The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-11-21

W w VIII IT, Inc SOutnern states, as Mr.
Benton would say, havethe government " by
the umbilicus."
The sum of the whole matter is, these old
leaders have complete control in the South
ern States, and they are holding On in the
hope that there will be civil war at Wash
ington and in the North, which will enable
them to make good their cherished dream of
Southern independence. They are even silly
enough to count on the aid of the President
in bringing about this condition of things.
Choice Extracts from Southern Papers.
The Sentinel, Gov. Worth's organ, speak
ing of the fact that few Southern young
men have enlisted in the army of the United
States, says:
1t is not improbable that we may yet owe
our liberty and the very existence of the
States of the South, to the army which those
young men have entered. What there is left
US OF constitutional government, may owe
its future existence to that very army There
is much meaning and true patriotism in the
recent significant letter of Gen. Bearregard,
that when he surrendered at the termination
OF the late war, 81 buried the Ratchet not to
be unburied again. except in defence of the
country and its constitutional government"
Those young men may have unwittingly
placed themselves in that category. Who
knows? 2"
The meaning of which is, the Sentinel
hopes the army of the United States will be
used against the Congress in certain con-
tingency. Vain hope!
The Petersburg Inder, in the following ex-
tract we make from that paper, charges
President johnson with having murdered
Wirz and Mrs. Suratt, and with disposition
to murder Mr. Davis, because he does not
think proper to release him:
"Among the many crimes chargeable to
the United States during the past eighteen
months, the cruel and continued punishment
of this august captive is, in some respects, the
highest. In its fearful injustice it does not
of course eqlal the murder of Wirz and Mrs.
Surratt; but inasmuch as it affects victim
of so much wider fame and and more repre-
sentative character, and inasmuch as even the
OC.
stance. been presented, the world and pos
terity will lie likely to number this as the
foremost injustice of the age. There is moth
ing in the character of the prisoner or in the
conduct of his cause to palljate it. 1t is war
ranted by no necessity of State and no de-
mand of Justice. 1t appeals to no defensi-
BILE public sentiment and no prescript of ma
tional policy. It is explicable simply. pure
ly and exclusively on grounds of low. ma
licious revenge--that would be contemplate
in an individual, but in nation is inexpres-
sibly mean and unworthy.
We INDUCED and expressed the hope that
Mr.. johnson would, early in the recess of
Congress, have relieved himself of so much
of the odium of this great crime as was fair
ly chargeable to him, by releasing Mr.. Davis
on his parole, or on sufficient bail, if need be.
to secure his appearance. But he has not
seen fit so to do His hand alone stood be-
tween the prisoner and the double tyranny of
Chase and Congress-the upper and neither
millstones of Jacobinism-and he has not
seen tit to stay the grinding Three weeks
more remain to him, and these only. When
Congress meets, it will put it out of the pow
er OF the President to open the doors OF For
tress Monroe, and another winter will finish
the advanced work of jefferson Davis MUIR
der
1t may seem trif1ing thing to slay this
one feeble, blind, gray-haired and trembling
old man. but it is an atrocity which, if COM
mitted, will live forever. A million South
ern mothers will bequeath to generous pos
terity the memory and the resentment of the
crime. A million Northern mothers will
blush to know that its blood is on them and
on their children"
The Goldsborough Ne,cs discourses as fol-
lows:
I'VE are not of that number. who are dis
posed 10 keep up daily harangue about
the Howard amendment; we consider its
fate as sealed-it is already dead, and can
never be incorporated into the constitution
of the United States by consent of the South
and without the cooperation of the South,
1t is dead. The more the matter is discuss
ed, the greater importace will it assume in
the estimation of the wicked rabble, whose
hobby it was in the recent campaign. The
mind of the South is made up-the day for
argument has passed. and the next thing
which the South will be called upon to do,
will be to drive the wrought nail in to it's
coffin, if in sn doing, it shall split the misera-
BILE box into thosand splinters. And that
this oiu be done, there is not man in the
United States that entertains the slightest
doubt. North Carolina will do her work du-
ring the present month, and she will do it
well other Southern States will proceed in
like manner to show their determination to
avoid self degradation, as their respective
Legislatures assemble. What will be the
result ofsuch action on the part of the South,
we do not know, and we care much less
Goaded by insult upon insult, the recipients
of wrong, where they had reason to expect
better treatment, there is careless reckless
ness deeply implanted in her bosom, that
time, and relenting on the part of the
North, will only remove Our people are
quite as loyal as they ever were-with this
loyalty, they have the same native pride for
which they have been noted, from the foun.
dation of the government They can sub
NIT to having their slaves stolen from them
by the action of the North, but there are 9th
er things they will not be made parties to-
The pronged tongue of infamy may be thrus
ted at US vagabonds may squirt their filth
through bawdyhodse politicians-hirei
newspapers may beleh forth threats of tn,
! halter and the leaden missel-but the warn
| hearts of Southern men. and the stout resolu
| lions of Southern women, will accept any
thing, rather than be known as parties to
wrong, species of humiliation, second tt
nothing ever offered brave and chivalrou
people"
Only let the Congress apply the screws t.
this rebel newspaper, and it will subside a
once. On Bonded knees it will declare, as