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Jfaudard.RA-LEIGH. PT. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 18 00.LOYAL UNION CONVENTION!A Convention of the loyal Union men of North-Carolina will be held in Raleigh, on Thursday the 20th day of September.The Union men of the State are respectfully and earnestly requested to come up in full t'orce9 to consult together on the present condition of the country.Southern Unionists.The New York Times, since it has deserted the Union cause, is joining the Richmond Enquirer and other rebel papers in underrating the numbers and influence of Southern Unionists. The Enquirer copies approving! 3* from the Times as follows :41 The New York Times says the claim of the so-called Union men of the South to the political control of the Southern States,•* seeins just and fair, anti if it were not ut- | tcrly and hopelessly' impossible, would deserve consideration. But it is impossible.— The men in the Southern States who stood by the Union do not number one in ten—we believe we might say one in twenty—of their capable inhabitants. They have not the slightest hold upon their confidence, they cannot command acquiescence in their rule, anti if installed in power can only be kept there by the bayonqt. The reason for thi3 state of public feeling toward them may not deserve approval,—but it is natural, and not inconsistent with renewed and sincere loyalty. Every community confides in those who stand by it in its hour of trouble—no matter from what source those troubles may come; and it condemns those who, when the die is cast, neither come to their aid nor sympathize with their sorrows. And it is utterly hopeless to expect that they will choose them as the recipients of their honors or the representatives of their wishes and opinions.”To all which we reply in the language of Andrew Johnson, addressed iu August, 18G3,
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The Tri Weekly Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1866
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