The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-28
Disloyal Newspapers.

Richmond Examiner recently with some in
terest, to see if it would redeem its promise
to the President to inculcate sound Union
sentiments. We are at length satisfied that
the Examiner is hopelessly disloyal It
chafes and frets within the bounds prescribed
for it, and acts as common sewer for the
hates and resentments of reconstructed"
rebels towards the Northern people We
give the following as specimen from that
journal of the 10th instant:
h las far as personal danger is concerned, we
believe it would be perfectly safe for the radicals
to admit Southern representatives to the floor of
Congress- Preston Brooks is dead, L. M. Keitt
is dead, and there none of the old fire-eating
set left to brighten Sumner with canes, or Stevens
with buck-shOt. Indeed the Oaths and other de-
4 fensive armour by which Congress is protected
from the entrance of rebelious or fighting charac
tiers into that body, would seem to make it
safe place for the most timid radical. No man at
theSouth who ever fought, or had any idea of
lighting, can get in, SO it would appear that ey-
cry necessary precaition had been taken that on
| ly people of the most harmless and inoffensive
| disposition should be admitted
| Did the Confederates when in Pennsylvania
scare StevenssO that he has never recovered from
his terrour Has not tour through the continent
nerves OF Sumner? Why is that these worthless
and their friends shrink from meeting Southern
! gentlemen in council, when we have demonstrate
cd that their precious carcases are in no manner
of danger? Can lit be conscience which terrifies
them, and that remorse would bring up horrible
| memories at the sight and the presence OF South
ern members? No; their warmest and most ad-
| mirng friends never have believed for an instant
that either conscience remorse could be enter
| tanned by them. They are not such meek and
| common men as to be affected by the emotions
which are so powerful in their operations npon
baser and more ordinary specimens OF huma-
| nifty.
| in the Senate, when he inquired of the radicals
of then acre atrdid 10 meet tie South intellectually,
| in our opinion came very near the mark. wen
| may they fear Southern brain and craftsmanship,
| for they have never made any display when under
| the shadow of its awe. They have appeared as
! dwarfs and pigmies whenever in the presence of
| our intellectual giants, and the comparison has
| been by no means pleasant fattering to them.
But this has been their misfortune not our fault,
| and they should in this case make the just and
| necessary discrimination They should likewise
reflect that the disabilities imposed upon eligibi-
lily to Congress- in excluding all of our bravest
| men, excludes also all of our wisest and ablest;
for wisdom and ability went hand in hand with
| valour during our war; both participated in the
| combat, and both are shut out from Congress.
| Thus it appears that the radicals, in the album
| dance of their caution, have provided for the
comfort of their intellect well for the safety
of their bodies, in manner that should justify
them in feeling easy at every point But they evil
IDENTIFY do not feel easy, and plainly believe that
| some awful calamity will befall them whenever
| the Southern members take seats. We should
| not be surprised if such should be the case We
should not be surprised if most of these radicals
never got back to Congress after their consti-
tuents had seen the contrast between them and
| Southern members-beiween partisans and patri-
OTIS. They talk about the loyalty of the South!
=,
hearts, beating in the bosOms of couple of South
ern gentlemen, than has been shown or found a.
mong the radicals for the last six monthsi Low
atty is what they least want in Congress now
that loyalty which viii stand by the President and
constitution. They know, they feel, they dread,
that whsn Southern members take their seats,
they will have land they are not mistaken.
They recognize that the great ;'groundswell "
will then begin in earncst-tlat they will then
have to call upon the hills and mountains to hide
them from the wrath of an outraged people and
ruined country. Loyalty, forsooth; there is
more loyalty in our little finger than can be found
in the blood, brains or heart of any radical in
Congress, and time, which tests men and the
truth of their principles, will prove it. !"
The same arrogance of tone the same su-
perciliousness, the same talk about "South-
ern gentlemen" and Northern towards,
which characterized the secession press be-
fore and during the rebellion. Such papers
as the Examiner, instead of promoting con-
cord and good feeling between the North
and the South, are sowing broadcast the
seeds of disaffection and discord These
seeds will spring up, and may produce an
| other harvest of war and death.
But our neighbors of the Sentinel, another
loyal sheet, is nearly as bitter and insulting
| towards the North as the Examiner We do
| not expect these journals to admire or to
praise the Northern people, but they might
at least be silent. They seem determined to
rouse the Northern people to higher pitch
of feeling than ever heretofore against the
South, and thus defeat all hope of restDra-
ton Is such course wise, or humane, or
patriotic? The Sentinel says:
"The New York Independent bewails the de-
cline of the gospel in the State of Connecticut
| That an interest in religion in all the New Eng
land States should become slack is not ut all sur.
| prising, when we consider the lengths to which
the pulpits there have been prostituted to base
| and miserable partisan service.
In this connection, we have been struck with
the remark of some contemporary, to the effect
l
turbed the country for the last thirty years have
originated in the State of Massachusj etts- This
| is pretty near the truth. 1t was in Bost on that
the English abolitionist, Thompson, first set in
| motion the terrible agitation which, finally del
| uged the land in fraternal blood 1t is mainly
from the same hot-bed and centre of mischief that
are now being diffused the elements of fanaticisn
| and disco-d that threaten the subyersion of the
| government and the overthrow of Republican in
situations. We presume that no one can doubt
f.pa dicfu fl,a
| peace as Sumner, Wilson and Phillips, have beer
put aside after the suspension of hostilities The
country would now be in the enjoyment of peace
| and quiet. These men are architects of ruin i
we may use the expression, They impersonatt
| the Scriptural swine into which tine devils wert
| driven. Heaven grant that they may be rush
ing Violently down. to their own destruction, in
stead of that of our common country"
If our neighbors of the Sentinel would
knock the scales of prejudice from their eyes
and put on the spectacles of truth, the.
would see as much fanaticism in the pulpi
South as North. In this aspect "aU hav'
sinned-aU have come short of the glory O
God"
But the Examiner taunts Mr.. Sumner will
the beating which Preston Brooks inflicted
on him in the Senate; and the Sentinel regret
that Messrs. Sumner and Wilson, the Sena
tors from the powerful a,ad enlightened Stat
of Massachusetts, were not "put aside
that is, executed or assassinated at the clos
of the rebellion. And if we deplore thi
style of dealing with the public men of tn
country, and enter our protest against
course which must aggravate our presen
troubles, we are denounced as radical,
and held up as f;umnerite. Whittier ar
we drifting Who is able to see the end o
these animosities2 Who can answer for tn
consequences, if. the organs of public opin