The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-16
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{ We publish the following from q late mum. 5,
Der ofthe Richmond Times, as specimen Of q
the feeling of the leaders Of the rebellion 10.
wards the Congress 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 Lnteuigenesr. 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 CouRTEsIEs.- When Com
gress adjourned for the Christmas holitlaysA
number of the most prominent and rabid of
upon grand junketing excursion to the city
of New Orleans They were pleasure seek
ers who merited civil treatment, safe passage
over the Southern railroads and fair accom-
modations, at the usual rates. by the publi-
cans of the hotels of New Orleans. These
agitators,g revoIutionists and disunionists,
who are deliberately undoing the work Of
the soldiers who fought to restore the Union;
merited nothin. more. Had Grant, Sher-
man and Meade been the tourists they would
have been fit subjects for the lofty and
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-
ished in the late civil war, were men who
are anxious to strip that Confederate general
and all of his associates of the protection
guaranteed to them by the terms of the res
pective capitulations of Lee and Johnston
They are the men who have Determined
that the President shall be impeached for q
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 tie execution of President Davis, Gem
eral Lee, and even their courtly entertainer,
General Beauregard rdhimself Wade, of Ohio,
the leader of the excursionists, is the trucu-
lent, coarse, mercilcss 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 foul deed of these Congressional
excursionists Vas the enfranchisement of ev-
cry vile negro thief in the District of Colum-
bia, and the Acknowledgement of every gen.
tleman therein who aided or sympathized
. with the Confederacy. They are, to q 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
terriberwrongs which have been heaped up
J on US by these tourists, would fill a dozen
issues of this paper One of the objects of
their visit to New Orleans was to encourage
by their presence, that mousing Congression
al committee which is, at this time, busy at
work garbling testimony and distortipg ev-
cry 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
2 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
over the South the protection of our laws.--
But were these men, who came. red-handed
from their secret caucusses for impeachinr
the President and territorializing the South,
worthy of the graceful and generous hospi-'
talities of New Orleansa We're these associ
ates and avowed endorsers of every theft and
act of brigandage aud murder of Butler, the
pillager and tyrant of New Orleans, worthy
to be honored and made the recipients of an
ovation in the Crescent Cityg These cour-
tesies 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
Monroe sadden the flow of Joy with which
the men who thirst for his blood were enter
tanned by Southern menu
We are informed that these wild, roaring.
savage beasts of Ephesus were" conciliated.''
propitiated. and I" Modified, !" by "thel
courtesy, hospitality and kindness with
which they were everywhere treated.n--f
Faugh Is it the policy of the South to con-
cilate the Radical party by funkcyisnl, FEAST
ing AMI flattery ?li Are the cold and merciless
executioners of the orders of Thad. Stevens
to be feasted and feted by those whom thew
o"i'y ih'ufe anu ouIioSCs AIC Tue COuCn6Iu
people to crawl back upon their knees and
fawn upon Stevens and Wade2 five are to
single out men like Wade for our courtesies.
why not send committee from each South
ern capital to tender ovations to Butler r.,
Indeed, if 'propitiation" Of the Radicals is
what the South should do, let us clamor for
the impeachment of President johnson, swal.
low the. Amendment, and demand the tr1.
al of ex-President Davis by Underworld
We think that the main dificulty would be
the propitiation of that grin and diabolical
old Mohawk. Thad. Stevens; but we might
try the effects of a g notifying and "pro-
pitiatingn COMMITTEES upon him. A deputa- Z
tion of mollifers" might gently lubricate
that old Tartar, wine him. dine him, ride
him out in open carriages, make fattering
speeches to him, and, by judicious presents,
mako him forget the loss of his iron works.
! If the rough and feroeious Wade has been
Modified we think there is strong reason
to hope for the regeneration of Stevens.n u
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