The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-11-28
The New York Herald ont for the Re.
organization Of the Southern States.

Howard amendment, and urged the Southern
States to adopt it; now it comes forward to
admit that every programme of restoration
has failed, and to urge the prompt reorgani-
cation of the Southern States. The article of
the Herald of the 21st, from which we give
extracts below, was written after the receipt
in New York of a Geographic summary of
Gov. Worth's message, and we have no doubt
the rebellious and defiant tone of that docu-
ment, with its proposition to disperse the
free people of color throughout the country
had influence in shaping the course of the
Herald for the immediate reorganization of
these States.
The Herald of the Goth says:
desperate diseases call for desperate rem
edics, and the case of the unrestored South
is desperate. The late Northern elections
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, with
an emphasis unparalleled in our political his
tory, have spoken the voice of the North in
favor of the conditions of the pending con-
stitutional amendment These are the best
terms to the South which the States holding
and controlling the government have to offer.
On the other hand in response to these Nor
them elections, the unreconstructed South
thern States, through their governors and
Legislatures, reject the conditions of the
amendment as SO deeply humiliating and de-
grading to Southern honor and so outrage
ouslyin violation of Southern rights that they
can he treated only with derision, defiance
and contempt.
This condition of things is styled by a
coperhead journal "a dead lock !" and it
may turn out to be so if Congress shall de-
termine to recognize the excluded States, as
they stand, as rightfully restored to the con-
troll of their local affairs. But Congress is
not committed to this theory, and the recon
structive work done by the President goes
for nothing till approved by Congress. The
two houses have not yet recognized the end
of the rebellion, and in the prevailing spirit,
opinions, acts and declarations of the State
authorities and leading politicians, from Vir-
ginia to Texas, there is abundant eridence that
ocer all that region the rebellion, though dis
armed, still EXISTS, that the oath Of Hasni-
da3 Of" eternal hatred to the Romans" is the
oath Of the ruling classes of the South against
the I" detested yankees" The same men who
preached the constitution in their conspira-
ey to destroy the government accept the par
dons of President johnson only to return to
the old elaptrap of their constitutional rights,
and are impudently urging the President to
try coup detat for their deliverarcs from
what they call an unconstitutional Con-
gress.
Have We not had enough of this Is not
the fact established that confidence and in
dulgences are thrown away upon the intract-
able rebel}ious clements of the excluded
States Is it not apparent that if left to
their own discretion in the matter of this
amendment they will only use it to incite
their people to riots, instructions and anar-
ehy9 What, then,i is the remedy demanded? In
view of the great ends of law and order, the
restoration of the Union, solid and strong,
security and confidence, justice and generos-
ity, we think the time is at hand when Con-
gress should interpOse its authority, begin
ming dc moro in plan of reconstruction,
sohieh sciU be at once comprehensive, " short,
sharp and decisire." We want no detenda est
Carthago-no destruction of Carthage-but
we want no more tinkering or temporizing
with this Southern difficulty. Under the
constitutional war powers OF Congress, by
which the armed forces of the rebellion were
put down and dispersed, its disarmed forces
may he compelled to accept and ratify the
terms of fair, just and generous ultimatum Of
restoration"
The Herald of the 21st says:
"The plan of Congress, endorsed by all the
Northern States, is that embodied in the
pending constitutional amendment It ap-
pears to be, however, in the face of these re-
cent elections, so bitterly repugnant to the
South as to he hopeless of any voluntary rat
ification in that quarter during the existing
generation of leading Southern politicians.
The especially obnoxious Failure of the a.
mendment to those politicians is the section
which excludes from all federal offices here
after, till absolved by a two-thirds vote Of
Congress, a certain class of he Southern lea
ders identified with the late rebellion. Lead
ers and followers plead that the dishonor of
| their own condemnation involved in this con-
dition they must at all hazards reject with
scorn and disgust. This lisa serious Difficult
| ty How is it to be removd2
The duty of solving the problem will de-
volve upon Congress. The alternative pre-
sented is the exclusion of ne unrecognized
States to the end of the pesent generation,
| or some notifications of tie amendment, in
| order to bring them in without further loss
of time. There must be remedy
for this evil and for the god of the whole
country it must be applied
President johnson has aid that if there
are but five thousand goodand loyal men in
one of these disabled State they are enough
for its reconstruction. Congress-, then, in a
law providing for certain cganic State cleo
tions, and defining, as the resident has done
who shall be voters, with he power and au-
thority given to General Cant to enforce the
law in these elections, mayvery readily over
come this aforesaid Obstruction, of cast and
color. Some such Legislation, beginning at
the bottom, is evidently demanded for
Southern reconstruction. The interests Of
the South, the North, the Treasury, and of
the whole Union, demah this legislation
Beginning the work Of reconstruction, then,
de novo, Congress, inan enabling act, has
only to weed out the ifwaetica5le secesh and
6re-eating elements of til States concerned and
to put General Grant d guard, in order to
make the work Of Souh4s restoration as SIM
pile as the rule of subtrocbn The first essen
tial is to accept the selt-yident facts that the
Presidents work of recostruction is an en-
barassment, that Congres must begin at the
beginning, from Virgini#o Texas, inasmuch
as the rebellion, from tt Potomac to the
Rio Grande, though disahed, still remains
to be subdued."
Wake Count Court.
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