The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-02

The CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS have nassed
off pleasantly and without disturbance or
excess Our people seem to haveagladlv
seized the occasion, amid the enjoyments Of
the domestic and social circle, to divert their
minds from the troubles in which they are
involved, and by which they are menaced
by bad and malevolent men. The attrac-
tions of the season seem to have been more
than ordinarily prominent Good cheer, in
nocent hilarity, and agreeable interchanges.
have prevailed We trust that, amid thu
common good feeling that has existed. the
calls of charity have not been disregarded,-
charity to the suffering, the sick, the poor.
the erring; charity to all except such as de-
serve no cbarity,-those who are seeking the
ruin Of their neighbors and their country
Sentinel.
The reverend Editor of the Sentinel boasts
that for certain persons he has no charity
We were prepared to believe it, but did not
think he was so stepped in the service of the
wicked one as to boast of it. Let him hear,
if he never reads nowadays, what st. Paul
says:
although speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, and have not charity. am
become as sounding brass or a tinkling
cymbal."
How can this Minister of the holy gospel
drop on his knees and pray to the Father of
all mercies to forgive his trespasses as he
forgives those who have trespassed against
him 2" If forgiven only as he forgives, what
must be his fate2 "That old Serpent.
which is the Devil, and Satan, !" is never more
grati6ed than when he discovers hypocrite.
He keeps a strict eye on murderers, assassips
and highway robbers, for he fears they NAV
repent and thus elude his grasp; but be
never troubles himself about the hypocrite.
for he knows he is sure of him.
We entertain the highest respect for all
the Churches, and for all Ministers of the
Gospel who " walk worthy of their high vo-
cation" But on this very account we de-
test the wolf in sleeps clothing" and the
worldly minded Minister. The conduct of
the Senior Editor of the Sentinel should no
longer go unnoticed by the Church, the
character of whose noble and most useful
Ministry he disgraces. That Church COM
prises in its membership many of the most
respectable and pious Christians of the land,
while the purity of its doctrines and the
strictness of its rules of living, make it one
of the most efficient and benefcent expo.
nents of practical Christianity. His con-
duct is an injury, not only to the Church,
but to the cause of religion; and he ought to
be " unfrocked" We shall continue to ex-
pose this apostate and pretender before the
upright and worthy members of the Church,
and to hold before his face a mirror in
which he may see his deformity as Others
see it.
Our people differ as to who are the bad
and malevolent men" who ARE seeking the
ruin of their neighbors and their country"
We have uniformly sought to save our coun-
try. We are seeking to do SO now. 1t was
ruined by the leading men with whom the
Sentinel is acting. Not content with this,
they are determined to continue this ruin in
definitely, solely from the love of Office. If
to restore the Union at all hazards is to ruin
the country, then we are obnoxious to the
charge but the salvation Of Tour nsighbors
and their country" depends on the restora-
ton of the Union, and we shall continue to
labor for this result without regard to what
may be thought or said of us. We know of
none who need more charity than those bad
and malevolent men" who involved the coun-
try in war, and who refused to the last mo-
ment to listen to the voice of peace They
were bad" then, and they are "bad" now.
They were supremely selfish then, and they
are so now. If they ever reflect upon the
past, what must be the retrospect Of blood,
and slaughter, and devastation, and woe,
which they might have prevented, but would
not2 Every soldier who has lost leg, an
eye, or an arm may charge his loss to them.
They did it. Every poor widow who sits by
her cherries hearth, and looks on her beg
CARED, ragged children, can say with truth
that such "bad" men as the Editors of the
Sentinel murdered her husband, and it may
be, all her sons, in battles that ought never
to have been fought. Every devastated
tract of country, every burnt homestead, eS-
cry scene of ruin, the result of the rebellion,
cries out against these bad" men as the au
thors of their country's ruin. And yet these
men, thus covered with crime-these authors
of all these horrors and all this ruin, still as
pire to guide and rule this people, We tell
them they shall not do it. They will be for
ced to relinquish their ill-gotten places, and
to retire to that obscurity from which they
ought never to have emerged. The loyal
alone shall gooern. Traitors and hypocrites
must take back seats, and in doing 50 should
thank their stars that they are permitted to
remain in country which they have ruined
BY their ambition and selfshness.
The colored peopleof this community will
celebrate to-day, the 1st of January, the an
niversary of their emancipation, by a pro-
cession and other Observances. Addresses,
we learn, may be expected on the occasion.
Classification of Cotton.
Henceforth New Orleans quotations for cotton
conform to those of Liverpool, as they did before
the war; The New Orleans Chamber Of Com
merce have adopted the following resolutions.
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have long since established q Code of Cotton