The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-25

Mr. ED1roR;-I beg leave to ask on.
aasnoIit,es OF Charlotte why they do city
item, IN the pockets of the tax pavers large
chief might be retained to renort The
Mayor, if that officer be thought noo 10 the
and ne could report to the militarvV Sary,
mander OF the Post what arrests wrrs Uom>
sary as cases occurred. For to tbio Heees-
plexlon must 1T come at last" And w uJm,
use double set officers are l cannot VIVA" na
ceiVe. we have certainly been bnrt0ruoh,
enough with taxes in the last two D 'Ied
obtain TINS much relief. What saw r yua's B.. to
a'herS QUERISTg
We think the questions of "Opo,;.,,
serve consideration. As the m;1;s de-
here, and paid by the Government tIy Is
volunte cred to look after us, we do la, n has
the nee essity of keeping up the civil ""I SEE
lishment. We would like to sec al, th vs' an
GERS OF every grade in the State res;, rn' ON,
thus place the entire management of land ana
into the hands of those indicated Nv "nalrs
amendment of the reconstruction hin Tue
gress has clearly enough manifested ~ ooa-
mination to perpetuatc the continuarno
power of the Radical party, and onnns;. IN
is worse than useless. The comna, pos't'on
patriot people of the South are disfranch;ann9
and nothing is now lett us but either to Inset
the country or submit A Conyen,ion cave
fixed fact: registration will soon commo
We advise all who can to register, and a.
vote for the hest man who is a Candida 10
Charlotte Times
The above is from an anti-Republican NJ.
per, but it takes a correct view in reio.;o.
to the double government we now have oro.
us.
1t is clear that the purpose of the recon
struction acts is to place every State ofFco,
under the absolute control of the military
An officer who has taken an oath 10 sunno,.
the Constitution and enforce the laws of t,,o
State, can not. it seems to us, enforce or,,
order of the military, for the reason that a..
State officers, they have taken an oath will,
which such military order would Come II
rectly in conflict. They must either violate
their oaths of office or disobey the miIitarv
This applies to all State officers, from tIr
Governor down.
We observe that Judge Merrimon has re-
signed his commissioners a.Judge of our su-
perior Courts. A person of his knowledge
of the law can net have failed to be impress.
ed with this view. A successor to him will
be appointed by Gen. Sickles. This success
sor will he no more bound to obey Gen.
Sickles than the Governor and our present
Judges and justices of the Peace are but he
will act under different oath, thus present
ing the strange irregularity of one Judge act
ing under one oath and another Judge under
another
The government should be either civil or
military. Congress has emphatically declar-
ed that the present State governments are
illegal, except in so far as they are upheld
by its authority through the military. This
is the law of;the land. 1t is the duty of all
to conform to this law, and especially is it
the duty Of all State officers. If civil GOV
ern ments exist, then, as we have stated, ev-
cry officer is liable to be ordered at any mo-
ment to do some act which will conflict with
his oath. But if the military be paramount,
as we all perceive it is, is it not advisable
and proper that the State officers should re-
sign, and let their places be filled by citi-
zens who will represent and be responsible
to the military alone?
We also entirely concurwith the Charlotte
Democrat in the following article on the
subject:
THE STATE GOVERNMENTS. "A good
deal is being said about the authority of the
State Governments being superseded by
military authority. Now, we think, consid-
ering the circumstances, and taking into con-
sideration the power given the military au-
thorities by the reconstruction bills, that it
would4be decidedly better to dispense with
the so-called civil authorities entirely, until
the State is restored to the Union. The
civil officers are a useless expense to the peo-
ple-the most of them are afraid to act in
accordance with our State laws, and when
they do act tits not final if the military
choose to interfere Two sets of officers and.
law makers are q nuisance to any people.
I'm the present anomalous state of affairs
We believe it would be better for the people
to accept of military rule, and have their
grievances and difficulties settled altogether
10y military authority, rather than pay the
expense of a civil government that cannot
enforce its laws or.proteet them. We don't
care how soon the State Governments are