The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-02-19
The Disunion League.

yond all parallel. 1t is only equalled by
their hostility to the national government,
and their hatred of Union men.
A short TIM ago, they professed to look
upon the Union League" and the He
roes of America" with the utmost abhor-
renee. But how changed! Now they are
organizing Leagues of their own. Their
Leagues, however, differ from ours in one
very important particular. Ours are loyal;
theirs are reasonable Ours promise peace
and security for the future; theirs would
SOW the seeds of fearful harvests of rapine
and blood
The Rebel caucus that met in this City on
the 9Th of this month, resolved in its plan
of organization that the County committees
be required to cause to be enrolled on list
prepared for that purpose the names OF all
those who would pledge themselves to vote
the Rebel anti reconstruction ticket.
Freemen of North Carolina, beware! This
is the Disunion League. The men who al
low their names to be put down on these
papers place themselves on record against
the government. The time is near at hand,
when those who do so will regret their folly;
but it will be too late.
The masses of the people, whose names
the Rebel conspirators expect to get upon
their books, are not initiated into the horrid
plans of these men. Could they conceive
their dark designs they would shrink from
them as from the cold touch of a serpent.
These Rebel desperadoes no longer hope
for favor at the hands of the people. They
know that their doom is sealed finally and
forever. The overthrow of the rebellion
blasted all their dazzling expectations, and
upon their heads are the imprecations of
people whom they have plunged into bank
ruptcy and ruin.
In their desperation they fondled and en-
braced colored men for their votes. They
invited them into their parlors, in this City.
and beslanered them with their fulsome ad-
ulation. They went into colored meetings.
They addressed colored voters from the
stump. They exhausted argument and per-
suasion to prevail upon them to vote against
that party to which they owed all their civil
and political rights. All was in vain!
Thus these Rebel movers have been reject
ed by the white men of North Carolina,
whom they ruled with rod of iron for four
years of rebellion. The colored men also
have turned their backs upon with scorn aud
will have none of their doctrine.
Inundated and enraged at their reception
from both white and colored, they have re-
solved to stake everything upon one last and
desperate enterprise. Their programme is
no longer argument and persuasion. Their
voice is still for war" They aim to excite
the evil passions OF human nature They
will strive to stir up strife and hatred be-
tween the races. They will carefully nour-
ish and fan the fire which is so nearly ex-
tinguished. They will appeal to the white
man against the black man, and then mean
ly and insidiously appeal to the black man
against the white man. They will produce
q collision between the races, if that be pos
sible. They will light the flame of war-of
races, in comparison with which the fires of
st. Domingo will pale. And in this carni-
val of riot and rapine, which they would
produce by their own labors, they would
call upon us to mark the fulfiment of their
predictions.
Chatham County is singled out as the first
one in which to try their scheme of treason
and blood. The honest, high minded white
men of that County are to be married., by
mean detectives, who will go about among
them with pencil and paper and take their
names, just as man marks his hogs or his
sheep! These Rebel leaders assume, now
that black slavery is abolished, that they
can establish white slavery! They are mark
ing their victims in advance The free peo-
pie of Chatham will resist this insult by
rolling up an increased majority for the Re
publican party.
This conduct of the Rebel leaders is ty-
rannical, as all their conduct has been, for
it is intended to intimidate and overawe the
people, and thus prevent the free exercise of
the right of suffrage.
1t is reasonable. because it is designed
to force or induce citizens of the State to
engage in a conspiracy against the laws of
the United States.