The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-12
FOT CHU SIdnuarU
To Provisional Governor Worth.

My DEAR SIR - You were good Union
man before and at the beginning of the war,
but Notwithstanding the teachings of good
Ouakers that you received in carly days, you
fsll towards the close of the rebellion and
went in for fighting it out. And after the
war was over, seduced by the love of office,
YOU became the tool of traitors, and in con-
function with secession leaders have lntllc-
ted injuries on your State that neither you
or thew can ever repair. You have sinned
grievously and can only be made clean by
prostrating yourself in the very valley OF
humiliation-you and the secession leaders
have by your defiance, impudence and want
of respect for the government whose mercy
spares your property and lives, caused the
Congress of the United States to declare
YOUR office and reign Provisional, to set up
military rule over the people of the State and
place the traitors in the hands of the negro.
These things are upon u.s. and you. Governor
Worth, and your rebellous partisans, are re-
sponsible for it. Had Holden been elected
Governor and the old Confederate tyranny
had have allowed the people of the State to
accept the Howard amendment, the State
would have been restored to the Union be-
fore now, and that too, without negro suf-
frage; and you, Jonathan Worth, were the
only man to be found in the State whose
greed for office thrust you forward as the leader
of the disaffected to thwart the restoration
and peace of the State. And now you and
YOUR partizans, who have sworn by the gods
YOU would eat more dirt, have to come
down upon your bellies and be controlled by
those military "satraps" that you have SO
much deficd and abused in your filncied Sc
curity- l can conceive of no greater humilia-
ton. Governor than Shermans bill brings
upon you and those rebelious leaders who
have helped you to bring negro suffrage and
military rule upon this people. Instead of
counselling the people to accept the lenient
AMI magnanimous terms offered by the con-
ouerors to the conquered, you have advised
them to hurl them back with scorn. Had
Jefferson Davis or John G. Breckenridge been
at liberty and in a position to speak to the
suffering people of these States they would
have been far moro conservative and less
radical than you and your advisers have been.
say to you, Provisional Governor Worth,
and to your prime minister, Bro. Pel, in all
Christian charity, there is blood upon your
skirts, and that nothing but penitence and
prayer will wipe it out.
Don't 60 to the people now and tell them
Holden has brought negro suffrage and mil
itary rule upon them for it will be false,
and brother Pel teaches, Governor, that we
are not to bear false witness. If Sherman's
bill and its negro suffrage brings evils upon
the people of North Carolina, upon you and
your partiZans, who have defed the authori-
ty that conquered your rebellion and proven
ted the adoption of the Howard amendment,
be all the responsibility.
Now, Governor, though your office is only
Provisional and you will have to bow to the
DEGREES of the Brigadier General that may be
set over you, you may do much to redeem
4ho, No a6 hIrIu iSIO
Call upon YOUR followers to cease clarifying
the rebellion, TO quit making displays and
giving shows to raise funds to relieve the
Imaginary distress of Mrs. JEFF. Davis, and to
betake themselves to the work of reconcile
ton in accordance with Sherman's BILL
Bro PelI and Others will help you preach
submission to the people, and many of your
Confederate followers will, if you will only
give them the cue, be on the stump telling
the negro they consider him a man and
brother, and have always been for his en-
franchisement, in less than sixty days. But
you know your men, Governor, better than 1
do. One thing do know, and that is, that
YOU have only to wag your tail and the
whole rebel pack will wag theirs. You and
your rebellious leaders declared you would
not submit to the Howard amendment,
which left negro suffrage with the people
of North Carolina but as Shermans bill
places many traitors upon level with re-
spectacle blacks, at the polls, shall expect
to see you and your house and brother Pell
and his house go for 1T with ardor.
In conclusion, Governor, 1 want you to
read the recent letter of Ex-Gov Brown of
Georgia, and get brother Peil to keep it
standing in the Sentinel, YOUR paper, and
circulate it as much as possible among the
brethren 1t has an air of truth and honesty
about it that will do You good. He accepts
the situation, realizes our condition, advises
unconditional submission to the requirements
of ShermaH's bill, and that those who were
conspicuously connected with the rebellion
retire to the shades of private life.
Unless you and your rebel friends accept
what is new offered, Governor, and you
should hurI it back with scorn as you did the
Howard amendment, you may look for the
confscation of the property Of leading rebels
next time and when the Northern people,
now goaded by your defiance, demand CON
fscation, it viii be executed at the point of
the bayonet.
Heed me, Governor, before a period shall
beput to pour professional existence, and urge
your people to repent before it is too late,
and comply with the Sherman bill. P.