The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-05
Let us have Peace !-GEN. GRANT.
COpperhead DupllcIty.

In many portions of the State it is under
stood that the Conservatives. so-called, are
endeavoring to coax and cajole the colored
men to vote for Seymour and Blair. They
are doing their utmost to win them over.
They will resort to any means, no odds how
unfair, to accomplish their ends. The very
people whom they have heretofore held as
chatteis, and to make perpetual bondmen of
whom they waged cruel war, they are now
asking to vote for them. Was eversuch bare
faced deuble-dealing known? Who is so
blind as not to be able to see through their
schemes? ANY colored man who is deceiv-
ed by them must surely be grossly in the
dark. And any colored man who, after see
ing or hearing Frank Biair's letter, can go
with the Copperhead- Secession Democracy,
deserves to be ignored by all honorable
men. white or black
The Copperhead party is the most UNI
scrupulous party that has ever existed. To-
day enslave Il man, class him with the beasts
of the field, tear from him his wife and chill
dren, use his wages without pay; tomorrow,
wheede and coax and inti!Aidatc him for
his support at the ballot box
Their treatment of poor white men is but
little. better. Could they have established
their pet Confederacy, they would have
made citizenship among the white men
of the South worse than Russian serf-
dom. Their every day acts showed this,
and still show it.
What is required of loyal men now is to
stand up in this crisis and show themselves
men. This pampered. bloated set, after the
election of Grant and Colfax, will subside.
They will then see that the sceptrc has de-
parted" indeed. Their hopes will then be
entirely blasted. Their faces will show
more longitude than they did in the latter
part of April last They will then know
that the people rule in this broad land, and
that corrupt aristocracy must die, and
never be rcsurrectcd. So mote it be!
The merchant princes of the metropolis of
McLeansville, taking pattern alter the en-
terprising action of their neighbors in
Greensboro in regard to the proscriptive
spirit of the new administration upon the
N. G. Railroad, have taken steps TO vindi.
cate the honor of this great commercial CEN
ter 1t has been resolved by the entire
mercantile community of this enterprising
city, as one man, that henceforward and for
ever, they will not send another ounce of
freight (their usual annual contribution
over said road while it is in the hands of
Scallawags and Carpet-baggcrs unless the
present or late Depot agent at that place is
retained and his salary increased at least
one thousand per cent This will enable
him to continue his patronage of the road,
and will prevent the creation of road by
the copperhead members of the General As
sembly for the special benefit of McLeans-
vile, and to the great and lasting detriment
of the N G. Railroad.
1t was resolved that if the peanut VEN
ders" of the little town of Greensboro could
succeed in compelling the Road to retain
the services of man who will permit his
employers to expel lady from the writing
room OF the depot because she was waiting
the arrival of her Radical husband, Nc
Leansville has much greater reason to ask the
retention OF its present agent who, never
J treated a scallawag or carpet-bagger of eth
/ er sex with common decency.
1t is utterly impossible for the Road to
exist, without the sinecure appointment at
| McLeansylle any more than the United
States could continue extant without the
ELEVEN CENTS POSTAGE which McLeansville
yields quarterly to the government. No
more prescription. The Radicals muse die
now. McLeansville has spoken, &c.