The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-07-31
RALEIGH, N.sC., WEDNESDAY,,
The Board of Registers for Orange.

The Board of Registers for Orange.
We are not disposed to criticise the eappoint-
ments of Registers made by Gen. Sickles, for
the task was difficult one, and the General
no doubt did the best he could with the
lights before him. The whole number for
the State is five hundred and forty three
We are personally acquainted with many of
them, and we know them to be men of in
telligence and proved loyalty. We have
heard complaint, which we believe to be
well founded, that in some cases intelligent
colored men have been overlooked, and those
of inferior knowledge appointed. This may
be traced to the malign influence of Gov,
Worth, who is known to be opposed to the
appointment of colored men as Registers,
and is, therefore, anxious to injure the col
ored people by preferring for this work those
of them who are least qualified for the bust.
ness.
The appointments for Orange are general
ly good. There is but one colored man,
however, on the Orange Board, when, to our
knowledge, other intelligent colored men
were nominated. There can be no objection
to DR.. Swain, or to Messrs, Hogan, Carr,
Hancock and Jordan Swain the latter a
colored man. Thomas Wilson is white
man from Pennsylvania. At a public meet
ing held in Hillsborough, on the 3Oth March
last, this man Wilson presided, and resolu-
tions were adopted of an infiammatory char
acter, intended to obstruct the work of re-
construction. One of the speakers on the
| occasion said: f
| !" When the master sits by and fraternizes
with his manumitted slave as an equal, in
the halls of the capitol, he can readily excuse
if not encourage his daughter in matrimo-
| nial association and alliance with his own
professcd equal" .e
The resolutions adopted declared that
"Congress " had recommended hostilities
upon the South; that while there was
"a spark of manhood left" the meeting
would not rejoice at the passage of the re-
construction acts that, in substance, des-
potism existed over this people. The follow
ing resolution, worthy only of an assembly
of demons, was also adopted
I" Resolced, That we have hopes that it is
| in the ordinary course of Gods providence
| to mend our condition, and finally to relieve
| us from the dominion of Thad. Stevens and
his faction. in his own good time and way
and we shall patiently await the looked for
| event." M sa tlH53
Mr. Stevens was very sick at this time
his death was expected every day, and this
is " the looked for event referred to-
| The chief engineer of this body of traitors
was Josiah Turner, Jr., and the presiding
officer, as we have stated, was his tool, cop
perhead from Pennsylvania. This man Will
son has been appointed Register, and ster-
ling loyalists like Elmore w. Woods and NJ
j. W. McCauley have been overlooked.-
They are both more loyal, more decent, and
more intelligent than Wilson. n
Mr.. Turner, who got up and engineered
this meeting, was member of the Conieder-
ate Congress, and has recently been pardoned
by the President. He was sent to Richmond
by the Union men of this District, with the
hope that he would do something to stop
the war and restore the State to the Union
but when he got there, he collapsed in the
august presence of Jefferson Davis, and did
not dare strike even one manly blow for his
constituents. The close of the rebellion
found him disgruntled Unionist, and by
the close,o the year 1865 he was in full com
munion with rebels and traitors. He is
banned by the Howard Amendment, and
yet he is appointed by Gov Worth, and per
mitted by Gen. Sickles to fill the office of
President of one of odr most important
State corporations, to which he has been
elected since the passage of the reconstruc-
,tion acts, and which provides that persons
banned shall not hold Office in this State
We have thought it our duty to refer to
this man Wilson, so that the public may
know who he is, but it is matter of small
importance whether he is allowed to serve
or not. Orange County will be thoroughly
canvassed by the Republicans before the
election. The colored people of that County
will be fully posted as to their rights and
duties The loyal whites and the colored
voters will register their names. and Orange
will send two Republicans to the Conven-
tion,) in spite of the efforts of Turner and his
tools. 20
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