The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-09

ON NORTHERN CoPPERHEADs
\ "He who stands off stirring up discontent
in this State and higgling about negroes, Is
practically in the rebel camp, and encourages
treason He who in Indiana or ONO, makes
war uDon the Government out OF regard TO
slavery is lust as bad."-Andrew johnson,
ut Nashville, June 10, 1865. -s--.s-
HyPocR1sY UNMAsKED.-We have
known all the while that the present
leaders in this State were operating
from behind a masked battery, and
what has surprised us most is that the
President, his cabinet, and the honest
masses of our citizens could not also see
it. They are playing game of hide
and SEEK on a much more grand and
delusive scale than the one they played
in 1s6O-'61, and a game that will, ifnot
speedily broken up, prove much more
disastrous to constitutional government
and republican freedom, if not to human
life and property, than the other did.
Some fifteen months ago, the Presi-
dent announced, in published procla-
nation, his policy Demonstration, and
proceeded, in accordance Herewith, to
appoint provisional Governors for the
various seeded States, making it the
duty of these Governors to call conven-
lions in certain way, and under certain
specified restrictions and conditions, and
requiring that said conventions, when
assembled, should remodel their re-
spective constitutions, and so alter and
amend the same as to harmonic with
the Constitution Of the United States.
Well, what followed ? The whole
country, these secession leaders included,
lauded Johnson and his policy to the
skies. His praise was upon the lips of
everybody, but it was an easy matterfor
u close observer to detect beneath the
covering a secret hatred of the man and
everything connected with him, on the
part of these leaders. They succeeded
admirably, however, in masking their
true feelings until it came to the election
of officers to supersede the provisional
government and representatives to Con-
gress. They could no longer stand it.
The thought of seeing others occupy Of
fees they so much coveted was too much
for them-they uncovered their true po-
sition, and it is strange that any one
should have been mistaken as to what it
was.
If, however, there have been any so
blind heretofore as not to see through
the thin covering, the election which has
Just closed in this state, has so thor
oughly unmasked the false position
which these men have assumed by pro-
Tossing fealty to President ohnson and
his policy, both of which they have ha-
ted in their hearts from the very COM
mencement, that certainly none will be
mistaken in the future as to where they
stand.
They says we are for Johnson's poll
cy," and yet i'll the same breath de-
nounce johnson as a usurper and his
policy as a despotism, and go to the
polls and vote to a man, to sustain these
allegations. Can such men be trust
ed :?
A call is made for a National Union
Convention to be composed alone, of
delegates who support the policy of
President johnson. These secession
leaders go to work, hold packed eau
cuses and appoint delegates who pub
fish cards denouncing the policy Of the
President by declaring his Convention |
and every thing done under it a usurp- |
alton, nullity, and of course, void, and |
its author despot. Was ever incon-
sistency so glaring, or political corrup-
ton better defined? If these men re-
ally disagree with and despise the Pres
ident and his policy as they evidently
do, why do not they come out honestly
ike men and say so? Why do they
endeavor to deceive the public in this
way? Political falsehood and corrup-
ion have we'll nigh ruined the country
already, and it is time the people should
open their eyes and consign demagogues
md political gamblers to the political
oblivion they SO justly merit. 1t is
painful to us to have to expose the cor
'uptions of me in authority in this way,
tut duty we owe to the public de-
hands it at our hands.-Nec6e,m
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