The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-07
Conservative Lies.

Conservative Lies.
A certain Conservative sheet which claims
the monopoly as to patriotism and decency
utters falsehoods the most bare-faced, and
that too on Monday morning, the day aftel
the Sabbath. Here they are:
1. "The Radicals laugh and mock at the
Constitution" ..........-
Now we challenge the quotation of soil
tarv sentence from any responsible Radical
speaker or paper that gives a scintilla Of
plausibility to that statement. a
Every Republican reveres the Constitu-
ton He swears by the Constitution, it is
his political gospel. No man is Republi-
can who does not do so. Through four years
of bloody strife Republicans guarded, de-
Tended, and by the grace of God, vindicated
that instrument. Since the war, every effort
has been made to enshrine it as the supreme
law of the land, and that too against the
most strenuous efforts of the Democratic
party and their Southern allies. If Judas
had charged the Apostles of the Divine Re
deemer with laughing and mocking at theil
betrayed and suffering Master, he would moi
have perpetrated fouler SANDER than is
spoken when it is said that the Radicals
laugh and mock at the Constitution" In
deed, the Democratic party of these South
ern States has been, and is now playing the
role of Judas Iscariot, concerning the
Constitution of the United States
and to that party will come the
fate of Iscariot. Laughing and mocking at
the Constitution! Who, we ask, who de-
nounced and renounced that instrument and
the government built upon it, as tyranny
Who rebelled against that instrument by
forming another Constitution and another
Government? Who endeavored by force
and arms to overthrow the Constitution OF
the United States and inaugurate the Mont
gomery document as supreme law9 Who
unblushingly riveted solemn oaths of allie
glance and covered the land with sorrow
and blood in their haste to strike down that
Constitution Who mathematical and put
to death as traitors men who persisted in ad-
herring to the old Constitution Who Or
ganized military despotism9 Who denied
the right of trial by jury9 Who suspended
habeas c0rpus' Who established star cham
Der inquisitions for the purpose, mark, for
the purpose of making the remembrance of
allegiance to the Constitution terror2 Who
did this2 Not Republicans, but Rebels y
these same rebels who now faunt the star
spangled banner in our faces and charge us
with laughing and mocking at the Constitu-
tion these same rebels who now erect tall
flag staffs and unfurl therefrom the stars and
stripes, and then at their houses, and as
they pass along the streets, sing with evi-
dent gusto, Farewell Forever to the Star
Spangled Banner" and other rebel songs,
songs intentended to ridicule and defame the
good old flag. Out upon such hypocrisy,
for it is hypocrisy.
Mr.. Blair says that the President elect must
take the army and overthrow the reconstruc-
ted State Governments. Now, we ask where
does the Constitution give the President elect
any, the least, executive power9 The President
elect is nothing more, as to authority, than
any private citizen; for he is only private
citizen. What control has he of the
army? Clearly none Then it must be Mr..
Blair means, that as soon as the election of
the Democratic candidate is ascertained, the
constitution must be ignored, contravened,
trampled down, and the elect officers seize
Government No oaths of office; no forms
prescribed by the Constitution are to be ia
ken or complied with; but in spite of the
Constitution, elect instead of inaugurated,
qualified officers are to assume and exercise
power. gs-tIsE-
This is Blair doctrine; Blair doctrine is
the life of the Democratic platform; Blair
is the candidate of the sheet whose lies we
are alluding to. Pretty men, these, to charge
those who have never swerved in their allie
glance, with deriding the constitution! The
source of the charge proves its falsehood.
2. Lie the second: SIN direct violation of
the Constitution, whole States are deprived
OF common right; they are obliterated and
new political organizations established in
their stead"
We challenge the word or the act, which
shows that Republicans or Congress have de-
prlved or attempted deprive any State of
Its common right. States obliterated! Give
us the name of said State; what are it's
boundaries?
History for the past eight years bears en-
phatlc testimony to the fact that the Repub-
hean party and Republican Congress at
tempted with all the loyal powers of the ma
tion, to deter and prevent the Confederate
otates from depriving themselves CT the
rights which they were enjoying under the
constitution. They took themselves out
from under the guarantees and protection of