The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-18
The Herald on the Situation---The pro-
posed Constitutional Amendment.


recently, an ardent advocate of the Presi,
dents plan of restoration. But that paper
now perceives that this plan has failed
through the faithlessness or treachery Of
Southern secession leaders and it comes
forward, in the interest of peace and harmo-
ny, to urge the adoption of the Congressional
plan. 1t is ridiculous to say that the Herald
has been L" black mailed" or bought up
We heard no such charge against it while it
was advocating the Presidents plan and
urging what were considered ultra Southern
views
Those leaders who have control of public
affairs IN the Southern States would do well
thoroughly to consider this article of the
Herald. The Congressional plan is all that
the South can expect under the circumstan-
ces. The Sentinel, of this City, publishes a
recent speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, to
show what will be the fate of our people if
they adopt the Congressional plan. The ar
gument is the other way. Ifthey do not adopt
it, the very calamities Mr.. Stevens says he
has in store for us will overtake us. Mr..
St.vens voted against, and is opposed to the
Congressional plan. He wants something
more stringent and oppressive, and the only
way to head him off is to adopt the Con-
gressional plan. We are talking sense now
Will the Sentinel listen to US? Will Gov
Worth be wise2 VIII he retreat from the
storm while he may? We told the people in
1860 that secession would ruin them. We
told them, in 1868, that unless they forced
Mr. Davis to make peace, triumphant Union
armies would sweep over the whole country,
and that subjugation, spoliation, and devas-
tation would be the result We told
them, in 1865, that if they did not carry
out the Presidents plan cheerfuIly and
in good faith, it would certainly fail
And now, when it has failed, we tell
them if they do not accept the Congressional
plan the result viii be the reorganization of
the State governments, confiscation, execu-
lions for treason, negro suffrage, and the ex-
clusion of rebels, so-called, not only from
Office but from the ballot-box as long as
they live. We warn them most solemnly of
these results We are most anxious to avoid
these results. We pray with our whole
heart for the restoration of the Union, and
for the peace and harmony of the country
We want no confscations-we want no more
blood-we do not want negro Suffrage
The Sentinel admits that the Constitutional
amendment is the result of the deliberations
of the moderate portion of the Union party.
In the name of heaven, does that paper ex-
pect to see our troubles settled in opposition
to the views of the moderate Republicans
1t may be thankful if it can get them set
tied in accordance with their views, and
thus escape the rddicalisma which it seems
so much to deprecate. Gov. Worth knows
that, in October last, we were ready to do all
we could honorably to prevent division in
the Union party of this State. He knows
that, some four months ago, we were pre-
pared to support his administration if he
would pledge himself not to prescribe the
Union men of the State in his appointments
to office. And we now tell him, and his
friends generally, that if he will promptly
take ground for the proposed Constitutional
Cor HowardD amendment, as the best that
can be got for the State, we will support him
for reelection, and we shall thus have good
feeling and entire harmony in the State
Grieved and indignant as we are at the man
ner in which Gov. Worth has treated the
Union men of the State, we will forget all
that, if thereby we can pave the way to the
restoration of the Union and secure harmony
and good feeling among our people. We
make the offer in good faith, and anxiously
await reply.
The HeroLPs article is as follows:
IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF THE SOUTH
UNDER THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
OF CONGRESS fogs and clouds in
which the great question of Southern restor-
alton have been covered up since the ad-
Journment of Congress are at length breaking
away We know now what to do. We have
been taught by the famous mariner Daniel
Webster, after drifting about for MANY days
in thick weather and in an unknown sea, to
avail ourselves of the first glimpse of the sun
Tor an observation and reckoning, in order
to ascertain how far the winds and the waves
have driven us from our true course We
thus lind from the bearings of the Maine
o.