The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-02-12
THE RECORD.
k OE THE
IASTIGATORS And LEADERS
REBELLION.

- - fe'eS NsSt 'SsSS htS oRSSSh Nv w AhSo-
borough, Feb. 20, 1854 In referring to the
.terms offered by President Lincoln in his
Amnesty Proclamation Of December, 1868,
be said: e. 2
Now what does 3fr. Lincoln promise the
State of North Carolina2 In what language
does he clothe his gracious terms of amnes-
ty and pardona He says if one-tenth of the
people ofany State will take All oath to sup
port what2 The Constitution Nay, take
an oath to support his proclamation abolish
ing slavery, bis proclamation melting your
slaves to burn your houses and murder you
and your famiiies If you swore to support
this proclamation, you would peJurs your
self, tor it is in direct violation OF the Con-
stitution, as you well know. Old Abe has
peJured himself, and he wishes to put you
in the same category of villainy. Not only
must you swear to endorse his infamous doc
ument-- so pronounced by the civilized
support all the acts of Congress which have
been passed, abolishing slavery, confscating
your property. placing you in subsection to
one-tenth of the community, and publicly
executing your glorious chiettains. and every
officer from Colonel up to Gen. Lee"
How many pepwrers are there in North
Carolina to-day, therefore, according to Gov.
Vance's test 2 Do he and his friends hold
that Mr.. Lincoln is still Infamous in the eyes
of the civilized worlda Who has been pub
licly executed7 Who has lost property from
eonfscation2 1s-
In the same speech he said that President
Lincoln desired Ito set up government of
ten thousand perjured scoundrels p And
that if he, Vance, and his friends consented
to this thing they would deserve the fate of
dogs!'
Aug. Sd, 1864, the Coaseruatire, speaking
as the organ of Gov. Vance and the latter
day-war saints, said:
We have not changed one opinion about
reconstructionists. We have not only here
totore regarded them as traitors, but we still
so regard them Not only So but We think
that any man who so avows himself in favor
of reconstruction should be required to 1eave
the Confederate States, for such an one is
Yankee at heart and unfit to live among
Southern people"
The confiscation act of the so-called Con-
federate Congress was approved by Mr.. jeff.
Davis, Aug. Both, 1864.
IL oCSldiCo diilt CNCiN, thC
tenements and hereditaments, goods and
chattels, rights and credits within these
Confederate States, and every right and in
terest therein held, owned possessed or ell
joyed By or for any alien enemy since the
21st day of May, 1861, except such debts
due to an alien enemy as may have been
paid into the Treasury of any one of the
Confederate States of America prior to the
passage of this law, be, and the same are
hereby sequestered by the Confederate States
of America"
The second section made it the duty of
ers'y citizen to give information to the Off
GERS charged with the execution of the
above
The third section declared any person
wilfully failing to give such information, or
rendering an account of sequestered property,
guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon
conviction should he fined $1,000 and impris-
oned not longer than six months!
Under this law officers were appointed,
who executed all its provisions promptly J.
Debts due Northern merchants were paid
to Confederate Receivers, under fear of fine
and imprisonment, and they were then paid
to the Treasurer of the Confederate States,
and of course all lost Orr people aoere thus
deliberately robbed By traitors: while citizens
of the loyal States were likewise pundered
of their real estate and other effects, which
were sold and used for four years by rebels,
and for which no compensation has been
given or thus far demanded We learn
that in one instance even hat, shirt and
bride belonging to Northern man, were
publicly sold by one of these Receivers =
What then can those, who justified such
outrageous measures, say in opposition
to the confscation laws of the United
States, which, with remarkable magma
nimity, have not thus far been enforced p
They can only rely upon the clemency of Con-
gress, which they villify and defame.
On the 21st of Sept 1864, Jno. D. LYMAN
retired from the editorial control of the
Conservative. Vim. E. Pell, now Editor of
the Sentinel, then of the Adcocate, commence
ed writing for the Vance organ. He contin-
ed to do ST. until NJ. s. Robins took control,
and perhaps afterwards. tor there are many
"godly comments" in the paper subsequent,
to Robins advent, which strongly SAVIOR of
Brother Pell. The Conservative OF Sept. 2sth,
1864, said:
1.-THE Rubicon is passed, and we cannot
retrace our steps without dishonor. The
time was when many of US battled against
the causes winch brought on the war The
crime of bringing it on does not rest on our
hands. What then, shall we, after having
spilled so much blood, sacrificed so many
lives and so much treasure in defence of the
principles of right, shall we back down -
Never! Never!
Our people do not mean to back. No
such craven heart beats among us. We must
be up and at the foe. The country needs
every man that can be spared. Let the peo-
pie at home, yea the women, if need he, 90
on with the work of enrolling and the du-
ties of commissary and quarter-master's de-
partments, and let the men now employed
in, these duties, but Yersed in the duties of
soldiers, 60 in the fight. We are strongly
impressed with the idea that the present is
the crisis-the pinch with US. Let the South
for the next two months bring her strength
unto the contest, and let-our battle-cry be
God and our country and peradv.nture
We shall roll back the tide that threatens to
overflow u.s."
The above is from Brother Pell. 1t bears
the earmarks; and shows also where he then
advocating the CONSUMPTION of erery
man, the most rigorous and bloody prosecution
Of the tcaT, and the employment Of oar female
population in the same cork, thus endeavoring
to involve all, even the most tender and in
nocent, in the terrible and an evitable disas.
tiers attendant upon the close of the rebel
lion.
And the following horrible threat in the
Confederate, under date of July 10th, 1854:
And to be slain by villainous tories and
traitors as Waighstell Avery was, (Avery
was killed in a skirmish with Kinks men,
calls aloud to our countrymen and anthori