The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-29
Jefferson Davis Allowed the Freedom of the Fort

FORTRESS MONROE, May 25. Instructions
from Washington were received this morning
by Major General Miles to give jeff. Davis,
on his parole, the freedom of the fort, retiring
to his room in Carroll Hall, at night Messrs.
Shea and O'Conor his counsel, have been al
lowed access to the fort and private inter
views with him at any time. Mrs. Davis left
here on the esd instant, and was in Washing
ton yesterday the date of the instructions
sent General Miles.
We are gratifed to learn that our energetic
Townsman, the Hon. R. r. Bridgers, has in
contemplation with others to establish a
Bank in our Town. There is nothing more
needed in our community, than Banking
facilities at this time, and no community in
the State has better prospects for making an
investment tic kind pay. The Freedmen
of our county are discharging their obliga-
tons with the best possible feeling The
employers are in fine spirits, they have plant
ed literally, and crops, Notwithstanding the
cool weather are very promising, all we need
or what sce do necd is some circulating medium
in our midst to keep us going till our crops
are arvested.-IdrtO1O' SOutherner.
General Grant en- the Situation.
Nelson Dingley, Jr., editor of the Lewton
CMaine) Journal, and Speaker of the House
of Representatives of that State during the
winter of 1865, visited Washington a few
weeks ago, and had the honor of an inter-
view with Lieutenant General Grant He
spent an hour with the general, the subject
of conversation being the condition of tho
country. General Grant intimated that i:
would perhaps have been better for the
country had the war continued for Il yeaI
longer, adding further observations, of which
Mr.. Dingley made notes, as follows:
Referring to the tempter of the Southern
people, he remarked that they are much less
disposed now to bring themselves to the
proper frame of mind than they were one
year since, "A year ago. said he they were
willing to do anything now they regard
themselves masters of the situation. Some
of the rebel generals he added, ARE behav-
ing nobly and doing all they can to induce
the people to throw aside their old predju-
dices and conform their course to the chang
ed condition of things. Johnston aud Dich
Taylor, particularly. are exercising gooG
influence but he added, Lee is behaving
badly. He j. conducting himself very diff
ferently from what had reason, from what
he said at the time of the surrender, to sup
pose he would. No man at the South is
capable of exercising a tenth part of the in
fluence for good that he is, but instead o.
using it he Is setting an example of forced
acquiescence so grudging and pernicious in
its effects as to be hardly realized.
'The men who We're in the rebel armies
said Grant, 'acquiesced in the result much
better than those who stayed at home. The
women are particularly bitter against tho
Union and Union men, OF course he adj.
ded, there is some bitterness of feeling
among all classes but am satisfied it would
soon die out if their leading men had not
somehow got the idea that treason after al
was not very bad, and that the Southern
cause as they phrase it, will yet triumph
not in war, but in politics. In my judg-
ment, said Grant, the tone of certain men
and certain papers at the North is such as to
do incalculable mischief in making the late
rebels believe that they are just much en-
titled to rule as ever. and that if they will
only stand by what they are pleased TO call
their rights, they will have help from the
North This significantly added Grant,
is only playing over again the incipient stages
of the rebellion. He was confident that the
large majority of the Southern people would
smother their resentments and become good
citizens if these Observation-Disclosures at the North
(the copperhcads) would only let them alone
For himself. if he had the power, the first
thing he would do would he to seize the
New York Ne'rs and kindred sheets which are
giving the South so dangerous an idea of
their own position and rights.
"'Troops' said General Grant, must be
kept in ali the principal points in the South
for some time to come. This will he ncces-
sary to repress the turbulence Of class of
the South very dangerous to ali well-dispOs-
ed persons, and also to protect the rights of
the freedmen, who are looked upon with deep
hatred by very large proportion of the pco-
pie