The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16
Mr.Pool-The sentinel.

slanderous attacks on Mr. Pool 1t affects to
regard Mr. Pool as having changed since he
was elected Senator by the aid of some of
Mr. Graham's friends, and with its own ap-
proval and that of Gov. Worth, when the
truth is, as every intelligent person knows,
: Mr.. Pool holds precisely the same views he
held then. He was an unconditional Union
man then, and he is so now. He regarded
the Union then, as he did during the whole
rebellion, as the paramount. good, and be SO
regards it now. The difference between Mr..
Pool on the one hand, and Mr. Graham, Gov.
Worth, and the Sentinel on the other, is, that
Mr.. Pool has never abandoned his Union
principles, while the latter have. 1t will
avsitthese gentlemen nothing to say that they
were once good Unionists. They are not SO
noW Benedict Arnold was a true Wing up
to the time he clutched the British geld.
The American service contained no brayer
or more useful man up to the, hour when he
wasitempted and fell. Mr.. Pool has fought
good fight and kept the faith.n Hence the
coarse yituperation heeped upon him. "
Does any one doubt that he is thus assail-
ed on account of his sound Unionism Why,
the burden of the charge against him is, that
he entered the Legislature of this State in
1864 for the purpose of embarrassing the
rebellion and stopping the war;" This is the
charge. He pleads guilty to it. Are those
who make it Union men2 Will any person
possessed of grain of sense say they are 2
So Out of their own mouths are they condem-
ned" s.......,
They say Mr.. Pool is unworthy because he
'iembarrassed the Confederacy." The Senior
of the Sentinel did the same thing up to the
middle of the year 1863 Gov. Worth never
desired the success of the Confederacy. In
the latter part of 1862, or early in 1868, Gov.
Vance seriously entertained a propositior
from Gov. Stanly to meet him at Kinston. tS
tredt for peace. The Senior Editor of this pa
per earnestly advised Gov. Y. to do this, and
we believe he would have done it but fu.
counter advice from Gov. Graham. In o.
tober, 1868, Gov. Graham wrote letter 70
the Fayetteville Observer, taking ground fer
negotiations and peace. The Editors de-
clined to publish the letter. but it was ce'
tainly written and sent to them for public,-
tion. What was all this but embarrassing
the Confederacyl" Were these gentlemrn
mean or treacherous," or unworthy
because they did these things9
But we 60 further and state. 1.-THE author
ity of " The Last Ninety Days of the Wal'
Substantially from the pen of Gov. SwaiI)
that Gov. Graham, on the 9Th of April, 1856,
was thoroughly convinced that " the Con-
federacy" was gone, and that it was . the
duty of the State Government immediatelytO
move for the purpose of etfecting an adjust
ment of the quarrel with the United Stats"
Gov. Graham then went to work with much
energy to "embarrass the Confederacy ind
stop the war" According to the Sentinel,
he broke his faith to '' the Confederacy by
advising State action to stop the wtr."
The time had at length arrived when, in his
judgment, it was "the duty of the State i'm
mediately" to " stop the war" Pity thar he
postponed this movement so long. Pity that
he was wanting in that sagacity and 'iore-
sight which led Mr.. Pool, Mr.. Dick, and
Others to exert themselves to ''stop the war;
in 1854. Pity that so many brave men we're
slain, such wide regions of country ravsged
and desolated, and so many calamities pour
ed upon our heads, because Gov. Graham
and Gov. Vance could not see as far ahead
as Mr. Pool saw; or. if seeing as he did, that
they did not have the nerve to go with him
in his efforts to stop the war" we drop
the curtain over what must be their feelings
when they reflect on their awful mist AXE, to
give it no harsher name They "embarrras-
sed the Confederacy," as Mr.. Pool did, but
their treason to it came too late to save one
life or to turn back even one wave of desoa-
ton and ruin. The best evidence Of Mr..
POOLS craftsmanship, and of his fitness to
serve the people is, that he saw and labored
to avert the ruin which his present oppo-
nents, from want. of craftsmanship OF from
wicked PRIDE, literally pulled down upon
their unhappy country. I93.