The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-10

We publish the following from a late num-
Der Of the Richmond Times, as specimen OF
the feeling of the leaders of the rebellion to-
wards the Gongr ess of the United States and
the Northern people. The Times speaks for
the great body of the Southern traitors
There are Northern traitors, represented by
such as the New York World and the Ma
tional Lntelligencer, who will entirely concur
with the Times in these views. But just
such views are the strongest arguments that
can be offered in favor of reorganization
Will the Congress heed these arguments?
"UNDEsERvED GoURTEsIEs.-When Con-
gress adjourned for the Christmas holidays
number of the most prominent and rabid OF
the Radical members of Congress went forth
upon a grand junketing excursion to the city
of New Orleans. They were pleasure seek
ers who meritcd civil treatment, safe passage
over the Southern railroads and fair accom-
modations, at the usual rates, by the publ
cans of the hotels of New Orleans. These
agitators, revolutlonists and disunionists,
who are deliberately undoing the work of
the soldiers who fought to restore the Union,
merited nothing more. Had Grant, Sher-
man and Meade been the tourists, they would
knightly courtesies of the gallant Beauregard
and other disting uished Confederate soldiers.
They are generous and chivalrous foes, to
whom we are indebted for portion of the
scant humanity which has been manifested
towards us. But the Congressional excur
sionists, who were informed, we learn, by
Beauregard that the rights of the States per
shed in the late civil war, were men who
are anxious to strip that Confederate general
oil <>f HI of f>ff 1ru i'm,
guaranteed to them by tn e terms of the res
pective capitulations of Lee and Johnston
They are the men who have determined
that the President shall be impeached for
wise and humane exercise of the pardoning
power and for his earnest exertions to res
tore the Southern States to those rights
which Beauregard thinks were lost some
where in the neighborhood of Appomattox
Court House. They are the men who treat
ed with vile indignities respectful commu-
nicatlon of General Hampton, and ardently
desire the execution of President Davis, Gen
eral Lee, and even their courtly entertainer,
General Beauregard himself Wade of Ohio,
the leader of the cXcursionists, is the trucu-
lent, coarse, merciless Thad. Stevens of the
Senate. He is the embodiment of the coarse,
brutal, insolent vices prejudices and antipa
thies of the Senatorial Radical.
The last foui deed of these Congressional
eXcursionists was the reimbursement of ev
cry vile negro thief in the District of Column
bia, and the Acknowledgement of every gen
tleman therein who aided or sympathized
with the Contederacy. They are, to man
also, in favor of degrading the South to the
condition of territories, and forcing negro
suffrage upon us without a single protection
or safeguard for the white population. But
a bare recital of the insults, outrages, and
terrible wrongs which have been heaped up
on us by these tourists, would fill dozen
issues of this paper. One of the objects of
their visit to New Orleans was to encourage
by their presence, that housing Compression
al committee which is at this time, busy at
work garbling testimony and distortiDg ev-
erv fact connected with the late riots at New
Orleans to the injury of the Southern people.
1t was, we say, perfectly right that these
notorious conspirators against the peace of
the nation and the rights of the South should
have been permitted to pass unmolested
through land which they are laboring to
make unfit for the abode of the white man
by oppressive legislation. They have won
by right of success the rig ht to claim all
over the South the protection of our laws
But were these men, who came red-handed
from their secret caucusses for impeaching
the President and territorializing the South,
worthy of the graceful and generous hospi-
talities of New Orleans? Were these associ
ates and avowed endorsers of every theft and
act of brigandage and murder of Butler, the:
pillager and tyrant of New Orleans, worthy
to be honored and made the recipients of an
ovation in the Crescent City? These cour-
estes to our merciless and insolcnt enemies
may have been polite, but were they calcu-
lated to add to the proud and glorious re
cord of the people of New Orleans Did no
thought of the noble prisoner at Fortress
I I Al, 4, xx-1,S Oh,
the men who thirst for his blood were enter
tanned by Southern men?
We are informed that these wild, roaring,
savage beasts of Ephesus were g conciliated,"
propitiated" and "mollifed,@ by 1.-The
C courtesy, hospitality and kindness with
which they were everywhere treated. y
Faugh. Is it the policy of the South to con-
ciliate the Radical party by t1unkeyiszn, feast
ing and f,ttery? Are the colo and naerclless
execution.rs of the orders of Ylfad- Stevens
to be feasted and fetef by those whom they
daily insult and outraged Are the Southern
people to crawl back upon their knees and
fawn upon Stevens and Wadee IF we are to-
single out men like Wade for our courtesies,
WHY not send IL committee from each South
ern capital to tender ovations so Butler p
Indeed, if precipitation" of the Radicals is
what the South should do, let rs clNnor for
the impeachment of President johnson, swal-
low the Amendment" and demand the trl-
al of ex-President Davis by Underwood
We think that the main difficulty woald be
the Precipitation of that grim and diabolical
old Mohawk. Thad. Stevens; but we might
try the effects of 90 modifying and "pro-
pitiating" committee upon him. 4 deputa-
ton of q mollifers'' might gently Intricate
that old Tartar, wine him, dine him, ride
him out in open carriages, make fiattering
speeches to him, and, by judcious presents,
make him forget the loss of his iron works.
If the rough and ferocious Wade has been
'mollified," we think there is strong reason
to hope for the regeneration of Stevens"
President johnson on Negro Suffrage