The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-14

but this punishment is sell
dom if ever inflicted. We have been
living here and looking about US ..1 for
more*than forty years, and we:havesnot
yet seen any. one with cropped ears. !:
s. We learn that=the co1ored man refer
red to was we'll whipped, as s4white
thieves are well whipped; but the cor
respondent is mistaken in saying he was
/" made to take off all his Clothes" He
was only Invested of his shirt.
Correspondents of Northern newspa-
pers are prone to paint the dark side of
Southern society. They are unwilling
to see any "silver lining to the murky
cloud which is. ever before them. The
| writer of this will give them a couple of
instances of his own knowledge, which:
occurred at the February Term of Wake
County Court, and: which. will prove
that our people have some little regard
for the colored folks. A negro boy
| who had stolen some cotton: yarn was
| brought before the Court. He con-
fessed his offence. His. former master
| plead. for him, and offered to pay the
costs if the Court would release him
without punishment. This the Court
did, admonisling> him to go his way and
steal no more. The Court might have
had him whipped; but, as, he was a
mere youth, as he seemed to be peni-.
tent for his crime, and as his former
master interceded for him, and promised
that he would have an eye upon him
and endeavor to make him an honest,
Industrious man, he was permitted to
go unpublished, as we have stated. The
other case was that of a grown negro
man, who had been sent to the Jail Of,
All adjoining County on the charge Of
larceny. One of his relatives came in
to Court and begged for him. A couple
of white men of character offered 10 go
his bail. The Court made an order to
send thirty miles for him at the expense
of the County, in order that he might
give bail and go to work. But mean
while he broke Jail, came back to Raj
eigh, and went to the Freedmen's Blu
reau and got protection. We have be-
fore us the protection paper he receiv
ed from subordinate officer of the Blu
reau, which says among other things,
Any person violating this order will
be arrested and dealt with in the sever
est and most exemplary manner" After
some words between this officer and the
Sheriff of the County, this negro man
was again arrested by the latter, but he
was bailed, and we suppose is now at
work
We trust the Chronicle will do our
people the justice to lay these two cases
before its readers. They occurred I'M
der the eye of the writer of this, who is
Chairman of Wake County Court. -
We think we know something of the
people of North Carolina, and we feel
sure there is no disposition among our
judges, our juries, or our members of,
the legal profession to do injustice to
free people of color. At the same Term
of the Superior Court of this County at
which this negro man was whipped,
negro woman was tried for the crime of
arson. She had fair and impartial
trial. -Four counsel learned in the law
appeared for her, and two of them adj
dressed the jury in her behalf in an able
and impressive manner We have often
listened to one of her counsel FX-(1oy--
ernor Bragg, but we have never heard
him make a more effective speech than
he did ia this-case Respect was shown,
and full weight was given to the testiIno
ny of colored persons given in the case.
The general belief was that the woman
was guilty. 1t is-more than probable
the jury thought so; but her guilt was
not legally proved beyond all doubt,
and, giving her the benefit of this doubt,
they returned a verdict of not, guilty. =.
There is more truth than poetry in
the following, from the Albany Evening
Journal: - ..': 10 ''.-:--.s -. -: - -.
GAS combinations are rapidly being form
ed at the South, it is patriotism that is he
coming infamous. The man who looks for .
popular favor and official emolument must
be able to prove that he has used his@best
endeavors to destroy the Republic while it
will be enough to secure for any unfortunate
citizen social ostracism, business neglect DO
litical disfranchisement to prove that he was
true to the government in the hour of its ex-
IRENE peril" .,... ....- --... '..-
So f:araS North Carolina is concerned :.