The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-11

quest you to come, friends, but come right
along of your own accord. Let US have a
peoples Convention, and let our watchword
be, THE Union Of the States as the paramount
good, and the best means for the immediate res
toration Of the Union. Under this sign we
shall conquer.
The SentineI's Unjust and Unprovoked
Attack on C. r. Thomas, E. n. STAN
ley, and Others.
1t is noticeable fact, that the same style
of writing and speaking characterizes the
secessionists now which characterized them in
1860. Then they denounced the great body
of the Northern people as vile Yankees and
black Republicans, and told the people that
if they submitted to Mr.. Lincoln they would
soon be reduced to level with their own
slaves; now they denounce the great body
of the Northern people as mean Yankees
and radicals" and tell the people that if
they submit to the will of the majority, as
expressed by the Congress, they will degrade
themselves to a level with the manumitted
slaves. Loyal Union men they call 1mean
whites; and persons residing among us,
who happened to be born north of Mason's
and Dixons line, are yankees dyed in the
wool"
The same sectional venom which involved
our people in war is still at work, intensified,
if possible, by the struggle through which
we have passed. And what renders it the
more noteworthy and serious is, that this
venom displays itself not merely among the
masses of the secessionists and latter-day
war men, but finds an outlet through the
organ of Gov. Worth, in this City.
We have been led to these remarks by the
gross and unprovoked attack by the Sentinel
on Messrs. c. r. Thomas, E. r. Stanly, H T.
Menninger, R. F. Lehman, and E. W. Carpen-
ter, of Newbern, because they, in common
with other loyal men, thought proper to hold
a meeting in that place to suggest Union
State Convention. Mr.. Thomas is charged
with political inconsistency, and the argu-
ment against other gentlemen who took part
in this meeting is, that they are 6 Yankees
dyed in the WOOL"
So far as Mr.. Thomas is concerned, we
know of no public man in the State who has
a more unblemished or consistent record
He was known during the rebellion as
Union man as far forth as he dared to be,
without mourning the imminent risk of his
life and at the close of the rebellion, though
he had suffered much with other Unionists
at the hands of the despotic governments at
Richmond and Raleig h, yet he was ready to
forget and forgive, and to unite cheerfully
with the great body of his fellow-citizehs
who might be " unn istakably loyal" in re-
constructing the fabric of demolished gov
eminent Under authority from the Presi-
dent, he was appointed by the Provisional
Governor President of the Atlantic Railroad
and by his talents and great energy of char
acter, he soon brought that Road out of the
difficulties in which it had been involved by
the war, and placed it in a condition in
which it was doing remarkably well for the
Stockholders and the State. But Mr.. Thomas
was too good Union man for Gov. Worth.
He prescribed him from his place as Presi-
dent of the Road on account of his Union
principles; and his organ, the Sentinel, fol-
lows up this prescription by assailing and
disappearing him, simply because he has
exercised his right as a. citizen to take part
in public meeting.
This is one specimen out of many of the
regard entertained by Gov. Worth for Union
men.
Mr.. Stanly is also assailed by the menda-
cious organ of the Governor. No man has
better right than E. R. Stanly to speak for
Newbern. He has been, for years, one of its
foremost citizens. There is enterprise
looking to the improvement and benefit of
that community to which Mr.. Stanly has not
put his hand, or for which he has not expend-
ed his money. He is no politician, yet in
crisis like the present, which calls for the
efforts of every loyal citizen to aid in restoring
find such gentlemen as Mr.. Stanly stepping
forward and acting their part.
But the other gentlemen named are &c Yam
KEGS !" This is the condensation of all
bitterness" Yankee f' There are thousands
of Southern men in the Northern States and
Cities, engaged in business, seeking to better
their condition. What if the Northern peo-
ple-what if the organs and friends of Gov
errors of those States should suddenly turn
upon these Southern men and brand them as
rebels Would not that be I" tit for tat %
But the Northern people are above that. 1t
is left to "mean white" secessionists of the
South to speak thus of gentlemen from the
Northern States who have settled among us
to aid us in developing our resources and
improving our condition.
Mr.. Lehman has been in this State at least
ten years. He is respectable mem Der of