The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-07

| are. to pronounce between them. VIII NY
to show you what the nature and character
! of the difference is.
Some of YOU, few or many, have been oc-
casionally in theatre. You may remember
! a play that had some popularity some years
ago. entitled "The Nervous Man and the
| Man of Nerve" Both of these characters
were well-to-do country gentlemen. They
had been friends in early life. Their friend
| shin grew with their years. They lived In
distant parts of the country. The nervous
man had a hopeful son; the man OF nerve
had lovable daughter. By some freak OF
fortune, or some more capricious god, these
young couple had accidentally come together
| ut a watering place, and there formed an at
! tachment unknown to their parents. In the
meantime the nervous man and the man OF
nerve had come to one agreement, to marry
the two Young people together, under belef
| that thew were entirely unknown to each
| other. Each parent made the announcement
| to his child in a mysterious manner. Inc
nervous mans son was told that he was to be
married to one unknown lady, with whom
he was sure to fall in love at first sight, but
whose name must be withheld until the day
of the ceremony. The daughter of the man
of nerve receives similar pleasant lntlma-
| ton. Each lover protested, each parent was
peremptory, each lover impracticable. As a
natural consequence both ran away, and, as
was quite natural, both came together, and
they were clandestinely married. When the
nervous man heard his sons contumaclous
disobedience he denounced him, disinherited
| him, disowned him, and declared he would
never see him again. When the man OF nerve
| heard of the flight of his daughter he I'M
mediatcly summoned his dependents, who
| sought to restore her to her father. One
parent was all passion, the other was all de-
] cision. While they were comparing their
mutual and common grief and disappoint-
ment, the married lovers came trembling into
their angry presence, and kneeling down,
asked forgiveness and parental blessings upon
what was now irrevocable What was the
parents surprise to find that the runaway
match was just precisely the one they mad
planned, and the supposed failure Of which
had so deeply excited them ! The man OF
nerve acquitted himself with becoming re-
signation, and, since it had all ended right,
he extended to the lovers the boon they beg
ged. The nervous man refused altogethe2 to
be comforted, propitiated, or even soothed.
He refused, and declared that he would per
sist forever in refusing. receive back again
the son who had been so disobedient. When
his outburst OF passion had somewhat sub
sided, the man of nerve said: We'll, now,
old friend, why won't you forgive him ,
Have you not got the matter all your own
way after all 2" why, yes" replied the
nervous man, 81 have got all my own way"
'!Then, why will you not forgive him ?" said
the man of nerve "Why, damn it, hayn't
had my own way of having it." This, l
| think, is the difference between the President,
| who is man of nerve in the Executive chair
| at Washington, and the nervous men who
/ are in the House of Representatives. Both
have got the Union restored as they originally
| planned it should be- They have got it re-
stored not with slavery, but without it
not with secession fragrant or latent, but
! without it; not with compensation for en-
ancipation, but without; not with COM
promise, but without it; not with dis
loyal States or Representatives, but with 10y
al States and Representatives; not with rebel
! debts, but without them; not with eXemp-
! tion from our own debts for suppressing the
rebellion, but with equal liabilities upon the
rebels and loyal men; not with freedmen
and refugees abandoned to suffering and per-
sccution, but with the freedmen employed in
productive, sUtf=sust5;uing industry, with re-
fugees under the protection of law and or
der. The man Of nerve sees that it has come
out right at last, and he accepts the situation.
He does not forget that in this troublesome
world of ours the most to be secured by any
body is to have things come out right. No
body can ever expect to have them brought
out altogether in his own way. The nervous
men, on the other hand hesitate, delay. de-
bate, and agonize-not because it has not
come out right, but because they have not
individually had their own way in bringing
it to that happy termination.
l have said that I applehend no serious
difficulty or calamity. This confidence arises
from the conviction which entertained, that
there never was and never can be any success
ful process for the restoration of Union and
harmony among the States, except the one
with which the President has aYowed him
self satisfied. Grant it that the rebellion is
dispersed, ended, and exhausted, dead even
Mt the root; then it follows necessarily that
the states sooner or later must be organized
by loyal men IN accordance with the change
III our fundamental law, and that being so
organized, they should come by loyal repre-
seTtetlves and resume the places in the iami-
ly circle which, in fit OF caprice and pas
sion, they rebelliously vacated All the rebel
States hut Texas have done Just that thing.
and Texas is doing the same thing lust now
as fast as possible. The President is in har-
mony with all the States that were in REBEL.
ion: Every executive department and the
Judicia! department are in operation, or are
10 II =.
tons. Loyal representatives, more or less
from these Statesmen whose loyalty may
be tried by any constitutional or Legislative
test which will apply even to representatives
OF the States which have been loyal through
out-are now standing at the doors Of Con
gTess, and have been standing there for thret
Months past, asking to be admitted to seats
which disloYal representatives,, in violation
OF the rights and duties of the States, as
well as of the sovereignty of the Union, had
recklessly abandoned. These Representa-
tives, after lapse of three months, yet re
main waiting outside the chamber, while Con
gress passes law after law, imposes burden
after burden and duty after duty upon til,
States which thus against their earnestly-ex
pressed desires, are left without representa-
ton. So far as can judge of human proba
bilities, feel sure that loyal men from TIN
now loyal States will, sooner or later, at thi
session or some other, by this Congress o
some other, be received into the Legislature
of the nation. When this shall have bee,
done, the process Of restoring will be com
plete; for that is all that now remains to b.
done. If in this view of the subject m,
Judgment is at fault, then some of those wht
uphold the opposite. one can show some 9th
er process of restoration which is practicable
and which can be and will be adopted, ant
when it is likely to be adopted. Does an.