The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-12


The following article from the last numh
of Harper's Weekly should be seriously oos
sidered. The course of President Jobrsa
has been most singular. He will not y
permitted to continue this course. Cono,o,'
will re assemble in November. He kno~a
what is coming. He will attempt to mr.
duce trouble. We trust the loyal peopla oe
the nation will be ready for him. The r..
gress must be sustained at all hazards. ~.
property, the lives and the liberties espec;.,
ly of Southern loyalists, are bound I'D With
the Congress.
FoREwARNED IS FoREARMED.-Tba o.,
| perience of the last six years should baA
taught us that even in the United stat.
there is no security against civil trouble !
more appalling introduction to it M DH
ton ever had. Yet to the very moment &C.
the actual blow it was considered imposs;bIT'
The republic was charmed. Other conntr;s'
had suffered, but we were exceptional
Wars were over, and however loud the tbro,.
of violence it would pass as an idle word
The method of the Southern madness w..
not needed. The plainest declarations we "a
regarded as political gag" The most cyl;
dent preparations were unseen or unmindoa
1t was said that Senator Seward would riso
in his place, and, in the midst of the noo,
courteous but crushing anti-slavery sncacb
turn to Senator Butler, who sat behind him
and hold out his thumb and finger FIR
pinch of snuff. The Carolina Senator avert
ing his head, would extend his box 70 b;o
colleague from New York, who still conIJ
not see any thing in the Southern speechss
but party rhetoric. 1t was a game ther
played in the Capitol. 1t was supposed
that they would VOW secession and disunion
until after election, and then nobody womb
be so sound and earnest a Union man os
Senator Stewards excellent friend from Geor
gia, Senator Toombs. 1t is only crv Of
wolf! wolf! said comfortable public opinion
But one day the wolf came.
| Is it worth while to return to that ohost,,
selfdeception of six and eight wears aoo9
Is it any more foolish to believe that the Pre-.
sident will push the present extremity to an
armed solution, if he can, than it was to br.
lieVe that the secessionsts would take arms
at the first favorable moment? Andrew
johnson is at bay. He is conscious of fine
contemptuOus condemnation OF his country
and OF the doom to which history will con-
sign him. He is ignorant, passionate, and
headstrong. He is surrounded bv the worst
demagogues- Fernando Wood. Jeremiah
Black, and men in sympathy with them. He
is the constitutional COMMANDMENT. Chief of
the National forces, and he has told ia how
he interprets the Constitution. After lono
and exasperated struggle with Congress. in
which it was supposed that he had been so
bound by the laws as to be poweress, if not
to have acquiesced in the inevitable, he sud-
denly assumes the defensive tlefes the un-
questionable public opinion of the country,
quarrels, under polite phrases, with General
Grant, and knows that within ninety DAYS
Congress will assemble and will probably
impeach him. Has he done all this for the
sake of being impeached Has he done it
with the intention of placidly yielding when
he is impeached, and going humbly out of
office Or does he mean, if possible, to pro-
woke an armed crisis
We learn, upon good authority, that there
are ten thousand men in Maryland called
militia, armed and under the command of
rebel officers. Not long before Mr.. Stanton
was suspended a requisition came from the
Governor of Maryland to the War Depart
ment for batteries, which the Secretary refu-
sed For what purpose is such a body of
men so armed and so differed? We do not
an alarm which is not foolish. Itmay be all
untrue story, but it is not in the least improb-
able that the President intends some action
hostile to Congress. 1t may be in the guise
of resistance to the process and results of
Impeachment. 1t may be in pursuance of
plan to issue an amnesty and to assemble
new Congress. The wildness of the plan
and its futility do not make it improbable
If the President knew the feeling of the
country he might pause. But he does not
know it. He can not know it. He is sur
rounded and led by men who misrepresent
it; and to General Grant, the true friend of
the country in the Cabinet, he does not listen.
The times are grave. No man should de-
ceive himself or "deride," with the New
York Tribune, the imminence of trouble
To be forearmed against danger we must be
We need not, indeed, imagine
that we are already Mexican:zed; but we
ought certainly to reflect that in revolu-
tionary period, when the country still trem-
bles with civil wal, and peaceful order is not
yet restored, a desperate, ignorant, and obsti-
nate Chief Magistrate may plunge US into
very serious difficulty"