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

Many years ago, before the Inauguration
of the pitiless war OF the desperate South
ern leaders, we entered our protest against
their mad policy, and told the people that
it would lead to inevitable blood and suf-
fering, and that we would be overwhelmed
in disaster and ruin. Unfortunately, we
were not needed, but on, the contrary we
were made the object of the grossest vitu-
per, lion and the most hcartless denuncia-
ton. We bore it all in sorrow, not in an
ger. The storm came, and all along its re-
lentless track, thousands upon thousands Of
evidences may be seen of its terrors, carnage
and devastation. Every family circle hath
its tale of Woe, and almost eyery mother and
wife throughout the length and breadth of
the land hath wept great heavy tears of an
guish over the lost lights of their sacred
households by the indiscriminating shaftsof
DEATH hurled by the hands of men mile
mad by teachings of their leaders Welteh
the poor white men, again to-day, thai the
saiiie internal spirit that projected that mur,
derous war, still animatcs those who assume
to lead and direct the so called conservative
party now ); that it is the sayie spirit that
lmpelled Il Davis and Yapcey to drop this
fair land in blood in the interest OF slavery,
and at the expense Of the poor white mans
life and blood and limbs. The present time
is pregnant with momentous interest to you,
and events before long will be evolved, If
| you should be so unfortunate and reckless us
| to heed their eounsels and teachings, as will
cverwhelm you in utterruin. Whom the
Gods would destroy they first make mad"
| And you read in the Divine Book that the
| Lord hardened the heart of Pharoah so
that lie wetild not let the children of Israel
| 20. and in his own good providence, as
punishmert for the wrongs and outrsges
| perpetrated upon that wretched people,
Pharaoh and his hosts were led on to sure
and utter destruction. Won't the good
sense, backed by the good heart of the mass
i of our true and noble people, rise up and
save themselves and the country from such
i calamities..
I You have Been bitterly, cruelty deceived
once, that was the fault Of your leaders !;
if you are deceived again it will be your
own fault, and, when the worst comes, as
comes it viii in that event, you will not have
the poor solace Of the pitiful reflection that
you had no idea that such and such was
their design, for you have been warned, and
to-day you are invoked in the name of Union
and peace, and all that is dear to you, to
heed them not. The only safety for the peo-
pie and all their interests viii be found only
in the ample bosom Of the Union. Let us
hasten to get there = Union Rep. a'7
nc klI..es7---- S---- datHi
Il DEATH OF AN INvENToR-Henry Der
ringer, the inventor, of the pistol which bean
HE name, died recently in Philadelphia
aged eighty-one years. He won the friend
shipef President jackson, who was bis gues
III at imess and of Subsequent Presidents ant
notables at Washington, prominent among
, whom were Calhoun, Benton, Rusk. Sevie
, and others, and the chiefs Of the Cherokee
and other Indian nations, who manifested
warm and friendly interests in his advance
ment, and whose regard often exhibited il
visits at his hospitablc home-he retained
until death pursuing age bore nearly all hi
: chief contemporaries out of mortal associa
7 4 tons. sHewss prominent in Phiiadelphi
affairs for sixty years.