The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-03


The State is open and frank in its treason
1t hates the 4th of July-it hates the gov
eminent and the flag lit thinks more of Da-
Wis, the traitor, than it does of WASHINGTON,
the patriot, and it says SO with brazen ef-
frontery that would have done credit to
Benedict Arnold. These are the sort of
people that want to govern loyal men. Are
they going to do it9 Neverl
"THE FOURTH OF JULY-It has been
beautifully said, water that has passed the
mil, grinds no more" We have ceased to
be an integral part of the American Union,
and, as such, can lay no claims to a
participation in its national holiday. In its
stead, the South has her own sad history of
four glorious and unsullied years. Instead
of the fowery ovations usual in commemo-
ration of this day, she has the soulstirring ly-
RIGS Of Father Ryan, and in the place of the
scarlet liberty-caps of Republicsnism, she
wears the cypress wreaths of q crushing woe.
In the human heart there can never co ex-
list two master idols We must either sur
render this day, or the hallowed memories
of the Southern cross. We are either to for
get the rebels of '76 or the rebels of '61.-
We confess our partiality for the memories
of the latter. And though success did not
crown their efforts, yet, their names are
brightly and indellibly written on the
scrolls Of fame. And the names of Wash
ington and Lee will 60 down the corridors
of time, side by side.
The shrine on which we offered sacrifices,
once desecrated. claims no more our wonted
pilgrimage. This day. once the cherished
heritage of united and happy people, is
now mockery; and from its festivities the
Southern heart sadly turns to weep, over
the graves of her martyred heroes, while
contemplating this monument to the desola-
tion that swept over her hopes. Any partici-
| patton, on our part. in the unnatural orgies
| is the forced laughter that distorts the hol-
low cheek, while the heart OF the laughter is
| slowly breaking. If we must have holi-
| day, then any one is preferable to this. Even
the NINTH of April, the bare mention of
| which
Seems human cry
| That rises from the breadth of all the land
OF shivered hearthst0nes and broken hearts,"
Our only answer to this infamous trade
of treason is, LET CONGRESS ACTl
The Literary Board met to-day in the Ex-
ecutive office, Messrs. Wiley and Hustled
present-Sentinel
| Whence the necessity for meetings of this
Board, since the funds have nearly all been
lost by the rebellion2 Our poor old
State, with thousands of her people in a
starving condition, is regarded by these rebel
leaders as a suit in Chancery, to becontinued
until the last cent is sucked from her
WHERE is THE SCHOOL FUND q
Echo answers. where2 We believe in the
law of restitution. 1t is Bible law. Those
who put that fund in rebel securities and
lost it. can afford to send their children to
high schools and colleges, and pay for their
education. But the poor child now has no
school. 1t moves in rags, wretchedness and
ignorance, while those who have brought it
to this pass are living in comparative luxu-
ry, and their children enjoying the advanta-
ges of education. In the name of one hun
dred and seventy-i thousand poor children
in this State, of both races, zoe demand rssts-
tuition!
| This person Hustled, or the g Little Blower
as he is sometimes called, is holding too
State Offices OF trust and profit. He is on
the Board Of Claims, and also the Literary
Board Did he draw his three dollars that
day on the latter, and his five dollars on the
former Board2