The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-09
For the Standard.
h OF TIC
To Jonathan Worth, Esq, Governor OF
North.Carolina.

In nv last. which it is hoped you have
received and considered in the same spirit
in which it was intended, speaking OF those
persons whom you have seen reason 10 oulld
up, and your friends whom you nave puheo
down-or may 1 not say rather that you
are now plucking your former friends, and
nlun,ino YOUR former foes? | desire to
know, in all kindliness of spirit, if you have
not said, time and again, about these now
beautifully and gorgeously plumed birds t."
of yours, that they had done more than the
Extremists beyond the Potomac, to produce
this present most unfortunate and lamenta-
BILE condition of affairs2 Have you not oft
upon the political arena, so proclaimed it
Have YOU not so written it down. and pub
iished it to your microcOsm, III divers clrcu-
lars to your too trusting and conhdlng con-
stituents, and in letters to other friends for
many years past +? And do you not know and
now believe. if you will ponder this matter
but one moment, that these very men were
never faithful to their country, not even to
their own partya And that they will, after
they have effected their own selfish purposes,
repudiate and destroy you, as they have
endeavored to repudiate and destroy their
country, and, as the world is aware, but too
well succeeded
You have said, you would say now, if you
will let your former self speak, it was caused
by these friends, with whom you now hold
YOU not also know, that the conduct of these
persons, and your connection with them, as
sists other things not under your CONTROL to
continue the arrangement brought about
not by you, but by them, and kept up equal
ly by both, between the disrupted sections
of the nation?
You condemn the action of the law-ma-
king power of the government after it has
deliberately considered all the relations of
tho case and sftar Such OnSi6pratiOn was
matured, by accepting compromise between
extreme views, the amendment by Senator
Howard, of Michigan, which it will be your
duty to lay before the next Legislature in
two months. Have you not abetted with
the avowed enemies of your country, whom
for life time you have opposed IN every
manner in your power, to prejudice the pub
lie mind against it, joining in statements
you we'll enough know to be untrue? Have
you not tempered with the public press, and
at least induced one clergyman of the Cos
pei of reconciliation to aid you in thus pois-
oning the Southern mind, already sufficient
ly embittered against all the acts of the
Congress
Does not your course so cratic, and for
eign to your past character, force the con-
clusion upon all impartial observers of your
career, that success has not only nat bettered
your temper, but has made you utterly reck-
less of your character as public man2 Yet
time may be coming. when your former
self shall return, and I sincerely hope it may
soon arrive, when you will be enabled to see
unmasked the insincerity and double-dealing
of your would-be friends; and that they
will ultimately sink under the contempt of
him whom they have thus deceived, and at
tempted to betray; men protesting patri-
otto regard for the Union and Union men,
and who are nevertheless insiduously labor
ing, as they succeeded in doing in 1860. in
undermining the only foundations upon
which their country can acquire any stabili
ty or solidity, or can ever be expected to
secure perpetuity. 1t is destructive to Lib
erty and all we hold dear, to leave such
weighty interests in the hands of tempori-
zing and basely scheming politicians. This
Republic is safe only in the keeping of those
patriots most interested in her preservation,
and it is only upon their unsleeping and
open-eyed vigilance, that she must ultimate
ly depend for her security. The past gives
US the proof and forewarns US for the flu
ture that Liberty and Freedom must depend
upon the good people themselves, and not
upon these ubiquitous politicians.
There are two plans of reconstruction now
before the country what are sangly styled
my Policy" and g Your Policy one
favored by the President, the other patron
lied by Congress. You have already thrown
as many obstacles, and as thoroughly thwart-
yet you call yourself especial friend to
President Johnson, and say " all that do not
support you are unfriendly to him" Did
you not say so, to Mr.. -, but four weeks
ago?
The President whom I admire in so many
respects: Ralelghan that every one of his
fellow-citiZens can well be proud to own
without birth, education, friends or means
having nothing, to contend with everything
springing into notice in his adopted State,
by the innate genius of his own originality,
he came from the very lowest, and is given
the most exalted position of the world
Who can deny him ability, capacity, patri-
otism? Some of his advisers may have
counselled unwisely, he may unthoughtfully
have not called Congress together, in the
summer of 1866. His Premier, one of the
ablest American statesmen, may have made
the one great mistake of his political life,
but it was mistake of the head, not of the
heart-want OF Judgment, not want of pa
triotism. The Senate is the constitutional
adviser of the President. He may have
wished to receive the undivided glory of
reconciliation and restoration. This desire
would have misled most men on GARTH It
was huge miscaleulation, but it is par
donable one. And most grievously has he
not already answered it? But he is now
willing to take new hearings and observa-
tons in these troublous seas, and steer &C
cording to more true reckonings, which you
will in time appreciate
You profess Governor, to lie a friend of
the President. Why the Congress as "radi-
cal" as you call it. permits his work of res
toration to stand, SO far as he has completed
it, while you have been assiduously employ
ed, during the past ten months in tearing it
down. You, yourself, are a part of that
work. If you were really friend of Mr..
johnson you would show some respect at all
events for his work. Your actions which
speak louder than words. this day proclaim
that you and your new friends are his avow-
ed enemies.
The your policy plan is now being rati-
fed by three fourths of all the States. Five
out of the necessary number of States TWEEN
ty-seven have already approved of the plan.
You having already ruined so far as you
could, the executive policy, it now appears
your purpose, so far as you can, to baulk the
other. It really seems nothing satisfies you.
You take delight in every thing to foment
the political cauldron, adding fuel to the
flames, until the whole pot and contents shall
and d.