The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-10
WHOSE OK IS eoREDY

There are very cogent reasons, why every I
loyal man to the government, should at least I
avoid captious complaint or invidious criti- |
cism " the newly installed civil governor |
Of the State. Legitimate criticism he does
not expect to avoid, nor does he fear tt
Errors of administration in the course of |
any public civil officer, are proper subjects
of animadversion, but for an officer to be !
held up to public censurc, for the construc-
tions put upon what he Says, by prejudiced |
fault-finders, is little more than an honest |
public will sanction.
We had hoped that Gov. Worth would
have been permitted to get warm in his seat.
before the shafts of prejudice and envy,
would be hurled at him; but in this we are
disappointed. And yet nothing better might
have been expected from this quarter, for as
good men and as wise men as he, have had
the same to suffer and to endure His shield
is however broad enuogh to protect him.
The above queer remarks are taken from
the Raleigh Sentinel of recent date We
pronounce them queer because of their orr
gin. The Sentinel is firmly, profoundly, we
may say piously possessed of the idea that
there should be the utmost harmony amongs
| the people in their support of the present gov
emor and his administration. We agree
| with the Sentinel, and shall seek to find in
! the public services of Mr.. Worth only those
| features which way be admired and extolled,
| believing it to be for the interests of the
whole State that peace and charity should
reign in all our borders, and especially that
all good men should give their best endeav-
ors to support and encourage those charged
with the mighty responsibilities of restoring
the State to her ancient and time honored
relations in the great family of States.
But we cannot well repress the smile that
comes unbidden at reading these soberly in
tended remarks in the Sentinel The Sentinel,
of all other papers, to preach harmony and a
united support of the powers that be! Why,
has the Sentinel destroyed its files Has it
| forgotten that it was the first paper in the
State to assail the administration of the late
provisional governor? Does it not occur to
the editor of the immaculate Sentinel that a
| provisional governor has greater claims upon
the united sympathy and support of the peo-
| pie than political governor against whose
! elevation a very large minority of the people
| protested9 Does the editor of the Sentinel
consider it consistent, after berating and
hunting down the late incumbent of the of
flee of provisional governor, to turn around
and ask, with so much sanctimoniousness
that the governor of its choice shall have the
confidence of all the people? Why2 Aye,
there's the rub. The provisional governor
was net the choice of the editor of the Sen
tiael, therefore the editor of the Sentinel was
at liberty to embarrass his administration
with all manner of hostility and personal
abuse. The civil governor was the choice of
the editor of the Sentinel, therefore everybody
must give him a hearty support. In other
words the editor of the Sentinel would be the
autocrat exerting his power through the
gubernatorial> Office Twedle-dee; twedle-
dunn Wilmington Herald.