The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-02-26

We are told that the Standard has said,
that Gov. Vance threatened to drive the
4 Union men from the State, when the Con
servatives get the power" and that it ehal-
lenged us or any body else to deny 1t. We
listened to every word of that speech, and
positively assert that Gov. Vance dld not
threaten Union men, or any body else
A Sentinel
How Vance-poor fellow!-must have
shaken his sides when he read the above
falsehood in the Sentinel. The Reverend
Ananias is n ore unscrupuous than even Gov.
Vance would have him be- He viii hurt his
cause by telling such immoderate falseheads.
He should tone himself down little in this
respect.
Gov Vance said, among ether things, that
the condition of the friends and advocates
OF negro suffrage in this State scosa19 be eaaore
intolerable than that Of So2om and Gomorak,
when the Conservatives SO called, should
get power. He said this, and the fact can
be proved by many. We do not pretend to
report his exact words, but only the sub
stance of the threat. We did not say that
he threatened to drive the Union men from
the State; he would not give them that
privilege, but aoOuM destroy them here! If
Gov. Vance or his friends should deny this,
the proof will be furnished
Threats to Danish, to punish, to burn
Union men, and to overturn the government,
form the staple of opposition appeal and
argument. The very Sentinel from which
the above extract is made, contains the
speech of Mr. Graham on suffrage, from
which we extract Us follows:
You may disfranchise white men in
some States, but you cannot do it in this
State. We defy you to do it. We have o
majority of 10000 registered white men,
and if you dare to perpetrate sucn an out
rage, your government woa't stand long, af-
ter the blue coats are gone"
Gov Vance says he will burn the Union
lists of the State with the FIRES of Sodom and
Gomorrah; and Mr.. Graham says that if
the Constitutional Convention should dare
to keep men from the ballot-box who will
not submit in good faith to the will of the
nation, he and his party friends will destroy
the State government, " after the blue coats
are gone" What are these but threats of
the most desperate and sanguinary charac-
ter? Are such gentlemen to be trusted with
public affairs Is it safe to trust then p
Can we hope for peace and prosperity, if We
DOE
We tell Mr.. Graham that when the regu-
lar army shall he withdrawn the North
Carolina blue coats will take their places
The militia will he thoroughly organized.
A sufficient number of them to keep the
peace will be well armed. Every citizen of
the State will be protected in persoa and
property so long as he obeys the laws: but
any resistance to law-any attempt to rise
and overturn the government "after the
blue coats are goue,' will be followed by
swift andcondign punishment We have had
too much treason already. 1t has impov-
erished the land and clothed it in mourning.
IL ~ oHOeit itie no SiScI ou any pre-
text, to disturb the peace, and to involve
our people in civil strife, it will be struck
down by the whole power of the State, and
its guilty authors will rue the day that they
were born
Gov. Vance, Mr.. Graham, and indeed the
great body ofthe Rebel leaders, are men of
blood. Their judgments have fallen from
their seats. They are controlled solely by
passion-passion, which can neither build.
nor govern, nor save the State. Gov. Vance
lost his political reason in 1868. He has been
desperate ever since. He told the Confed-
crate troops at that time that they must
hight till hell froze over, and then FIGHT upon
the ice; they must fight until they filled
hell SO full of Yankees that their feet would
Suck out of the windows" He is the same
man now he was then. He has not changed.
tie never will. 1t is peculiarly appropriate
that the leader Tho desired, by proxy, to
Nil all hell with his enemies slain in battle.
Should invoke the liquid hell-fre of Sodom
and Gomorrah on the friends of those enc.