The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-05
Spirit Of the southern Press.

lowing. The Examiner is playing its part
1t wants to get back to the Union in its own
way. This extract would, ofitself, prove the
hatred that paper feels towards the govern
ment and the great body of the Northern
people. 1t is to be regretted that General
Grant was not permitted to suppress the En-
ausiper, as he desired to do, month or two
since:
ave were not easily to be won, but as we
| have yielded we shall stick to our bargain.
and on all questions of loyalty we mean to
out-Herod Herod. Where are we to go if we
do not stand by this Union Maximilhans
empire seems to be crumbling into ruins
I'VE do not care to go to that scene of anarchy
and confusion. Brazilian emigration is a
failure, and, moreover. we do not altogether
like the specimens of fish, lizards and snakes
which Professor Agassiz sent on from the
! head waters of the Amazon. Canada is too
| cold for US. We always had Il holy horror of
Blue-n0ses, and we have no desire to be raid
| ed upon by the Fenians. 1t is, therefore,
| very clear that we are very loyal and that it
is impossible, or, at least, highly inadniissi-
BILE, for us to be otherwise We have moth
|
had the arms or the disposition.
1t is to be hoped, therefore, that the Rad
ical Pharisees who are continually averting
their pious faces and rolling the whites of
their eyes in most christian and godly man.
ner, willmingle hereafter some sense and pro-
liability with their future discussions of
Southern loyalty. In all texts, whether of
the world, the flesh or the devil, we think
we can compare favorably with them. Both
In this world and at the Judgment, we incline
to the belief that our obligations to all gov
ernments, human and divine, will be found
to have been discharged Equally as well as
theirs. We want it distinctly understood
that, having failed to get away from this
| government, we intend now not only to stand
by it ourselves, but to aid in making all 9th
ers do the same, whenever we are called upon
to do so. Let the Radicals bear this in mind
when they attempt rebellion" after they are
beaten at the fall elections"
The Richmond Enquirer takes its friend
Doolittie to task for saving, in the Phiade-
phia Convention, that 'sthe South has been
punished" 1t says:
Even such men as Mr.. Doolittle perpe-
trated the nonsense of saving. as he lately
| did in Saratoga, that " the South has been
punished, and in his judgment. sufficiently
FURNISHED, TO make her feel most keenly the
enormity of the crime which she origin
ated"
Doolittle ought to have discernment
enough to know that what he calls punish
ment, we feel to have been an outrage, and
that when he speaks of enormous crime,
there IS not q Southern men whose Judgment
does not lay the epithet at the door Of the
North itself 1t is we against whom has been
committed an enormous crime.n
correspondent of the Richmond Whig
demands the release of Mr. Davis, as follows:
g In one most important respect the Presi-
dents last Peace Proclamation" greatly dis
appoints us. The measure of Andrew john
sons magnanimity and justice to the defeat
ed section is yet dwarfed and its symmetry
impaired by his failure to issue proclama-
ton OF amnesty, or of free and full pardon
to all the prominent Confederate officials
who part;cipatedin the late war for indepen-
dcnce. is long as q pure, u8se,ttsh, noble
Chrldlan hero statesman and soldier like ex-
President Davis is immnred in dreary pris-
on. and subjected to the insults of coarse
brute like Miles, and left to the tender mer-
cies of a judicial ruffian who has declared
that he :. could pack jury which would con-
vict Jefferson Davis the President will not
occupy, in the eyes of Christcndom, the ele-
waited position which he is entitled to fill
4 And ii tbet ne5le old Confederate eagle dies
in the clutches OF the housing owl" whose
Slow but systematic torture has driven him
to the verge of the grave, history will not as
sign to Andrew Johnson the proud niche
which We would gladly see him occupy If
| ba tn, lNa oil
as one of the Wisest as well as one of the most
humane of rulers he siouii unlock the prison,
gates aHd restore TO liberty the unfortunate err
President Of the Csnteterete States To us
t.!e proclamations of the President that the
war is at an end, that the authority OF the
law is now supreme, and that.tle privilege
of the writ of hGbeGs corpus is restored, sound
like hollow and deceptive mockeries, while
Underwood declares that sae still haze a y,is-
oaer ef toar imAnari2 at Fortress Monroe by
order ct the President. How can we believe
that cur liberties have beeH restored and that
we have been restored to all our constitutions
/ as rights, guarantees and securities against
| illegal arrests and imprisonments, when all
resort to the privilege OF the writ of AaJeas
corpus is denied to the prisoner of war;" to
whose daily and nightly torture an officer of
the army of the United States has devoted
all of his time and cruel and wicked energies
since the month OF May, 1865"
The Richmond Times refers as follows to
the Union Convention, to be held in Phila-
delphia on the Sd September:
The Conservative Convention having
proved d splendid success, the Disunionists
Revolutionists, Negro Suffrage advocates and
demoralized insurrectionists of the Southern
States are preparing for their third of Sep
| TENDER convention in Philadelphia Richly
as the Hallns. the Haniltons, and the Mac
kcnzies deserve exposure and chastisement,
we could wish them no more terrible fate
than to get the whole herd together in a large
h;ill, separated from the spectators The de-
pravity, rneanness, malignancy and insgnifi-
canoe of this clique ofreckless agitators and
| iDcendiaries would then stand revealed to the
| whole world The Devil has branded some
OF these men with such unmistakable evil
denees of his proprietorship, that single
! look would suffice to reveal their true char
| aeter
The cunning Radicals, who have had an
opportunity of seeing these creatures when
they appeared before the Reconstruction
Committee to SANDER, villify and defame
| their section, know that it will never do to
| exhibit them to the people Of the North as a
body of delegates. They are therefore to be
well mixed up with vast crowd of we'll
dressed, decent-looking spectators and out
siders, so that the Southern "tiisunionists,"
= revoutionists" and incendiaries" cannot