The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-02-07
@ q RALEIGH, N. O c. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY Z, 1866.

would impose upon him. But we have
heard no wish expressed that he should re-
tire. Indeed, it seems to be generally under
stood, whatever may be his future purpose in
relation to the Presidency of the institution,
that he viii continue to be foremost among
those who may be engaged in devising means
to put the University again upon its feet.
This journal is the fast friend of education
and internal improvements. The two SIS.
TENS are inseparable, and constitute great
cause which should be dear to our people.
We have labored for this cause in itsinfancy;
we stood by it in its prime, when it was
struck and paralyzed by the rude hand of
war; and we viii not abandon it in its de-
cline. h But time is Indispensable. A great
cause like this cannot be built up in
day. The great mass of children must be
taught to work, as they did thirty years ago;
and while the means of education are accu-,
mulating for their benefit, and for those who
are to come after them, they must depend
to great extent on their own efforts to ac-
quire knowledge and to better their condi-
ton. .l til nt.sF ITa,aO sH
The Wilmington Dispatch, noticing the re-
fusal of the House of Commons of this State
to appoint John G. Hill of Randolph, JUS
~, Ill ho
was deserter from the Confederate army,
says:
s'The Standard is very wroth over this action
of the House of Commons, as matter ofcourse;
for il is highly probable that this man Hill was in
fuenced in his deserton of the Confederate cause,
by the teachings of that estimable sheet, which
now furnishes the public with "One or two col
umns of Sunday reading -alcays Of a moral char
acter.'"
The Wilmington Journal makes similar re-
marks, and speaks of the attempt in the
House to "galvanize into respectability a
contemplate creature who not only cowardly
abandoned his companions and his State in
the hour oftrial and danger, but in doing SO,
violated his plighted faith"
These journals, with Others in this State
that agree with them in sentiment, profess to
be most anxious that North Carolina should
be restored to her full privileges in the Union.
They writhe under military law, and they
seem to long for the time when the State will
be what she was in 1864 member of that
very Union which in their hearts they at one
time despised and sought to destroy. 1t may
be that they have no love for it now, but in
terest and policy have made them, to all ap-
pearances, the friends of restoration. Do
these journals expect to advance the cause of
restoration by such articles as the above q
Are they really Indifferent as to whether the
Union is restoreda Or are they opposed to
it, and do they pursue this course to prevent
restoration Z Or are they so embittered in
their feelings against every Southern man
who would not g fight it out" that passion
gets the better of their Judgment and they
say things they do not mean? The latter
conclusion is the more charitable one. They
would prefer that course which is best calcu-
lated to restore the Union, but meantime they
must be INDUCED in acrimonious and re
vengeful expressions towards Union men, and
towards those who to some extent, at least,
composed the Union armies. ,ia9 48ri
| The Dispatch charges that John G. Hill
was influenced in his desertion of the Con-
federate cause, by the teachings" of the
Standard We donot know how that is, but
this we do know, if the teachings of the
STANDARD had been needed and followed,
hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds
of millions of property would have been
! saved. The result of the project to dissolve
/ the Union has shown, that the Standard news
| paper is the best friend the people of North
Carolina ever had. We have no regrets to
express that we pursued the course we did
On the contrary, we are proud of it. We
/ "went with our State,' as the saying is, be
cause it was absolutely impossible to do 9th
erwise; but, as we had determined to dc
from the first, we seized the first favorable oc
casion to strike for peace on the basis of {
/ restored Union. We did this in view of thu
most extraordinary difficulties. We did i
with mob law, with obloeuy, with demonia'
hatred, and with death staring usin the face
The Editors Of the Dispatch and !Jou,na
know something of this, for they were off
GERS in, the Confederate armyy and they join
I ed in those army meetings which were helt
under the auspices Of Mr.. Davis. Gen. Lee
! and Gov, Vance, the tendency, if not the oh
! ject of which was to incite the private sol
diers to mob and assassinate us. There wa
not as much freedom in North Carolina a
that time as there was in Austria. Yes, W
z did il, and we would do it again. The wor
i der is thatwe escaped. We were actuate
.! solely by ourlove for North Carolina and he
/ impoverished, bleeding, ruined people We
n to the State. that she did not heed our war;
ing and rise in her might and upset and ID
stroy,i as she could have done, the blood
Richmond despotism! .a5s,- +, '.'i..' -. r
| H. is time that the status Of Confetlerat