The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-29
Orr atfeek1p fapd ard .
Important from the Prssident.
RALEIGH, N. q.
THURSDAY, - MARCH 20. II SEQ.

important from the President.
The Nashville Press Of the s0tll March
says 81 &; ~
"a citizen of this State has spent some time
IN Washington, and conyersed at length with
pleased with the conduct Of the Southern poiiti.
clans, newspapers, conventions, and Legislatures.
On the contrary, he is highly displeased with
| them. He went to the utmost verge of generos-
ity in order to encourage the rebel leaders to
! pent and act national men. He says the South
ern States have not done their duty He had laid
down his requirements to the Virginia delegation,
and requested them to elect loyal men to Congress
l who could take the test oath and would support
the laws. This they had stubbornly refused to
do; and if the rebels persisted in foolish and
wicked course they would have to take the con-
sequences and he would not interfere in their be-
def close At eand on the The
blow ss s5Ss 81 ssss2Es 5 80, -
We have felt sure all along that this was
the position of the Presidentl We knew
. that in no event would he desert the Union
men of the insurgent States He has been
g triied with,o aud in thisrsspec there is no
improvement, or prospect9of Improvement
with the secession leaders They will go on
from bad to worse. In this sfate for exam
pie, three candidates for Goneress were de-
feated because they could take the oath;
and some of those who. were elected declar-
ed they could not take the oath if they would,
and would not if they could This declara-
ton materially increased their vote. Gov.
Worth, during the last session of the Legis-
lature, having been requested by the secre-
tary of the Treasury to designate persons for
the offices of Assessor and Collector of the
internal revenue who could take the OATH
instead of shouldering the responsibility
himself, referred the matter to the members
of the Legislature, secessienists included :;
and the secessionists of the first Congressional
district refused to recommend -dng one aoho
could take the oath. D. d. Ferebee, ESQ.,.
since appointed by Gov. Worth to an impor-
| tant State office, was conspicuous, as we
learn, in refusing to recommend any one who
could take the oath. We learn also that the
Legislature removed at least one-half of the
loyal Justices of the Peace appointed by the
Provisional Governor, and filed their places
with rampant secessionists. The Provisional
Governor appointed Mayors and Commits
sioners, loyal men, for some twenty or thirty
towns; and as fast as elections fors these of
fees have taken place, under the administra-
ton of Gov. Worth, these loyal men are being
oustcd and secessionists and latter-day war
men put in their places. Thus at is that the
entire acOrh Of the President IN reorganizing
this State, as being rapidly sscept aacay.
We rejoice at the above declaration of the
President. We trust he will act, and act
promptly Let the !" blow" fall 1t cannot
come too soon. 1884,
The secession leaders very readily yielded
slavery, and agreed to declare the acts of Sc
cession null and void They knew that
slavery was hopelessly gone, and that moth
ing which they could do would save it and
SO far as secession was concerned, they had
told the people up to the last moment, in
1860, that they were opposed to it, and so,
after it had failed, and when it became pop
uiar to repudiate 1t. they did sovery promptly.
Many of them now deny that they ever were
secessionists, but charge that the real seces-
sionists are the old Union Democrats like
President johnson and the Senior Editor of
this journal. No, every thing went on
smoothly until the Presidents plan of re-or-
ganization touched their pockets by the re-
quirement that the rebel debt should be ig-
nored, and stimulated their ambition by the
necessity which arose for filling the offices.
This debt, which had been wrung from the
tears and blood of a suffering people, was
for the most part in the hands of these lead
and they wanted to tax the people for
many generations to pay it. The President
said no. They could not wreak their ven
geance directly on him, because they feared
him; but they turned on his representatives
and peculiar friends, and struck at him
through them. He told them. he wanted his
friends-tEe peculiar friends OF the Union,
to perform the work of reorganization
They could abolish slavery and repudiate Sc
ccssion, but this was too much for them
They would as soon be dead as to be out of
office. The result is before the country
The cause of restoration has been suddenly
arrested-the State has been set back to the
point it occupied when the work was COM
menced, and no one can foresee when the
work will be completed. The generosity of
the President has been trif1ed with, and the
good he desired to do this people has been
neutral1zed by these leaders, ao1oshace been
oetuotcd solely by the lore Of money. and office.
How long will it be before they are sebuked,
as they should be, and made to know their
places?
The Sentinel, with its usual utter disregard