The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-01
Spirit of the southern Press.

The Richmond Eramnaer-a paper daily
running over with treason-contains the fol-
lowing. The Examiner is playing its part
1t wants to get back to the Union in its own
way. This extract would, of itself, prove the
hatred that paper feels towards the govern
ment and the great body of the Northern
people. 1t is to be regretted that General
Grant was not permitted to suppress the Er-
anainer, as he desired to do a month or two
since:
eve were not easily to be won, but as we
have yielded we shall stick to our bargain,
and on all questions of loyalty we mean to
out-Hcrod Herod. Where are we to go if we
do not stand by this Union? Maximillian's
empire seems to be crumbling into ruins :;
we do not care to go to that scene of anarchy
and confusion. Brazilian emigration is a
failure, and moreover, we do not altogether
like the specimens of fish, Lizards and snakes
(which Professor AgassiZ sent on from the
head waters of the Amazon. Canada is too
cold for us. We always had holy horror of
Blue-noses, and we have no desire to be raid
ed upon by the Fenians. It is, therefore,
very clear that we are very loyal and that it
is impossible, or, at least, highly inadmissi-
BILE, for US to be otherwise. We have moth
ing to make by rebelling" again, even if we
had the arms or the disposition.
1t is to be hoped, therefore, that the Rad
ical Pharisees who are continually averting
their pious faces and rolling the whites of
their eyes in a most christian and godly man
ner, will mingle hereafter some sense and pro-
liability with their future discussions of
Southern loyalty In all texts, whether of
the world the flesh or the devil we think
we compare favorably with them Both
in this world and at the judgment, we incline
to the belief that our obligations to all gov
ernnfents, human and divine, will be found
to, have been discharged equally as we'll as
theirs. We want it distinctly understood
that, having failed to get away from this
government, we intend now not only to stand
by it ourselves, but to aid in making all 9TH
ers Go the same, whenever we are called upon
to do so. Let the Radicals bear this in mind
when they attempt g rebellion after they are
beaten at the fall elections"
The Richmond Enquirer takes its friend
Doolittle to task for saying, in the Philadel-
phia Convention, that the South has been
punished" 1t says:
T even such men as Mr. Doolittle perpe-
| trated the nonsense of saying as he lately
| did in Saratoga, that the South has been
| punished, and in his Judgment, sufficiently
punished, to make her feel most keenly the
enormity of the crime which she origin
ated."
|
enough to know that what he calls punish
ment, we feel to have been an outrage, and
that when he speaks of enormous crime
| there is not Southern man whose judgment
| does not lag the epithet ut the door of the
| North itself. 1t is we against whom has been
| committed an enormous crime"
A correspondent of the Richmond Wing
demands the release of Mr. Davis, as follows
In one most important respect the Presi-
dents last "Peace Proclamation greatly dis
appoints us. The measure of Andrew John
sons magnanimity and Justice to the defeat
dissection isyet dwarfed and its symmetry
impaired by his failure to issue a proclama-
tion of amnesty, or of free and full pardon
to. all the, prominent Confederate officials
who participated in the late war for indepen-
dence. As long as q pure, asnself&h, noble
Christian hero, statesman and s0lt7ier like ex-
President Davis is ilnmured in a dreary pris-
on, and subjected to the insults of a coarse
brute like Miles, and left to the tender mer-
cies of a judicial ruffian who has declared
that he 6 could pack a jury which would con
vict Jefferson Davis" the President will not
occupy, in the eyes of Christendom, the e!e-
waited position which he is entitled to fill.
And if that no5Re oil Confederate eagle dies |
in>the clutches of the mousing OWL whose
slow but systematic torture has driven him |
to the verge of the grave, history will not as
sign to Andrew Johnson the proud niche |
which we would gladly see him occupy. If
he wishes te be remembered through all ages |
as one of the wisest well as one of the most |
humane of rulers, he should unlock the prison |
gates md restore to Liberty the unfortunate CO
President Of the Confederate States. To us
tile proclamations OF the President that the !
war is at an end, that the authority of the
law is now supreme, and that the privilege
of the writ of hdbeds corpus is restored, sound |
like hollow and deceptive mockeries while |
Underwood declares that ace still haze q pris-
0aaer Of aoa7 lmenuzed at Fortress Monroe By |
order Of the President. How can we believe
that our liberties have been restored and that |
we have been restored to all our constitution
al rights guarantees and securities against |
Illegal arrests and imprisonments; when all |
resort to the privilege of the writ of hd1eos
corpus is denied to the g prisoner of war;" to |
whose daily and nightly torture an officer of
the army of the United States has devoted |
all. of his time and cruel and wicked energies
since the month of May, 1865"
The Richmond Times refers as follows to
the Union Convention, to be held in Phila+
delphia ON the Sd September:
'sThe Conservative Convention having !
proved a splendid success, the Disunionists,
Revolutionists Negro Suffrage advocates and |
demoralized insurrectionists of the Southern |
States are preparing for their third of Sep |
TENDER convention in Philadelphia. Richly |
as the Hahns, the Hamiltons, and the Mac
zenzies deserve exposure and chastisement,
could wish them no more terrible fate !
than to get the whole herd togetherin large |
hall, separated from the spectators. The de-
prayity, meanness, malignancy and insignif-
canoe of this clique of reckless agitators and
incendiaries would then stand revealed to the
whole world. The Devil has branded some
of these men with such unmistakable evil
dences of his proprietorship,> that a single
look,would suffice to reveal their true char
aeter.
The cunning Radicals, who, haxe had an
opportunity of seeing these creatures when
they. appeared before the Reconstruction
Committee to SANDER, villify and defame
their section, know that it will never do to
exhibit them to the people of the North as a
body of delegates. They are therefore to be
well: mixed up with vast crowd of we'll
dressed, decent-looking spectators and out
SiderS. SO that the Southern @ disuninnists y