The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-05-01
Georsia-Treason Rebuked.

GeOrSla-TreaSOn heDukeQs
The following correspondence has taken
place between Gen. Pope, commanding the
Georgia district, and Gov. Jenkins, of
Georgia:
Gen Pope asks Gov jenkins, if he had
seen General Order No. 1, issued April 10th,
in reference to organizing the State under
the military bill, before he Gov. Jenkens)
issued the address to the people of Georgia,
advising non-action until the question was
decided by the Supreme Court.
Gov Jenkins replies that he had suppos-
ed that he was exercising such freedom in
expressing of his opinion relative to public
matters, as seems still accorded to citizens of
the Republic, and did not imagine that it
was abridged by the accident of the writer
or speakers holding Office. In the future,
he should do and say what he believed was
required by duty and his oath ofofice. This
the Governor hopes will not involve either
conflict or controversy between them in the
execution Of their respective trusts, as he
thinks it need not. Everything of this char
acter he desires to avoid.
Gen. Pope says, in reply, that Gov. Jen
kins' explanation is satisfactory, so far as
the past is concerned. But, being sent to
execute the laws of Congress, he will carry
] out the provisions of the military bill, which
recognize the existing State governments as
| merely PROVISIONAL the object being to al
low these to continue for the administration
of State laws during the progress of recon-
! st1zction. Had Congress contemplated OPP
position from the civil authorities, it would
have legislated the State governments out of
4 hiatt ,ao sx,I
machinery of the States shall not be per
! verted to Illustrate the execution OF the laws.
Civil officers are required not to use their in
Asence to prevent the people from submit
| ting to and carrying out the laws of Con-
gpess.
After discussing the matter fully, he says
1 that he will be compelled to remove all Of
ficers, who, while in Office, use their influence
/ to prevent the execution of the laws, but
arspes that harmonious relations may con-
tinue between the military and civil authori-
| ties.
I We noticed in the papers recently, but did
not publish this letter of Gov. Jenkins, da-
] ted at Washington, in which he advised the
people of Georgia not to accept the Sherman
act until the Supreme Court could pronounce
upon it. We are glad that Gen. Pope has
! administered this rebuke 1t is well-timed.
But such Governors as Jenkins, Orr, Worth,
and the Mississippi Governor-we have for
gotten his name-can not be trusted in the
work of reconstruction. They need con-
\ staut satching, and they will give trouble
to the commanding Generals. Congress
I ought to have wiped out the rebel State Or
| gaRizaHaons in the reconstruction act 1t
will mot be too late to do this when that
body 10 -assembles in July.
Brew. Maj. General Nelson A. Miles, Col.
4eth Infantry, has been assigned to this
State ax Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
mans Bureau. Gen. Miles former course is
an earnest that the affairs of the Bureau will
be we'll administered. He is brave and &C
eomplished officer, and possesses in high
deg-ee that indispensable requisite to useful
ness, firmness and decision of character.
We learn from Col Cogswell, recently in
command of this post, that the following
rations have beeen issued by the Bureau in
Raleigh, for The ten days ending April Goth:
To the sick in hospitals 1865; to destitute
whites 1925; to destitute colored people
755-Total 2,245.
We are glad to see the colored people Of