The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-02
For the Standard
For the Standard.
To Jonathan Worth, Esq, Governor of
% North.CarOIina.

To jonathan Worth, Esq, Governor of
North-Carolina.
You were appointed last year, after peace
had been wrested from the enemies of your
co antry, by the Provisional Governor, to the
former Office held by you as Secretary of the
Treasury Department of the State, because
you were we'll known to have been, at the
time, an unconditional Union man. Your
appointment was approved by the President.
| Your whole past record throughout the war;
| and for years previous had pronounced YOU
an unconditional Union man. Every one
who knew you, who had the slightest &C
| craftsmanship, pronounced you an uncon-
ditional Union man You opposed, so far
as was permitted by the despotic au-
thorities at Richmond, every thing that was
done by that usurped government. This, at
the time was we'll known to ali your former
friends.
You were elected Senator from the coun-
ties of Randolph and Alamance, in 1860 and
| 1861, and you opposed every thing that was
proposed by the avowed enemies of your
country, to bring about the late rebellion
You voted on some questions alone, or but
with two other Senators. Your garments
then were undefiled. Your patriotic con-
duct was watched and marked by every
| lover of his country. These things are well
known.
You now have discarded, almost without
and friends of your government. And you
to-day stand affiliated with those who diff
fered with your whole past political history,
saving few noted instances of men who re-
manned firm up to but short period before
the war closed, and who, solely, through
sympathy for a down-trodden people, lost
their better judgment. But you still re-
manned firmly attached to your former prin-
ciples.
Where do you now stand9 Are you not
now opposed, and stand committed, as OPP
posed to following the only path opened, by
the lawmaking power of your country, that
will lead you back to the good government
of your fathers
You were raised Quaker. You were
from infancy, made to understand the hor
rors attending warfare; that Peace for ma
lions, as well as individuals, was best for
their welfare and true happiness. That any
kind of peace was far better, and far wiser,
than any kind of war. This is holy and
good creed, and was the fundamental prin-
ciple in your education.
Alas where do you stand to-day2 Cheek
and shoulder with those who were your life
time opponents, and avowed enemies to your
earlier teachings. And who did desire and
desire to-day, to promote commotion instead
of harmony-discord instead of Peace
Whose daily conduct proves that they are as
anxious as they were six years ago, to pre-
vent peace and reconciliation. Whose words
and teachings, every day show that they
wish and hope for another civil war. They
may expect it to be removed farther from
their own hearth-stones. But they have
that rancor and hate implanted in their
breasts, that they long to see the other sec
ton of their country, utterly destroyed
and impoverished as their own has been;
and that, too, by their own traitorous con-
duct. None of your former friends those
whose friendship and esteem are worth hav-
ing, can, with proper respect for their own
principles and yours, now sustain you.-
Your future dependence must be upon those
disaffected to the Government, and l grieve
to tell you. for your own sake, and that of
your State, that there may be enough voters
in the present anomalous condition of affairs
to again elect you. But will any tried and
true friends Of yours be among that num-
Der?
You say every day, "What have I done
that there should be any opposition to me?
Look at my past record-have l not always
been for the Union p That 1 have already
admitted is true But are you for the Union
now? Do you desire now that North Caro-
lima should be restored, and Immediately, to
all her past immunities, and privileges, and
franchizes under the National Government
of course excepting that peculiarly Southern
institution, against which you were ever I'M
derstood by your friends to be opposed.
Do you not value the Office of Governor, |
beyond that by far, of the % full Office of
complete union and original community of
North Carolina, your native State and mine, |
with that benign government that, as you |
have oftentimes confessed, has always acted
like good and devoted mother towards her
Governor, l have ever acted with you in
all political questions of policy. Your po-
litical enemies have always been my foes l
have right to address you as friend, have
admired you, for your many sterling virtues.
We have both believed that those partiZans,
who whould ruin or rule have been the most
destructive agents in bringing about, by their
States-rights constructions of the shield of
all our political liberties, the present lamen-
BILE condition of our country. And we both
believed that the party was held together by
but one cement-and that was public plum
der. That they were ever athirst and ahun-
gered for all the loaVes and fishes that were
swimming in the prolific brooks of officiali-
ty in the lucrative positions of the country.
then feel that we can reason together as
past and present friends. Our past lives are
united by history, members of
that old party that has passed away, but
which still leaves on the pages of the past,
the bright refulgence of true glory That
party that could discard self, but never dis
carded the good of the whole country. That
party that was so CALAMITY led On to victory
and commanded with so much true heart
and hope in defeat. That party whose very
life and soul seemed to depend, upon but one
redoubtable champion, the finished produc-
ion of two great commemorative Kentucky
md Virginia We both belonged to that party,
5he death of whose chieftain it never but a
short time survived His words in defeat on
'ne occasion will never die, 1 recall them now
% your attention He told you and me and
,he continent" That it was far better to be
light, than to be President" Are you not
Rejecting this golden line of Patriotism
And do you purpose to angle, in these decep-
i've and foul waters of treason, altogether in
different as to the take" be it cat or trout p
Are not these the same men, now your COM
,anions on these doubtful waters of remu-
leration, in the same boat that your great
nd good captain, ever taught you and all of
is. would in certain time not remote lead the
country 10 its de. true ton?
And you know that this, met your full and
Wiling appreciation. And l ask you now,
lid not these men your present copartners
with othar froitOrc IUbnpo Won |