The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-26
[From the Newbern Times,]
To the Raleigh Sentiusl.

To the Raleigh sentiusl.
NEwBERN N. c., Sept. l4th, 1865.
BROTHER PELL -
Ipromised to keep you posted about
the Radicals +" down here, and hence /
write to you again.
The " Northern Radicals are won
dering how much respect you have for
a Southern Radical, and like all other
Yankees dyed in the wool, they are
calculating set, and they want you to
give them the true measure so that they
may let their friends who hav'nt hearn
tell of you, know how much. You have
written, still, wehave far more respect
as we have often said, for Northern
than we have for Southern Radical"
l tell them, brother, that you have
not got any respect for any Radical be-
cause you just wrote before the forego-
ing sentence quoted from your true
+" Southern newspaper, but we hold that
the man who is Radical in political
faith does not possess good principles"
and, l do not believe that you have any
respect for any man Except, perhaps,
a " Worth-Johnson man) who does
not posses good principles.
The Radicals say that some of the
Worth-J ohnson men possess good prin-
siples-but most of them do not possess
any principles unless, Hurra for John
son and my policy" be principle. I
tell them, brother, that most of US don't
know what else to hurra for until we
get to ourselves, and then we hurra for
JEFF. Davis, Dixie" and curse the d-n
Yankees as loud as we please. You
don't swear, brother, do you? No
Southern gentleman should swear. l
even hesitate about copying or repeat
ing an oath, and | pray you to preach
to our Worth-J Johnson men discourse
from the commandment, "Thou shalt
not take the name ofthe Lord thy Godin
vain," &c. And o, brother, if you
have no respect for the sRads,' do for
mercy's sake preach or publish through
your secession paper, some discourses
that you should at once prepare, on
swearing, for they do swear terribly
as terribly as our army did in Flan-
ders. 1t is wool dyed Yankee prac-
tice. They say most of the trucking,
suhjugated, one horse-town news sheets
are not worth cursing, but they belch
out their most horrid oaths agaiast you
as political editor, and the Sentinel
as the mouth-piece of or very able and
acceptable Governor ; the old Johnson
Democracy tobacco chewer, who has
had the sense, with the advice of Mr..
Graham, Josiah Turner, Jr., and other
good Wings, to make all the Democrats
"take back seats" for trying to break
up our party or the Union.
Uncle Jonathan knows good tobacco
and good secessionists of the Wing
school.
By the way, brother, you ought to
write to Ho,. George Howard, who was
complaining in the letter to Mr.. Moore
something about blazoning Wing par
tizanship" by our State administration,
and writing that the appointments of
the Provisional Government had SEEM
ingly Uuionisna for basis, and, for in
timating that the administration, had
none but " Wing partizanship." What
is that to him? Secession knows no
distinction between Wing or Dem
ocratic partizanship, and let ex-Judge
Howard quit complaining about the Off
ces for the WORTH ohnson men, soant
all the offices filled By themselves" In
this matter about the offices, brother, if
the Radicals are divided among them
selves, let us not split among ourselves.
Offices first, and restoration on my pol
icy or separate Confederacy after
ward. That is my Johnson Worth, or
Worth-J ohnson. sentiment, whichever
way you can fix it best to carry the cleo
tions-one more time, perhaps, in North
Carolina.
Brother, watch the "Free Mulatto
Convention in Raleigh on the goth inst,
These "mean whites y are after the Off
ces for themselves and the free mnlat-
toes? They will be after them by and by
for the black nigger. 1t must not be.
Let us again fire the Southern heart.
Let us appeal to the passions and preju-
dices of the people against the nigger.
Let US stir the inmost Southern heart Of
fair women against negro equality, mean
Southern Radical sympathizers- -unmis-
takably loyal men who are justly held
in disrepute for their sympathy fol
home, kindred, neighbors and friends
who would welcome the further humili
alton of their own people; who seek to
degrade and disfranchise the brave and
chivalrous sons of the South still survi
wing the thousands of noble dead, who
fell fighting for our just and righteous
cause of Southern independence. The
end will justify the means. Better than
carry out the Radical platform, and let
liberty and property, and even life itselt
in the South, be held by tenure SC
precarious as to be worthless, risk an
other civil war. Better be fayed alive
than accept the odious proposed con
| stitutional amendment which would
| place us by our own submission before
the I" Rump Congress, to "down, and
beg for mefcyp oftwo-thirds ofthe
wool-dyed Yankee" judges, any one
Of whom would beaj jew compared with
| Jeffreys. Welcome riot and bloodshed
J to all free negroes, and death or Danish