The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-21

The Sentinel assails Mr.. Bryan, of Wilkes,
as radical" because he offered and after
wards withdrew an amendment to the Con-
stitution, requiring that State Senators here
after to be elected shall always have been
loyal to the United States government. That
paper is both surprised and indignant at Mr..
Bryan. IF Mr.. Bryan be RADICAL then is
President johnson also " RADICAL for he
has declared, time and again. that if there be
but five thousand loyal men in a State to
them should be confided the control of affairs.
And if the Editors of the Sentinel will take
the trouble to go to Washington and ask
the President if he still holds this opinion,
he will tell them in the most emphatic man.
ner that he does. We speak by the book
One of the strongest proofs of the disloyal
feeling of the Sentinel and those for whom it
speaks, is the surprise and Indignation it
evinces at the bare mention ofloyalty as a pre-
requisite for Office Things have got to such
pass in this respect that the organ of Gov.
Worth boots at the idea of loyalty.
The Sentinel is very careful to inform its
readers that Mr.. Bryan served as a Captain
in the federal army. The Sentinel considers
this badge of disgrace. If the State were
fully back in the Union under present aus
pices and if such as the Sentinel had control
of the Convention, it would not be long be-
fore Capt. Bryan would be expelled from that
body for having served in the federal army.
Capt. Bryans offence is that he was not true
to the Confederacy! And yet such as the
Editors of the Sentinel and those for whom
they speak, are to govern loyal men. Never!
Our people will not submit to such degrade
ton. Welcome the Howard amendment
welcome any thing that will relieve our loyal
people from the selfish and polluting grasp
of such politicians! If such men arc to
govern us, then the Union is a humbug and
loyalty an empty sound.
Capt. Bryan, with his colleague Mr.. Smith,
represents noble Union constituency. They
have both suffered in the Union cause. The
people of Wilkes have reason to be proud
that they are represented in the Convention
by such good and true men.
The Petersburg Atler, in an article intro
ducing the recent speech of Mr. Harris, of
Maryland, to its readers, uses the following
language: .
"We publish to-day, in as full form as it
has yet reached us, the remarkable speech of
Hon. BENZ. j. Harris, member of Congress
for the Fifth District of Maryland. That
such speech can be delivered in sight of
the house where the organized murderers
choked Mary Surratt to death, or as is noao
6elieced, hung her dead body, from sohich a
mercymt God had released her pure soul, is
indeed a notable sign of the times, and that
d. a Jacobin Speaker and Jacobin House sat
dumb under this terrible impeachment is
even more significant. -... -...-
One of the participants in the ineffable
infamy, which accompanied that poor lady's
murder, lies in suicides grave, and death
fearful and degraded would as surely finish
the rest of the gang, were it not that there
are crimes too heinous for the penalties of
EARTH" 1856.
The above is gross and libellous attack
on the President of the United States, for he
signed the deatl-warrant of Mrs. Surratt.
Such language is doing more than every
thing else to increase the ill-feeling between
the North and South. Just such As those
who conduct the haaer did all they could
to dissolve the Union and destroy the gov
eminent, and now they are doing all they
can to prevent the restoration of the govern
ment. They are disunionists of the worst
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