The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-29

The Sentinel in its notice of the corresnon-
dence between the President and Provisional
Governor Of this State, says: +" The dispatch
from the Governor, which contained the
rebuke contained in the Presidents letter Of
q November 9th, is not given" The CORES
pondence was published by order ofthe Pres
ident, under his own eye. If any part of il
has been suppressed, he suppressed it. HI
is charged with having suppressed part o
it by the Sentinel. The charge is untrue
4 There was no dispatch from the Provisiona
Governor which called forth the "rebuke
referred to- The 'rebuke" was voluntar.
on the part of the President.
The Hon. Joshua Hill publishes in the
journals of Georgia an elaborate answer tt
the charge of having faltered, during the
war, in his devotion to the Union. 1t is adj
dressed to the sixty-nine special Legislative
friends of the Hon. A. H. Stephens. We
copy few passages which are of general in
/ terest:
"Some of you are aware that am mem
Der of the still existing late Convention
committed grave error in that body IN con-
senting to abandon my announced intention
to insist on a reconsideration of the vote
adopting the ordinance of secession, for the
/ purpose of declaring said ordinance abso-
lutely null and void 1 gave at the time
my reasons, abating nothing of my princi-
Piles and and of opinions, but reluctantly
yielding to the solicitations of friends of the
Union, and being anxious to avoid discus
sion calculated to produce discord and bit
| terness.
! Had reflected properly on the sustain
ing effect of the word repeal upon the
! doctrine of secession-the right of State
to secede from the Union-and as a conse-
quence the legality of all Indebtedness in
Cured by such State for the prosecution of
war in defence of the right of secession, l
could not have been induced to forego my
purposes. [ could not have obtained ma
jority for the support of my views. 1t was
manifest that a majority were opposed to
repudiating the war debt, and that it was
only carried by some yielding to the require
ments of the President, and greater num-
Der remaining silent.
al first saw and heard read celebrated
Crittenden compromise resolutions in Deem
Der, 1850. l was invited to room in Browns
Hotel, Washington, and there met soon half
dozen moderate, but prominent members of
the Republican party, 1 being the only
Southern man present. Our host, a distin-
guished statesman and accomplished lawyer
OF Indiana, then in attendance on the Su-
preme Court, produced the famous peace
otfering,' in his own elegant hand, and sub
nlitted it to the gentlemen present for their
consideration and criticism. This noble man
still lives, pledged never to accept a political
office. Should this chance to meet his eye
! he will not fail to recall the scene. I men
ton this to show the esteem in which I was
held by these national men. and the interest
felt for the preservation of the Union.
81 recall with melancholy interest, my
last interview with My Indiana friend. 1t
j was by his own fireside in Washington
Georgia had seeded, and /, against the ad-
! vice of true and sagacious friends, was pre-
pairing to return to my home Both of us
| were mourning the folly and madness that
menaced the peace of the country. He drew
! a vivid picture of the inevitable conflict he
saw approaching, and feelingly suggested
| that his son and mine might meet in dead
! ly strife, strangers to each other, and one of
them might fall by the others hand. 1t
! nay have been prophetic. Few can ever
known what l have lost, and fewer still will
! care. Many think l was but too fortunate
in preserving my own far spent life. ap-
peal not to man for sympathy, and yet
have met it when it fell upon my crushed
heart as the gentle dew whitening flowers.
1t came not from the hearts of unfeeling
politicians oh, secession secession Thy
: bruise is incurable, and thy wound is griev-
, ious, and yet thou hvest unrebuked in
/ Georgia.
you are all satisfied that am powerless
! in Georgia, but you are not so well assured
that your condemnation of me is destructive
of my influence at Washington. 1t becomes
. necessary, now, to insure that. You may
; succeed in convincing those who control the
! Government that the organization of stup
! endous rebellion to overthrow the constitu-
| tional Government of your country, the
sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of valu-
able lives lost in trying to maintain the SUI
preme authority, together with the slaught-
cred thousands cruelty seduced or driven to
take arms as insurgents is light affair
! You may, by ingenious augmentation, prove
| that the men most to be trusted by the Gov
eminent are those most prominently and con-
| spicuously identified with the rebel Govern
ment; the men whose names must live in
history, more on account of the high places
| they occupied in the rebel Government than
for anything they ever did in the service of
their lawful Government. But when you
succeed in all this, then cover over with
| thick veil the inches in your capitol that may
contain the statues OF Washington, jackson,
Webster and Clay, and forbid your country
men to look upon them again. Then will
the revolution prove a triumph, and the
Union become a phantom"