The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-01

OH Pleasantly anu WltuOut SiiStui UdHCc Ut
excess Our people seem to have gladly
seized the occasion amid the enjoyments of
the domestic and social circle, to divert their
minds from the troubles in which they are
involved, and by which they are menaced
by bad and malevolent men. The attrac-
lions OF the season seem to have been more
than ordinarily prominent. Good cheer, in
nocent hilarity, and agreeable interchanges,
have prevailed. We trust that, amid the
common good feeling that has existed, the
calls of charity have not been disregarGed,-
charity to the suffering, the sick, the poor.
the erring; charity to all except such as de-
serve no charity,-those who are seeking the
ruin OF their neighbors and their countrv.-
Sentinel.
The reverend Editor of the Sentinel boasts
that tor certain persons he has no charity.-
We were prepared to believe it, but did not
think he was SO stepped in the service of the
wicked one as to boast of it. Let him hear
if he never reads nowadays, what St, Paul
says:
Though speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, and have not charity. l am
become as sounding brass or tinkling
cymbal."
How can this Minister of the holy gospel
drop on his knees and pray to the Father of
ali mercies to forgive his trespasses as he
forgives those who have trespassed against
him 2" If forgiven only as he forgives, what
must be his fate9 "That old Serpent,
which is the Devil, and Satan" is never more
gratifed than when he discovers hypocrite.
He keeps strict eye on murderers, assassins
and highway robbers, for he fears they may
repent and thus elude his grasp; but he
never troubles himself about the hypocrite
for he knows he is sure of him
We entertain the highest respect for all
the Churches, and for all Ministers of the
Gospel who 20 walk worthy of their high yo-
cation" But on this very account we de-
test the wolf in sleeps clothing" and the
wordly-minded Minister The conduct of
the Senior Editor of the Sentinel should No
longer 90 unnoticed by the Church, the
character of whose noble and most useful
Ministry he disgraces. That Church COM
prises in its membership many of the most
respectable and pious Christians of the land,
while the purity of its doctrines and the
strictness of its rules of living, make it one
of the most efficient and benefcent expo
nents of practical CHRISTIANITY His con-
duct is an injury, not only to the Church,
but to the cause of religion; and he ought to
be unfrocked-" We shall continue to ex-
pose this apostate and pretender before the
upright and worthy members of the Church.
and to hold before his face a mirror in
which he may see his deformity as Others
see it.
| Our people differ as to who are the g bad
and maleyolent men, who are seeking the
ruin of their neighbors and their country"
We have uniformly sought to save our coun-
try. We are seeking to do so now. 1t was
ruined by the leading men with whom the
Sentinel is acting. Not content with this,
they are determined to continue this ruin in
definitely, solely from the love of office. If
to restore the Union at all hazards is to ruin
the country, then we are obnoxious to the
charge but the salvation of "our nsighbors
and their country" depends on the restora-
ton of the Union, and we shall continue to
labor for this result without regard to what
may be thought or said of US. We know of
none who need more charity than those " bad
and malevolent men" who involved the coun-
try in war, and who refused to the last mo-
ment to listen to the voice of peace. They
were " bad" then, and they are had" now.
They were supremely selfish then, and they
are so now. If they ever reflect upon the
past, what must be the retrospect of blood,
| and slaughter, and devastation, and woe,
which they might have prevented, but would
not? Every soldier who has lost leg, an
eye, or an arm may charge his loss to them.
They did 1T. Every poor widow who sits by
her cherries hearth, and looks on her beg
CARED, ragged children, can say with truth
that such "bad" men as the Editors of the
Sentinel murdered her husband, and it may
be, all her sons, in battles that ought never
to have been fought. Every devastated
tract of country, every burnt homestead, ev-
cry scene of ruin, the result of the rebellion,
cries out against these bad" men as the au-
thors of their eountry's ruin. And yet these
men, thus covered with crime-these authors
of all these horrors and all this ruin, still as
pire to guide and rule this peoplel We tell
them they shall not do it. They will be for
ced to relinquish their ill-gotten places, and
to retire to that obscurity from which they
ought never to have emerged. The loyal
alone shall gooern. Traitors and hypocrites
must take back seats, and in doing so should
thank their stars that they are permitted to
remain in country which they have ruined
by their ambition and selfshness.
The colored peopleof this community will
celebrate to-day, the list of January, the an
niversary of their emancipation, by pro-
cession and other observances. Addresses,
we learn, may be expected on the occasion.
Classification of Cotton.
Heneeforth New Orleans quotations for cotton
conform to those Of Liverpool, as they did before
the war. The New Orleaus Chamber of Com
merce have adopted the following resolutions.
WHEREAS, Custom and the usages of trade
have long since established Code of Cotton
Classification and corresponding quotations there
with in the Liverpool Cotton Market that being