The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-13
Prescription for Opinions Sake.

AAOSCAAPtAOA AOA oPAAAOA'S SdACs
The Provisional Governor of this State
was charged by the President with the duty
of recognizing the State, including the
State corporations; and he was instructed
by the President in doing this, to prefer those
men for office who had "never faltered in
their allegiance to the government"
He performed this duty to the best of his
knowledge and ability. After the work had
been done, the President looked at it and
approved it. He said it was good. The
Provisional Governor retired, and Governor
Worth, whose duty it was to continue the
work of restoration until it was completed,
succeeded him.
What did Governor Worth do2 Did he
show his friendship for the President by con-
tinuing in Office the persons thus appointed?
Far from it. He said we had had enough of
provisional governments-he rejected the
work of the President, and set about undo
ing the whole of it. He elected Mr.. Moore
from his post of President of the Bank of
North Carolina, and put Mr.. Mordecai in his
place. He pushed Mr.. Thomas from the
Presidency of the Atlantic Road, and put
Mr.. Whitford in his place. He did the same
with Mr.. Lassiter, and put DR.. Hawkins in
his place. And his last act has been to eject
Tod r. Caldwell, Esq, from the Office of
President of the Western Railroad, and put
Col. Tate in his place.
These officers, thus prescribed for opinions
sake, had discharged their duties as the
heads of these corporations with extraordin-
airy energy and fidelity. Will Gov Worth
tell the people why he removed them?
In making these removals and appoint
ments, such has been his zeal for prescribing
Union men and rewarding his partizans, that
Gov. Worth has installed in office at least
two persons who have not been pardoned by
the President, and who are, therefore, not
citizens of the United States. President
johnson says q. B. Vance and Josiah Tur-
or hold office; Gov. Worth denies this, and
flies in the face of the President by appoint
ing, or, as in the case of Gov. Vance, per-
hitting others to appoint just such persons,
to direct our great State works, and to han
die hundreds of thousands of the peoples
money.
The Governors organ, the Sentinel, char
ges plain, unambitious farmers of Guilford
and Randolph with being governed solely
by the lust for Office because they think
proper to assemble together to consider the
state of the country. This charge lies justly
not at their door, but at the door of Gov.
Worth.
The same paper, when asked why Gov
Worth has thus prescribed and prosecuted
Union men, answers that it is because of
Is the meanness, chicanery, and total ineffi-
cheney perpetrated by the so-called Union
nenI' That is the answer Well now,
what "neanness " has been perpetrated by
B. F. Moore, or Z. R. Thomas, Or r. W. |
Lassiter, or Tod R. Caldwell2 Will the |
Sentinel tell us? That paper would add
insult to injury 1t Says to Gov Worth,
< kick them out" and then tells those who
have been served thus that it was done on
account of their " meanness."
We call upon the Sentinel to tell the pub
lie why the Presidents work has thus been
nndone 2-why these gentlemen have been
prescribed from office 9-why unpardoned
persons have been appointed to office g
what right Gov Worth has to regard the
offices at his disposal as so many brides or
gifts to be bestowed on his partizans 2-and
what Gov. Worth has done, since he has
been in office, except to renovate and carpet
the State House, and prescribe Union men
from office2 Let US have the answers.