The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-22
DisloyaI Newspapers.

TO Tile fTeSlQ6nC TO -1nCuICdUe SOullu Cuioi
sentiments. We are at length satisfied that
the E!ranainer is hopelessly disloyal. 1t
chafcs and frets within the bounds prescribed
for it, and acts common sewer for the
hates and resentments of reconstructed"
rebels towards the Northern people. We
give the following as a specimen from that
journal of the 10Th instant:
LAS far as personal danger is concerned, we
believe it would be perfectly safe for the radicals
to admit Southern representatives to the floor of
Congress. Preston Brooks is dead, L. M. Keitt
is dead, and there none of the old fre-eating
set LETT to frighten Sumner with canes, Stevens
with buck-shot Indeed the oaths and other de-
fensive armour by which Congress is protected
from the entrance of rebellious or fighting charac-
tiers into that body, would seem to make it
safe place for the most tinid radical. No man at
the South who ever fought, had any idea of
fighting, can get in, so it would appear that ev
cry necessary precamtion had been taken that on
ly people of the most harmless and inofensive
dis positIon should be admitted.
Did the Confederates when in Pennsylvania
scare Stevens so that he has never recovered from
his terrour? Has not tour through the continent
of Europe and elsewhere restored the shattered
| nerves oil Sumner? Why is that these WORTHLESS
and their friends shrink from meeting Southern
gentlemen in council, when we have demonstrate
ed that their precious carcases are in no manner
| of danger? Can it be conscience which terrifies
them, and that remOrse would bring up horrible
memories at the sight and the presence of South
ern members? No; their warmest and most adj
friends never nave DclleVCQ 1Or an instant
that either conscience remorse could be enter
tanned by Them They are not such meek and
common men as to be affected by the emotions
which powerful in their operations npon
baser and more ordinary specimens of huma-
nifty.
The Hon. Reverdy Johnson in a recent speech
in the Senate, when he inquired of the radicals
"if they afraid to meet the South itellectuaH'
| in our opinion came very the mark. Well
may they fear Southern brain and craftsmanship,
| for they have never made any display when under
the shadow of its awe. They have appeared as
dwarfs and pigmies whenever in the presence of
our intellectual giants, and the comparison has
been by no means pleasant or flattering to them
But this has been their misfortune, not our fault
and they should in this make the just and
| necessary discrimination. They should likewise
reflect that the disabilities imposed upon eligibi
lily to Congress, in excluding all of our bravest
| men, excludes also all of our wsest and ablest;
! for wisdom and ability went hand in hand with
valour during our war; both participated in the
combat, and both shut out from Congress.
Thus it appears that the radicals, in the abun-
dance of their caution, have provided for the
comfort of their intellect well for the safety
| of their bodies, in manner that should justify
them in feeling easy at every point. But they evil
IDENTIFY do not feel easy, and plainly believe that
some awful calamity will befal them whenever
the Southern members take seats. We should
| not be surprised if such should be the case. We
should not be surprised if most of these radicals
| never got back to Congress after their const-
| tuentS had seen the contrast between them and
Southern members-between partisans and patr
OTIS. They talk about the loyalty of the South
why there is more loyalty in a couple of Southern
q
ern gentlemen, than las been shown found
mong the radicals for the last six months! 10y
atty is what they least want in Congress now
that loyalty which will stand by the President and
constitution. They know, they feel they dread
that when Southern members take their seats,
They recognize that the great . groundswell y
will then begin in earncst-that they will then
have to call upon the hills ard mountains to hide
il ruined country. Loyalty, forsooth there is
more loyalty in our little finger than can be found
in the blood, brains or heart of any radical in
Congress, and time, which tests men and the
truth of their principles will prove it. -
The same arrogance of tone, the same SUI
perciliousness, the same talk about ''South-
crn gentlemen and Northern cowards
which characterized the secession press be-
fore and during the rebellion. Such papers
as the Examiner, instead of promoting con-
cord and good feeling between the North
and the South, are sowing broadcast the
seeds of disatfection and discord. These
seeds will spring up, and may produce
other harvest of war and death.
But our neighbors of the Sentinel, another
byC,t sheet, is nearly as bitter and insulting
towards the North as the Examiner. We do
not expect these journals to admire or to
praise the Northern people, but they might
at least be silent. They seem determined to
rouse the Northern people to higher pitch
of feeling than ever heretofore against the
South, and thus defeat all hope of restora-
ton. Is such course wise, or humane, or
patriotic: The Sentinel says:
"The New York independent bewails the de-
cline Of the gospel in the State of Connecticut
That an interest in religion in all the New Eng
land States should become slack is not at all sur
prisin@, when we consider the lengths to which
the puipitS there have been proStituted to base
and miserable partisan service.
In this connection, we have been struck with
the remark of some contemporary, to the effect
that all the pestlent eXcitements that have dis
turbed the country for the last thirty years have
originated in the State of Massachusetts. This
IS pretty near the truth 1t was in Boston that
motion the terrible agitation which finally del
uged the land in traternal blood 1t is mainly
from the same hot-bed and centre of mischief that
are now being ditfused the elements of fanaticiSm
and disco-d that threat en- the subversion of the
government and the overthrow of Republican in
stitutions We presume that no one can doubt
that, could such fanatcal disturhers of the public
peace as Sumner, Wilson and Phillips, have been
put aside, after the suspension of hostities, the
country would now be in Unemployment of peace
and quiet. These men are architects of ruin, if
we may use the expression. They impersonate
the Scriptural swine into which the devils were
driven. Heaven grant that they may be g rush
ing violently down. TO their own destruction, in
stead of that of our common country"
If our neighbors Of the Sentinel would
knock the scales of prejudice from their eyes,
and put on the spectacles of truth, they
would see as much fanaticsm in the pulpit
South as North. In this respect all have
sinned-dU have come short of the glory of
God"
But the Examiner taunts Mr. Sumner with
the beating which Preston Brooks inflicted
on him in the Senate; and the .Sentinetregrets
that Messrs. Sumner and Wilson, the Sena-
tors from the powerful and enlightened State
of Massachusetts,, were not "put aside"-
that is, executed or assassinated at the close |
of the rebel ion. And if we deplore this
style of dealing with the public men of the
country, and enter our protest against
course which must aggravate our present
troubles, we are denounced as radical" |
and held up as. a Sumnerite. Whittier are
we drifting? Who is able to see the end of
these animosities2 Who can answer for the