The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-13
RALEIGH N. g.
saturday, APRIL 18th, 1867.
sect thee behind me, Satan.o

The Hon. John M. Bolts, in his late ad
mirable letter to the colored mass meeting il
Petersburg, speaking of the temptation
presented by rebel leaders to the colored PEG
pie, to induce them to desert the cause of tn
Union, says:
"Whenever and wherever they approach
you recollect the scene upon the Mount be
tween your Saviour and the Devil, and imi
tate his example by sying, as your Saviour
said to to the tempter, "get thee behind me
iSatan.""
There is much sense and force in this ad
vice. "Touch not, taste not, handle not
that unclean thing called treason. This adj
vice of Mr.. Bolts was practically carried out
by the colored people at Gordonsville, Va, a
few days since. A pretended Union man.
like Brother Pell socaled, attempted to adj
dress the colorcd people of that place, but
they would not hear him. The correspon-
dent who witnessed the scene says:
He advanced to address the colored peo-
pie, who, almost without word or the least
disturbance, turned their backs upon the
speaker and dispersed in every direction. 1t
was such a.thunderbolt to the rebels that
they seemed stunned, but rallying they gave
their champion cheer. He addressed them
and the few coloretl men that remained from
curiosity, but it was evidently uphill work,
and did not last long"
That was we'll done. Brother Pell of the
Sentinel, while protesting to deprecatc i'll
feeling between the whites and blacks, is con-
stantly engaged in efforts to SOW discord
among them, with the view of benefiting
the rebel cause. Witness, for example, his
illusions i'll his issue of April Sth to the for
mer treatment by members of the late Re-
publican Convention of freedmen who were
once their slaves; and his statement that
eighteen of the members of the body were
once negro traders Miserable ignoble,
contemplate malice! This harpy, stimula-
ted by the devil of hate and discord, would
have the colored people dig up their former
real or imaginary wrongs, and involve them
selves in bitter feuds with their best friends
among the whites, for no other reason than
that the rebel cause may gain little strength,
so that rebels and traitors may hold office
and plumber our people a while longer. We
learn that white man in this City who pro-
fesses to be gentleman and Unlonst, has
been engaged il picking up evidence about
negro traders and we suppose he carried
his budget of news to the Sentinel office.
Brother Pell, so-caled, also refuses to saw
in his paper that colored men are entitled to
hold office; and yet he is constantly engaged
in making offers privately to colored men
that if they will abandon the Republican
cause and take an Independent stand, as he
calls it, his party will support them for of.
flee. We say, publicly, that colored men are
as much entitled on their merits to hold of
flee as white men, and we expect to see col
ored men members of our State Convention;
but the Sentinel, refusing to say this publicly,
and refusing even to retract or qualify its
declaration made last October, that the col
ored people are the " GOd-cu,yed sons of
Ham," is insidiously engaged, IN pricate, in
making all kinds of promises in this respect
to the colored people. Well may these peo-
pie e1claim to Brother Pell, "get thee be-
hind me, Satan" Only few days since
Brother Pell sent a thoughtless, hair-b Drained
young rebel to leading colored man of
this City, with the promise of seat in the
Convention if he would take ground against
Holden. The young man, who had been in
structed by Brother Pell, told the colored
man that Holden was about to deceive the
colored people" Our colored friend did not
entertain the offer, and the young man retir-
ed with several feas in his ear. Brother Pell
had, himself, previously tried another leading
colored man in the same way, and failed.
The colored people will remember how
the Senior Editor of the Standard was ma
ligned, ridiculed and prosecuted by the Sen
tinez, because on the first day of January
last he took ground openly in the African
Church, in this City, in favor of unrestricted
negro suffrage. They also remember that
within the last four months this same Sen
tinez, edited by Brother Pell, called on the
grand juries to indict the colored people,
and white people, and the Editors of the
Standard, as incendiaries and traitors, be-
cause they were getting up and signing
memorials to Congress to pass reconstruc-
ton act. But noao, when it is supposed the
colored people can be hoodwinked and de-
ceived into the support of rebels and traitors,
the Sentinel is as busy as possible in declar
ing that it always has been and is now the
best friend the colored people have! Oh
hypocrisy Oh spirit of falsehood and de-
ceit, emanation of Satan himself! Well
may the colored people say to all such as
NE, SATAN"
Seaton Gales, Esq, of this City, has been