The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-09
RALEIGH, N. O., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY o. lsEe5

d On several occasions, since Mr. Hnlden's
return from Washington, we have heard Of
his approaching our honest people, and after
the usual sautations, saying !" Now, SIR,
there is prospect of aoe poor white people
and negroes getting our rights" In most in
stances. we are pleased to know, he has met
with cold comfort Sentinel
The above is deliberate. lie, and therey-
erend Editor of the Sentinel knew it to be so
when he penned it. We have used 40 such
language. tsla ,Ii .ls.izf5 "a
4 What we say in this paper we say every
where, and that's, the loyal alone shasl gogern.
We have said nothing about poor white
people and negroes" We would llikc to,
know where poorer white people can be
found than those decaying aristocrats for
whom the Sentinel assumes 10 speak. Many
of them are too lazy to work and toe proud
to beg. Andrew johnson boasted that he
would "break their social power" and he
has done it. 1t is not oar work. We tried
to save them from their present unfortunate
condition, but they pushed us from them,
reviled us, and called US traitor. When the
Sentinel says see poor white people Ind ne.
groes, it means the honsst working men and
farmers of small means. 1t attempts to slur
the whites by associatirg their names with
negroes. Now, these thites who are called
poor, are better off than many whites for
whom the Sentinel yapeaks; and even these
negroes, when thty get their rights
will be better off chan the Editors Of the
Sentinel, for they Eill vote, while the Editors
will not y -
~ The Sentinel says we have "met with cold
comfort :, Mistaken again. We have never
been more chsered in our course as . public
man than weare now., From all partssof the
State wordsof encouragement come to us,
in our effoE to induce the Congress to give
us permanent government on a loyal basis.
We haveno fears for the result. We shall
succeed 49,
The Sentinel, speaking of recent rapes and
murders in the Eastern part of this State,
says:
YWe venture the assertion that an investi-
CATION of the facts will show that the guilty
psrtics in these infamous acts, when found
Git, will prove to be, in four out of five cases,
fither colored vagabonds or of that class of
white men who affect to be Southern Loyal
ists.n
Our cotemporary ventures" a great deal.
We presume there is no proof as yet as to
who committed these outrages. We trust
the guilty parties have no politics of any
kind. If traced out, tried, and convicted
let them die the DEATH" & y
We learn that Gov. Worth boasts to the
colored people, by way of cunying favor
with them, that the first person he pardon
ed was colored man, in one of our West
ern Counties. We believe it was q case Of
rape, and that the guilty person was pardon
| ed by the Governor. The Saatsaet has the
means of learning all about it. Let us have
tile case. The colored people are not to be
propitiated in this way. They are not SC
week or so vicious as to wish to shield tht
guilty of their own race from deserved pun
ishment &
There is no depth of degradation or mean
ness to which such as the Editors Of the Sen
tinel will not descend to retain thlir hold or
power and patronage. Men who were /" con
scious traitors seeking the life ofthe natior
up to the last moment, who then professet
to repent, and took and failed tb keep th'
amnesty oath, and who are now engaged il
intoxicating sentiments of hatred I'd the gov
| ernment, and to the Northern people, wht
have kindly spared their property and lives
and who have even allowed them up to thu
present time to vote, are capable of any
thing. They judge Others by the standard
they have set up in their ownlcorrupt hearts
But the day of their doom approaches. The
| Congress will deal with them and with all
other traitors and if they attemptlto resist
the action of that body, no matterby whom
they may be sustained or countenafced, they
"will suddenly be destroyed, and tliat with
out remedy" 4i7a7 @a
| The truth is, civil government under Sc
cession auspices has failed in thil State. -
But for the presence of the military, restrict
ed as they are by Executive orderb life, lib
erty and property would be exceedingly UNI
certain in this State. The presefce Of the
military and the fear of future consequences,
is the main shield of the Unionl people OF
both races against prosecutions aid violence
Of the most fagrant and intolera9le He charac-
ter. .fis @l 81 ~ fF4s ~
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| Colored Celebration in Goi3sbOrough.
| We learn that a large number |of the col
ored people of Wayne County celebrated
with becoming spirit the annivetary OF their
freedom on the 1st instant Tht procession
was very long, and the speaking took place
at the Fair Grounds, near Gbldsborough.
Addresses were delivered by Mr.. James H.
Harris, of this City, and Mr.. MtK Lane, Of
Wayne Mr. James E. O'Hlra presided,
and made some remarks. ~ s .,-.
We learn that at night the hlored people
had school exhibition in Sh3 Town Hall,
which was kindly placed at their disposal
by the Town authorities. NJ aog9
We learn that number off white gentle.
men were in attendance al the speakers
stand, and that Mr.. Harris, tie leadipg col
ored speaker, and indeed all Ehe colored peo-
nle assembled ON tfsa oocoa;k,, 4, x,rorn +roo+