The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-12

"TAe dog star RACES tits past doubt
Does Bedlam know athe SentiaepS' let out ?"
The Sentinel loses its temper over the call
for a loyal Union Convention in Raleigh, 1t
speaks of the Unionists of the State-the
friends of the government-as miserable,
wind-broken, spawned, choleric Radicals f"
1t charges them with being the advocates of
negro suffrage, and denounees them as enc
mics to the Constitution and the Union. 1t
calls them "red strings" and other hard
names. And all this, because citizens cf the
State who love the Union, and desire to see
it speedily restored, have thought proper to
fix time for holding a meeting to consult
together on the state of the country.
Verify, judging the Sentinel by the domi-
neering temper it exhibits at the bare men,
ton of Union Convention, it is fair to pre-
sumo that if it had the power it would pre-
vent any such assemblage by force, and
would lock up the delegates in some new
Castle Thunder or Salisbury dungeon.
Well now, gentlemen, the Convention will
be held. 1t will lay down a national plat
form, and it will nominate some true man
for Governor. The Enthusiastically loyal men
of the State, Of sohateuer political anteeedents,
will elect that man, if they can. They sciU
hare the sympathy and aid Of the gorernment
at Washington. President johnson is not
pleased with the condition of things in this
State He wants men in office who will carry
out, and not mar his plan. The Congress is
not pleased with the condition of things in
this State. That body will not even enter
tain the claim of this State for admission, as
long as she presents herself, as she does now,
and as she has done for eight months past,
secession end foremost. The old ship must
be righted, the Union end must be turned
towards Washington, and she must sail up
the Potomac with loyal Captain at the
helm, with loyal crew on board, and with
the old flag flying in all its glory at the mast
head. Mutineers must go below, and the
matches must be put down, if necessary
They have once wrecked the ship by their
wrong and reckless reckonings, and they
must not even appear on deck until she is
moored safely in the harbor. Of course they
will fret We look for that. Because they
once wrecked the ship, they think they are
the very crew to save her. What nonsense
The real owners of the vessel will not trust
them any more. They complain, and fret,
and call US hard names, because justice is
about to overtake them
"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law"
The "red strings !"-aye, the red
strings" How they glare upon the startled
eyeballs of our neighbor Well, We should
not be surprised if the State were full of
'red strings" They are loyal men. They
were loyal during the rebellion. They were
prosecuted even unto caves, and mountains,
and hollow trees, and desolate places but
they kept the faith, and no despot nop dare
lay hand on them. If Seaton and brother
Pell think they can can bear it, we will show
them g red string" on the Goth. There was
one here-poor man Elder w. N. Bragg,
but the Senior Editor of the Sentinel Joined
with Others in prosecuting him unto death.
He has gone "where the wicked cease to
trouble, and the weary are at rest"
One of the best evidences of the impor
tance OF the Convention, is the fury into
which the proposition to call it has thrown
the Sentinel. Come up, friends, and let US
have rousing meeting.
The National Lntelligencer assumes that the
Southern people fully responded to' and
were represented in the Doolittle Philadel-