The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-21

pending In the North Carolina Legislature,
contains a proyiso. that it shall not go into
effect until the State shall have been relieved
from the operations Of the 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 telegram to
Governor Worth, reminding him that the
proyiso, 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 proyiso.-Alany Eveniag Journal
The Freedmen's Code, as adopted
saader the 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 Mr..
jenkins, of Warren, which would of
itself keep the State out OF the Union
1t is a provision that, in binding out
apprentices, the former owner Of the
slave shall have the preference. This
may 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 advantage; and be-
sides, it deprives the freed colored child
of the right of locomotion, and places
it in 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 "ne-
gro testimony" is exceedingly unpop-
ularin this State. Two of its 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 nom
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 .g.s--.c:s'
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 aohispered
about the lobbies 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
respectful to the President to use his
telegram in that way ?-or to draw it
from him to be used in that way?
Mr.. Garrett Davis, Of Kentucky,
complained in the Senate few days
since, that the evidence before the re-
construction committee was not justly
and impartially taken, and stated that
cone gentleman of North Carolina, one