The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-02-12
MOre Blood I!

For more than four years the people OF
North Carolina were ground to the earth
beneath the Davis despotism. Sherman
marched. down to the sea, and Grant march
ed into Richmond, and the yoke was broken
and the people were once more free. Trea-
son was prostrate and the flag of freedom
foated from the standards where the dark
colors of rebellion had waved in triumph.
Too dearly do the people prize this free
dom to surrender it without a struggle. Too
well do they remember their cruel wrongs to
permit their old oppressors once more to
gain the upper hand and to wreak their YEN
geance. ...- r
The Rebel C0nclave, which assembled in
Raleigh Wednesday last, knows this we'll
They know that the execrations of the people
are upon them. They know that the cry of
the widow and the orphan has gone up to
Heaven against them. 1t was to crafty
their lust for power that this broad land was
ridged with graves. 1t was to safe their
unhallowed ambition that the poor wool hat
boys were conscripted and forced TO the
front. 1t was to guarantee them in the pos
session of their slaves that the families of the
poor soldiers were fed by County chari-
ty on half peck of meal and three pounds
of beef week, and even this begrudged
them.
A more reckless or desperate set of con-
spirators never met together than those who
meet to-day. Their glory is the glory of
the past. Their fame is the infamy of the
rebellion. The success of the Union arms
has utterly destroyed them. They are ruined
in hope and ruined in fortune. Their WIS.,
ions of glory have vanished into thin air.
They no longer hope for favor at the hands
Of the people whom they have so cruelty
misled and deceived. .. ....r e.
There are men here plotting for them
selves to the ruin of the State, who have
shot and hung conscripts-who have whip
ped women and put their thumbs under the
fence, or justified or ordered it-who have
run down painting deserters with blood
hounds-who have opened mokehouses and
comcribs and impressed the last dust of
meal and last pound of bacon-who have
preached Liberty and Independence with
their lying tongues, and Illustrated it with
bucking, gagging, the torture, handouts,
starvation and murder! Are these men still
to rule this people? Forbid it, Humanity
forbid it, Almighty Godl
There are those absent who should be
here. Foremost among them should be Col.
Keith, the murderer of Laurel valley. The
giebering ghosts of the forty men and bows
whom he slew should curdle the blood of his
associates as they announced his presence
He is now in Castle Pinckney, to be tried
for his crimes. May God save him, for man
may not l5. -
Mr.. Jefferson Davis should he present in
person, as he is in spirit. a.. '-
judah P. Benjamin, who is rolling in
wealth plundered from our people, is also
absent. The hypocrites expected God to
bless them when this man. as Secretary of
State of the Confederate States, was issuino
proclamations ignoring the existence of
Jesus Christi
Gen. R. +. Hoke, who ordered the murder
OF eolored Union soldiers at Plymouth, and
who was the terror of the Union men of the
West, is also absent. bral-aass Il ,sle.t y,
Gen. Lee, and extra-Billy Smith, who
wanted to make two hundred thousand male
slaves fight for the liberty of the Confederate
states, could not attend Surely these
OArssti0" warriors should have been here.
i And Hindman, of Arkansas, the brute and
the murderer the demon of the rebellion
through every drama of the awful tragedy y
where is he? sod isiaels dl,v, a.
But II these are absent the ghosts of Win!
DER and Wirz will hover over this assembly.
giving to it the sanction of natures that
never pihed, and never relented. in their
work of death, .gsB /. b4.59ss ~.
May God save the Commonwealth Of,
Nof'H Carolina from the grasp of such men