The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-04-04
Wednesday, March 4th 1866,
important from the President.

Prcsident Johnson The President is not at all
,,leased with the conduct of the Southern politi-
r;ans newspapers, conventions, and Legislatures
IN the contrary, he is highly displeased with
tGcm. He went to the utmost verge of generos-
it in order to encourage the rebel leaders to re-
1,ent and act as national men. He says the South
pprn States have not done their duty. He had laid
avn his requirements to the Virginia delegation
S contested them to elect loyal men to Congress
a a"So conld take the test oath and would support
the laws. This they had stubbornly refused to
and if the rebels persisted in this foolish and
wicked course, they would have to take the con-
1ences and he would not interfere in their be-
i'01t again. A reaction on the part of the Pres
h 1mt z close at hand, and he WILL if trifed with
ael cb lm,per by the rebels, deal them terrible
blow"
We have felt sure all along that this was
+ho nosition of the President We knew
that in no event would he desert the Union
men of the insurgent States He has been
atriaed WITH" and in this respect there is no
Improvement, or prospect of improvement
with the secession leaders. They will go on
from bad to worse. In this State for exam
pie. three candidates for Congress were de-
feated because they could take the oath
and some of those who were elected declar-
ed they could not take the oath if they would
and would not if they could. This declara-
ton materially increased their vote. Gov.
Worth, during the last session of the Legis-
lature, having been requested by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to designate persons for
the offices of Assessor and Collector of the
internal revenue who could take the oath,
instead of shouldering the responsibility
himself, referred the matter to the members
of the Legislature, secessionists included
and the secessionists oft the first Congressional
district refused to recommend any one aoho
could take the oath. d. d. Ferebee, ESQ.,,
since appointed by Gov Worth to an impor-
tant State office, was conspicuous, as we
learn, in refusing to recommend any one who
could take the oath. We learn also that the
Legislature removed at least one-half of the
loyal Justices of the Peace appointed by the
Provisional Governor, and filled their places
with rampant secessionists. The Provisional
Governor appointed Mayors and Commits
sioners, loyal men, for some twenty or thirty
towns; and as fast as elections for these of
fees have taken place, under the administra-
ton of Gov. Worth, these loyal men are being
ousted and secessionists and latter-day war
men put in their places. Thus it is that the
entire cork Of the President IN reoryanizing
this State, is being rapidly soept array.
We rejoice at the above declaration of the
President We trust he will act, and act
come too soon.
The secession leaders very readily yielded
slavery, and agreed to declare the acts of Sc
cession null and void. They knew that
slavery was hopelessly gone, and that moth
ing which they could do would save it and
so far as secession was concerned, they had
told the people up to the last moment, in
1860, that they were opposed to it, and so,
after it had failed, and when it became pop
ulart repudiateit they did so very promptly.
Many of them now deny that they ever were
secessionists, but charge that the real seces-
sionists are the old Union Democrats like
President johnson and the Senior Editor of
this journal. No, every thing went on
smoothly until the Presidents plan of re-or-
ganization touched their pockets by the re-
quirement that the rebel debt should be ig-
nored, and stimulated their ambition by the
necessity which arose for filling the offices.
This debt, which had been wrung from the
tears and blood of suffering people. was
for the most part in the hands of these lead
ers, and they wanted to tax the people for
many generations to pay it. The President
said no. They could not wreak their ven
geance directly on him, because they feared
him; but they turned on his representatives
and peculiar friends, and struck at him
through them. He told them he wanted his
friends-the peculiar friends of the Union,
to perform the work of reorganization
They could abolish slavery and repudiate Sc
cession, but this was too much for them.
They would as soon be dead as to be out of
office. The result is before the country.
The cause of restoration has been suddenly
arrested-the State has been set back to the
point it occupied when the work was com
menced, and no one can foresee when the
work will be completed. The generosity of
the President has been trifed with, and the
good he desired to do this people has been
neutrallzed by these leaders, acho haoe been
0etuated solely By the 'ooe Of money and office.
How long will it be before they are rebuked,
as they should be, and made to know their
places?