The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-03
Affairs in North Carolina.

we nave NEWS lFom RalelSu W uhe
9th ult:
The Progress continues to denounce
in North Carolina. "This misplaced
leniency,n itsays, ''is4making the lead
ing rebels of the State, who are dailyr
ceiving pardons, still more defiant an /
disloyal than before. Comprising the
public men of the State, they have all
been designatedas delegates to the COM
ing State Convention, which body it is
known they will control. The negroes
and Union men are the special objects OF
their hatred, whose protection depends
entirely upon the enforcement of the
ConfiscatiOn law, which disarms only
the disloyal, who will be beyond the
reach of the federal authorities as soon
as the new State government is inaugu-
rated. 1t is understood that this ele-
ment, who hold State securities for up
wards of forty millions of dollars, con-
tracted since the rebellion for war pur-
poses, will make strong effort to have
the same assumed, by not providing
against it in the new constitution, but
leaving it to future legislation.
Owingto this unexpected exhibition OF
disloyalty and vindictive arrogance the
Union men are endeavoring to have the
call for State convention delayed until
after Congress meets, which will save
time as well as great expense, as the
proposed constitution is destined to bt
repudiated by the people, as it is very
apparentit will be OF an obnoxious char
acter, Judging from the material desig
mated to compose that body.
Thasa traapharOIls leaders who hive
been pardoned through Governor Hol-
denis recommendation, are now organ.
izing in every county, and openly assert
that their party is strong enough to de-
feat Mr.. Holden, or any other candidate
for Governor who fails to identify him.
self with them.
Governor Holden drafted a call for a
convention sometime since, and sent it
to President Johnson for his ratification.
Since then the opposition to an early
convention has assumed formidable pro-
portions and is daily gaining strength.
Hon. Vim. A. Graham, eX-member of
the rebel Senate, and the political leader
of this State, who is to be a delegate to
the coming State Convention, says that
under no circumstances will he consent
to the return of North Carolina into
is made condition.
J. II. P. Russ, of this city, who has
recently received Federal appoint
ment, and who has been designated to
represent this district in Congress, and
also in the approaching State Conven-
ton, defines his position on the slavery
question by saying that if he had the
power he would re-enslave every slave
who is now free.
Some of the county meetings which
have nominated rebel leaders as candi-
dates to the State Convention, instruct
them to favor, by constitutional or legis-
lative enactments, the binding out OF
liberated slaves to their former masters
for term of years.
This is the material already designated
to represent North Carolina in her con-
vention and also in Congress.
The Union men, alarmed mt these
fresh developments of disloyalty, are
organizing for the purpose of demand
ing the immediate enforcement of the
confscation law, which they claim will
drive these rebel leaders and sympathi-
zers from the political field, and enable
men of clear record to present a con-
stitution and delegation to Congress
which that body can consent to accept.
The reckless manner of pardoning the
great leaders of the rebellion in North
Carolina-such as Graham and others
is exciting the grave apprehensions of
the loyal citizens of the State.
In general order, dated Raleigh, N.
c., July 81, Major General Ruger orders
the suspension of the publication of the
Daily Union Banner, issued in Sails
bury, of that State, for the appearance
of an article in its columns ON the 10th
instant, upon the freedmen, which re-
fleets upon Generals Ruger and Howard
and the military generally, and says:-
eff these gentlemen are to fix the
status of the colored fellow-citizen of
African descent, where, then, the neces-
sity of holding convention? The
same power that gives them that right
would entitle them to say what we
should doin every relation in life. They
have already assumed the power to say
what we shall drink and wear"
The Wilmington Herald of the Goth
says:
The new civil authorities of the town
had their first experience yesterday of
The clashing of military with civil au-
thority, and the annoyance and vexa-
sion of transfer of power, all of which
ed to some excitement and commotion
1t the intersection of Market and Front
streets, but happily no bloodshed. The
originated in the arrest of
.he chief of police of the town by aguard
Of negro soldiers. These soldiers, as we
ire Informed, acted in the premises
wholly on their own responsibility,
having no orders or instructions from
nyAource to justify their acts. The
chief of police very wisely submitted
quietly to. the arrest, and was taken be-
ore the provost marshal and immedi-
.tely set at liberty. The arrest, how
ever, called together crowd of the town
oafers, black as well as white, and prin-
,ipally the former, with goodly
,prinkling of soldiers. This element
rejoiced nightly at the arrest of the
civil officer, and INDUCED very freely In
boisterous merriment and aggravating
language. The crowd maintained pos
session of the street until dark, defying
the efforts of the mayor and his police
to disperse them. The soldiers were
openly abusive, in several instances to
the mayor, and seemed to delight in in
sulting him and defying his power.
The Salisbury Union Banner has been
suppressed for the following paragraph
General Roger, General Howard,
and the Generals generally are fulmi-
mating their peculiar views. If these
gentlemen are to fix the status Of sOur
colored fellow-citizens of African de-
SCENT where then Is the necessity of