The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-27

The Raleigh Sentinel and Iades, IN reply.
to our article last week about using the State
Capitol for public Concerts, Lectures. &c.,
say that there is no other suitable building
in Raleigh, and that the officers OF the Capt.
toll have 6 felt Obliged, owing to the condl-
ton of the city,s,o admit lectures. concerts,
&c, for strictly benevolent purposes" and
that the parties who use the Halls bear the
expense of lighting, cleaning up, &c we
are aware that it has been no unusual thing
for the Capitol to be thus used; and the
present State officers are no more to blame
than their predecessors; but precedent docs
| not always make right. The Sentinel says
that public hall is in process of construc-
ton, and intimates that when it is compile
ted, there will be no necessity for using the
Capitol for concert purposes. we are graft
| fed, therefore, to believe that the bad habit
is to be ,liscontinuad.-Ch" Charlotte Democrat.
We take issue with all OF our above CO.
temporarics in this respect. The Commons
and Senate chambers ought never to be used
except for great State or National purposes
| Our contemporary of the Democrat is mista-
| ken in conceding that the Capitol has been
used heretofore for the insi gniicant purposes
for which it is now used by permission of Gov.
Worth. Mr. Everett delivered his great ora
used once, we believe, for the celebration of
the fourth of July; but Gov. Worth has es-
tablished a new rule, under which every
stragglcr is permitted to pitch his pipes,
thumb pianos, and hang his pictures in the
Commons Hall. A week or two since, a
young man of the name of Wheat, we be-
lieve, gave concert in the Commons Hall,
in the course of which he significantly said
he would play medley of the national airs
of England, France, the Cdntederate States,
&C., emitting the airs of the United States.
The attempted slight to the United States
was so marked and palpable that several
Unionists rose and withdrew, whereupon
| they were hissed by part of the audience.
| This circumstance should have led to the
such wandering performers, but it did not.
On Monday night last, by permission of
Gov. Worth, the Hall Was occupied by a
wandering Snowman with some dissolving
views. Some of these views are of battle
scenes. We learn that, upon the close Of the
exhibition of these things at Chapel Hill,
g the boys" gave three cheers for Jeff. Davis.
what sort of milk there is in this cocoa nut.
1t is very coolly claimed by those partizans
who are now in possession of the State GOV
| crnment and State property, that it is not
expedient to close the Capitol against these
exhibitions until a suitable Town Hall shall
have been constructed for them. We are
not surprised at this claim. 1t is in keeping
with the conduct of the clique which has so
long ridden and oppressed our people. Gov.
Vance acted during his term of office, as if
the State property belonged to him and his
particular friends and Gov. Worth seems
to be pursuing the same course. The Capt.
toll should be devoted solely to State and
National purposes. No one should be per-
mittcd to desecrate it with his footsteps who
would inculcate' sectional sentiments, or re-
fleet, in the most remote degree, on our glo-
rious national government.
Our contemporaries of the Goldsborough
Neecs are excited. In their last issue they
say:
We trust that every voter in this State
will go to the polls on that day, and let the
majority for Worth be decisive-say GO, 900,
and if this vote is to keep out OF the
Union 60 years longer, let us give it, and
prove by acts, that though defeated in the
field, we have not forgotten our rights as
freemen and willing, though we be, to get
back into the Union upon the plans sugges-
ted by the President, are equally willing
to undergo the pflvation of territorial gov
eminent, before Ne will be driven by radicals,
as q flock OF sheep to be murdered at their
will and pleasure"
. Murdered, murdered by the radicals!
Niger, Niger, niger, Same thing in 1860
We have no idea that our olef friend June"
endorses the above. Make it thirty years.
gentlemen. Sixty years out of the Union is
rather too long a time
By the way, do our contemporaries of the
Ne1os know that the" radical" Thaddeus
Stevens, did all he could to defeat the How
ard amendment, and that their great gum
Henry J. Raymond, voted for it? Facts
If the Ne~s wilfnot publish these two facts
in their editorial columns, for the informal
ton Of their readers, will they publish them
in their advertising columns2 The people
of Wayne, who are so anxious to be restored
to the Union of their fathers ought to know
these facts.
Mcdowell County.
We make the following extract from q
letter recently received from friend in Nc
DoweA County,
CT have been over q considerable NORTON,