The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-04-18


jured profession, whose existence is indis-
pensable to the community"
A correspondent of the Salisbury Old
North State, writing from this City,
says of certain citizens of this State:
"They are the 1ollowers-in heart and
faeling-of Thad. Stevens and Fred. Doug
las. They are for unrestricted suffrage, and
equality of the races, if they were not too
craven-hearted to give expression to their
real sentiments"
We know of no such persons here as
those described by this correspondent.
There are no followers of Fred. Doug
las in this part of this State, and no ad
vocates of the equality of the races"
We copy the following from late
issue of the Albany Evening Journal:
"GooD FEELING ALI. ARoUND.-In view
of the excited state of the public mind, it is
pleasant to read that differences on public
questions have not ruptured the ties of So
cial amity among our law-givers at Wash
ington At General Grants recent levee
President johnson attended-an unusual cir
cumsta2ce. Thad. Stevens was present, and
we learn that " Mr. johnson pleasantly took
him by the hand and introduced him to Mrs.
General Grantn-an incident which shows
that the fears expressed in the 22d of Feb
ruary speech, have not left a very deep i'm
preston upon his mind. Carrot Davis was
also on hand, wordy and amiable, and look
ing in the furthest possible degree removed
from a blood-thirsty conspirator, darkly
musing ON treason, stratagem and spoils."
Alexander H. Stephens, the outside Senate
rial representative from Georgia, crossed his
legs under the Grant mahogany, and forgot
what chagrin he may be supposed to enter
tain in hob-a-nobs at champagne with Chan
dler of Michigan There is hope for the
Republic. Let men differ as they may in
the halls of public legislation, we need not
despair, so long as they will yield to the
modifying influences of truffies and Held
sick"
1t is gratifying to read the above, es-
pecially in contrast with the following
from the Richmond Enquirer
at is evident, indeed, that violent col
lision between the Congress and the Presi-
dent is inevitable, and is imminent, if the
true spirit and intent of the Constitution
shall remain despised, and its forms abused
for the usurpation ofpower In this issue the
President has thus far been altogether in the
right. and has cvinced all the moderation
The Congress has been wholly in the wrong,
and has displayed a corresponding violence.
That the public peace is yet unbroken, is
due to the President. 1t depends on Con-
gress whether it can be permanently main
tanned; for we take it for granted that the
President will not yield himself an unresist-
ing victim to revolutionary violence, what
ever garb it may wear, or allow the Consti-
tuition 20 defend which the sword has been
given him, to be overturned and destroyed.
A Congress coup detat can be met by Presi-
DENTAL coup detat, and in the collision the
hardest must fend off"
We have no idea that there will be a
viole'at collision between the Presi-
dent and Congress. The President will
execute any laws the Congress may
pass, and in no event will he use the
sword against that body. To do SO
would be at once to involve this whole
continent in war of which no one
could foresee the end.
But if the above from the ENQUIRER
is Objectionable, what shall we say to
the following extracts? It is in this
way that the two sections are infamed
against each other, and the work of res-
toration delayed:
4 "The bitterest secessionist that ever schem-
ed, and worked and fought for the Confed-
eracy, the proudest aristocrat that traces his
descent from some Norman Sire, and scorns
the Northern aristocracy with its stolen
crests, its odour of Goldfish and grease of Pc
troleum, would receiw Andrew johnson as
a welcome and honofed guest; the meanest
horse-f1y or beggar that walks Southern
street would feel himselfsdefled by contact
with Summer. ~ Richmond E'z
1t was telegraphed here last Saturday that
the President had ordered to Washington
4 10000 troops to put the Ruhp Congress un-
Ger arrest and see that Southern members
took their seats. But it all proved false. We