The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-01

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Northern and Southern people don't like
each other pauch-whethef they ever will, We
art not able to predict Whether they ever
ought we are scarcely enough OF z moraiist
to say. Much has been saia-and' the pratt
tie still goes on-about reconstruction, re-
Mobilization, reconciliation, &c, but we can't
see what interest the down trodden South
has in any of them, for the present at least.
Her duty is to be silent and mind her own
business. What is it to the lately rebelliOus
States, whether they have seventy or seven,
or no representatives in the present Radical
Congress" Sf
WHY then manifest so much anxiety to
be restored to the friendship of people who
only hate us and speak OF us as barbarlans
There are mo FEELINGS in common, Social politi-
cal or religious, betaoeef the people Of tae North
and the South" m SOS
The above are extracts from an editorial of
the Daily Goldsboro' Neaos, issued the 18th
inst. read them with surprise and regret, l
quote them to condem, whilst 1 have no
pleasure in their condemnation.
Had they appeared in the columns OF the
/ destructive partizan organ ofJ Jonathan Worth,
it would have all been in keeping with the
Radical tone and temper Of that disunion
Sheet
The Sentinel might have published such
sentiments and still have gone into primary
meeting, to advise and concur in appointing
delegates to the great National Union meet
ing. which is to assemble in Philadelphia for
the very purpose of g reconstruction" rehabi-
litation +" and " reconciliation
For neither man nor angel can discern,
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone,
By his Per 2, WILL tnrougn heaven ana
,,.., o;,4 -,
but the NetoS' who was ui""n aSain., nl'
judgment ana WILL ihoo tiie ialc iepeiiion'
should survey tne grounu wen Deio,e ~. sca'-
tiers more seeds OF ailenatlon ana oistrust
which can grow only In SOIL TO De drencned
in the blood OF the people OF the Gown
trodden South.
What next! we are gu the eve OF ano.L-
er revolution, Is becoming an OPINION Win
some +" Northern" men, and such OPINION Is
now being too commonly expressed by
Southern men through the press and in
| public speeches.
The revolution through which we have
| just passed. In truth, 1T may be SAID we
| have passed through twas caused mainly
by difference OF sentiment In relation to
domestic slavery in the Southern States.
To limit at first, and ultimately to abolish
| slavery was the immediate and primary cause
| of civil war, on the part of the people of the
| North" To extend, and finally to preserve
| and continue slavery was the main object OF
resistance, in the beginning, and the real
cause of continued resistance to the end, on
the part of the people of the South" to the
National authority. am aware that these
propositions are mixed dispositions
| the preservation of the Union became the
necessary resulting paramount object with
| the National Government and the rallying
cry of its loyal citizens, and that "communi-
ty," or confederate Southern" independence
J because likewise on the part Of those who
voluntarily resisted that Government, their
| leading object and their rallying cry. Yet
slavery was the cause, and its abolition the
result of the great American rebellion, and
| such will be the record and the testimony of
| history.
This result was predicted, and reasonably
calculated upon by the majority of the peo-
| pie of North Carolina who opposed, so long
| as they could, the precipitate and mistaken
! zeal of the pro-slavery and separate indepen-
dence party of this South" The editor of
| the Ne,cs was among the patriotic and con-
sentative class, and consistency requires that
| he confess that during the rebellion 81 was
| mistaken" These are hard words to pro-
nounce, but they bring quiet to conscience,
| and wound not either ones selfrespect or
honor
The Occasional papers, contain an essay
on retraction worth all the columns of wri-
ting contained in the newspapers of the hour,
which are so often reflex of the prejudices
of their patrons, especially in regard to the