The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-10-28
How to talk with a rebel Democrat.

When he bellows that the people are
groaning under q load of taxes, tell him -
Eyes sir, and you are the ones who caused
the taxes you. and nobody else"
When he wines chat our foreign COM
merce is almost brought to nothing, ask
im:-who sent the rebel pirate Semmes to
sea to burn. sink and destroy American mer-
chantmen? .s--. "a
When he maunders about subsection to
the blacks, and about negro supremacy. ask
him; switch is likelest to trample down
the other, Wade Hampton OF Sam the freed
MANI" ... .F.-s ,. ...s...
When he cants and snivels about the dis
orders at the South, and the breaking up of
all business, ask him; "who are the Ku-
KluxG"
Who ever heard of gang of radicals ri
ding in masks to a peaceful mans house,
dragging him from bed and Kidding him
with bullets; and this solely for his opi,-
ions?
Who burn down school houses and
churches-rebels or radicals? Who are
hourly threatening war. resistance, retalia-
ton, Observation-Disclosures or radicais2 Who
beat men away from the polls with bludg-
cons, or mash their skulls with tip butts of
pistols-is it radicals2 Who driyt off with
wages unpaid, their hired laborers, that have
dared to vote a different ballot from that of
their employers-isi it radicals2
When you get answers to these questions,
your Democrat will most likely have cotton
through talking.
An Historical Parallel.
The following letters appear in a morn
ing paper:
LETTER FROM GENERAL GRANT TO GENE
RAJ LEE. 5fTtK t.a'5
April S,1S65.-Gencral:- result of the
last week must convince you of the h ope
lessness of further resistance on the part of
the army of Northern Virginia in this strug-
gle. l feel that it is so. and regard it as my
duty to shift from myself the responsibility
of any further effusion of blood by asking of
you the surrender OF that portion. of the Con-
tederate States army, know as the Army
of Northern Virginia.
U. s. GRANT,
Lieutenant General.
| Gen. r. E. Lee. III
LETTER FROM G. W. B. TO GOVERNOR sEY-
oct. IA, 1SbS.-GOVefn or :-lne result OF
yesterday must convince you of the hopeless
ness of further persistence on the part of the
Democratic party in this election. feel
that it is so, and regard it as my duty to
shift from myself the responsibility of any
further expenditure of money and time by
asking that you will disband your followers,
now arrayed in opposition to the expressed
will OF the American people.
g. W. B.
1 General Lee, it will be remembered, took
the suggestion kindly, and at once adopted
it. "That portion of the Confederate States
army known as the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia was surrendered. Win history re-
/ peat itself?
G.. w. B. advertiscs in the same paper as
| follows
| CAN APPLE TREE WANTED.-The sub
scriber wants an apple tree, similar to the
famous one Of Appomattox, under which to
/ receive the surrender of Governor Seymour
/ to General Grant, November 3, 1865
For particulars and specifications, apply
to G. W. B., New York.
/ N. B.-A sour apple tree preferred"
/ Here he confounds two things graceful
surrender and rout. If his wise advice
and that of the World be adopted, Governor
Seymour will withdraw at once, and the
apple tree will be needed not in November,
but now II not, when November comes,
there will be no apple tree wanted at all 8;
! no parleying, no surrender, no terms; only a
disappearance.-M = Com. Advertiser.