The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-05

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their partizans. Their only possible safety
is to cooperate with the conservatives of the
country in their efforts to bring the general
government back to the theories and prac-
tices of the earlier presidents"
The Progress has proclaimed war against
the Unionists. 1t evidently regards them as
traitors and outlaws. But there is large
majority of just such people in Wake County.
What if these Unionists, thus devoted in ad-
vance to "murder and rapine,r should begin
the war themselves by sun,marily despatch
ing those who are thus nstigating Others to
"destroy them9"
We have heretofore told the President
that nothing will satisfy reconstructed'
Southern traitors but an acknowledgment on
his part of the Righteousness of the rebellion,
and the release of Mr. Davis The Norfolk
Viryinian, commenting on the recent precla-
nation of the President, which is supposed
to have abolished martial law, says:
"Now if this be true, if civil law be in
deed supreme, why is not writ of habeas
corpus obtained in the case of Mr.. jefferson
Davis, citizen of the State of Mississippi,
now illegally and forcibly held in custody by
the military authorities at Fortress Monroe?
The only charge brought against the prison
er, so far as we are informed, is contained in
an indictment found by Grand Jury, which
met in Norfolk in the month of May last,
and that for treason, purely civil offence,
committed, if at all, against the civil author
ity of the United States of America.
AS citizen of that government, Jefferson
Davis is entitled to all the privileges of the
civil law which Mr.. johnson declares to be
paramount throughout this land, and under
no construction of that law can Judge Ba-
ker refuse, upon proper application, to grant
an order for the body of this citizen illegally
deprived of his liberty, and under this pro-
clamation Major General Miles dare not with
hold obedience.
Let US make the experiment at least, and
find out whether the Peace Proclamation,
with its pleasantly enunciated theories of
liberty and of law, be q a shadow or a SUBJ
stancen
The Wilmington Dispatch responds as
follows:
"Our able and reliable contemporary, the
Norfolk Virginian, in commenting on the ac-
tion of the Philadelphia Convention, after
expressing willingness to abide practically
by the action of that body, suggests an en-
quiry which is very pertinent It desires to
know why the question of Mr. Davis i'm
prisonment was not touched on in the ad-
dress, that the Southern people might know
the sentiment of the North on this ques-
ton.
Any peace, any restoration of the Union,
any good for the South which does not also
accomplish his release from the prison in
which for more than twelve months he has
been immured, is but shallow, hollow
mockery. We do not desire any good which
he cannot share. We have no desire for any
benefits or privileges of which he is depriv-
ed. We and our whole people, are as much
guilty of crime as he, and have no desire to
shrink from the share of responsibility which
has been incurred. The cruelty which has
marked the treatment of that distinguished
gentleman is the foulest blot on the escutche-
on of American civilizaticn--worse than
Sheridan's vandalism-worse than Buffers
robberies. 1t ought to be wiped out"
The same paper has the following in rela-
ton to that pure patriot and great man,
Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary of War:
STANTON THE MURDERER.-We learn
from our exchanges that this eminent william
is soon to be removed from the position which
he occupies in the Presidents Cabinet. The
whole community of honest men in America
and the rest of the world, will be glad to be-
lieve this Never before has any man, so
thoroughly shameless, been permitted to
hold place as the minister of a Just ruler.
He ought to have been removed long months
ago, when he was plotting with Holt, for the
murder OF Mrs. Surratt, and when he was
working to obtain the banishment of the
prisoners of the Dry Tortugas.
When his mortal career ends he will has
ten below to receive the avenging tortures
which have been prepared for him in the in
furiated hell to which he is destined, where
the cracking blazes are leaping and licking
their tongues in joyous anticipation of his ar
rival May a just God hasten his departure
hence. hasten his approach there, where at
last in some small degree the evil he has
done may be properly punished"
Now, all this is meant for Andrew John
son. These newspapers strike him over
other mems shoulders. Who retained, and
still retains Mr. Stanton as Secretary of Ware
Andrew johnson Who at first denounced
Jefferson Davis as guilty of the monstrous
crime of assassination9 Andrew johnson.
Who has not, to this day, taken back this
charger Andrew johnson. Who seized
Jefferson Davis as fugitive, denied him the
protection of Lees surrender, put shackles
on his limbs, and immured him in dun
geona Andrew johnson. Who, by single
stroke of the pen, could set Jefferson Davis
free, and retract the charge that he is an as
sassin2 Andrew johnson. These Editors
who are whining over Mr.. Davis, know all
this to be so, but they fear to assail the Presi-
dent, and so they vent their rage on his sub
ordinates. The day will come when thew
will denounce him openly, if he should not
yield to all their demands, as they now de-
nounce his subordinates. 1t would seem to
be impossible that Andrew johnson should
ever be moved either by the wishes or the
maledictions of such men. More extracts
hereafter.
We invite attention to the proceedings Of
a ameeting of citizens of Randolph, Guilford,
and Forsyth Counties, in the Standard to-
day This meeting was largely attended by
such sterling Union men as Messrs. Nereus
Mendenhall, Jonathan Harris, Bowman,
Trogden, league, Hodgin, Pugh, and Others.
Jonathan Harris and A. W. Tourgce, Esqs
were appointed delegates to the Philadelpbia
Convention.