The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-05
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1868
AUGUST 5th, 1868.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET:
FOR PRESIDENT:
ULYSSES S. GRANT,
OF ILLINOIS.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT:
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
OF INDIANA.
Which is 1t =?

llcTe is II TcHldEkdDlC ICSeHplduSC DC-
tween the signs of the times to-day and the
signs which darkened the heavens in 1860
81. At that time prominent secession chief
tains secured the country in all directions,
''fring the Southern heart" and sowing the
seeds which cropped out in the blood and
fire of rebellion. Newspapers and PAM
phlets, too, were circulated everywhere. fill
ed with lying ISLANDERS for the purpose of ex
citing hatred in the bosoms of our people
against their Northern brethren. The pull
pit, too, was actively engaged and solemnly
declared in its most solemn judicatures that
Lincoln was a traitor and tyrant, and
that the Northern people were fanatics and
infdels
Those signs appear again amongst US.
We have rebel orators securing the country,
scattering lies, as they did ten years ago
We find the rebel press as vindictive and
murderous as ever, and we find well fed di-
vines not abating one jot in the bitterness
which characterized their war ministra-
tions.
WHAT followed the preaching of secession
and rebellion in 1860 612 A hundred
thousand widows and as many more orphans,
can answer the question. Ten thousand
impoverished homes; thousands and thou
sands of murdered conscripts and boys
slain to crafty rebel hate and malignity,
can give feeble answer of what followed
the great secession and rebellion of 1S60-'61.
One would almost think that we had ex-
perienced enough OF war to supply this gen.
Grafton. We would suppose that after so
much suffering and misery, we would he
sadly in need Of repose. But the rebel De-
mocracy do not think so, and they proclaim
war now with more defiance than they did
in 1S6O-'61. They have openly declared
that they do not intend to submit to the in
augrntion of General Graut, if he
| should he elected in the usual constitutional
method. The New York World says, and
the little Sentinel endorses it, that the next
President must be elected by "a majority of
the adult male population The Sentinel,
| frightened out of its wits at the incendiary
and reasonable language it had made use
of Language which if any dcluded wretch
had attempted to put in execution, he would
hang Oh the public gallows.) The Sentinel
then tries to Withdraw from its treason. But
this avails nothing. The word was spoken
and it cannot be taken back.
And just here we take occasion to give this
notice: Ii any person shall put into practice
what is adoised in the Sentinel, lie will due
at the hand of the hangman so certain as
the crime can beproved against him.
But this has led US off We mean to say
that the signs of war are more threatening
now than they were in 1S60-61. The
Copperhead Democracy of the North do moi
expect to suffer or take part in the war
They will De satisfied if they can involve the
South in all the horrors of assassination and
the torch for the purpose of proving theil
prediction, that these State governments
could not stand. What would it be to them
if a thousand homes in North Carolins
were burned to the ground every night and
one thousand people slaughtered The
Copperhead Democracy would simply smile
and say, Il told you So" But not their:
would be the suffering; that would BIZ for thu
unfortunate victims South, whom they haC
deluded into war.
In view of all these things, and in view O
the further fact that the rebels expect tt
drive every Republican from the State by
making it too hot to hold them, we ask i
Republicans will allow themselves to be Sc
duced from their plain duty by the oily in
situations and treacherous politeness o
rebel emissaries 2
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