The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-04-18

dufiso oFoiy pouy w hooP 0ooi' w
have had enough of hot blood and war;
We shall always be opposed to the
"next war;" We did not want the last
one. The New York Neaos, whose Ed
itors of course, took no part in the late
struggle, gives the following advice to
the President. Some friend ought to
put the Neass in mad house:
"Radical journals have, in their recent at
tacks on Mr. johnson, stated, in terms of ac-
cusation, that he contemplates " conyening
another Congress-" Our own Washington
correspondent has referred to such an inten-
ton on the part of the President, and in
Wednesdays News hints at some measure of
the same character when he states that " Mr.
johnson is determined to follow out this
principle to its legitimate conclusion and to
see to it that the Southern States are no lon
ger deprived of their rights by factious
majority The course indicated in these
words would, it is true, be one of apparent
boldness; but no man ever yet has proved
himself able to grapple with revolution who
did not dare to be bold even to daring. Mr.,
Thaddeus Stevens is bold; Mr.. Charles Sum-
ner is bold; Radicalism, in every instinct of
its soul, is bold; and men may abandon all
present hope of dealing with it from the mo-
ment at which Mr. Andrew johnson shrinks
from advancing to its overthrow with the
courage of Cromwell.
The men who occupy the Legislative cham
bers of the Capitol do not we repeat, consti-
tute Congress. Their deliberate denial of
representation to eleven States of the Union,
has, clearly, destroyed the distinctive feature
of the Congressional existence general rep
resentation. AS the sworn guardian of the
rights of the States, it is, therefore, the boun
den duty of the President to use every law
full means of restoring these States to their
place in the Federal Parliament. And, no
other means being open to him for that act
of constitutional duty, he cannot, unless he
lend himself to the wrong by continuing to
recognize the revolutionary bodies in the
Senate Chamber and the House of Represen-
tatives, avoid the obligation to convene a
Congress of the restored Union. The South
ern delegations and the constitutionalists
who now form the minority of the reyolu-
tionary junta at the Capitol, will respond to
the Presidents call, and, throwing open their
doors to all duly qualified members, will,
from that hour have become the Congress of
the United States. Less than a quorum
though they might at first be, they would,
from the moment of their assemblage, have
power to compel the attendance of others ;
and though in the end the revolutionists
would probably constitute majority in both
chambers, the country would, at all events,
have thenceforth been blessed with The fact
of restoration of the Union This is, we
repeat, sworn duty of the Presidents the
necessities of political repose demand it; the
legislative wants Of the country call for it /;
and bold though it be, let Mr.. johnson re-
member that no man who has dared, as he
has done, to cross the Rubicon of the revo-
lutionary power. can sustain himself unless
he rush on in resolute adoption of the Ro
man text Quid times9 Cesarem cehis !''
There is more truth than poetry il
the following, from the Albany Evening
Journal:
"As combinations are rapidly being form
ed at the South, it is patriotism that is I've
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 il
will be enough to secure for any unfortunate
{. citizen social ostracism, business neglect. po
| litical disfranchisement, to prove that he was
true to. the government in the hour of its ex
treme peril"
So faras North Carolina is concerned
the work Of restoration was conducted
on stric tly loyal basis. True and trie(
Union men were in every instance pre-
ferred for office. But we state the fac
that, under the present State admins
tration, these loyal men are being turn
ed out, and original secessionists ant
latter-day war men are being put il
their places. This is not done, we admit
by original secessionists, but by rene
gade Union men, who fell in love will
Davis and the Confederacy in 1864 an,
1865, and who are more untrustw orthy
if possible, than the original war men
The latter are so odious to the peopl
that they are obliged to work thougl
these renegades, who have only an odo
of Unionism about them, and VIII
claim, with an impudence that woul'
startle Satan himself, that they are tn
truest and best Union men in the South
If this turning out of the loyal appoir
tees of the Provisional Governor, an,
putting secessionists and war men il
their places should continue, with
twelve months from to-day there vii
be no original or faithful Unionists i
office in this State. The gist of tn
bargain between the North factio
and the original secessionists is, tina
the former is to bestow Office on tn
latter as consideration for their votes
Office, Office, office, is the guiding-sta
of these people. There is nothing the
would not sacrifice to their love c
office.
MEx1co.-General Ogazon had proclaime
himself President of the Mexican Republic
in virtue of the constitution of 1857, at th
town of Culiacan. The assassins of the Be
gian envoy were being vigorously pursue
by the French police, under the direction
Mr.. Mauray. The Imperialists, under th
command of General Mendez, had sustaine
severe reverse upon the plains of Uruapar
where, it is stated, two hundred prisoner
cIs.NfI ofa1.