The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-02-12
PERSECUTION,

,i-.,.s. PERSECUTION.
No more fruitful theme presents itself to
the observer Of the times and the manners
of the present day in our immediate section
that that mentioned above. And the anom-
sly Is presented that those who are most sd-
dicted to its exercise are the most bistsr
comptainers Of Its hardships They can
never perceive that "iwhat is sauce for the
llgooseIis also sunce for the gandef" They
are like the lawyer. who when he found
that it was his own bull that had gored to
death the OK, said: i" Oh that alten the
casen "a + 81 esfs9a as t5f,f iFa
1t is all right, just, brave and generous
with some to pour down gall and worm
wood their neighbor's throat, provided the
r chalice is not presented to thnir own lips.
p Our nelghbors, the obstructionists, are in
cessantly railing at Congress, at tho Con-
vention. and at every thing that in the least
checks their dominance over people who
g happened to differ with them politically in
the past. and still do so. They look upon
it as a most sacrilegious, ungodly course of
conduct to dare to assert that difference in q
practical manner. If they would only choose
to reflect on this matter ever so briefly they
would soon perceive that their own game is
one that admits of two to play at it, and
that sooner or later people will find it out,
if they have not already done SO.
! OF course the leaders and suhordinates in
tae late invasion of " the sacred soil " must
consent to let by cones be by-gones; they
must hands off and say naught; they must
take no part in the programme of the fu-
ture They must be "lookers ON in We
nice;" they must see how Virginians rule
Virginia and the people thereof II they do
otherwise, "let them be anntAen,a mara.
natha." ' ' "''
They must hats off," clothed in sack
cloth and ashes," and with unsandaled feet
approach mother earth in Virginia, for il is
sacred to the descendants of a superior race,
the noblest type of man, par ercellence.
The photographs of the Lees, the Jack
sons, the Hoods, the Braggs, ct cetera, must
adorn the mantel of the household, and such
and such alone must receive the peans of
victory.
But this is not all that is expected from
intruders from the outer world They
must never undertake to find fault with the
past or the present. Virginia is the sole
cradle of wisdom and craftsmanship with
in her borders is the true modern Gamalcl,
at whose feet all must submissively learn, If
they would teach others in their day and
generation.
1t is desirable too, that they should be pa
tient listeners to the genealogy of the first.
families, and recognize outsiders rs Barba-
rians, deserving, if not of scorn, at most of
pity. These and Thousand and one things
more must not only be g done and suffered"
but they must be active agents in furthering
the interests, propagating the views of the
original stock, and in accepting, without de-
mur, the place assigned them in social or
political existence; they must implicitly
submit to the rulers of tens and of fitties, Of
hundreds and of thousands, ignore the ideas
taught by fond mother in other lands or
the principles ofgovernment taught in other
schools. and then, and then, perhaps, they
may be tolerated Within the sacred pre-
cincts of the Old Dominion. They may then
be permitted to manufacture hats or shoes
ifthey like; they may then pass hithcr and
thither without the damning appellation Of
negro-worshippers social vern,in, -" mon.
sters," white trash," and so on, ad infni-
tane they may then not see their names and
business published in the newspapers, in or
der that all might know them to sliun them,
This il the tolerance that will be neted
out to the hated Yankee or republican, Who
ever he may be, and yet, torsooth, because
| he will strive to maintain bis ground, and
| dares to avow. his principles in this land o.
supposed liberty, and seeks to guard himself
against the preparation Of still grosser
wrongs upon his rights, he isleoked upon as
a ,disturber of the public peace, as n contem
ner Of indefeasibie rights and in genera
| terms -
IA monster Of such hideous mein,
That to be hated needs but TO be seem
zen, a9 st Richmond New Nation.