The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-30
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RALEIGH NJ. g.
THURSDAY. - AUGusr 80. 1866.
Spirit of the southern Press.

press. Nearly all the southern newspapers
labor to justify the late rebellion. They re-
gard what they call the 1" lost cause" as more
sacred than the Union cause, and they brand
all Southern men especially, who do not
agree with them in their views, as skulkers,
towards, traitors, and mean white trash'
Some of them are more outspoken and bitter
than Others but they all belong to the same
class, and are distinguished from each other
only by deeper and lighter shades. These
papers seem to be well sustained by patron
age. Many of them are large and well prin-
ted. We are bound, therefore, to believe
| that they represent the people among whom
they circulate We wish we could believe
otherwise, but the evidence will not permit
US to do so.
We begin with the papers of our own town.
The Sentinel is the organ of Gov. Worth.
1t is Union paper, provided it can have the
Union on its own terms. 1t regards the great
Union leaders in Congress, who devoted
themselves for years to the work of suppress
ing the rebellion, as but little inferior in
| wickedness to demons; and it omits no op-
portunity to misrepresent and malign them.
since, that unconditional Union men might
remain here in peace, provided they would
behave themselves, but it devotes much of
its space to disappearing and abusing
them, and seeks to make the impression that
they forfeited their honor during the REBEL
ion by their efforts to arrest the war and Sc
cure peace. 1t apologies for every act of
| n no
our people were impressed, distressed, i'm
poverished, and slaughtered; and it takes
special pains to produce the impression that
there is no foundation for the fact that in
many of our Western Counties Union men
have been prosecuted under the forms of
State law, while secessionists have been al
lowed to go unpublished.
This newspaper, the Sentinel wants the
State restored to the Union just now, and
just as it is, for no other reason than that
its partizans are in control of the State goy-
eminent. If the State could only get back
at this time and in this garb, the Sentinel
and its partizans would feel that their for
| tunes had been made The federal govern
ment could not then interpose to protect
loyal men, and they would have every thing
their own way. We have no hesitation in
expressing the opinion, based on thorough
knowledge of these partizans, that if they
had full sway they would call Convention,
vest all power in their own hands, and pre-
scribe test oath by which every citizen of
the State who could not swear that he SYM
pathized with and aided the Confederate
cause, would be deprived of the right to vote
and to hold Office.
The Sentinel of the 23d August says, if its
peculiar views in relation to restoration fail
"The Union aciW haze failed !; republican
liberty, regulated by law, will have failed
and either despotism, like that of the old
dynastfes of Europe diSintegratioa, like
that which distracts the Southern half of our
continent, will ensue."
The Sentinel no doubt prefers " disintegra-
ton" The so-called Confederacy would
have been "disintegration."
The Progress, of this City, which was once
Union paper, very emphatically threatens
the Unionists of this State with suord, fire,
murder, and rapine," if they do not abandon
their principles. That paper would not only
murder the male Unionists of this State, but
it would devote their unofending families to
"murder and rapine." That paper says:
1--WE have never accused the loyalists in
our State of disposition to betray her in
terests. We may, therefore, invoke them to
consider well their present duty. If they
persist in blindly yielding to the spirit of en-
croachment with which they have been met
since the termination of the war; if they con-
tinue to perpetuate old differences which
III Il Low hox, 11oll
dial friendship, it is not difficult foresee the
consequences likely to result from such pol
icy. The sacord, fire, murder and rap5ne
may got consume and destroy them. I.et those
who SO elect deceive themselves, bat when
once the storm is abroad and the life,
liberty and sauctity of their own homes are
threatened and destroyed, they will curse the
day and hour when they became the aiders
and abetters of Greeley, Stevens, Summer and
their partizans. Their only possible safety
is to cooperate with the conservatives of the
country in their efforts to bring the general
government back to the theories and prac
tees of the earlier presidents"
The Progress has proclaimed war against
the Unionists. 1t evidently regards them as
traitors and outlaws. But there is large
majority of just such people in Wake County.
What if these Unionists, thus devoted in adj
vance to murder and rapine,n should begin
the war themselves by sunlnarily despatch
ing those who are thus instigating others to
destroy them ?"
We have heretofore told the President
that nothing will satisfy reconstructed'
Southern traitors but an acknowledgment on
his part of the righteousness of the rebellion,
and the release of Mr.. Davis. The Norfolk
Virginian, commenting on the recent proela-
nation of the President, which is supposed
to have abolished martial law, says:
"Now if this be true, if civil law be in
deed supreme, why is not writ of haheas
corpus obtained in the case of Mr.. jefferson
Davis, a citizen of the State of Mississippi,
now illegally and forcibly held in custody by
the military authorities at Fortress Monroe
The only charge brought against the prison
er, so far as we are informed, is contained in
all indictment found by Grand Jury, which
met in Norfolk in the month of May last,
and that for treason, a purely civil offence,