The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03
RALEIGH, n G., WEDNESDAY,, JAN
JANUARY 8, 1866.

The Richmond Sentinel appears to be dis
tressed because disloyal Editor has been
arrested in this State for using seditious lam
guage. It says the Standard demands the
pulling down of the Charlotte Times and
Wilmington Dispatch If we are not mis-
taken, this is the same paper the Sentinel
edited by the same gentleman r. NJ Smith,
that in 1868 instigated Confederate troopsto
mob the STANDARD, Office. No such tender
mercy as that of an arrest was then bestowed
by the Davis despotism on the Editor Of the
STANDARD, but his Office was sacked by orders
from Richmond, approved by Mr. Smith,
who was the organ of Mr.. Davis and the
Editor of the Standard was forced to escape
to save bis life. We spoke Of the mercy of
an arrest The truth is, there sods mercy no.
sohere daring the late rebellion for Southern
Union man. Many who were arrested were
sent off in different directions by officers, in
charge of certain soldiers-the report of
muskets was heard, and the unfortunate vic
tim was never heard of afterwards.
The Richmond Sentinel, dripping as it is
with the blood of murdered Union men, has
the assurance to warn the Federal authorities
against political informers and blood-hun-
ters." That paper played the part of an
organ for Mr. Davis formore than a year, du-
ring which time every town and neighbor-
hood was visited by detectives, and the hun
tiers of blood were known by burning houses,
the wailings of widows and orphans, and
the clanking of handouts on conscripts torn
from their families and forced into the ranks.
Mr.. Davis and Gov. Vance did this, and the
Richmond Sentinel said well done! Pious
parsons and crazy fanatics crowded to the
temples of the All Merciful God to implore
Him to continue the slaughter until the
Southern brother should vanquish the North
ern brother, and thus destroy the govern
ment of WAsHNGToN,-and the Richmond
Sentinel said Amen It well becomes that
paper now to denounce blood-hunrers and
political informers" One Harry .Heth, of
Virginia, gave an order under which thir-
teen citizens of this State, including two
boys under fifteen, belonging to the Laurel"
country on the Tennessee line, were shot
without trial and thrown into ditch, and
women were roped around the neck and
whipped and the Richmond Sentinel said
Amen
This same paper takes Gov Holden to
task because he has not recommended the
pardon of Gov Vance. The reply to this rs,
first, that Gov. Holden, as we learn, has no
information that Gov. Vance has asked for o
pardon; and secondly, though the rebellion
has been suppressed for more than six
months, there is no evidence of public char
acter that Gov. Vance has submitted uncop-
ditionally to the national authority. Gov.
Vance owes his present liberty to Gov. Hol-
den. Yet the latter gets no thanks for it
from the partizans of Gov. Vance. We have
no disposition to think or to say any thing
unkind against Gov. Vance or his particular
friends, but these constant illusions to him
in certain newspapers, coupled with attacks
on Gov. Holden, can do him no good. Be
sides, we cannot forget the Scriptural in
junction
"Neither cast We your pearls before swine,
lest they trample them under their feet, and
turn again and rend YOU"
The Jamaica Massacre.
The tales of horror published in the North
ern papers of the insurrection and subse-
quent massacre of the blacks in Jamaica,
have been extensively copied throughout the
South. It is said that fifty blacks have
been killed for every white mans life taken
by them. One statement says the island is
offensive from the dead bodies of the ne
groes.
How horrible are such occurrences. 1t
seems that there was no organized plot and
no organized resistance, and yet four thous-
and blacks have been slain. The English
government expresses the intention to inquire
into the matter. But the deed has now been
done. We doubt whether Jamaica will ever
recover from the effects of such a horrible
slaughter. Only kindness and forbearance
between the whites and blacks, when they
liyein the same country, can preserve tran
guilty and peace. This perhaps is the moral
: of the lesson sought to be taught us, by the
terrible massacre in Jamaica. We cannot
shut our eyes to similar danger, though it
may be remote, and it becomes us all to be
watchful, kind and forbearing. During the
war the blacks were docile and uncomplain-
ing. Their conduct then has excited re-
spect and gratitude towards them. And
should they remain SO now, the future will be
one of good to their race, instead of evil and
suffering.
SECRETARY STANToN.-The New York
correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
writes Z" Secretary Stanton has written to
intimate personal friends here that he will re-
sign his place in the cabinet Immediately af.
ter the 1st of January. His health, be says,
needs repose, and his private business affairs
require attention. Possibly he may visit Eu-
rope in the Spring Mr.. Stanton has left
Washington for his home in Pennsylvania to