The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-08-09
Tri Heeklly gtandafd.
RAIEIGH, n. q. rs
THURSDAY, - AUGUST q. 1866.

inal secessionist, publishes the proceedings
of the Convention of this State, in May,
| 1861, which passed the ordinance of seces-
sion, and boasts that, for the purpose of ex-
posing us, it will send the proceedings to
the Washington Chronicle, and ask their
publication as a matter of simple justifica-
ton for the action of the Senate, in rejecting
Mr.. Holden's appointment as Minister to
San Salvador ..a--.ros r.e p .a...t..
So it seems the Sentinel has become one
of the champions of the so-called radical
Senate. 1t likes Mr. Sumner and Mr.. Wade
better than it does the Union men of its own
State. '
1t will be time enough for the Sentinel to
complain when we ourselves complain OF our
rejection.
The Editors of the Sentinel would not
dare to go to Washington in person, and
thrust their reasonable sheet into the hands
to attempt such thing, Col. Forney would
direct one of his employees to show them the
door. 1t is cowardly to do that by letter or
by mail which could not be safely or agree
ably done in person.
Our record is well known in Washington.
Congress is well-informed as to the circum-
stances under which the ordinance of seces-
sion was passed in this State. 1t knows
that the Union members of the Convention
acted under duress. This is proved by the
unanimous vote in favor of secession; and
Congress, therefore, in its proposed amend
mcnt to the Constitution, specially omits to
put members of State Conventions under the
ban. If Mr.. Badger, G. r. Thomas the
writer of this, and other members of the
Convention, who seriously thought of voting
against the ordinance, had done so, they
would have been hung up by the neck in the
Capitol square. 1t is possible that Mr.. Bad
gers age and illustrious character might
have saved his life, but he would have been
Kissed and insulted and driven from the
State. The Union members, headed by Mr..
Badger Gov. Graham, and Mr. Brown, tried
to make stand for Middle Confederacy,"
but the effort was like hurting broom
straw against raging tempest; and Gov.
Graham, to maintain his usefulness as Con-
sentative, felt obliged to announce, after his
defeat for the Presidency of the Convention,
that he was not in favor of Middle Con-
federacy."
We repeat, our record is well known in
Washington We have the confidence of the
President, of Mr.. Seward, of Mr.. Stanton, of
the great body of the members of Congress
and of the Chronicle The iSentinefs penny
whistle will never be heard in Washington.
But if it should, it will be known, as we now
state, that Mr. Pell, the Senior Edior, was
first Union man-then a fanat;cal war
preacher, praying for Davis and his despot-
ism, and for Vengeance on the whole NORTH
troops reached this place-then supporter
of the provisional overnment-then, by de-
grees, a fanatical secessionist, and now per-
secutor of Union men and a rank hater of the
government of the colored people, and of the
whole North, with the exception of such
as Vallandigham and Ben
Wood. And that Mr.. Gales, the Junier Edi-
tor, is the identical person who on the 22d
of February last, called the Union flag "a |
rag" and refused to walk under it; and |
who, when charged with it, instead of put
ing his mouth in the dust and expressing
sorrow for his conduct, spoke of it in the
Sentinel as trivial circumstance" which
ought not to be used against him. These
persons are the metropolitan organs of Gov.
Worth. They represent him in everything
We cannot better express our opinion of their
attachment to the Union than by saying,
hat they think more of one of jefferson
)avis's old pocket handkerchiefs than they
10 of the American flag. They hate us be
ause we are true to that flag, and pursue us
n that account with malice and mean
ess which has no parallel, save during the
wful days of the Davis despotism.
The Sentinel says we signed the ordinance
f secession with a new gold pen," which
re said we intended to preserve &c. This
not true. We signed with the pen with
7hich others signed, and we did it with
eavy heart. We had an old gold pen at
he time, one of the best we ever put to pa
err This pen was stolen from us by some of
he friends of the Editors of the Sentinel
he Georgia troops-when they mobbed us
IT our Union sentiments in 1868, at the in
Ligation of Mr.. Davis, the Editors of the
;enti1ael, and other bloody war men.
The Senior Editor of the Sentinel knows.
hat few days after the passage of the Or
finance of secession meeting of the Con-
ervative members of the Convention was .
cid at the house of the Senior Editor of this
aper, the object of which was to devise q.
leans to resist and check the secession feel
1g in this State 1t was held with closed
yindows and doors in hot weather, and the
iscussions were conducted with suppressed :
oices. This was formerly the Union party; -.
ut if any member of it had said publicly !
e was an Unionist, or that the attempted
ecession was only causeess rebellion, he
iould have been shot or hanged This
lorious party, first Union, and then called !
Conservative, finally emerged from the dark ,
ess that enveloped and oppressed it for four ;
,ng years, and it now stands out before our ,
eople rallying point for all true men, and ,
he only hope for nationality and patriotism