The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-27
The Board of Registers for Orange

The Board of Registers for Orange.
We are not disposed to criticise the appoint
ments of Registers made by Gen. Sickles, for
the task was difficult one and the General
no doubt did the best he could with the
lights before him. The whole number for
the State is five hundred and forty three
We are personally acquainted with many OF
them, and we know them to be men of in
telligence and proved loyalty. We have
heard complaint, which we believe to be
we'll founded, that in some cases intelligent
colored men have been overlooked, and those
of inferior knowledge appointed. This may
be traced to the malign influence of Gov.
Worth, who is known to be opposed to tile
appointment of colored men as Registers,
and is therefore, anxious to injure the col
ored people by preferring for this work those
of them who are least qualified for the bust
ness.
The appointments for Orange are general
ly good. There is but one colored man,
however, on the Orange Board, when, to our
knowledge, other intelligent colored men
were nominated. There can be no objection
to DR.. Swain, or to Messrs, Hogan, Carr,
Hancock. and Jordan Swain the latter
colored man. Thomas Wilson is a white
man from Pennsylvania. At a public meet
ing held in Hillsborough, on the Both March
last, this man Wilson presided, and resolu-
tions were adopted of an infammatory char
acter, intended to obstruct the work of re-
construction. One of the speakers on the
occasion said:
When the master sits by and fraternizes
with his manumitted slave as an equal, in
the halls of the capitol, he can readily excuse
if not encourage his daughter in matrimo-
NAL association and alliance with his own
professed equal"
The resolutions adopted declared that
g Congress " had recommended hostilities
upon " the South ; that while there was
"a spark of manhood left" the meeting
would not rejoice at the passage of the re-
construction acts that, in substance a des-
potism existed over this people. The follow
ing resolution, worthy only of an assembly
of demons, was also adopted:
" Resolced, That we have hopes that it is
in the ordinary course of Gods providence
to mend our condition, and finally to relieve
US from the dominion of Thad. Stevens and
his faction. in his own good time and way;
and we shall patiently await the looked for
event."
Mr.. Stevens was very sick at this time
his death was expected every day, and this
is " the looked for event " referred to.
Oh; &c a.. I,
was Josiah Turner, Jr., and the presiding
officer, as we have stated, was his tool, a cop
perhead from Pennsylvania. This man Will
son has been appointed a Register, and ster-
ling loyaists like Emore W. Woods and NJ
j. W. McCauley have been overlooked
They are both more loyal, more decent, and
more intelligent than Wilson.
Mr.. Turner, who got up and engineered
this meeting, was a member of the Confeder-
ate Congress, and has recently been pardoned
by the President. He was sent to Richmond
by the Union men of this District, with the
hope that he would do something to stop
the war and restore the State to the Union;
but when he got there, he collapsed in the
august presence of Jefferson Davis, and did
not dare strike even one manly blow for his
constituents. The close of the rebellion
found him disgruntled Unionist, and by
the close of the year 1865 he was in full COM
munion with rebels and traitors. He is
banned by the Howard Amendment, and
yet he is appointed by Gov Worth, and per-
mitted by Gen. Sickles to fill the Office of
President of one of our most important
State corporations, to which he has been
elected since the passage of the reconstruc-
ton acts, and which provides that persons
banned shall not hold Office in this State. !
We have thought it our duty to refer to
this man Wilson, so that the public may
know who he is, but it is matter of small
importance whether he is allowed to serve |
or not Orange County will be thoroughly
canvassed b. the Republicans before the
election. The colored people of that County
will be fully posted as to their rights and
duties. The loyal whites and the colored
voters will register their names, and Orange
will send two Republicans to the Conven-
ton, in spite of the efforts of Turner and his
tools.
The Convention of the Union Republican
party of North-C Carolina which meets in this !
City on the first Wednesday in September |