The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1866-05-23

| these malcontent JEFF. Davis radicals shlver
in their boots! Every true man North
+ would shout for Joy if he would do it, and
the prosecuted Union men OF the South
! would raise their bowed heads and bless him
| for the act.
We are attached to President johnson by
the strongest personal and political ties.
Nothing could induce us to assail him, or
even to think unkindly of him. We are
satisfied that his motives are pure, and that
he has at heart the best interests of the coun-
try. The Union men of the South are not
likely to desert him. He may not hear much
from them or of them, for their voices are
stifed by the proscriptive. domineerinr pol
| icy of the enemies of the government; but
| they know from their own experience what
he had to endure as Southern Union man,
and they regard him as one of themselves. 1t
is quite easy to be a Union, man in Ohio or
| Massachusetts,; but we sometimes think
that if even Mr.. Sumner or Mr.. Stevens
should come South to engage in business,
they would be strongly tempted to be-
come sympathisers with the rebellion, in
order to render themselves comfortable and
to ensure success in their business.
| The Sentinel of this City, the organ of
Gov. Worth, very condescendingly announc-
| es in its last issue that Union men may stay
here after the troops are withdrawn, if they
will conduct themselves as that paper thinks
| they ought to do. 1t very kindly and pat
ronizingly assures the Union men that if they
meet its appreciation, they may remain here
without molestation !-and this too from the
| pen of gentleman who holds the American
flag in so much contempt that he proposed
to a friend, on the 22d of last February, that
they would 60 home by back street, so as
to avoid walking the main street on which
that flag was flying.
And the Williamson Erpositor paper
friendly to Gov. WORTH has the following in
its Raleigh correspondence:
"Our folks are perfect fools about getting
that some great good will be showered upon
them by it. They appear to be as uneasy
about staying out of the Union as child
would be in a dark room. Is it not infinite
| ly better to remain where we are, even if we
lose every thing but save our honor, than to
enter it by conceding that honor, and every
thing else | think so. They have well
nigh done their worst to us, and whatever
may be our status they can't injure us much
more. The trial of Major Gee is, as it has
been for weeks, the absorbing topic here
An attempt was made short while ago to
take him out of military custody and place
him in the hands of the civil authorities but
it failed, Gen. Furiso the dunderhead
meant to say Furioso, Ruger declined pro-
ducing the body of Gee and then refused to
I've arrested for his contempt in refusing to
obey the mandates of the court. The court,
as is common in these days of utter disre-
| gard for civil law. had to back down, though
not until after referring the matter to Gov.
Worth, who is as powerless to command res
pect for the court as is the judge himself"
This correspondent, who thus assails Gen.
Ruger, is lurking somewhere in Raleigh. If
things should continue to grow worse, as the
signs seem to indicate, Gen. Ruger-who has
acquitted himself as the commanding officer
of this department. with admirable tact.
discretion, and judgment-wiil wake up
some fine morning to find himself lam
pooned and insulted in every Worth paper in
the State
I" If these things be so in the green tree,
what may we not expect in the dry 2" elf
Union men are treated thus now, what would
be their fate with the Union fully restored,
and unsubdued, unrepentant insurgent lead
ers and their sympathizers holding all the
offices over their headsl
The Virginia papers, with the exception
of the Richmond Republic, are handling
Judge Underwood with gloves off. for his re-
cent charge to the grand jury at Norfolk,
under which true bill was found against
Mr. Davis for treason. Judge Underwood is
Judge of the Circuit Court of Virginia, ap-
pointed by Mr.. Lincoln. We give couple
of specimens of the manner in which he is
spoken of by the Virginia press The Nor
folk Virginian says:
AT o'clock the report of the jury was
submitted, embracing an Indictment against
MIR. Davis for high treason The court then
adjourned to rc-assemble in Richmond IN the
i Goth instant
So closes something that words cannot fit
ly characterize-a farce, sham, a shame,
mockery, a caricature on law, an insult to
civilization This judge, who would dis
grace any criminal box in Christendom, had
congeniai company in jury who could re-
tain their seats and listen in silent sympathy
to his outrageous libels upon their fellow cit
izens. Some of their names are known to us,
and we judge the Others by the company
they keep.
| What unnatural association is that of er-
mine and vermin''
The Petersburg Indes says:
UNDERWORLD" We have tried to do
justice to the absurd, blasphemous, coward
| ly, devilish, empirical fanatical, ghoulish,
horrible ignorant, jacObinical, knavish, lily
livered, maudin, nondescript, odious, poi
sonous, queruious, rascally, sycophantic,
traitorous, unrighteous, venal, witless, ex-
travagant, yankeeish zero whose charge"
We publish to-day: but we despair. The
truth is. we are not equal to the occasion"
No matter what Judge Underwood may
have said or done, he is a Judge of the Uni
ted States Courts, and as such is entitled to
respect. We refer to these things with sad
ness and sorrow. We fear that still greater
sufferings are in reserve for our people.