The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1868-09-30

member how you put old men to death he
cause, when moved by christian sympathy,
they gave apiece of bread, cup of milk or
a morse! OF meat to poor starving escaped
soldier. who was dying for something to
eat and scarcely able to drag his cmaciated
body along9 Do you remember how YOU
hing up wives and tortured them with re
fined cruelty, because they were unwilling
to bc monsters like yourselves, and betray
their husbands AMI their sons9 Oh, most
meek and innocent Albemarlc! have you
forgotten all these atrocities, invented and
practiced by You and your friends, and
are you simple minded enough to think that
the sturdy ycnmanry of the West have
forgotten them also Deceive not YOUR
selves. Lay no such fattering unction to your
souls. We have not forgotten them. We
will not forget them. We can neuer forget
them. They are written on our inmost hearts
in letters of blood-all of "old oceans wa
ters' cannot wash them out, and while the
recollection of them lasts it will be in vain
for you and Vance, and Bragg and Biggs,
and Clingman and Cowan, and Dortch and
Davis, and Strange and Strong, and poor
old Brother Pell, and all the host of seces-
sion leaders and war Conservatives to make
appeals to western voters" We will heed
you not; we will turn deaf ear to all your
entreaties; we know that you have once
been traitors to the country and flag you
now deceitfully profess to love. We fear to
trust you. We will not trust you-you have
proved yourselves unworthy of our conf
dence. We would ten thousand times ratll-
er trust the negro and risk ourselves to his
tender mercics, even if he had ten fold the
power he is ever likely to have, than to be
again subject to your dominion. You may
dry up your tears and cease your whining.
If your only hope, in this your hour of trou-
BILE and tribulation, is in the help you are to
get from western white voters" you will
60 down to your last resting place IN despair
We know you too well, and knowing you
will never trust you again. Your glory has
departcfl--your sun has set in darkness for
ever. The high places which once knew
you shall know you no more. Lie still,
then, in the dishonorcd graves which you
have dug for yourselves. The devil may
have mercy upon your souls in answer to
Brother Pell's prayers (they never go in any
other direction). His petitions have ceased
to ascend hcavenwarls, and you can have
no hearing at the throne of grace while he is
your intcrccssor In conclusion, my dear
Alhemarle, let me notify you and your well
beloved compecrs that western voters,
white and colored, are for Grant, Colfax and
Peace by large and overwhelming MAORI
ty, and are most unalterably opposed to Sey-
mour Blair and War;
And now, "woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up thu
kingdom of heaven against men; for "
neither go in yourseloes, neither suffer y,
them that are entering to go in" Listen,
Brother Pell y
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites for We devour widows houses,
and for pretence make long prayer: watch
out, Brother Pell] therefore ye shall receive
the greater damnation." (Hear that, Bro
Pell
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees
hypocrites for ye compass sea and land tt
make one proselyte; and when he is made
ye make him two iolu more the child OF
hell than yourselves" (After you again, Bro
Pell.)
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites for ye are like unto whited sep
ulchres, which indeed are beautiful out
ward, but within full of dead mems bones
and of all uncleanness." (Oh, my dear Bro
Pell!
Will Capting Gales please sing hyme
and Brother Pell lead in prayer, and corpo
raj Josiah Turner, junior, pronounce the ben
ediction and dismiss the meetin and Let us
have Peace"
A WESTERN VOTER