The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-17
Prescription in the Past--.Our Duty in
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"The Mobile Tribune claims it has done
more than any other paper in that vicinity
to make radicalism odious." 1t says that
no declared radical can carry on business in
Mobile, or associate with gentlemen, and
proudly boasts that it has brought about
this state of things" ....
We have no doubt the statement is entire
ly true.
But there is a lesson here for us all Rad
icalism made odious, means that no Repub-
lican shall be permitted to associate with
gentlemen; that he shall not be allowed to
carry on any business and that his familyis
to be excluded from genteel society.
Radicals in Mobile are kept out of bust
ness. How Why, all trade is taken from
them: they are undersold, and cheated In
Court and out of Court. with no hope of re-
dress, and as last resort the torch of the in
cendiary finishes the work, and thus no Radi-
cal is permitted to carry on business in
Mobile. '..r.4 ~
The victim of this barbarous treatment is
as good man as any of his enemies,-he is
honest sober, industrious and charitable,
but he is a Radical, and that Is enough to
render him odious, an outlaw and an out
cast. f
We have heard that the -communica-
ton of Emperors by the Pope has made
them so miserable that they travelled to
Rome and humiliated themselves before
their Holy Father. We have been told that
private citizens thus accommodated,
found comfort only in death. We have been
told that Puritanic persecution drove Roger
Williams into the wilderness of Rhode Is
land, and that Episcopal intolerance made
dissenters odious in colonial Virginia that
in many eyes men have been made odious
for opinions sake, and prosecuted to death :;
but in an enlightened age like this we have
been taught to believe that such warfare
against humanity is only practlced by bar
barous nations and savage men. Indeed,
savage and cruel as the uncivilized negro of
Africa or the tawny native of America.
The Southern heart is fired with the
flames of hell. Men are murdered fer being
Radicals, who never injured human being
and whose only offence is freedom of
thought. They are driven out of genteel
cociaty tho tnnuua Of clan6ar ,>urouoc +ho,,
to retirement, and spares not the wife or
daughter. The bullet of the assassin and
tha Ach of the incendiary are ever ready
for them and their property. They are made
aliens in the land of their birth, and so
far as the power OF their enemies goes, life
is rendered miserable.
With US in North Carolina this proscrip-
tion will soon be thing of the past. But
we can never forget or forgive.
1t is our duty hereafter to reward frien ds
and give enemies nothing--not one silver
more than the law allows or God commands;
to build up society amongst ourselves,
which shall prescribe. no one, but which
shall not admit traitors or barbarians until
they repent and become civilized; to give
Our countenance in business and every De-
cuniary favor to friends and leave our enc
mics where they have placed themselves.
This course has been forced upon u.s. As
long as the sun shines and rebels pursue the
same course, we have only this alternative
left. We have seen darker days than we
Shall ever see again, and we can maintain
ourselves without their assistance hereafter.
as we have been obliged TO do heretofore.
We do not complain of political pro-
scrlption. To the victor belongs the spoils.
But when the Offices passed from our hands,
nate and vengeance pursued us into private
life and into every business relation. And
this was done because we were hgal 1t
was bitter cup to drink, but we have
drained it to the dregs, and there is nothing
'eit now tor any one. We might say to our
enemies that wicked inventions return to
p'ague the INVENTOR we might commend
.nelT poisoned chaIice to their own lips but
1ne republican party is above such ineffable
''e"iress, and 1t has too bitterly learned to