The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-22

! in their boots! Every true man North
would shout for joy if he would do 1t, 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 assa1l MN, 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, domineerin. pol
icy of the enemies of the government; but
they know from their own experience what
he had to endure as Il Southern Union man,
and they regard him as one of themselves. 1t
is quite easy to be Union man in Ohio or
Massachusetts,; but we sometimes think
that if even Mr. Sumner 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-
Is 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here after the troops are withdrawn, if they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
will demean themselves in such way as to
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 friend, on the 22d of last February, that
they would go home by back street, so as
to avoid walking the main street on which
that flag was flying.
And the Williamson Erpositor, a paper
its Raleigh correspondence
"Our folks are perfect fools about getting
back into the Union. They seem to think
that some great good will be showered upon
them by it. They appear to be as uneasy
about staying out of the Union a child
would be in IA dark room. Is it not infinite
" 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 1 think so. They have we'll
nigh done their worst to us, and whatever
may he 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 Il 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
he arrested for his contempt in refusing to
obey the mandates of the court. The court,
as is common in these days of utter dsre-
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 rs is the judge himself"
This correspondent, who thus assails Gen.
Kruger, 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 wake up
some fine morning to find himself lam
pooned and insulted in every Worth paper in
the State
L" If these things be so in the green tree,
what may we not expect in the dry9' If
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
,ffices over their heads2