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

men desire"
OF course if there had been no doubt about
forever keeping the colored people in sla-
went to war to break up the government
The Union Of our fathers WAS II slaveholding
Union. This the Sentinel knew, when it
proclaimed in April, 1866, that it desired
the restoration of that kind of Union only.
Stick pin there, and read tine following.
The Sentinel of the 9th April, 1866, said
that it would make no more concessions to
get back to the Union, under the Republi-
can party. 1t wanted to go back on the 23d
only on the basis of slavery. Read what it
said on the 9th inst:
According to the latest programme.
which is said to embody the ultlmatum OF
the Radical majority, ability to take the
oath is one of the most insignificant OF the
exactions required. We are, first, to adopt
an amendment to the Constitution prevent
ing the State from making any dlscrimlnS-
ton in its laws on account OF color; second
Nv, to accord to negroes the right OF suffrage
from and sitter July 4th, 1856; thirdly, to
apree that, between this and that time, there
not allowed to vote; and then, all these
things being conceded, we may be admitted,
provided our representatives can swallow the
test oath
We answer. then, finally, that we prefer
being excluded from representation, indef-
initely, rather than voluntarily make these
oppressive, unjust and Ubiquitous conces-
sions."
Our colored friends can now see the reason
why these people who say the government
robbed them of their slaves" are opposed
and have always opposed equal rights to all
men-they were for the Union on the basis
of slavery, and therefore opposed the giving
of a fair chance and even start to the black
man.
And the following is the issue stated by
the Sentinel of the 9th inst. 1t makes the
issue as to who shall be odious in the eyes
of all men, and denounces all loyal men as
infamous. 1t said:
"Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights
Bills are to crowd our statute books, in high
handed scorn and defiance of the Constitu-
tion, the rights of the States and of the citi-
zens. And we must stand dumb, like sheep
things, for fear that some sensitive patriot,
far or near, will distrust our loyalty" and
call us I" odious" and "traitors!' And this
is to continue indefinitely
So surely as that President johnson shall
live to wage to full and final issue his war
against these men, their injustice will recoil
upon their own heads. 1Heu will become
odious in the eye of history for ages to come
Posterity will stand aghast at their blinds
ness and their w1ckedne.s."
Now what has been the verdict of the
people of the United States, Who is odious
in their sight2 What kind of war did the
Sentinel mean, when it said the President
would wage such an one to a full and final
issuei We can understand it now, why it
was 50 defiant-that paper believed that Mr..
johnson would rally the rebel hosts once
more, and enter the field Of battle against
the Republicans for the establishment of
shareholders Union. That was its calcula-
ton.
On the End of May, 1866, it spokeas fol-
ows:
"The programme of the Committee of Re-
construction is, what we were prepared to
dation and ruin to the South, without any
mixture of charity or humanity. If this
monstrous scheme is adopted, it must be
without the support ofany State of the South
or of the conservative people of the North"
On the Sd day of May, 1866, it published
the following. Herein we can see its venge-
full spirit plainly portrayed:
"The course which they the Republicans
in Congress- are pursuing, if successful, will
result in the extinguishmcnt of all regard
and affection, on the part of our people, to-
wards the Government. They can feel no
attachment for one which only holds them to
Cypress. The Union, thus patched up. will
be merely nominal; while in reality it will be
dscordant, discovered and antagonistic
But we cannot believe that such diabolcal
counsels can ultimately prevail We choose
rather to believe "that a day of retribution
is at hand" and that the vengeance of the
people will speedily descend upon the au-
thors Of this threatened ruin. We shall be
much deceived, if the result of the elections,
this Fall, in the Northern States, does not
teach them lesson that will not soon be
forgotten, and which will be the precursor
of their final exodus from the stage of action
which they have Aisgraced. They will leave
nought behind but record STEPPED in infa-
my"
On the 9Th of May, 1855, it spoke as fol-
lows:
There is no sincerity in their schemes of
They know that the South |
will not accept the abject and disgraceful
conditions imposed and this refusal they |
will make, for the meauest partisan ends. |
The prctcxt for indefinite exclusion. Their |
;olc intent and purpose is to defraud the |
South of her political rights, in order to the |
maintenance of their vile party ascendancy,
while holding her most rigidly to all her OBJ
igations under the Constitution"
And the following of the same date shows
now it regarded the negroes. " If you'll be-
lave yourselves, we wont kill you," is the
of the following:
"The Washington correspondence of a
Boston newspaper says that the South is
'verrun by emissarics from the North, who
re encouraging the negroes to form secret
: and to make public parades,
and celebrations" There is
10 doubt of the fact and the recent bloody
occurrences in Norfolk and Memphis are dis
inctly traccable to the covert influence of
UGH mischievous counsels and to the action