The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-10
The Enemies Of the south.

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The Enemies of the South.
One of the greatest obstacles in the way of the
complete and speedy restoration of the late rebelli
ous States has, unquestiOnably been the mischiev-
ons course pursued by some of the Southern news
papers. We are glad to recognize disposition
upon the part of some to disseminate correct
public sentiment among their readers with regard
to their duty under the new order of things
There are Others, however, whose editors seem
determined to keep alive the old issues, and to
stir up feeling of alienation and enmity against
the government. The most persistent of this
class is the Richmond Erdminer, the columns of
which are filled from day to day with such mate
rial as the following:
'To what end Of practical advantage, even to
the individual interests of those who have prac-
tised it. has all this selfimposed humiliation tend
ed Has the progress Of reconstruction; the re-
admission of the Southern States to participa-
ton in the government, towhich they were forci-
bly, detained, been accelerated; the truculent an
linus of the Radicals sutdued, the gratuitously
assumed partiality of President johnson for the
South strengthened, by the AFFECT alacrity with
which Southern leaders have kissed the toe of
power and embraced the uplifted rod of chastise-
ment?"
1t is easy to imagine the tendency of such arti-
cles as these, spread daily before people recent
ly in arms against the government, and whose
feelings toward it cannot be other than callous, if
nothing worse. If, the majority of sensible
Southern men acknowledge, the great questions
at issue have been decided, and that decision has
gone against those who appealed to arms, does
not common sense teach that it is utter folly to
continue even spirit of antagonism to the gov
eminent? What is to be gained by it in the end
These men whom the Examiner criticises SO Sc
yerely really the best friends of the Southern
people But what encouragement is there for the
people who are fed upon such stuff as the follow
ing to return without reservation, to their loyal
ty and allegiance?
1.-The unworthy establishment of those who
should have fifty indicated the dignity and hon.
or of the South has outraged propriety and in
? vited the contemptuOus oblOquy and final degra-
grafton which is sought to be visited upon us by
] those enemies of the South who embrace the pc
Rod of her sorest affection as the opportune oc-
casion of venting their long-cherished and insa-
/ tate malice"
7; Now, the writer of the above certainly knows
+; that just such conduct upon the part OF the
Southern people as his advice, when followed
leads to, has been the great barrier in the way Of
I; the readmssion of the Southern States to par
/ ticipation in the government" We do not be-
! lieve there is any considerable number of men in
: the North who want TO vent any sort OF malice"
j or to visit any obOquy or degradation whatever
! upon the Southern people. We are for union
! and harmony of feeling between all sections of
our common country, but it cannot be promoted
I by such Journals the Ehansiner while it pur-
] sues its present policy. The following conclu-
ding sentence of the article under consideration
! is nothing more than an inflammatory appeal to
the old rebelliOus spirit which has been produc-
! tive of so much ruin to the South:
''Oh for some examples of moral heroism that
Z would dare rebuke this trucking spirit, and by
{ their own lofty dignity give heart once more to
the outraged and dropping manhood of the South,
! which should never blush in mortal presence, but
immortal in its instincts and history, should glow
forever at the thrilling memories of Manassas,
Shiloh and Charlottesville!
While the Southern journals continue to indulge
Z in Surn nprniciOuS II is uSplpSS for the
people of that section to look for their enemies
+ among the Radicals" Their worst enemies are
those of theirvOwn hOusehold.-Wash. Chronicle.
The above from paper which is supposed
to enjoy the full confidence of President
Johnson's administration, is worthy of con-
: sideration. The spirit referred to by the
! Chronicle, as characterizing certain journals
in the South, is doing serious injury to the
!. cause of restoration. A paper in this State
, for example, which has the confidence and
is the organ of the present Governor, de
!; nOunces the peace men or Union men of this
State as having "meanly deserted the cause
of the Confederacy, so-called and that paper
seizes every occasion to compliment and laud
those Southern leaders who were conspicuous
/; actors in the crime of the rebellion. Such a
course is not only greatly inju.ing the work
/ of restoration, but if persisted in after the
States shall have been restored, it will lead
to the most desperate, and, it may be, bloody
feuds among our own people The day has
gone when Union men in the South can be
called trsitors witt is-punity. The, viii, il
necessary, take their cyn cause into theil
own hands, and visit those who would thus
degrade them with swift vengeance. For
/ merly, it was glory enough for certain Con
federates to traduce, 'villify, prosecute, mob
and murder the Union men of this State
but the "old flag" now floats, treason has
been crushed, and the followers and apollo
gists of Mr.. Davis are in no condition tt
put on airs"