The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03

ton OF the lrreverSlble changes produced Dy
the war, and honestly endeavor to accommo-
date themselves to the new order of things.
Many of them are not free from traditional
prejudice, but open to conviction, and may
be expected to act in good faith whatever
they do. This class is composed in its ma
jority of persons of mature age, planters,
merchants and professional men; some OF
them are active in the reconstruction move
ment, but boldness and energy are, with q
few individual exceptions, not among their
Distinguishing qualities.
Q. Those whose principal object is to have
the States without delay restored to their
position and influence in the Union, and the
people of the States to the absolute control
of their home concerns. They are ready, in
order to attain that object, to make any
ostensible concession that will not prevent
them from arranging things to suit their
taste as soon as that subject is attained This
class comprises considerable number, pro-
badly large majority, of the professional
| politicians, who are extremely active in the
reconstruction movement. They are loud in
| their praise of the Presidents reconstruction
! policy- and clamOrous for the withdrawal of
| the Federal troops and the abolition of the
| Freedmen's Bureau
g. The incorrigibles who still indulge in
the swagger which was so customary before
and during the war, and still hope for time
when the Southern Confederacy will achieve
its independence. This class consists mostly
of young men, and comprises the loiterers of
the towns and the idlers of the country
They prosecute Union men and negroes
| wherever they can do so with IMMUNITY, in
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extremely impatient of the presence of the
Federal soldiers. A good many of them have
taken the oath of allegiance and amnesty,
and associated themselves with the second
class in their political operations. This class
is by no means unimportant; it is strong in
numbers, deals in brave talk, addresses itself
directly and necessarily to the passions and
prejudices of the masses, and commands the
admiration of the women.
4. The multitude of people who have no
definite ideas about the circumstances under
which they live and about the course they
have to follow; whose intellects are weak but
whose prejudices and impulses are strong,
and who are apt to be carried along by those
who know how to appeal to the latter.
After charging upon these points, he
comes to the following conclusions
If nothing were necessary but to restore
the machinery of government in the States
lately in rebellion in point of form, the move
ment made to that end by the people of the
South might be considered satisfactory.
But fit is required that the Southern peo-
| pie should also accommodate themselves to
the results of the war in point of spirit, these
movements fall far short of what must be
insisted upon.
The loyalty of the masses and most of the
leaders OF the Southern people consists in
submission to nect s;ity. There is, except in
individual Instances, an entire absence of
that national spirit which forms the basis of
true loyalty and patriotism.
The emancipation of the slaves is submit
ted to only in so far as chattel slavery in the
old form could not be kept up. But al
though the freedman is no longer considered
the property of the individual master, he is
considered the slave of society, and all indie
pendent State legislation will show the ten
dency to make him such. The ordinance
abolishing slavery, passed by Conventions
under the pressure of circumstances, will not
be looked upon as barring the establishment
of new form OF servitude.
Practical attempts on the part of the
Southern people to deprive the negro of his
rights as freedman may result in bloody
collisions and will certainly plunge South
| ern society into restless fluctuations and an
a,chical confusion.
| Such evils can be prevented only by con
| tinuing the control OF the National Govern
ment in the States lately in rebellion, until
| free labor is fully developed AMI firmly es
tablished, and the advantages and blessings
Of the new order of things have disclosed
! themselves. This desirable result will be
fastened by firm declaration on the part
of the government that national control in
the South will not cease until such results
are secured. Only in this way can that Sc
curity be established in the South, which
will render numerous immigration possible,
and such immigration would materially aid
! a favorable development of things.
The solution of the problem will be very
much facilitated by enabling all the loyal
and free labor elements of the South to ex-
ercise healthy influence upon legislation.
1t will hardly be possible to secure the freed
men against class legislation and private per-
secution unless he be endowed with certain
measure of political power
As to the future peace and harmony of the
Union, tits of the highest Importance that
| tut ptopit VI tiic OtsttcS ldICly III iCuCilOu OC
not permitted to build up another peculiar
institution" whose spirit is in conflict with
the fundamental principles of our political
system; for as Tong as they cherish interests
peculiar to them in preference to those they
have in common with the rest of the Ameri-
can people, their loyalty to the Union will
always be questioned.
desire not to be understood as saying
that there are no well meaning men among
those who were compromised in the rebel
lion. There are many but neither their
number nor their influence is strong enough
to control the manifest tendency or the pop
ular s. lit.
There are good reasons for hope that de-
termined policy on the part of the Natio al
Government will produce innumerable and
valuable conversions. This consideration
counsels lenity as to persons, such as is de-
manded by the humane and enlightened
spirits of our times, and vigor and firmness
in the carrying out of principles such as is
demanded by the national sense of justice
and the exigencies of our situation.
EMIGRATION Come SoUTH.-Since the
war closed, the indications show large for
eipn emioration southwark from this port