes. We could only cry
"give US PEACE !" Even for that, our Union
friends were shot, mobbed and conscript-
ed--murdered But still we called for peace,
because we were a0ilzing to accept the terms.
And as we were willing to accept those
terms then, so we are willing to take them
now. But traitors, who were opposed to
them then, are not willing to yield even
now. They are still unsubdued-still de-
faint. They have not changed their minds,
neither have we ours-that is all.
AS further evidence of this fact we ap-
peal to their own platform, published in the
Conservative of April 9th, 1864, and and up
on which Mr. T. B. Vance stood as candi-
kate for Governor, and was opposed by Mr.
Holden:
"No reconstruction or submission, but
perpetual independence"
They could never induce the true Union
men of this State to endorse that at the polls.
But the Secessionists and latter-day-war-
saints advocated it with fire and sword, and
they still adhere to it. For it is their deter
mination never to submit, while there is left
them means and opportunity to resist, at the
polls or anywhere else.
We shall close with two choice extracts,
one from the Conservative of Oct 9Th, 1864,
written by Brother Pell
Indeed no foot of our vile foe has trod-
den our soil anywhere scarcely that has not
been marked by lust and rapine and blood. A
faithful record of his atrocious deeds will
chill tie blood for ages to come. What
holy falsehood 7 And shall not faithful
record be made Of them, &e.nn--------
And the following from the Confederate of
July 18th, 1854:
FOURTH OF JULY.-It was once day of
sacred recollections concentrating as it
did, the pledge Of fortune, life and sacred
honor to the principles of self-government-
to the declaration of the " right of people to
alter and abolish a form of government
which becomes subversive of their happiness
and prosperity, and to establish a new gov
eminent, deriving its just powers from the
consent of the governed" Celebrated
through four score years with bonfires and
rejoicings, the 4th Of July had come to be
considered as the natal day of Liberty and
everywhere throughout the wide, wide
world, age and youth, men and women, boys
duo gins, thO It'll hhSA PVoi, WIN ieo
glorious associations and bowed in homage
to its holy aspirations. 1t was left to the
hated and detested yankee to make it a day of
loathing End scorn. False to every precept
which it taught, faithless to every pledge it
recognized. they have desecrated its charac-
ter and converted it into a derision and by
word
When history records the infamy of their
short comings, as they are now summoned
to abide the test, it will require neither in
vict1ve or abuse to stain the page-the reel
tai of ignoninious treachery, untruth and
apostacy, couched in the simplest form of
narrative, will starte the world for their mean,
depraved vice, as concentered and developed
in the yankee nation"
Who that has recently witnessed a Fourth
of July in the South can escape the conclus
ion, that tn ose who applauded such senti-
ments in 1864, still secretly cherish and
approve them ?-that the natal day of
Liberty yet remains unto traitors day
of loathing and scorn !" And what North
ern gentleman, after reading the above, can
school himself to affiliate with such creatures?