The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-20
From the Newbern Times.]
To the Raleigh Sentinel.

L - siI-a
promised to keep you posted about
the Radicals y down here, and henceI
write toyou again. @e
The Northern Radicals " are won
dering how much respect you have for
Southern Radical, and like all other
Yankees dyed in the wool, they are a
calculating set, and they want you to
give them the true measure SO that they
may let their friends who hav'nt hearn
tell of you, know how much. You have
written, &C still, we have far more respect
as we have often said, for Northern
than we have for Southern Radical y
[ tell them, brother, that you have
not got any respect for any Radical be-
cause you just wrote before the forego-
ing sentence quoted from your true
Southern newspaper, but we hold that
the man who is Radical in political
faith does not possess good principles -
and, [ do not believe that you have any
respect for any man except, perhaps,
Worth-J ohnson many who does
not posses good princi pies.
The Radicals say that some of the
WORTH ohnson men possess good prin-
siples-but most of them do not possess
any principles unless, Hurra for John
son and my policy" be principle. I
tell them, brother, that most of us don't
know what else to hurra for until we
get to ourselves, and then we hurra for
Jeff. Davis, " Dixie" and curse the d-n
Yankees as loud as we please. You
don't swear, brother, do you? No
Southern gentleman should swear. I
even hesitate about copying or repeat
ing an oath, and pray you to preach
to our WORTH ohnson men discourse
from the commandment, "Thou shalt
not take the name the Lord thy God in
vain," &c. And o, brother, if you
have no respect for the Raids do for
mercy's sake preach or publish through
your secession paper, some discourses
that you should at once prepare, on
swearing, for they do swear terribly
as terribly as our army did in Elan
ders. 1t is a wool dyed Yankee prac-
tice. They say most of the trucking,
suhjugated, e-horse-town news sheets
are not worth cursing, but they belch
out their most horrid oaths against you
as political editor, and the Sentinel
as the mouth-piece of OF very able and
acceptable Governor > the old Johnson
Democracy tobacco chewer, who has
had the sense, with the advice of Mr..
Graham, Josiah Turner, Jr., and other
good Wings, to make all the Democrats
take back seats" for trying to break
up our party or the Union
Uncle Jonathan knows good tobacco
and good secessionists of the Wing
school.
By the way, brother, you ought to
Write to Hon. George Howard, who was
Complaining in the letter to Mr. Moore
something about blazoning Wing par
tizanship' by our State administration,
and writing that the appointments of
the Provisional Government had SEEM
ingly Uaionisna for basis, and, for in
timating that the administration, had
none but " Wing partizanship." What
is that to him Secession knows no
distinction between Wing or Dem
ocratic partizanship, and let ex-Judge
Howard quit complaining about the Off
ces for the WORTH ohnson men, "qco,at
all the offices filed By Themselves" In
this matter about the offices, brother, if
the Radicals are divided among chem
selves, let us not split among ourselves.
Offices first, and restoration on my pol
icy or separate Confederacy after
ward. That is my Johnson-W orth, or
WORTH ohnson sentiment, whichever
way you can fix it best to carry the cleo
tions-One more time, perhaps, in n ORTIZ
Carolina.
Brother, watch the Gree Mulatto
Convention in Raleigh on the goth inst.
These "mean whites" are after the Off
ces for themselves and the free mnlat-
toes? They will be after them by and by
for the black niger. 1t must not be-
Let us again fire the Southern heart
Let us appeal to the passions and preju-
dices of the people against the niger
Let us stir the inmost Southern heart of
fair women against negro equality, mean
Southern Radical sympathizers- unmis-
loyal men who are justly held |
in disrepute for their sympathy for
home, kindred, neighbors and friends =;
who would welcome the further humili-
alton of their own people; who seek to
degrade and disfranchise the brave and |
chivalrous sons of the South still survi-
wing the thousands of noble dead, who
fell fighting for our just and righteous
cause of Southern independence. The
end will justify the means. Better than
carry out the Radical platform, and let
liberty and property, and even life itself
in the South, be held by tenure so
precarious as to be worthless, risk an
other civil war. Better be fayed alive
than accept the odious proposed con-
stitutional amendment which would
place us by our own submission before
the I" Rump Congress" to "down, and
beg for mercy'' oftwo-thirds of the
g wool-dyed Yankee" judges, any one
Of whom would be a jew compared with
Jeffreys. Welcome riot and bloodshed
to all free negroes, and death or Danish
ment to all "mean whites,' or " unmis-
tably loyal'' men, rather than affiliate
with the cursed Radicals" Brother,
they are such "mean white" " coward
Ly wretches, destitute of all neighborly
do you think it would be
wrong to revile them, and &c to speak all
manner of evil'' of them, especially of
these " Radicals down here, who are
nired, &C Northern,'' &C Southern-even
North Carolina Radicals, the "vilest of
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