The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-17
We copy the following from late
issue of the Albany Evening Journal ::

issue of the Albany Evening Journal :
"GooD FEELING ALL ARoUND.-In view
of the excited state of the public mind, it is
pleasant to read that differences on public
questions have not ruptured the ties of So
cial amity among our law-givers at Wash
ington. AT General Grants recent levee,
President johnson attended-an unusual cir
cumstance. Thad. Stevens was present. and
we learn that Mr.. johnson pleasantly took
him by the hand and introduced him to Mrs.
General Grant'-an incident which shows
that the fears expressed in the ED of Feb
ruary speech, have not left a very deep i'm
preston upon his mind Carrot Davis was
also on hand, wordy and amiable, and look
ing in the furthest possible degree removed
from a blood-thirsty conspirator, darkly
musing ON " treason, stratagem and spoils."
Alexander II. Stephens, the outside Senate
rial representative from Georgia, crossed his
legs under the Grant mahogany, and forgot
what chagrin he may be supposed to enter
tain in hob-a-nobs at champagne with Chan
dler of Michigan. There is hope for the
Republic. Let men differ as they may in
the halls of public legislation, we need not
despair, so long as they will yield to the
modifying influences of truff1es and Held
sick"
1t is gratifying to read the above, es-
pecially in contrast with the following
from the Richmond Enquirer:
1T is evident, indeed, that violent col
lision between the Congress and the Presi-
dent is inevitable, and is imminent, if the
true spirit and intent of the Constitution
shall remain despised, and its forms abused
for the usurpation of power. In this issue the
President has thus far been altogether in the
right. and has evinccd all the moderation
The Congress has been wholly in the wrong,
and has displayed corresponding violence.
That the public peace is yet unbroken, is
due to the President. 1t depends on Con-
gress whether it can be permanently main
tanned for we take it for granted that the
President will not yield himself an unresist-
ing victim to revolutionary violence, what
ever garb it may wear, or allow the Consti-
tuition 20 defend which the sword has been
given him, to be overturned and destroyed
A Congress coup d'etat can be met by Presl-
Dental coup d'etat, and in the collision the
hardest must fend offr'
We have no idea that there will be a
" viole,at collision between the Presi-
dent and Congress. The President will
execute any laws the Congress may
pass, and in no event will he use the
sword against that body. To do so
would be at once to involve this whole
continent in war of which no one
could foresee the end.
But if the above from the Enquirer
is Objectionable, what shall we say to-
the following extracts? 1t is in this
way that the two sections are infiamed
against each other, and the work of res
delayed:
"The bitterest secessionist that ever schem-
ed, and worked and fought for the Confed-
eracy, the proudest aristocrat that traces his
descent from some Norman Sire, and scorns
the Northern aristocracy with its stolen
crests, its odour of Goldfish and grease of Pc
troleum, would receive Andrew johnson as
a welcome and honored guest; the meanest
horse-dy or beggar that walks a Southern
street would feel himself defled by contact
With Sumner Richmond Er
:" 1t was telegraphed here last Saturday that
The President had ordered to Washington
10000 troops to put the Rump Congress un-
er arrest and see that Southern members
.ook their seats. But it all proved false. We
,hink he ought to put the radicals under ar