The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-19

no easy task to keep newspaper establishment
in the South in iourishing condition.
We hear Il great deal about " adapt
ing ourselves to the situation "---of be-
ing hopeful as to the future of the
bright prospects of the South hereaf.
ter" &c. &c. Now, all this would do
very well, if coming from the men who
fores$iw our troubles, and who warned
the Southern people of the madness of
their course. But coming from those
who counsclled any and all sacrifices OF
life and treasure, rather than submit to
the dishonor of living under Yankee
domination, it is in disgusting taste, to
say the least of tit is inconsistency
it is cant. The meaning of such Ian
guage is, that the future prosperity of
the South consists in honoring and pro-
noting themselves, just as a few years
since they thought the honor of the
South could only be maintained by fol-
| lowing their lead and advice.
The Southern people might as we'll
make up their minds to realization of
their true condition. If they continue
! to allow themselves to be led, controll-
| ed, and directed, by those who led and
cajoled them into the horrors of four
years bloody war, they cannot expect
to receive the confidence of conservative
men either North or South The plot
tiers and authors of disunion must RELY
on nothing else than to retire from pub
lie view, and 90 into obscurity. Their
country's good requires it. The men
! who were denounced and ostracised for
! four years, because they would not
countenance the wild crusade of disun-
ion, have right to expect their reward.
Public opinion has declared they were
right then. They are the true represent
tative men of the reaction in the popu-
lar judgment and the popular feeling
The position of the South is a false and
inconsistent one--one utterly unintelli-
gible to the conservative men of the
North--as long as they profess to have
discovered the folly and madness of
their course in lS6O-'61, and yet select
as their representative men those who
were mainly instrumental in leading
them into error. Peace, quiet, content,
and satisfaction are not to be expected
to prevail with the true conservative
men of the South, as long as they see
honors, rewards, and hi oh station con-
terred on the very men who denounced
and abused them for their opposition to
secession and disunion. Those who
profess to be the true friends of Andrew
johnson must show their sincerity by
sustaining his policy. He has declared
time and again, in the most emphatic
terms, that the work of restoration
must be performed by his friends, the
Enthusiastically loyal men. He does
not object to the test-oath so far as
members elect to Congress are concern
ed. On the contrary, his friends who
recently held meeting under his own
eye in Washington, have declared that
when members are sent who can take
this oath they ought to be admitted,
but not before. The secessionists and
latter-day war men, who are monopo-
lizing all the offices and honors in the
South, are with the President so far as
his controversy with the radicals =" is
concerned. They support him in every
thing that chimes with their resent
ments and prejudices, but they are 81
lent and stubborn when called upon to
make sacrifices to carry out his plan in
spirit as well as letter.
The New York Waterman. DR..
Deems paper, says President johnson
surely could not so stultify himself as to
carry out the provisions of that most
infamous measure, "---meaning the civil
rights bill. What will the readers of
the Watchnao'a say to this? Do they
agree with that paper that the President
ought to set before the people the exam
pie of resisting one of the laws of the |
land Distasteful as this law may be. it |
is nevertheless the law. Is it at all COM
patible with good citizenship to disre-
gard law because we do not like it |
1t was just such course as this that
involved us In our present troubles
Will we ever learn Wisdom2