The tri-weekly standard., 1866-05-05

SATURDAY. MAY 5. 1866
The Sentinel objects to our statement tina
"things have been getting worse and wors
under the administration of Gov. Worth. y
We repeat the statement. 1t is true. W.
regret that it is true. We are anxious to SCI
the State restored to the Union, and we de
plore the existence of any obstruction to re
storatinn.
There are three marked periods in oul
history at which this journal warned the
people of this State against taking certain
steps. We told them,
1st. That secession on account of the cleo
ton of Mr.. Lincoln would result in the de-
in the ruin, in every respect, of the Southern
States.
2d. That if they did not arrest the war in
1868, the result would be the subjugation OF
our people, and the dictation by the con-
uueror of the terms on which the Union
should be restored.
3d. That the election of Gov. Worth and
of members of Congress who could not take
the oath, would weaken the President, would
still further excite the Congress and the
Northern people against US, would add to
the harshness and severity of the terms on
which the States would at last be restored
and would postpone their restoration fol
years.
The President himself was most anxious
that Gov Worth should be defeated. He
was confident he would be, for he had every
reason to believe that our people would sus-
tain his policy. Not long after Gov. Worth
was elected the President sent the following
dispatch to the Provisional Governor
TFrom the Standard of November 29th, 1861
IMPORTANT FROM THE PRESIDENT.
Gov. Holden has received the following
telegram from the President, which is laiG
before the public for information:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27th, 1865.
Hon. W. W. HOLDEN, Provisional Gorern0r::
Accept my thanks for the noble and eff
cient manner in which you have discharged
your duty as Provisional Governor You
will be sustained by the government.
The results of the recent elections in North
Carolina have greatly damaged the prospects
of the State, in the restoration of its Gov
ernmental relations Should the action and
the spirit of the Legislature be in the same
already DONE and might be fatal.
1t is hoped the action and spirit manifes-
ted by the Legislature will be so directed,
rather to repair than increase the difficulties
under which the State has already placed
itself ANDREW JOHNSON,
President Of tile United States
Here we nave the testimony of the Presi-
dent himself that the mere election of Gov.
Worth had greatly damaged the prospects of
the State in the restoration of its relations to
the government This damage has not been
repaired. On the contrary, it has been in
creased by the manner in which the State
government has been administered. The
State is further to-day from that state of feel
ing which is necessary to ensure its restora-
ton than it was in November last. E.
An esteemed friend writing US from the
Western part of the State says:
''I am greatly discouraged at our political
prospects. We say that we support Presi-
dent johnson and his policy. So far as my
observation extends this support only goes
as far rs it suits our peculiar views. When
ever we are called dupoh to sacrifice any thing
in order that President Johnson hands may
be strengthened against the radicals we ig-
more or slur over the matter entirely. We
have not come up to the measure of our du-
ty, and we are doubly culpable when we en-
deavor to cover up our sin by declaring that
we are loyal. We say we have met all the |
and that we are true, while we |
denounce every man who differs from Presi- !
dent johnson, but who sustained the nation
al government while we were trying to de- |
stroy it, as disloyal,' as radical" as |
g fendish,' &c. One would suppose, from
reading most of our Southern papers, that /
zee had never rebelled, but that our political |
proceeded from the very highest |
standpoint of loyalty, while the great mass
of the intelligent people of the North, who |
incurred so many sacrifices to suppress the !
are hostile to the government Of /
our fathers. Does the Sentinel expect to !
gain any thing by this course?'
The foregoing is from highly intelligent
gentleman who voted for Gov. Worth in No
vcmber last.
Yes, things are getting worse and worse,
and we fear there is no room to hope for i'm
proyement under present auspices. The
Northern people, speaking and acting
through the Congress, will never agree to ad-
nit the State while secessionists arc in high
favor with the administration at Raleigh,
md while the true Union men of the State
are under the ban.
BURNING OF CoLUMBIA-In the Senate
on the 1st instant, Mr.. johnson, of Maryland
read portion of letter from Gen. Wade
Hampton on the subject of the burning of
South Carolina General Hamp-
ton controverts the statement recently pub
lished by Gen. Sherman, that Columbia was
burned by his (Hampton's) orders. He asked
for the appointment of special committee
of Congress to investigate the subject He |
says his State is debarred from representa-