The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-02-07
"Wednesday, February I, 1866.
! More Hindrances to Restoration.

1calS IN congress, ~ ioii5 90 ,o ~ ~ 'i"u
sands. of Southern men, who, either wilfully
or deliberately, OF from passion, are throwing
distractions in the way of restoration. We
fear that extreme men in both sections of the
.ntry are widening the breach, and that
lie insurgent States are now further from
being received into the Union than they were
six months ago. s ,l 44e4 - ~
If it would do any good, and it we had
any hope that our humble views would DE
needed and adopted, we feel sure we could
suggest programme which would result p in J
the almost immediate admission of North
Carolina to her full privileges in the Union.
But we confess, we arc depressed and despon-
dent. We really apprehend, that for various
motives and considerations, those who are
now controlling public affairs could not be
induced to adopt that plan which would be
most certain to result in restoring the State.
We do not assail the motives of any one nor
do we propose to point out and discuss the
considerations referred to. 1t would do no
good.
We published yesterday communication
of a federal officer to the Richmond Eaumi-
ner, with the comments of that paper there
on The Petersburg Euder of the 1st instant
publishes Accommodation referred to, with
the following comments: ase <s'-@' j."
"There are officers everywhere throughout
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pensates them for the loss of that social recog-
milton which they can scarcely expect here,
since they would be denied it at home But
there are also numbers of Federal officers
| throughout the country who appreciate the
feelings of the people among whom they are
4 ordered to discharge their functions, and who
deserve, therefore, to be heard when they con
ceive themselves aggrieved,
We are very free to admit that we would
4 be- delighted to know that by to-morrow's
sun every one of then would be on his way
to his Northern home, never again to appear
in our midst with uniform on, and it is not
improbable that the majority Of this class as
ardently desire to be relieved from duty
After all, tits not the soldier against whom
the undying execration of the South should
be hurled Those of them whose opinions
are entitled to much respect have, in the
main, conducted and expressed themselves
with iberality 1t is that miserable set of
! vampires who are sucking the blood of the
nation at Washington, who are patching and
botching the work of the patriots of the last
century, who are legislating away the ordi-
nances of God, who are adding new illus
tration of the political truth that the vilest of
despolisms is that of mob-these are the
creatures who are making the restoration of
true Union difficult, if not impossible
No one who knows anything of the feel
ings of the true men of the land, North or
Sonth, will gainsay the statement, that the
day of Peace is farther off now than it was
six months ago; that the regard for the
Union is less, the disposition to made COM
mon cause in a foreign war less, the interest
in Federal affairs less, the desire to stand by
the old land less, the hope in the future, and
the satisfaction in the present less, by long
and despondency- almost despair, is stretch
ing over the Southern people as they find
their frank and magnanimous acceptance of
defeat treated with such shop-keeping sus-
picion Other nations who lost their liber-
ties laid not down their arms when the war
was over, but betook themselves to preda-
but this people surrendered at once Other
peoples, in the face of the destruction of
their independence, abandoned, their homes
and sought in exile to Danish the melancho-
" spectacle of subjugation but the best of
j our people who could, remain behind and
join in the labor of reconstruction. Oother
governments, when threatened with defeat in
arms, applied for the protection of more pow
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dience as the reward of victory; the Confe-
deracy fought for freedom, and scorned any
MASTER, and failing in the fight of arms, they
sought no relief in diplomacy
Yet, what is the result The Congress of
powerful nation has now spent two months
exclusively in attempts at outraging and hui
initiating this people, whose conduct under
circumstances so trying to brave people,
has been, not only SO unexceptionable, but so
exceptionally honorable and admirable.
The cry, muttered, it is true, and muffled
for fear of bayonets and dungeons, but all
the more rooted for this suppression, is CON-
ing up from every quarter Of the land, could
1t not hare been acell had ace died rather than
put ourselves and our children in the hands of
such brutal toesa ...'r.
And they are sending this record of their
icCiiiiSo dulodu W tnc WOTlu, uOG through
their muzzled press, but through the freedom
of correspondence, and the answer is coming
back from exiles in many lands, "come out
to US and enjoy your freedom. Come to a
country where a man is not required to take
b test oath before he can defend a client or
administer sacrament" a land where, to
borrow an expression from letter written
by distinguished exile, recently received in
this city, linen wear no collars marked
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1t is not the army, but it is the Legislature
that is responsible in the main for this dis
content. 1t is they, and not the soldiers,
against whom the indignant, if powerless,
protest Of this people is raised" . '-",i -
The.italies above are those of the linden.
Such articles as this from the Inder are
hoing more than all the radicals" in the
country could do, toinflame the North against
therSouth, and to prevent the admission of
6outhern members, of Congress. If the Edi-
tor of the Ludes really believes and feels as
be has written, he owes it to his State, which
suffering greatly from non=admission, to
3epress his feelings. There is no real foun-
hation for his bitter, and we may add, his
desperate and disloyal tone towards the
Eofthe rnpeoplea and towards the government;
butD it there were, as a man of sense and
foresight, he must perceive that such Ian