The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-26
THE GOyERNORsHIP.

we puDIlsh to-day, by request, the pro-
ceedings of public meeting at which Gen.
NJ. w. Ransom was nominated for Governor.
Our paper is open to the proceedings of pub
lie meetings, and when sent to us, and when
they contain nothing offensive to Union men,
it is our custom to publish them. We would
have published the proceedings of meeting
recently held in Franklin County, which we
were requested to do, and at which Gov.
Worth was nominated, but for the rude man.
ner in which our offer to support that gentle
man on certain conditions was repulsed by
his organ, the Sentinel
We do not know whether Gen. Ransom
will be a candidate or not Gov. Worth is
certainly before the people for reelection.
His main dependence for success must be in
the faction known as the Vance Destruc-
tives. His declaration, made in private, that
he is a devoted Union man, and his public
committals against the doctrine of secession,
do not at all commend him to the original
secessionists, though he acts with them, and
now and then appoints one of them to Office
with the hope of securing their votes. As
between Gov. Worth and Gen. Ransom the
secessionists would not hesitate. They would
vote for the latter, simply because they
would prefer the real to the spurious article
Deprived of his secession strength, Gov.
Worth would not be able to poll more than
ten thousand votes in the State
There is much togitation and casting
about by the Worth faction for a candidate
for Lieutenant Governor. The Fayetteville
fT>f I,
is as ardent as its Worthism, urges Robert
| Strange, of New Hanover, as a candidate
with Gov. Worth; a writer in the Asheville
Neaos urges B. S. Gather, an unpardoned
rebel and the Greensborough Patriot, an
echo of the Sentinel dominates and presses
for this honor D. D. Ferebee, ESQ.,, n par
doned rebel. The communication over the
signature of Yadkin, published in the Patriot,
in which Mr.. Ferebee is nominated, was no
doubt gotten up in Raleigh The Sentinel
responds promptly and warmly to this NOM
ination, and says, ace endorse oithout quail
.fcation, what Yadhin says in regard to the
fitness of Col. Ferebee for the Office of Lieu
tenant Governor" This settles it. 1t is
known in Raleigh that Mr.. Ferebee is the
choice of Gov Worth and his friends for
Lieutenant Governor. The ticket will, there
fore, be Worth and Ferebee. Mr. Ferebee is
| one of the most stubborn and defiant rebels
in the State.
We trust the Union men of the State will
stand to their guns and Ibid their time'-
Let them maintain their principles and their
organization, and avoid all committals and
entangling alliances. They owe this to
themselves, to President johnson, and to the
Congress, which, with the President, has
been so arduously engaged for months past
in the work of restoration. They fhe
Union men referred to- are the truest, if not
the only true friends the governm emit has in
this State They are the same in fair wealth
er and foul. They keep their eyes steadily
.faed on the Union and though things may
not always go to suit them, and though they
may apprehend at times that the future is
more gloomy than it really is, yet they hold
| fast to their principles under all circumstan-
ces, and confidently look for the time when
they will triumph. Their motto is, The res
toratioaa Of the Union on the best terms that can
be obtained, as the highest good Of the Southern
people. All else is delusive and dangerous.
There is no solid ground in any other direc-
ton. Continued disunion is fraught with
every evil. The Union, come to us in what
form it may, is by far the lesser evil when
com pared with anarchy, sectional hate, dis
inteeration, and civil war. That is our judg-
the end.