The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-12
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"a Confederate soldier disabled in both arms
and both legs, had visited the Executive Of,
fee. it is supposed for the purpose of receiv-
ing some Communication for useless limbs
He had finished his business, it is supposed
was returning, intending to anss ont at tie
south gate. On reaching the stone steps.
few feet from the statue of Washington. IN
attempting to go down the same, he acci.
dentaly dropped one of his crutches. He
was unable to go down for it and was una.
BILE to 60 down without it. There he stood
no one going to his aid. A minister of the
gospel (BrO PeU) passes by, but sees not the
pile and fine linen, passes by, but he sees not
this poor man and passes on. A LADY,
God bless her l-enters the south gate she
seees the unfortunate soldier, she discovers
that something is wrong. She approaches
him, enquiries the cause of his distress, picks
up the crutch, hands it to him and endeay-
ors to assist the poor man down the steps,
She finds her strength inadequate to the task
she calls to colored man passing by, the
colored man, honor to him, approaching
takes the poor soldier on his bach, carries
him outside the south gate, followed by the
lady. Just then, another colorcd man passes
by driving a wagon loaded with fodder
The lady halls him, and soon an arrangement
is perfected, by which the driver of the
wagon takes the unfortunate man on his
wagon and starts homeward with him.
Scene 2.-Half dozen young Confederates
standing at Turner's corner, looking OH, lest
ing about the matter. =.
[Somc six or eight months ago We called
attention to lude treatment by q Conductor
on the Central Railroad of couple of
ofo h,,f
was taken of it. 1t is notorious that, some
months since, Gov. Worth notified crippled
Confederate soldiers to repair to Raleigh for
limbs, and when they came they were direc-
ted to bring their rations-poor fellows!-
and they were given mattresses to sleep on,
in an old out house, which Gov. Worth in
former times would not have given to his
slaves. Oh hypocrisy!
The following extract is from a letter from
an intelligent Republican from Western
North Carolina:
81 desire to congratulate you and all good
Union Republicans on the result of the late
election for Convention and delegates there
to- If falsehoods, ISLANDERS and disloyaIty
could have changed the result, certainly
there would have been no Convention called
nor a single Union man elected in the State.
In this district, composed of Iredell, Wilkes,
Alexander and Caldwell, the Republican CAN
didates had the most bitter and vituperous
opposition from the so-called conservative
party, embodying all the malcontents and
composed mainly of the little village politi-
clans, such as lawyers, doctors, merchants,
clerks, conscript officers, and especially
preachers, so called. They were conspicu-
Gus in their furious efforts to defeat the Re-
publican party, and it is entirely owing to
the firmness and patriotic impulses that an
imates the toiling masses that we have been
successful. imagine there never has been
so great disappointment felt by the oppo-
site class l have just alluded to. The far
mers and mechanics on returning home
would often look sad and uneasy, and in an
swer to enquiries as to the cause, would re-
ply that they were told in town that the
Union candidates would scarcely get vote,
and would be the worst beat men that ever ran
as candidates for any office; but the result
proves the gratifying fact that these village
prophets have lost the art of divining, and
their pernicious politics and principles have
been discarded by that large class of people
who compose and sustain a nation.
1t can't be said that the Republican can
didates were elected by the votes of freed
men alone for if the writer of this is not
greatly mistaken, they received the votes of
more white men than the so-called Conserv-
alive ticket did in this district. In other
words, our majority is greater than all the
colored votes cast in the election. Let the
penny line sheet and editor in Statesvie,
put that fact in his pipe before he puffs his
smoke in any gentleman's face hereafter"
UNIVERSITY OF N. Give learn that the
Hon. Thos H. Seymour, OF Connecticut, has