The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-12

Scarce twol simmer-times haze risen,
Frae the em'rald lap O. spring;
While the glory o. their garments
Had blossom'd every thing.
Scarce aft'ner had Autumn orchards
Seen the blushing fruitage rife;
When the Angels bore her fleeing
Throo the girlhood gates o. life
Up an dune the sunlit future,
Are the paths o. Peace she'll tread;
And abide "Aae o. the Angels,"
At the throne O. God o'crhead!
Ham in ham wi guardian seraphs,
Whar Luve fills wi living Light;
Mid the songs o. the stellar hosts
Nae mair she will ken the night.
Demopolis, ALa., NoU 1865.
MISUNDERSTANDING 1868,
1864 and 1865, when some of us here In
North-Carolina advocated peace upon the
best terms we could get it, even on the basis
of the restoration of the old government we
were ieered and sneered at and told we were
in favor of a dishOnOrn6le peace Well, mad
ness ruled the hour: the purposes OF the adj
vocates of peace, who desired to save the
lives of our sons and the further devastation
of the country, were thwarted, and the adj
vocates of war got what they swore in the
presence of high heaven they preferred to
Union-subjugation And with it all the
horrors we had prophesied, which we must
confess have been bitter enough to us all.
But then as now the secession leaders told
us they were as anxious for peace as those
who claimed to be the champions of peace,
but that they must have it upon their terms
or not at all. We told them it could never
be had upon their conditions, and that the
only choice was between such peace as we
could get and subjugation. They chose
subjugation and got it. But are they salts
fied9 No Not satisfied yet, and they con-
tinue to throw their arrogant demands III
the teeth of the government that they NOV
ed heaven and earth to destroy
We do not particularly fancy some features
in the report of the Reconstruction Commit
tee, but if it is the best we can get we are TOR
it. We are for "A restored Union, for the
cessation of all military or government in
reference with the internal affairs OF the
States, and the thorough restoration OF civil
authority at the earliest possible moment
and upon the best terms it can he had. And
we now tell these people who are contlnu-
ally engaged in ridicuIing and abusing the
national Congress, that they must accept the
Union upon the conditions it may impose,
or a territorial condition with rigid mill
tary rule. Chivalry may blow about honor,
but people that are arrogantly demanding
to be restored to government that they
spurned and cursed for the past five years,
had better say but little ON that head.
We of the South have no voice in this mat
ter of reconstruction we were powerless
from the hour that we laid down our arms,
and the best thing can do and the only
thing we can do, is to go back as quick rs
we can and upon the best terms we can get.
Those who are looking to Andrew johnson
to play the Cromwell or Napoleon, and by
the Inauguration of another revolution
Dissolve the present Congress and form one
out of the two dozen copperhead members
from the North and the members elect from
the South, will find that they are mistaken
in their man. He would not if he could,
and he dare not if he would. The country
has had enough of revolution already, and
Mr. johnson knows it, and then it is a base
libel to assert that he has any sympathy with
treason or traitors, whether from the North
or from the South.
The abuse being heaped upon Congress
by radical newspapers and politicians in the
South, men who assert that they surrendered
in good faith and that they accepted the
situation without reservation in taking the
amnesty oath, is doing more to retard the
work of restoration and prevent the peaceful
workings of the government than all things
else, the - radicals - in Congress not except
ed and We now warn all such, we warned
them of impending dangers in 1S64'65, that
unless they accept the Union as they can get
it, the last days of this people will be worse
than the first, and that the leniency and
magnanimity which they heretofore received,
and which they have abused, will give place
to iron rule and military occupation. We
trust the brethren will consider these things
and earnestly endeayor to cast out the devils
that evidently possess many of them.-DaIy
Progress
COLLEGE ON LOOKOUT MoUNTAIN-Es-
TARLIsHED BY THE MUNIFICENCE OF A SIN
GLE INDIVIDUAL, FOR TIE EDUCATION OF
THE WHITE CHILDREN OF THE SOUTH
we are indebted to the New York Observer
for the following interesting and important
intelligence:
"a wealthy Christian gentleman, of this
city who as we'll known as among the fore
most in very good enterprise, Christopher r.
Robert, Esq the founder of Robert college,
at Constantinople, which he endowed with
his own funds, has, for some months been in
East Tennessee for the purpose of establish
ing college for the education of the white
children of the South. He has purchased
the whole of Lookout Mountain, the scene of
one of the most hotly contested and impor-
tant battles in the late war, a splendid site
for such an institution, afording a splendid
view of the Valley of the Tennessee. He
has also purchased some four five hundred
acres on Missionary Ridge, together with
the Government building, erected at an cx-
pense of S150,000, and either or both sites
will be occupied as may seem most desirable
The buildings already here will accommodate
four or five hundred pupils, and arrange
ments have been made for opening the insti-
tuition on the 18th of May next. 1t will be
under the care of Rev. Edward Williams, a
graduate of Yale Collge and of Princeton
Theological Seminary, who is a scholar and
Clergyman ofexperience. Mr.. Robert having
retired from active business with an ample
fortune, is devoting himself, quietly but ell
GENTLY, to the work of doing good. not only
with his money, but by personal effort. He
Is one OF those good and wise men who
choose to be executors of their own estates,
and thus secure the appreciation of the funds
IN the way that will accomplish most for the
ends he has in view"
A nobler or more magnificent charity could
not well have been conceived, and should,
as doubtless it will, hand down the name of
Christopher Robert to an immortality far
more to be desired than that of the g Great
Captains3 who commended for the military
possession of Lookout and whose laureis
were won by the slaughter of their fellow
man. Future 0nnprations, will rico M -,nJ