The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-26
The President and lIr. seward.

The President and Mr.. Seward.
A correspondent Of the Charleston Nw.
eury, in his account Of the Presidents whit
to this State, says:
Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Seward, until they
experimental, were evidently not confident
with reference to the character Of their 10
ccption, or assured that they could with the
utmost safety travel among the repcntant
rebels of the South. Their minds had been
clearly injected with the extravaqant belief
which prevails at the North, that pilgrims
from that enchanted region periodically hsve
their windpipes severed in the most horrid
manner, and are then suspended likaso many
sepulchral sign-posts at the country cross-
roads. b s..s sa,4 ai,iss
@ More than one person thought % at Ra4
leigh, when the President stepped forward
upon the balcony Of the Marlborough Hotel
to address the assembled crowd, and sud.
denly retreating gave place to I colored
man, who was instructed to jump up and
down theoretically and gymnastically, and
otherwise employ bis avoirdupois and i'm.
peril his valuable existence, in testing tht
strength of thestructure which was to susl
tain the great head Of the Republic.
Others thought likewise at Chapel I'm.
when the students gathered At the n ansion
of Ex-Gov. Swain to welcome the tistin-
guished guests, and in the innocence Of their
hearts-poor fellows, they had forgotten how
to cheer-gave the Presidential party the
same old-fashioned Confederate. Yell they
used to charge with. Perhaps MI. Seward
imagined they were going to charge him
again; and although the vocal commotion
was explained to him before he commenced
to speak, his unsubsided astonishment Was
plainly manifested. 'l,'
The demoralizing suspicion which these
gentlemen brought with them from the
North was still further shown by the very
constant and tender solicitude with which
several detailed cavalrymen watched over the
party and followed them in their perambula-
tions. Indeed, it was this bodily possession
of the President and his Secretaries by the
military, this surrounding of rank, these too
abundant evidences of unweIcome power,
this close following upon his heels Of twenty
: or thirty officers and soldiers in blaxing uni
forms, which, I believe, deferred hundreds Of
citizens, and especially ladies, from paying
their respects to MI. johnson and his staff
It is needless to dwell ON the abatement
that all this prccaution was unnecessary.
There may have been Radicals educated
in the Holden, lBrownlow or Kelley school
who would have gladly used the dagger of
the assassin; but in the hearts Of our own
people there beat but one sentiment-that of
welcome, aud of respect for the man whohss
striven to be the great constitutional break
water to the angry tide that is now sweeping
over the South.n etf Sas
1t was most extraordinary that the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Seward considered themselves
in any personal danger while in North-Car-
ol,na. No portion of our people, except
when under coercion by Mr.. Davis and Gov.
Vance, have ever been guilty Of murder or
assassination. There were murders and ~
sassinations under Confederate rule. Citi-
zene of the United States were shot and
hanged, prisoners were starved to death, and
even, women were roped and hanged until
the blood gushed from their mouths; but
these horrible things have come % an end,
and thereis no danger now, under Federal
rule, that murders and assaasinations win be
renewed and repeated in this Static The
best joke of the season is that Mr.. johnson
and Mr. Seward imagined themselveS 20 loyal
that they we're in personal danger fIcn the
rebels. Will these gentlemen nevsr learn
that these rebel leaders regard thssssss tIs;s
last and only hepey Would they !. 70 about
to kill'' their only hopea What nonsense
| It seems to be generally understood, how.