The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-05-01
Registers to Enroll Voters.

We have received from friends in a Coun-
ty west of this, some indignant protests
against any agency by Gov. Werth in the
work of reconstruction. Gov. Worth, as we
are informed, has written to gentleman in
the County referred to, asking him to recon-
mend persons to be appointed Registers
This gentleman is said to be IAN uncom-
promising hater of Republicanism." Our
correspondent says, a more unfair man
could not be selected, or one more bitter to-
wards Union men of both races. If there is
man in the County whom the colored peo-
pie despise, this is the man. He hates Union
men, and loses no opportunity to abuse the
radicals"
We might quote more at length from the
letters we have received, but it is not neces-
sary.
1t seems to be understood, therefore, that
Gov. Worth has been requested by Gen.
Sickles to recommend persons as Registers
to enroll the voters in this State. We pre-
sumo, however, that this will amount to but
little in practice, as the nominations for Reg
listers will be submitted to the Commanders
of the different military districts; but be
this as it may, our loyal people protest in
the most earnest terms against any agency
achaterer by Gov Worth in the work of re-
construction. 3-a
Gov. Worth is an enemy to the reconstruc-
ton act. No longer ago than last Monday
he declared publicly in this City that while
he submitted to the act at the point of
the bayonet, he could not approve it,
He is a practical secessionist or disunionist,
for he has done every thing in his power
since October, 1865, to prevent this State
from returning to the Union. There is no
real difference between those who broke up
tue Union and those who are preventing its
restoration. They are secessionists only of diff
ferent dates Under his administration our
State has passed almost entirely into rebel
hands. All the corporations and nearly all
the Counties are in rebel hands. In Gov.
Worth's appointments he prefers, in nearly
every case, secessiOnists and latter-day war
saints If he appoints sound Union man,
which he very seldom does, it is apparent
that he does it to divide the Republican
party. He has men under him, enjoying
line salaries with little work, who kicked
and cuffed the unfortunate conscripts, and
forced thousands of poor, wool-liat white
boys into the Confederate armies to die in
defence of African slavery. He is cheek by
Jowl with the brutal tyrants who hung wo-
men in his own County to make them tell
Where their husbands were, and who pur-
sued conscripts and Union men with blood.
mounds, and having caught them, tied them
ana shot them like beasts of prey He has
denounced the Congress of the United States
as an unconstitutional" body; and he has
gravely proposed in one of his messages, to
distribute" the colored people of this State
ike SO many blocks of wood throughout the
country.
lhe work OF reconstruction should be in
Tile hands of its friends. Its enemies ought
not to be allowed to touch it. They have
'nus lar marred and INSTRUCTED the work.
ana II they are permitted now to have any
agency in it, the present effort to restore the
''ate Will fail. We hope, however, for the