The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-10
The Sentlnel---New York Times, and
Tribune on the Situation.

colored people were temporarily deiuded"
by the whites who took part with them in |
the late Convention. The Sentinel also as
sumes to advise the colored peopleas to what
they should do. That paper may as we'll
reserve both its concern and its advice. The
colored people have not asked for either, and
they are too intelligent and too loyal to be
deceived or mjsled by rebel journal.
The Sentinel charges such gentlemen as A.
Fl. Jones, Thos Settle, David Heaton, Alfred
Dockery, G. R. Thomas, R. P. Dick, Calvin
]. Cowles, John Norfeet, D. NJ. Carter, Jas.
Sinclair, and others, who participated in
the Convention, with hypocrisy" is
the word-because they acted in Convention,
and expect to act hereafter in good faith
with the colored people. We say TO the rev
eiend brother, so-called, of the Sentinel,
"Judge not, lest ye be judged" Who made
the Sentinela searcher of hearts Brother
Pell, so-calied, well knows that
"Hypocrisy is the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone"
He must not Judge Others by the standard
he has set up for himself
The Sentinel says it expected portion of
the Northern press would be deceived by the
movement In other words, it knew that
every sound Republican press in the country
would be gratited by the movement, and
would do justice to those who took part in
it-and this it calls deception. The Repub
lican press, like the colorcd people, can take
care of itself without the advice of the rebel
Sentinel
But the Sentinel copies the following from
the New York Times, a pretended Republi-
can paper, and lays much stress upon it:
Information has been received here from
North Carolina that the recent so-called
Union meeting held at Raleigh was sold out
to the rebels OF the ten white men selec-
ted as Committee on Resolutions, nine could
not take the oath required by law.-It was
not Delegate Convention, and only fifty
three of the eighty nine counties in the State
were represented The members were selec.
ted by Governor Holden, and few of his
friends, without regard to political qualii-
cations, other than that they were wiling 10
endorse the policy of the Holdenites. A
| Convention of the unconditional white and
black Unionists will soon be called, and
there will be two tickets for delegates to the
| Constitutional Convention to be organized
under the Reconstruction Bill, one of the
! Holdenites and the other of the Unionists.n
There is no truth in the above extract
There were no rebels in the Convention
|
There was no selling out, and no thought of
it. The members were not selected by Gov
Holden, but were invited by the Union
members of the Legislature. Gov Holden,
being called upon for suggestions, suggested
that such gentlemen as B. s. Hedriek, D. r.
Gaodloe, r. j. P.,well, A. W. Tourgee, A. B.
Chaplin, David Heaton, and other iron
cads" be invited We know of no " Hol-
denites" The writer of this has no "poli-
CYL but unconditional Unionism If there
is to be any discord in the Republican ranks
in this State, it will not be our fault. We
shall not quarrel with friends in any event.
If strife should spring up, we shall be Ger
tain to keep out of it. We are not author
lied to speak for the colored people of the
State, but we have no doubt they will cor
daily and unanimously endorse the action
of the late Republican Convention in Ra-
leigh.
1t is not true that of " the ten white men
selected as committee on resolutions, nine
could not take the oath required by iaw."-
Five of these ten are unexcluded by the How
ard amendment, and can both vote and hold
office under the Sherman act. The other
five have been, and are as loyal as any in the
South. If the ten colored men who served
on the committee had no objection to urge,
we do not see what the Times and Sentinel
have to do with it.
| All the permanent officers of the Conven-
ton were $ iron-clads."
| In striking contest with this extract from
the Times is the following admirable article
from the last N. Y. 7si6une-a paper whose
fidelity to the Republican cause has never
been questioned:
"THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SoUTH
The Freedmen, at every meeting they
have held since the Military bill became a
law, have shown that they know what cti-
zenship means, and that in accepting its
privileges they are ready to discharge its du-
ties. In taxing the ballot they have proved
that they understand how to use it. The
power they suddenly gained they show no
disposition to abuse, and there is not a soli-
tary instance in which coored speakers have
appealed to their people to revenge at the
polls the wrongs of theslave-mart. the whip
ping-post, or the brand-iron They do not
speak of the laws which deprived them IF
| education, of marriage, of property, nor of
the fugitive slave law, nor of the New Or
leans massacre. Their theme is the freed
ON they have, not the slavery from which
they have been redeemed But, while they
are ready to forgive, they have not forgot
ten; while they are willing and anxious to
join with their old masters in rebuilding the
prosperity of the South, they are resolved
not to become in liberty what they were in
bondage-the unresisting instruments of
Southern land holders. With the power to
vote they exercise the right to think, and
those who do not already see the beginning
of a new political era in the South are blind
to the moral Of the great meetings at
Raleigh, Savannah, Montgomery, Macon,
and the many county meetings held in
almost every Southern State. Of equal
importance is the readiness of the 10y
al white men to unite with the
colored men on terms Of absolute equality.
At Raleigh this was especially evident. In
other States the meetings have declared Re
publican principles, but the State Conven-