The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-31

nire id which he is rapidly sinking!
The Sentinel charges us with the GLOW
md grovelling" disposition to blacken
he lifelong and more than Roman integrity
If Jonathan Worth" The foundation for
his charge is, staten ent recently made by
is that Gov. Worth was anxious that the
Convention now in session should adjourn
without transacting any business. The
,tatemcnt is true. 1t is true as to Governor
'VOrth-it is true as to the Sentiael-it is
to Gov. Worths particular friends
The Editors of the Sentinel know it to be
rue.
We have made no attack on Gov. Worth's
integrity. We have no unkind feelings to-
wards him personally. We do not believe,
however, that his political integrity is at all
comparable to the Roman standard or even
% the old-fashioned North Carolina stand
ird. We have no confidence at present in his
political integrity. The honest, higll-mn(led
people of tile State have no confidence in it.
md they can have no confidence in it after
his conduct in October last He bctravcd the
Union party, he deserted his Union friends,
md he made terms with the sccessionsts for
their votes. He did this for office. Judging
aim by histacts, this was the sole motive
shat actuated him. Of the thirty-one thou
sand votes he received, not more than five
thousand were cast by loyal Union mem
He was solemnly warned. before he did this,
What construction would lie placed upon his
Ta fol I, y
hat he would disorganize the Union party,
ctard the work of restoration. occasion dis
lnion and strife among the people of the
state, and at last come to be regarded as a
DOL i'll the hands of secessionists. He made
the plunge with his eyes wide open. He
,eds Union man, as Judas acds one of the
twelve. but he is so no longer. He NAV vet
repent, do his first works and be saved: but
lie will not do this as long as he has our
everend and pious friend of the Sentinel for
lis priest and confcssOr. More than Ro-
man integrity" indeed!
We challenge a comparison of records
With Gov. Worth or any of his friends. The
old Wing party ceased to exist in 1852. 1t
was patriotic and useful party as the Dem
!onged to both these parties. The Democratic
party preserved the Union for the space of
eight years after the Wing party had ceased to
exist; but bad men at length obtained COM
p!ete control gifts organization, and so used
1t as to involve the country in civil war
When the issue was joined of Union or Dis
unt0n, like Andrew johnson we broke away
from the Democratic party and took our
stand for the Union During the rebellion
we belonged to the Conservative party, and
now we belong to the Union party That
we were Union man during the rebellion
is proved by our enemies, for they called us
q traitor to the Confederacy and mohbed US;
and that we arc Union man now is proved
by our enemies, for they denounce us as
submissionist, as friend to Sumner and
Stevens. and say we would eat any quantity
Of dirt to get back to the Union. We have
never betrayed either the Democratic party,
or the Conservative party, or the Union par
ty. Gov. Worth betrayed the Union party
last October and turned against his friend
the Provisional Governor, who had honorcd
him with one of the first Offices within his
gift. What n fine model of - more than Ro-
man integrity.'
We repeat we have no unkind feelings to-
wards Gov. Worth. Nothing would CRAFTY
us more than to see him return to his first
love, cast off the pernicious influences that
surround him, and proclaim himself loyal
Union man. But until he does this we shall
oppose him. We shall do this principlc,
for really we are not disposed to assail the
man Jonathan Worth.