The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-03
7ls a4 For the Standard.
The Tyranny of the Rebellion.

There has appeared in several numbers of
the Sentinel editorials published in connec-
ton with the letter of Jonathan Worth to
Andrew johnson, headed "The Despotism
OF Reconstruction" Has the editor of the
Sentinel ever read history Or is his knowl-
edge of that like his acquaintance with the
spelling book" rediculously" and '.igno-
mineously" ignorant2 Was 1t to be expect
ed that when the war ended everything was
all at once to be at peace? Does not all
history show that when people have been
oppressed and imposed upon and abused,
as were the Union men of the South. that
when the power Of the oppressor and perse-
cutor is broken, spirit of retaliation will
show itself9 The wonder is. that those who
tyrannized over the loyal men of the South
have not been dealt with summarily.
Abiding to the statements made by Gov.
Worth to Andrew johnson, the editor of the
Sentinel continues to bawl, oh, liberty,
how many crimes are committed in thy
name !" Why was it that Gov. Worth did
not in his letter to johnson go on to say
how certain citizens of his own old county
OF Randolph had been treated by the enc
mics of the United States during the war |?
Had Ire forgotten that many unoffending
citizens had been impoverished and ruined
by those inearnate devils, detailed conscript
hunters-men who shot Northcutt and
Brown, and who to day, instead Of being
punished for their barbarity and trea-
son, hold places of trust in the State And
young Reynolds, too, of the same county,
who was set upon by ruffians and murdered
when assisting his mother in his duties as
an 0bedient son. There was young Petty
and Burton of Gov Worth's native county
OF Guilford, whose blood to-day, like that
OF Abel'sr cries from the ground for justice.
r What was it the editor of the Sentinel was
fighting for when he was in the Confederate
army z was it liberty, or was it to found,
as A. H. Stephens said they were doing. a
government whose corner stone should be,
not liberty, but slaoeaya It i'll becomes
those who took such active part in the re-
bellion, to howl about liberty, until they ac-
cept the situation. When they, have been
the means of making thousand of widows
and orphans, and wasting billions of treas
ure, and that too by the most despicable
and hellish means, it behooves them
to be silent. The c. S. A. ESQ called) was a
more CALLING despotism than exists any
where in the old world. No person was
loathsome bastiles for their loyalty. Wo.
men and children were dragged to their
camps because their protectors would not
raise their hands against the flag. of their
country.
In whose name, we ask, did the rebels,
(some OF them, yea, many of them. belong
ing to the now efete aristocracy,) when they
found their cause was lost, plumber the com
missaries which they had filed by tithing
the poor of the countrya Was this done in
the name of liberty or was it the last haul
they were about to make out of the unpaid
labor of their fellow menu 1t is said ssthere
are none so blind as those who will not seen
These men have lost, forever lost, thsir
power. Some of the more moderate and
decent of them may be trusted again, but
never while they palliate and defend the
acts of those who were the cause of 'sall our
woes" The more bitter of them are going
down-they are dopn as regards character.
They are impoverished by their own acts,
and will ere long give room to better men.
Let them go, say we, "unwept, unhonored
and unsung." l BETA.