The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-01

"That those who brought out Gov. Worth
did right, and did what was best for the
State, has been abundantly proven by the
result and by subsequent facts. No propo.
sition can be mere clearly established than
that the defeat of Mr. Holden wasa fortu-
nate circumstance, as every man OF discern
ment must have seen at the time. Perhaps
the testimony of Senator Wilson will salts
ty the Democrat. When Gov. Worth was
in Washington city last, he met Senator
Wilson, in the presence of a number of gen
tlemen who expressed much pleasure at
meeting Gov Worth. Mr.. Wilson remark
ed substantially, addressing himself to the
Governor, "some folks made an ado because
you beat Mr.. Holden for Governor, but, for
my own part, was glad enough of IT,
! Raleigh Sentinel.
If Senator Wilson "was glad enough of
it," it was because it afforded him an oppor-
tunity to impose more degrading terms on
the people of the State.
But what did President Johnson say about
Mr. Hoden's defeat Will the Sentinel dare
say that President johnson is not a compe-
tent witness, that he is not "ruan of dis
cernment"-w it say that he is radical
and an enemy to the South? Here is what
the President said about the result OF the
election for Governor in 1865:
WASHINGTON, Nov 81, 1865.
W. W. Holden, PROVISIONAL GOoer7aor::
Accept my thanks for the noble and eff
cient manner in which you have discharged
your duty as Provisional Governor. You
will be sustained by the Government. The
results OF the recent elections in North-Car-
DINA have greatly damaged the prospects
e tba Ct,to IN ~
mental relations Should the action and
spirit of the Legislature be in the same direc-
ton, it will greatly increase the mischief al
ready DONE and might be fatal. 1t is hop
ed the action and spirit manifested by the
Legislature will be so directed as rather tG
repair than to increase the difficulties under
which the State has already placed ITSELF
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States.
We consider that the above refutes the
statement of the Sentinel and affords album
dant justification for the support we gave
Mr.. Holden in 1865, and for the efforts we
then made to prevent strife and party ex-
element. Let the Sentinel answer President
Johnson if it can, and show that he is man
of no Charlotte Den
We do not believe that Mr.. Wilson utter
ed any such language to Gov. Worth. The
latter is, of course, responsible for the state
ment, for he must have made it to the Edi-
tors of the Sentinel When Gov. Worth was
last in Washington his special business was
to continue, if possible, the use of the cow
hide on the backs of persons convicted of
stealing. Mr.. Wilson does not approve of
such punishments, and he no doubt knew
the object of Gov. Worth's visit. 1t was
not natural, therefore, that MIR. Wilson
should meet him as cordially as stated
Again, Mr.. Wilson knew that Gov Worth
had been elected tor the most part by per-
sons dsatfected to the government, and his
opponent beaten because he was and is q
more loyal man than Gov. Worth.
For these reasons we do not believe that
Mr.. Wilson met Gov Worth In the manner
stated But if it be true that Mr.. Wilson
was pleased, but a few months since, at Gov.
Worth's election, how did it happen that,
when Mr.. Wilson visited Raleigh recently,
Gov Worth did not turn out to meet him,
and show him the respect TO which he was
entitled? 1t was stated at the time that
Gov Worth dined with Mr. Wilson This
is not true. In company with the Senior
Editor of the Ssastinez, be simply hned at
Mr. Wilson.
But this is mere bypFay, and amounts to
nothing. We became convinced In 1865,
when Gov Worth was deliberating as to
whether he would become candidate for
Governor, that he had no special OF particu-
lar regard for truth.
The Sentinel says those who brought out
Gov. Worth did right" They certainly did,
in a rebel sense. Yet the Sentinel, but a few
weeks before he was brought out, gave seven
or eight reasons, as the files of that paper
will show, why there should be no opposr-
ton to the then Provisional Governor. He
was drought OUT for two reasons; tlrst,
because the Provisional Governor thought
proper to recommend to the President that
the application of Gov. Graham for pardon
should be suspended; and secondly, because
certain public men and certain families felt
and saw that if the then Provisional Gov
ernor should be elected, they would lose " the
spoils' and the control of the various State
corporations. This is the whole secret
Gov Graham fretted like spoilt child, be-
cause he was not promptly pardoned, and he
stepped forward ont of spite to mar and de-
stroy the Presidents plan of reconstruction
He found convenient tools, and he did the
work. These people, under the lead of Gov
Graham, do not wish, in the first place, to re-
store the Union. 1t is repugnant to their
feelings to GO back under the old flag. In
the second place, it is against their interests,
for they know that restoration mWst cast
them out of Office and deprive them of the
spoils." Hence their opposition to the
Howard amendment, and their present
purpose to defeat restoration under the
Sherman act, if at all possible. The
only remedy is to abolish them by act Of
Congress. Let them drop through as office
holders-let the existing rebel organization
be abolished, and let the State, with its trea-
sure and its corporations, pass into the hands
of the military, and there will then be no
room to doubt that the State will be recon-