The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-22


1t would be idle, however, in either tbo
President or Congress to expect the ten 70
Gently insurgent States to accept ann nroro
sition while they retain their present dislor
al organizations.
Choice Extracts from Southern Papers.
The Sentinel, Gov. Worth's organ, speak
ing of the fact that few Southern youno
men have enlisted in the army of the United
States, says:
1t is not improbable that we NAV vet owe
our liberty and the very existence of the
States of the South, to the army which those
young men have entered. What there is left
us of constitutional government. NAV owe
its future existence to that very army There
is much meaning and true patriotism in the
recent significant letter of Gen. Bearregard
that when he surrendered at the termination
of the late war, 81 buried the hatchet not to
be unburied again, except in defence of the
country and its constitutional government"
Those young men may have unwittingly
placed themselves in that category. Who
| knows %
The meaning of which is, the Sentinel
hopes the army of the United States will be
used against the Congress in certain con-
tingeney. Vain hopel
The Petersburg hader, in the following ex-
tract we make from that paper, charges
President johnson with having murdered
Wirz and Mrs. Suratt, and with a disposition
to murder Mr.. Davis, because he does not
think proper to release him:
among the many crimes chargeable to
the United States during the past eighteen
months, the cruel and continued punishment
of this august captive is, in some respects. the
highest. In its fearful injustice it does not
of course equal the murder of Wirz and Mrs
Surratt; but inasmuch as it affects victim
OF so much wider fame and and more repre-
sentative character, and inasmuch as even the
vain affectation of trial has not, in his in
stance, been presented, the world and pos
terity will be likely to number this as the
foremost injustice of the age. There is moth
ing in the character of the prisoner or in the
conduct of his cause to palliate it. 1t is war
ranted by no necessity of State and no de-
mand OF Justice. 1t appeals to no defensi-
BILE public sentiment and no prescript of ma
tional policy. 1t is explicable simply. pure
ly and exclusively on grounds of low, ma
licious revenge-that would be contemplate
in an individual, but in nation is inexpres-
sibly mean aud unworthy.
We INDUCED and expressed the hope that
MIR. johnson would, early in the recess of
Congress, have relieved himself of so much
of the odium of this great crime as was fair
ly chargeable to him, by releasing Mr.. Davis
on his parole, or on sufficient bail, if need be,
to secure his appearance. But he has not
seen fit so to do. His hand alone stood be-
tween the prisoner and the double tyranny of
Chase and Congress upper and neither
mllstones of Jacobinisnl-and he has not
seen fit to stay the grinding. Three weeks
more remain to him, and these only. When
Congress meets, it will put it out of the pow
er of the President to open the doors OF For
tress Monroe, and another winter will finish
the advanced work of Jefferson Davis muir
der.
1t may seem trif1ing thing to slay this
one feeble, blind, gray-haired and trembling
old man, but it is an atrocity which, if COM
mltted, Will live forever. A million South
ern mothers will bequeath to a generous pos
terity the memory and the resentment of the
crime. A million Northern mothers will
blush to know that its blood is on them and
on their Children
The Goldsborough Neoos discourses as fol-
lows:
We are not of that number who are dis
posed 10 keep up daily harangue about
the Howard amendment; we consider its
fate as sealed-it is already dead, and can
never be incorporated into the constitution
and without the cooperation of the South,
1T IS dead. The more the matter is discuss
ed, the greater importace will it assume in
the estimation of the wicked rabble, whose
hobby it was in the recent campaign The
mind of the South is made up-the day for
has passed. and the next thing
which the South will be called upon to do,
coffin, if in sn doing, it shall split the misera-
BILE box into thosand splinters. And that
this aoaU be done, there is not a man in the
United States that entertains the slightest
doubt. North Carolina will do her work du-
ring the present month, and she will do it
well; other Southern States will proceed in
like manner to show their determination to
avoid self degradation, as their respective
Legislatures assemble. What will be the
result of such action on the part of the South,
we do not know, and we care much less
Goaded by insult upon insult, the recipients
of wrong, where they had reason to expect
better treatment, there is a careless reckless
ness deeply implanted in her bosom, that
time, and relenting on the part of the
North, will only remove. Our people are
quite as loyal as they ever were-with this
loyalty, they have the same native pride for
which they have been noted, from the foun-
dalton of the government. They can sub
init to having their slaves stolen from them
by the action of the North, but there are oth
er Things they will not be made parties TO-
The pronged tongue of infamy may be thrus-
ted at us vagabonds may squirt their hlth
through bawdyhouse politicians
newspapers may belch forth threats OF the
halter and the Ieaden missel-but the warm
hearts of Southern men. and the stout resolu-
tons of Southern women, will accept any
thing, rather than be known as parties to
wrong, a species of humiliation, second TO
nothing ever offered brave and chlvalrous
people"
Only let the Congress apply the screws to
this rebel newspaper, and it will subside at
once. On Bonded knees it will declare, as IL
did in 1865, that it is as Union thing IS
ever was. We think it will be so thrusteo-
Let it be "pronged."