The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-12
Prospects,.

Prospects.
Every year there appears in Paris book
of prophecies which purport to reveal the
future for the next coming twelve month
These skyline verses for 1859 have made
their appearance, and among other things
two wars of magnificent proportions are
predicted in Germany and America.
If the prophet had read the last veto mes
sage of Andrew johnson and had seen Blair's
+ letter, had heard the speeches OF Demo
cratic delegates to the New-York Conven-
ton after their return TO their constituents
and glanced over bundle of RebelCon
sentative journals, his task would certainly
have been an easy one. Everywhere are to
be found the signs which prccede revolution
and rebellion. These signs are clear and
unmistakablc. There is no uncertain sound
in the language which already appeals from
the ballot to the bayonet. The old battle
yell of the rebel legions as they rallied uu-
der the spotted rag of treason is easily re-
cognizcd beneath the guarded phraseology
which is again firing the Southern heart.
The pretext for an outbreak will be east
ly found 1t is simply to declare all the re-
construction acts, Civil Rights Bill and How
ard Amendment unconstitutional, and hence
null and void. So says the Democratic
platform, so says Andrew johnson in his veto
of the Electoral College Bill. In his mes
sage the President explicitly declares that
the State governments organized under the
acts of Congress are unconstitutional and
without any lawful authority. He says fur
ther that the only Electoral votes which
should be counted are those which are given
under the authority of the government in
force before the passage of the reconstruction
Jaws. So that all that is necessary to bring
about the collision is for "Gov." Worth to
issue proclamation calling for an election
for President and Vice-President under the
authority of the old provisional government
Will he do this? 1t remains to be seen.-
Meanwhile no military force has yet been
created by the Legislature for the maintain
ance of the laws
The rebels need give themselves no con-
Germ about the new State government or
about the suffrages of colored citizens. They
will all vote for their own electors, and as a
consequence, the electoral votes of the ten
Southern States will be cast for Blair and
Seymour. They reckon that with these
votes, Seymour and Blair will receive one
hundred and fifty-nine votes, and the pro-
gramme will then be to place Seymour in
the Presidential chair by kind of Mexican
PrOnunci0anent0
The Mobile Register says that
" 1t by means of any fraud or trickery the
Radical candidates should be declared elect
ed by the Congress, the Democratic party
will not submit, but will fly to arms"
The New York World threatens:
"If they exclude us (the white rebels of the
South) from the ballot box, or refuse to count
our votes, we will be none the less in ma
jority, and as we have the physical power, the
Democratic party have enough manhood left
not to submit to be ruled by an impudent
and tyrannical minority"
The Mobile Tribune speaks in the same
tone:
"If we are successful in the impending con-
tlict, we shall regain all we have lost in the
late war;
What criminal folly to disregard these
threats What madness to pass them over
as empty bravado of wordy rebels This
would be to repeat the objectionable mis-
take of 1860, which cost the nation half a
million Of lives and three hundred millions
of dollars. Why should these threats have
less significance now than they had eight
years ago9 Have the wolves and hyenas of
those days been transformed into skipping
lambs? The rebel thirst for blood and
slaughter has not yet been appeased. If de-
feat has wrcstcd their weapons from them. it
has only whetted their revenge So soon as
the troops shall have been removed, this
spirit of hate and vengeance will show it.
self in a manner not to be misunderstood
There is no longer any doubt that new re-
hellion is imminent. Our only safety is the
election of General Grant.
Let us have Peace GEN. GRANT.