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

aliation so natural to the human heart
nder prevocation. To the God Of JUS
ice and of battles and the advancing
pirit of the age they confidently trust
d for the hour of deliverance. The
I'd came. The destructive spirit OF
reason and rebellion madly fought and
,lindly destroyed and plundered their
leluded followers after there was an
md Of all hope of success. They disre.
garded all warnings to capitulate, and
persecuted, distressed, and imprisoned
all who advised compromise. Their
arms were stricken from their hands.
and they Surrendered as prisoners Of
war.
We would gladly pass over the poll
y which has been so disastrous in It's
consequences. Under the authority OF
wv, and by the acts of the loyal people
Who alone had the right to be heard
oval organizations had been established
N Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and
louisiana. The civil government crea-
ted by the bold Union men of those
States were the only authorities recog.
nized by the government of the United
States. AS the lamented Lincoln left
them, so President Johnson, for q time
maintained them. The Carolinas, Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Texas he gave provisional governments
He enforced the proclamations declar-
ing slavery at an end, until the amend
ment to the Federal Constitution left
no vestige of it within the Jurisdiction
of the United States. An universal
pardon to treason, with few excep
tions-singled out for the more marked
favor of special warrants-was pro
claimed. The elective franchise was
conferred only upon that class, the
large majority of whom had engaged
actively in the rebellion. This course
has produced its logical results. The
same manner of men who controlled the
States i'll the secession movement, and
during the entire war; who filled every
State Office, and every magistracy un-
der tae new government Of their crea-
tion, and who led the cohorts of ftreason
and rebellion, now fill almost every
State office, from Governor to consta-
BILE; and they have selected rs Senators
and Representatives of the Federal Con
gress number of their chiefs and lead
ers few of whom can take the oath
which under law made for selfpreser-
walton every member of your honorable
body is obliged to take. The proscrip-
tion of Union men is as marked and as
cruel as at any period during the war.
The test oath law, the civil rights bill,
which was rendered nesessary by revo-
luton which gave a new status to one
eighth of the population of the United
States, and the law for the protection of
these people, are recklesslv disregarded
or shamelessly evaded. Freedmen and
Union men are murdered with impuni-
ty; judicial districts abolished to get
rid of loyal magistrates chosen by the
people; the greatest atrocities openly
protected wherever they were commit
ted, in the name and the pretence of
Confederate authority; conventions OF
peaceable citizens who had imperilled
their lives to establish a loyal govern
ment during the nations darkest hour,
brutally masacred by returned rebel
directed and led by notorious
traitors; a constitutional amendment
necessary for the nations life openly
and defiantly rejected the constitution
al and legal existence of the Congress
chosen by the great masses who, at so
vast a cost of blood and treasure, saved
the nation from destruction, treasona-
bly, denied resistance to its laws open
ly threatened the people daily taught
by lying rebel press, that the most
lenient government the world ever saw
has not kept faith with traitors; true
loyal, aud devoted patriots deprived of
business and driven from their homes; !;
the reasonable cause sanctified by mon
pageantry, pensions, legislative
resolves, poetry, literature, and burdens
upon an impoverished constituency in
favor of old rebel heroes
These and thousand others monstro-
sites are so notorious that no one de-
MES them. Few of these rebel leaders
now profess any devotion to the Union.
On the contrary, they openly denounce
every movement for its preservation
What is the remedy for so great an in
Justice to the faithful friends of the
nation, and so palpable danger to the
5ody-politic ? AS the facts cannot be
lenied, and the great Lawgiver of the
Universe cannot permit so crying an
injustice, the remedy must be found and
applied. Moreover, the loyal masses
nave willed that no single fruit of the
lard-earned victory shall be lost.
We respectfully submit the PROPOSE
ions of the loyal Union sufferers, whose
DEVOTION has been proven, and whose
,laims cannot be disregarded without
,eril to the nation-not from us, but
rom your undisguised enemies and ours
as basis for decisive action. The
emedy is plain and simple. The ma
ions valor with the blessings of Heaven
las conquered those who voluntarily,
willingly, and persistently made them
elves public enemies, and involved
heir States in all the consequences of
conquered insurgents. If traitors, they
their rights to life, liberty, and
If, as they claim, they were
nation of public enemies, the terrific
les and distrscts which have been con-
Luered are subject to the law making
'ower, which alone can decide, accept,
nd legalize war and peace. In every
ight therefore, the power exists, and
he necessities of the case demand, i'm
Mediate and prompt action. A lono