The tri-weekly standard., 1866-08-04
from the Newbern Times. ]
COMMUNICATED.

And vet we are biuden by the Rad
ical organ in this City to initiate the &C
ton of Tennessee. Never. North
| Carolina will not only not resort to a
cheat, Il fraud, lie, to get place IN
| Congress, but she will never, under any
circumstances, voluntarily accept the
infamous Constitutional amendment,
(which has been crammed, by treache-
rv, deception and force combined, down
the throats of the unhappy people OF
Tennessee,) in order to secure degra-
ded and inferior position in the govern
ment. "-Ralsigh Sentinel
The Raleigh .SeUtjne}, the disunion
organ of Governor Worth, means by
" Radical organ in this City the SfdI'-
1,yrI, the Union organ Of the people of
North-Carolina.
The remainder of the paragraph
stripped Of passionate verbia@e means
this: :" No39h- Cdroii,to ,rW neres, uls|er
uny circumstances, rot,Uttdrtfy accept
the Constitutional ameWdmeat, ercn to
Sgc2tre q position IN the 1oce'2tHe't.'
This is consistent, candid, fair, and
square laying down position which
the Sentinel, Governor Worth and their
political adherents occupy. Fortity
this position, gentlemen, with every
man whose prcjudiceS and passions You
can enlist against the national govern
mcnt, and by all the means and appli-
ances OF partizan warfare against the
RadicalS' and other true Union men
Of this State-the people will soon dis
cover Your weak point, and drive YOU
all ''to secure Il degraded and inferior
position.
II the adoption Of the proposed Con-
stitutionai amendment be Il condition
precedent to the restoration Of the gov
ernment Of each State lately i'll rebell-
ion 20 its full relations with the nation
Al government. why should not North
Carolina perform that condition-volul-
taTilv perform it:
Do any Of the pretended friends of
President Johnson still object that the
State has accepted the abolition of
slavery rs condition precedent to re-
storation That negro testimony has
been made admissible and that all debts
contracted in aid Of the rebellion have
been declared repsrdioteH!I What IN
inconsistent man is our Radical Presi-
dent, if he ''dictatcd" such conditions.
Surely, Tlad. Stevens and his inta-
nous crew" must have preferred these
infamous conditions precedent, and the
- Radicals in this State" must have ac-
copied them by a resort to "a cheat, a
fraud, Il lie, to get a place (for their
7tatel III Congress-" What "dirt-eat-
ers' these dirty g Radicals in this State"
must be. Or, can it be possible that
President Johnson has changed front
for the purpose of conciliating the Sc
cessionists now all johnson men, So
called, or - National Union men, So
called. or, more appropriately "non-
- The President should
that his profassed friends of
the Secession school in North-Carolina
have been . conceding" abolition, negro
testimony and reputation Of rebel
position is, we will not conccde an
other inch to restore the government"
This cannot be the position of Andrew
J Johnson, President of the United States,
who owes his highest earthly honors,
highest If he wear them well, to the
= Radicals," and not to 1" "nOn-concesSion-
ists'' who would hang him as high as
Ilaman, if within their power, should
he not Buchanan-like allow them to de-
hberately again make prepaEatiOnsSto
overthrow the government i'll case eth
er negro suffrage or the Constitutional
should be insisted upon as
a condition precedent to their reconciled
relations with the " National Union
If the President should wreck the
hopes Of his strongest and best tried
Union friends upon this rock of negro
suffrage by lending his great name and
official patronage to build up party
which is to live and move, and have its
being in another sectional contest in
the fate of the country, all good
and true men will deplore it ; but
predict that in that event, rapidly will
they arrange themselves on the side of
to him.
TO avoid another such sectional Pres
idential contest as was that previous to
the rebellion on account of difference
of sentiment in relation to the main
questionable abolition or preservation
and extension of slavery-to be had
tions Of the freedmen, and over the
Constitutional amendment-men who
now support the Presidents Admins
tration will rally around the flag borne
by the Republicans, North and South
1 dread to think that the President
might stop short in the work of perma-
nent restoration after having done so
much toward entitling himself to be
considered The restorer of his coun-
try I will yet have confidence that
he will talter not in the high trust COM
mitted to his charge by the American
people, and that he will, without obsti-
nate persistence in his own theory or
plan of restoration, stand ready to ex-
ecute any plan that will adjust and re-
concile the political relations of the
aoltoze people Of the States lately in re-
bellion in such manner as may be right
and just according TO their Judgment.
and restore permanently the union of
the States.
The voice of the majority Of the