The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-20

pending In the NOfth-CarOilna Legislature
contains a proviso that it shall not go into
effect until the State shall have been relieved
from the operations ofthe Freedmen's Bureau
This is violation of the conditions laid
down by the President, in his instructions to
Governor Worth, for the reorganization OF
that State; and on learning that this pro-
viso was to be pushed the President indica-
ted his views against it, in a telegram to
Governor Worth, reminding him that the
proviso, preventing the negroes from obtain
ing civil rights until the Freedmen's Bureau
shall have been removed from the State, is
not in accordance with the stipulations he
had made in reorganizing the State, and
urging that the bill ought to pass without
the proviso.-Al5any Eoenimg Journal"
The Freedmen's Code, as adopted
u'ader tie auspices Of Governor. Worth,
will rather retard than advance the re-
turn of the State to the Union. If ne
gro testimony must be granted at all,
let it be done properly and In good
faith There is another feature In this
code. introduced, we believe, by MIR.
Jenkins. of Warren, which would of
itself keep the State out OF the Union.
1t is a provision that, in binding out
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slave shall have the preference. This
NAV be the better course for the former
slave, or it may not; but it will look to
the Northern mind like disposition to
cling to slavery, by giving the former
master an undue advantages; and be-
sides, it deprives the freed colored child
of the right of locomotion, and places
it in a condition in the eye of the law
below that Of the white child. 1t
was just such provision as this that
was recently vetoed by the Governor
of Alabama.
The Sentinel, Gov. Worth's organ,
has been logging us for the last six
weeks about what is called negro tes-
timony, but it has no rebuke for Mr.
Jenkins, because he is one of Governor
Worth's secession friends. The secret
of this course of the Sentinel is as fol-
lows: The Sentinel knows that enc
gro testimony" is exceedingly unpop-
ularin this State. Two Of it's favoritcs,
Gov. Worth and Mr.. Phillips, "put
their foot in it most emphatically, by
urging it on the Legislature; and the
Sentinel, fearing that it might injure
Gov. Worth's chances of reelection,
wanted us to pull off our coat, roll up
our sleeves, and assail every body who
was not in favor of it. That paper,
Judging us by itself and its friends,
feared that we were apparently non
committal in order that we might dem
agogue it on this question next summer.
Be easy, dear neighbor, we shall not
do any such thing. We are above it.
But Mr.. jenkins may do as he pleases,
and he is still a jewel Of jenkins,
simply because he is one Gov. Worth's
secession friends.
But ''the instructions to Gov. Worth
by the President what of them?
We heard, towards the close of the
session, that a private, unofficial tele- |
gram had been received from the Presi-
dent ON the subject. 1t was whispered
about the Hobbies that telegram had |
been received, and the fact was snaked
around by the doorkeepers that it might |
be seen in the Executive Office, but there
was no official PRONUNCIATION of it. Is
this the way in which great public
question should be handled? Was it |
to the President to use his
telegram in that way Or to draw it
from him to be used in that way?
The following we see published as one
section of tax law proposed in the Legis-
ature OF Alabama:
H. To sell, or expose for sale, for one year,
1T any one place, any pictorial or illustrated
Or magazine, published outside the limits of
the State and not in foreign country, and
to vend the same on the streets. or on boats
,r railroad cars fifty dollars.
The Constitution says article l. section 10,
clause 2, No State shall, without the
consent of Congress, lay any imports or du-
ties on imports, except what may be abso-
futely necessary for executing its inspection
laws; and the net produce Of all duties and |
imposts, laid by any State on imports or ex-
ports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of |
the United States; and all such laws shall |
be subject to the revision and control of |
Congress-
Without the consent of Congress such a !
statute wonld be, in our opinion, uncorlsti-
Hatelligencer.
The above section has actually passed |
the Legislature of Alabama 1t express
ses preference for "foreien'' over