The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-30
Deserved Compliment.


The Hon. Thos. w. Conway, writing to
the Washington Chronicle from Augusta,
Ga, pays the following compliment to Judge
Edmunds, President of the National U. l.
A, and to Hon. Thos. L. Tullock, Secreta-
ry of the Congressional Committee:
cit requires but little effort to discover
the fact that but for the efforts of the Con-
gressional committee, of which Senator
Morgan, of New York, is Chairman, and
Hon. Thomas L. Tullock Secretary, joined
with those of the Union League of America,
of which Hon., J. NJ. Edmunds is President,
the Congressional plan of reconstruction
would have proved an utter failure in most,
if not in all, of the Southern or rebel States.
have now travelled pretty extensively in
nearly all the States formerly in rebellion,
and at all points hear of the work of these
patriotic agencies The names of Hon. J.
M. Edmunds, Hon. Thomas L. Tullock, and
the other gentlemen who have been actively
engaged IN laying the groundwork of Re
publican victory in all the South will be
imperishably inscribed upon the pages of
the wonderful history which will give future
ages a true picture of this great work now
going on throughout this once slaveholding
region. Already the few men IN the South
who cherish the love of freedom within a
white as well as black skin, use the names
of these true men with such manifest evil
dence of the love and esteem which they en-
terrain for them that one naturally believes
that great service must have been render
ed by them as the reason for this feeling
And the evidence presented on every hand
goes to show that vast work has been done.
have entered cities, and small towns and
remote country localities, and at every point
l found organizations for the promotion of
the Republican cause. There are councils
of the Union League for the most part, each
bearing a charter from the respective State
organizations, acting under authority of the
national organization in Washington
loyal literature by the Congressional Com
mittee and by Judge Edmunds. The
speeches of Wilson, Logan, Kelley, and
others are to be found pretty generality cir
culated. How some organizations are able
to live amid the hostility of the rebel ele-
ment and the almost universal hate existing
| in rebel breasts against Congress, is only &C
counted for by the peculiar adaptation of
the League to the emergency now existing
throughout this section. The men who
| originated this organization in the noun
t,ins of Tennessee knew exactly what safe
guards were needed against the dangerous
Vaccinations of the rebel element The
dangers then existing in Tennessee, when
Union men were hunted down and murder
ed by organized rebel bands, were similar
to those which have surrounded every loyal
family and hamlet in the Southern States
from that day to this. The Congressional
Committee, in accepting the League as their
best engine for the promotion of the loyal
cause in the South, did very wise thing
and showed the practical, clear-sighted
sagacity of the patriotic gentlemen compos-
ing that committee
Mr.. Conway adds:
"The Union men of the South are so
deeply and bitterly hated by the rebels that,
were it not for thorough organization, and
the fostering care of Northern organizations
like those 1 have named, they would be ut
terly crushed.
The more I travel over the South, the
more see of the lingering flames OF treason
and hatred toward the loyal men OF the
country, and especially toward our loyal
Congress the more 1 see how thoroughly,
Systematically, and wisely the Congressional
Committee and the Union League have
aided the Union men of the South, both
black and white, and how well they have
helped ON the good cause of loyal reconstruc-
ton, with impartial manhood suffrage as
the chief cornerstone, the more I feel like
saying "God bless the noble men who have
| done 80 welln 'l~.t nE "fEr u
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