The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-06

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voted fort The effect will be to totally de-
prive the South of all representation, unless
by negroes We have no fear that so mon
strous proposition will receive the sanction
of the American people"
Of the same date is the following:
eff there be any in the North so credu-
lous as to think the South will agree to ne
gro suffrage as measure through which she
| is to regain Congressional representation,
let us show when the occasion may offer,
how little they know Southern men, If the
Radicals shall say to the South, " Let the
negro vote and you can again have voice
in the legislation of the country" the South
may, with one will and accord, say No"
The Sentinel of Nay 18th published as fol-
lows:
I'm the Washington Chronicle of the nth
and 18TH, Forney quotes largely from Ex
Provisional Gov Holden, to the prejudice of
the President and his policy of restoration.
Forney has not been slow to perceive, what
is now notorious in North Carolina, that
Gov Holden's sympathies are with the Rad
icas in their programme of prescription, dis
union and ruin, and he commends him &C
cordingly, as I" a patriot honored by all true
men,"
We republish the following from the same
paper of the Gath OF May, 1866, to show how
it inAamed the public mind against Congress
"The spirit of this body grows no better.
The ready adoption Of resolutions or meas
ures which look to the deeper humiliation of
the South, may be dcsi gned to alarm US,
simply with the view of making us surren-
der quietly to their purpose in regard to ne
gro suffrage. Feeling that it is impossible
to subordinate the white people of the South
to the support of party which has constant
ly sought their ruin. for the sinister purpose
of holding on to the reins of government,
they have persuaded themselves that their
only hope is from the colored population
they seem ready to adopt any system of tax
alton however oppressive, or any scheme of
humiliation however degrading, to bring US
to their own terms"
Our colored friends well know that the
Civil Rights Bill is one of the great bulwarks
of their liberty.
Here is what the Sentine! of May s1st,
1866, said against it:
1.-THE civil rights bill exhibits both the
same bad spirit and the same lack of states
manship in the Congress. and beth will prove
an irremediable evil until repealed"
The Sentinel of Oct. end, 1866, published
an article headed Nv. w. Holden's compli-
city with Thad Stevens" from which we ex-
tract the following:
ain recent speech of Mr.. Stevens, deliv-
cred at Lancaster, Pa, on the 9th of Sep
TENDER, only five days ago. he explained the
history of what he calls the enabling act"
1t will be recolIected that Mr. Stevens, and
those who act with him, boldly affirm that
they will not consent to the admission of the
Southern States simply because they adopt
the Howard amendment. He declares that
all of them must adopt universal negro suf-
frage before he will give his consent, and,
eren then, he does not pledge himself to vote
for their admission, but suggests other ruin
Gus and humiliating conditions. He says
that while lie was drafting the enabling act.
Gov. Hamilton, of Texas, Gov. Holden, of
North Carolina, and other Southern loyalists,
came to his help.
1t will be recolectcd that, last Spring, af-
ter President johnson sent in Mr.. IIolden's
nomination as Minister to San Salvador, he
went to Washington City and remained there
ten or fifteen days. This was the time,
Thad. Stevens says, that Mr.. Holden. with
other loyalists as above stated, came to help
him to fabricate that enabling bll-that they
insisted that he should put in the bill uni
rersal negro outrage; that Hamilton and
others were with him at caucus one night,
when Hamilton said, (Stevens quotes his
very worCls,) "give them that law. and, al
though we are now in the minority, and
dare not go home, for should he murdered
give us that BILL and we can carry Texas
on the side of the Union by twenty-five thou
sand majority" Stevens says further, * Gov.
Holden told me the same, and so did every
body except the Virginians ~
Our friends further recollect the manner
in which the negroes of this County were
spoken of in the campaign last fall-how
their friends were prosecuted and abused
The Sentinel encouraged this thing and en-
dorsed Mr.. Bledsoes remarks as follows, in
its issue of Oct. end. 1t said:
Mr.. Bledsoe's analysis of the Howard
was able and mastery, and pro-
duced a decided impression upon the au-
diencc."
Mr.. Bletlsoe was particularly abusive of
the colorcd people. And so were all the
.Scntiners friends at that time. Indeed. on
the 18th of Octoberit styled them the " God
cursed sons Of Ham" What respectable
colored man can trust the new professions of
love made by such man or such paper,
though he be preacher, so-called.
In our next, we shall continue these c1-
tracts.
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