The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-04

| When the Hon. Mr.. Doolittle of the Uni
ted States, ..Senate last winter. arose in his
place in that body, and on the presentation
of Mr. POOLS credentials, made the state
ments that he did, endorsing Mr.. P.'s loyal
ty and unionism during the war, his qualltl-
cation to take the test-oath' batting
technicality, and worse than all, that Mr..
Pool had become member of the North
Carolina Legislature, for the purpose Of en-
| 6o1Tassiag the Confederate cause, we Were
thunderstruck, when we read the statement.
! -Sentinel.
Is it possible Thunderstruck at the fact
that Mr. Pool was Union man during the
rsbelion2 Being so, a matter of course
he desired to embarrass" the so-calcd, so
as to close the war and restore the govern
ment. What inconsistency is there in that
The Legislature of 1864, of which Mr..
Pool was member, was more loyal body
than the present one. But for the opposition
of Gov. Vance and Gov. Graham, it would
have called a Convention and forced a peace
on the basis of restoration. This is well
known. Mr. Pool and his friends were then
freely and openly denounced as traitors to
| the Confederacy. They were in constant
danger of arrest and Imprisonment on &C
count of their efforts to embarrass the Con.
federacy." When they were pursued, and
bounded, and Intercepted by such govern
ment detectives the Editors of the Senti-
mel, they answered discreetly and cautiously.
| They were no more bound to avow their OBJ
ject than a supposed criminal is to testify
against himself They were willing, as hon
est men. to let their acts speak for them, but
they were not so silly rs to make committals
or admissions which would have consigned
them to handouts and the gallows. A large
majority of the Legislature, including many
of our most patriotic and upright public
men, agreed with Mr.. Pool Indeed, but
short twelve-month before, we state the
fact that Gov Graham himself was prepared
to embarrass the Conteieracy," just as Mr..
| Pool did. for he wrote letter for pubiica-
ton in the Fayetteville Observer, in the fall
of 1863 in which he took ground for nego-
tiations and peace. This letter so thorough
! ly Union IN ats sentiments that Mr.. HUE de-
clined to publish 1T. About the same time
Gov. Vance. who was still true to- consider
able extent to the Union principles on which
he was elected, wrote with his own hand the
platform which Gen. G. w. Logan was
elected to the Confederate Congress; and it
is matter of history that Gen. Logan went
to that Congress, as DR.. Leach did, with the
distinct understanding that he would do all
in his..power to :" embarrass " and break down
| the Confederacy, and secure peace on the ba-
sis of the Union. We challenge a contradic-
ton of these facts
ell
away and joined themselves to the ultra war
men, and the result was the extinction of
slavery, the loss of hundreds OF thousands Of
valuable lives, and the devastation of the
South, to be followed, in all probability as
the result of their selfishness and stubborn
ness, by still further impoverishment, dis
tress and ruin to our people.
Gov. Graham, Gov. Vance, Gov. Worth
| and Mr.. Pel occupied the same ground whic h
Mr.. Pool did in 1868. The.difference is, MIR
Pool maintained his consistency faithfully to
the end, while the other gentlemen named,
changed their course and acted in such a way
as to destroy their country. If Mr.. Pool and
his friends embarrassed the Confederacy -
which is not denied, but claimed for them
what shall we say of persons with the oath
of allegiance fresh upon their lips, who are
&c embarrassing" the Union ?-who will listen
to no terms to restore it ?-who seem to be
fatally bent on embarrassing and striking
down the best government the world has
ever seen d? This is what the Sentinel and its
friends now doing. Mr.. POOLS record is
a proud and noble one when compared
with theirs. His record will endure, and
will be respected and honored as the record
| of true man, but that of his opponents,
written in treason, treachery. and blood, will
perish as an accursed thing from the mem
DRY of mankind, or will live only as a lurid,
baleful light, to warn coming generations of
the quicksands and breakers of secession and
| fratricidal war;