The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-03-25
The Rebel Candidate.

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mated for Governor by the rebels, and we
learn that he has accepted. Vance wassa
failure. and so is Ashe.l ,vledrsl 81 5e'eH
Il But what did he ever do for the people.of
this States How many Of the poor have
ever heard of his names "a. yf
Can any one answer these questions We
suspect that Ashc was nominated merely lie
cause it was known that he would accept,
and because he had been good rebel. j
When the election of Confederate Con-
gressmcn was given to the people in the fall
of 1861, Thos, s. Ashe was chosen in the
9Th district. 80 - ~ h.-+i II, 81
He served two years, and during that
time voted for CoNsoR1PTIoN, TTHrNs-
LAWS, IMpREssMENT and the TWENTY Ne
GRO BILL. ;.i--5 l.,,.. ~, p-I
He WAS beaten by Samuel Christian, at
the ensuing election, and retired for time
to private life. However, he did not shout
der musket, but opposed peace. He
leagued with Vance and Davis to coerce
and murder Union men. He was q true
Confederate, preaching war, desolatlon, fam
inc, oppression. and every evil that the
mind of that Infatuated faction could in
vent. di G,- at.! af"' .'' "t
DID he not know the horrors of conscrip-
ton? Did he not know that the women
and children of North Carolina were bare
footed in the SHOWS of winter2 Did he not
know that women were shrieking under the
lash and torture9 Did he not know that
Western Carolina was red with the blood of
| his kindred9 Did he not know that the
flame of war swept theshores of our State from
Currituck to Cape Fears Did he not know
that thousands of Union prisoners were
| starving at Andersonville and Salisbury q
| Did he not know all these things and yet
'whcn or achere did he ever say let US have
PEACE? @ ..s.Yr 10. t...iHU
President Lincoln offered the olive branch.
but it " as met with the sword. His mes
sengers of peace came, but they were sent
away. The yeomanry of rth-Carolina
plead. in the agony of that hour, for PEACE
and RECONSTRUCTION, but the aristocrats at
home and abroad drove them on to the flame
and fire of the last struggle at Appomattox
| Courthouse. "a, ......,r
People of North Carolina. when your ma
ked little ones were begging for bread, when
your noble wives were fed from the commits
sary doors and only a miserable pittance of
the meat and bread impressed from you,
doled out to them, when Gov. Holden lifted
his voice against such intolerable despotism
and rekindled the embers of loyalty-when
lie was mobbed and fed for life, when other
Union men barred their breasts, and still 9th
ers sacrificed their lives-then Thos 5. Ashe
was chosen Confederate States Senator by a
rebel Legislature, in honor of his services in
the cause of slavery and the devil
Thank God, he never took his seat, for
the legions of Grant entered the streets of
Richmond, and drove Davis and that band
of tyrants and traitors, the Confederate
Congress, before them like chaff before the
wind. 'asE'
Will the people of North Carolina honor
such men9 Can they do so, and expect to
be received again into the Union? We
tell them that it is more than they could
expect Of God himself-that they would
be hurled from the gates of Heaven, if they
marched to that portal headed by the devil
| and his demons -'
But we have no fears The day when
lies We're believed, and truth derided when
patriotism was mark of dshonor; when
honesty was ridiculed and despised; when
titled tyrants ruled, and every man was
ordered to worship the cap of Gesser-
has passed away. The mild light of a new
sun and a holier day gilds the white sands
of our ocean beach, and sheds a halo around
each mountain-crest. We are in the morn
ing OF LIBERTY. The owls and bats of th.
night of slavery may now blindly spread
their wings and beat the balmy air with
vain wanderings, but the EAGLES are abroad
and the foul birds of secession and slavery
will be driven with torn and bleeding
bodies into the caves and shadows of the
dismal past, they loved so we'll.