The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-23


The following from the Richmond Times
and Richmond Wing will show the spirit
with which the action of Congress is re-
ceived by the rebel press. No matter what
Congress may do, secessionists and traitors
will not be satisfied: er
TIE SHERMAN SUBsTITUTE.-f the Peo-
pie of the Southern States will put their
| hands upon their mouths and their mouths
in the dust, and cry unclean; If they Will
make favor for themselves by delivering up
for political martyrdom and outlawry their
leaders in the late war-both of which things
they will, in effect, do by ratifying the Con
stitutional Amendment; if, then, they will
accept the New England dogma of negro
equality by inviting their late slaves, en-
naasse and without exception or condition,
to unite with them in rebuilding their States,
and will degrade the equal sovereignty of
those States by submitting their constitu-
lions to Congress for its imperial approval !;
if they will do these and few other like
things, then the Sherman substitute promi-
ses, that at some day apparently not near,
certainly after the Presidential election, they
may have the privilege of sending to Con
gress men who, by their ability to take the
test oath, will confess that they had no lot
nor part with the South in her day of trial.
The States of the South will decide the ques-
! ton for themselves, should the substitute be-
come q law, but for this State we can say
that the present generation OF V1rglnlans
must pass away, and their sons and sons
sons, before she will seek any representation
in Congress through such means, and espe-
| cially such representation. Military rule may
be imposed on her. every device of state tor
ture may be applied, these will bcthe shame
of those who employ them, not hers-but
she will never confess falsehood, nor atfix
the brand of infamy on her own brow. New
er !-Richmond Wig.
| ONE CHANCE FOR IMMORTALITY STILL
LEFT.-If some atroc;ous bill like that of
Sherman's eventually becomes law, and If,
| despite all our earnest admonitlOns, the Viz
ginia Legislature shall take no step to prevent
| the surrender of our liberties into the hands
of o military satrap, VIC suggest to the men,
bers of that body an attentive study OF the
splendid herioism of that Roman Senate
which was slaughtered to the last {" conscript
father by the red handed soldiers of Bren-
nus, the Gaul. If they will take no steps
for making the Supreme Court sanctuary
for our menaced rights, let them at least give
their outraged and outlawed constituencies
the melancholy pleasure which they will de-
rive from seeing their negligent representa-
tives made famous as the barbarians made
the Roman Senate.
When the tramp OF armed soldiers is heard
in the Rotunda, and cleaning bayonets
shall drive the Sergeant-at-Arms from the
door of the House of Delegates, and when,
instead Of message from the Senate" an
officer with clanking sabre and glittering
uniform advances upon the "Speaker," let
the memory of the Roman Senates immortal
massacre nerve every Legislator to do his
duty. If they fail to make speedy provis-
ion for testing the constistuionality OF bills
like Sherman's, and swift ruin falls like a
| thunderbolt upon their constituents, the best
thing they can do will be to die in strict
conformity to the best classic model.-Rich.
Times.