The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-08-15


We are told that Mr.. Holden has declared
to persons in this City, that, within five
months. the present civil government In this
State will be displaced l,y strong military
rule, and provisional government. Sentinel
1--WE are told "a great many things utter
ed nv the Editors of the Sentinel in private
conversation, but we have not thought it de-
cent to lug these things before the people.
But we have no concealments. We state
that, in our opinion, unless the people of
this State carry out in good faith the Presi-
dents plan of restoration; or, failing in that.
if the Howard amendment should not be
ratified by twenty-seven States, military will
take the place of civil rule, and all the States
lately in rebellion will be reorganized. We
do not desire this. We want the Presidents
plan carried out in good faith. But if we
"foresee the evil" and warn our countrymen
against it, should we not rather he thanked
than abused for itG
The Sentinel endeavors to produce the i'm
preston that the Howard amendment pro-
yides for negro suffrage. There is not as
much negro suffrage in this proposed amend
ment as there is in President Johnson's letter
to Gov. Sharkey in August, 1865. If the
Sentinel desires to act honestly with its read
ers, let it publish the Howard amendment.
1t will be found on the second page of the
Standard
Nor is it true, as alleged by the Sentinel,
that we have said that We will be Provisional
Governor of this State again in five months.
We have no expectation or idea of this sort.
The Sentinel is deliberately tanning the
flames of civil war; Ifsuch war should come,
the blood of murder will be on the skirts Of
the Editors of that journal.
We will ellthat paper, and all other NAL
contents one thing, and that is, the Union
soal be restored, though "the heavens should
thunder and the earth rock" and those who
may stand in the way of this restoration will
be consumed. Millions have sworn to do
this thing and they will do it at any and
every sacrifice.
We invite the attention of the Sentinel and
those who agree with it to the following
from the Richmond Dispatch. Let them read
and ponder The threat is not ours. We
simply sound the warning. We deprecate
extreme measures as much as any one, and
surely we are not to be held responsible as
the author of evils when we merely deprecate
them, and urge our countrymen to pusue
such course as will avert them
PLAN OF THE RApIcALs.-The Chicago
Tribune, a very bold and able journal, we'll
| posted as to the objects and purposes of the
| Radicals, says:
1t seems probable that the South will not
| accept the mild terms offered to them in the
constitutional. amendment If they do not, ii
seiN be the clear duty of the present Congress to
laytlie are at the root Of AndreU JotnsOa's Pro
pisionaJ Governments, and reorganize them on
the basis of impartial suffrage. There will be
no war of races then. Instead of it, there
will he respect for law, and submission to it.
General Grant knows how to establish and
execute anything which the law-making
I
of races in his track"
Upon this the New York Times makes the
following comment "There is no rcticence
or ambiguity in this. Ifthe Southern States
fail to ratify the constitutional amendment
which has been submitted to them. their
right to self-government is to be trmpled IN
der foot, their constitutional right to regulate
the suffrage annnulled, and their entire ma
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according to, the Radical model. This is
what the Chicrgo Tribune threatens. And
we know no journal that is better informed
as to the Radical plans, or more likely to be
entrusted with their PRONUNCIATION.
The revolutionary measure thus indicated
as probable contingency might be discred-
tied if it were at variance with the tone dis
PLAYED by Radical leaders since the close Of
the session. INTERCHANGEABLE reverse is the
fact"