The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-10

overrun by emissarics from the North, who
are encouraging the negroes to form secret
associations and to make public paradcs,
demonstrations and celebrations" There is
no doubt of the fact and the recent bloody |
occurrences in Norfolk and Memphis are dis
tinctly traceable to the covert influence of |
such mischievous counsels and to the action |
of the Congress and the Northern abolition
press. The negroes, if left alone, would re-
ceive all proper protection in person and |
rights from those who are their natural |
friends, and there would be neither distur-
bance nor collision. 1t is impossible to pre-
dict what evils will happen under the fanat-
ical pressure that is being brought to bear
upon them daily"
We hear that certain persons are now en-
gagged in offering certain influential colored
gentlemen offices of profit or trust, if they
will come over to their side. See what that
paper said May 18th, 1866: 4
At the same time that the Radicals are
clamoring for negro suffrage, they propose
to disfranchise, for term of years, every
man who participated in the revolution.-
This is the logical tendency of all their
schemes. The government is to be turned
over to the blacks.-They are to do the v0-
ting, and, of course, hold the offices. ! If no
man of the South who took part in the war
is allowed to vote for members of Congress-
or for President or Vice President, or any
other Federal officer, of course within very
small fraction of the whole male population
of the Southern States will be excluded
Under such regulation, and with the test
oath in force, how do these wise Jacobins
expect members of Congress to be elected
Who is to vote for them and who is to be
voted for9 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 me-
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, I" 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 May 18th published as fol-
lows: -
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-C Carolina, that
Gov. Holden's sympathies are with the Rad
icals in their programme of prescription, dis
union and ruin, and he commends him ac-
cordngly, as "a patriot honored by all true
men," sr .tl .a.r
We republish the following from the same
paper of the Gath OF May, 1866, to show how
| itinhamed 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 designed 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 a 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 colorcd 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 we'll know that the
Civil Rights Bill is one of the great bulwarks
Of their liberty.
Here is what the Sentinel of May 21st
1866, said against it: -.
"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 irrenediable evil until repealed"
The Sentinel of Oct. End, 1866, published
an article headed "W. W. Holden's compli
city with Thad. Stevens, /" from which we ex.
tract the following: s4
"In recent speech of Mr.. Stevens, deliv.
cred at Lancaster, Pa, on the 9th of Sep
tember, only five days ago, he explained the
history of what he calls "the enabling act. >
1t will be recollected 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
epea then, he does not pledge himself to vote
for their admission, but suggests other ruin.
GUS and humiliating conditions. He SAYS
that while he was drafting the enabling act
Gov. Hamilton, of Texas, Gov. Holden, Of
North Carolina, and other Southern loyalists
came to his help.
It will be recollectcd that, last Spring, af
ter President johnson sent in Mr.. Holden'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 bill-that they
insisted that he should put in the bill uni.
persal negro sufrage; that Hamilton and
others were with him at q caucus one night
when Hamilton said, (Stevens quotes his
very Words "give them that law, and, al.
though we are now in the minority, and
dare not go home, for should be 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 50 did every
body except the Virginians J"
Our friends further rscollect the manner
in which the negroes of this County were
spoken of in the campaign lastfall-how
their friends were persecuted and abused
The Sentinel encouraged this thing, and en-
I dorsed Mr.. Bledsoe's remarks as follows, in
its issue of Oct. End. 1t said: ~
Mr.. Bledsoe's analysis of the Howard
amendment was able and mastery, and pro.