The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-02
Too Late I

NUN ototOo tiS 0OCCooiOu III thO
face. The handwriting is upon the wall.
These wicked men, who plunged the people
of the South in rebellion and its horrors, feel
the solid ground giving way beneath Their
feet They zee the abyss which is yawning
to receive them. They quake with fear and
are vainly endeavoring to retrace their steps.
They revealed their secret too soon. In the
flush of hope and enthusiasm they forgot
prudence and exposed their revolutionary
schemes to the public gaze. The peo-
pie were aroused and enragcd when the
dark designs of these eonspirators were
brought to light. They had not forgot
ten the dark and bloody days of the
rebellion. They remembered how they
had been conscripted and forced to the front;
they remembered the barbarism of rebel
rufians who had insulted and abused their
helpless families and robbed them of their
little store they had not forgotten the long
nights of watching in the trenches, the hun
ger and the cold. They retained vivid
recollection of all the sufferings which they
endured in the field and in the hospital, in
the rich mans war and the poor mans fight.
The people had not forgotten these fearful
success, and were ready to immediate the
wretches who would cause them to be re-
enacted. When the revolutionary plans Of
these secession conspirators became known,
the indignation of the honest, lawabiding
people of the country knew no bounds, and
the conspilators became terror stricken, and
would now conceal or deny their crime. But
concealment or denial are alike in vain. The
protestations of the Sentinel and of the rebel
orators come too late. The Southern chiv-
airy spoke to the people in the New York
platform. South Carolina dictated the creed,
and Frank Blair penned his Infamous letter.
Upon the strength of that letter, he was
unanimously nominated on the first ballot.
He was endorsed by the New York Nullif
cation Convention; he was unanimously en-
dorsed by the late rebel Convention assem-
bled in this city he has been endorsed by
every similar Convention in the South, and
wherever you find a rebel or rebel sympa-
thizer, you find man who endorses Frank
Blair. Wise, Hampton, Toombs, Hill, and
Forest, are already in the field. They are
appealing to all the associations of the "lost
cause" By all the recoliections of the "glo-
rious past" they are melting their hearers
to treason. By all the memories of the
dear old flag" they are firing up the South
ern heart to begin the work of blood.
In the face of all this, the Secession De-
mocracy cannot recede 1t is not worth
while for the Sentinel to repudiate Blair at
this stage of the controversy. 1t is too
thoroughly committed to his revolutionary
| policy, ana so are the secession Democratic
leaders. Blair's reputation by the Sentinel
of yesterday, comes too late The retraction
was the result of fear, not of principle, and
cannot he relied on in good faith.
The secession Democracy see ruin in from
OF them, rum to right OF them, ruin tC
left of them, and ruin in rear O
them. They dare not advance to put theil
reasonable plan in execution, they cannot
retract and be believed, they can. by no in
genuity, find an escape on the right hand OF
en- the left. And he it remembered, thai
when this vile organization is put down THU
i time, it is crushed never to rise again. rhes,
conspirators, foiled as yet in their intent t.
precipitate war,now swing round to the othel
extreme, and there is no humiliation so alb
ject that they will not submit to 1t, if by Sc
doing, they can save something from the gen
eral wreck which awaits them. But neither
their vows or their solemn oaths will be re
garded. For they plotted treason under thu
very dome of the national Capitol anc
while eating the bread of the nation they
had sworn to defend ard protect. They
are bankrupt in fortune, bankrupt in hope
and bankrupt in personal character ano
honor. They have deceived and betrayed
the people once; the people viii see to i
that they have no opportunity to do so
second time.