The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-28
The sentinel on the situation.

the rebel organ of Gov. Worth, the article
Of the Sentinel Of the 25th February on the
situation.
We do not deem it necessary to reply to
this " turbulent mutterer OF stified treason
Our loyal readers will reply to the article in
their own minds as they read it.
from the Raleigh Sentinel, Feb. 25th, 1861
The Sherman Bill.
This act of the Congress is the subject of
much comment. The wonder is, that it
has not struck dumb, every native born
American. 1t is SO un-American, so anti-re-
publican in its character, and bears such re-
semblance to the acts of the de.potisms of
Europe, that one can hardly realize the fact
that we still live in " so-called" American
Republic
The bill seems to suit no one precisely
Ultra Republicans or Radicals feign to think
it too tame and lcnient to the South, while
men of more moderation in that party dis
like its stringency and one professed con-
sentative, considering it the best he could
get, actually voted for it. Perhaps none are
more disappointed than the so-calIcd South
ern loyaists. These modern loyaists find
that they are better known than they sup
posed, mt Washington. Their own tails have
been caught in the trap they set for others,
and their loyalty to the Radical party has
been fully put to the test.
We readily confess our disappointment
We were still cinging to the idea and the
hope that we lived in Republic, with
some shreds of the Constitution left. but
alas we wake up to the sad reality, that we
have neither. The bill plainly assumes, that
there are no powers or rights in Skaters orin
the coordinate branches of the Government,
but that all power is lodged in the Congress,
and that that body i. perpetual.
1t IS understood that the Presidential veto
will be sent into Congress to-day, and that
the bill will become a law by the two-thIrls
vote over the veto. The President could not
do otherwise, yet he might do move. He can
not be consistent with his pledges to the
country, unless he bring the bill in some
form to the ordeal of the Supreme Court,
and until he has exhausted the powers of the
executive and judiciary departments to save
the country and the Republic from utter
overthrow. Moreover, the time has arrived
when the Democracy and the conservatives
of the North, if their principles not mere
talk, to arrest the progress Of destruction by
the most active and efficient measures. The
South is por":io~s She will submit. though
she may demonstrate, simply because she is
on her back and RadicaIis!n has its hand up
on her throat. Yet we judge the conservatism
of the country might bring the nation to
pause, to consider. ere it plunges into the:
vortex from which there is no escape We
of course alude to moral means.
If the North submit, it would be the sheer
est folly in the South to kick against it. It.
must submit to the yoke quietly, contcnted
with simple remonstrance. Universal negro
suffrage and equality, are to be made the
terrible penalty for the attempt at secession
Fanaticsm will be satisfied with nothing
short Of it. and the North is in its clutch cs
and will enforce it. The South may be con-
PEELED to submit to it, but no honest, we IL
bred Southron wilcntail such dishonor ND on
his country by any act OF his. Let the Con-
grcss bear the responsibility and the odi1 m
of forcing it upon the South, by the woes
OF the blacks themselves and the unprn cl-
pied whites. The bill does not ,iisfranch Use
the writer OF this, yet no act of his shall d es-
cclate and dishonor his native soil
Yet We implore our people of all elias ses
high and low, to be quiet and submissive to
laws may be forced upon us. We
have had enough blood and suffering Let
no act Of ours disturb the public quiet Ii
the revolution must go on. so far as we are
let it be bloodess one If We
are doomed to the vexatiOus turmoil of mill
tiEd us industriousiy at work to make bread,
living IN peace and quiet with black and
white, obeying the laws and fulfilling all the
OF good citizenship.
The following analysis of the bill, is the
best we have seen. Whetherit will bear the
test of 4 critical judicial analysis. we cannot
say. 1t is taken from our clear headed, jtl-
licious and able contemporary. the Richmond
EHQuirer, and we append it in lieu of less
able analysis from our own pen. The adj
vice given to Virginians and the Legislature
IF that State by the Enquirer. is worthy of
consideration. The bill in the opinion of
he Enquirer contains the following points:
1st. The declaration that the Southern
States have no legal governments; and that
such governments as exist here, shall be per
nittcd merely during pleasure, and only as
provisional, and shall be abolished modified, {
or superseded, in the discretion /
If Congress.
I'd. Said States are at once placed under t
military rule, their governments suborCiina- !
cd to martial law, and superseded or con-
rolled in the discretion of commanders of |
Departments military commissions authori-
ed for the trial of such persons rs these
may choose to arrest, and all !
Interference of the State authority for the
of citizens, declared null and
old.
Sd. During the permitted continuance of
he present State organizations no person
hall be eligible TO any offices under them,
Who comes under the prescriptions of the
Constitutional amendment. That is to say, /
% one who had ever held an Office State or
'edcral, which required him to take an oath
o support the Constitution of the United /
tates, and afterwards took the Southern [
idle in the late war, either by active partici-
alton or by giving aid and comfort
4th Further during the permitted COLI
nuance of the present State organizations
he elective franchise is controlled and !
loditied, that all qualifications for suffrage
re abolished, except twenty-one years for
ge, one year for residence, and male for sex;
lille all those are prescribed rs above sta
ID, from holding office.
So much for the condition of the States,
nder their provisional governments. The
blowing is the way Of escape into perma-
emit, establishment:
9th. If any State shall form a Constitu-
on through Convention elected by q suf-
age and under the restrictions above pro-
ided, and il said Constitution by q like
ote be ratified, and shall make said suffrage
lie permanent law of the State-and If said
constitution after submission to Congress,
lall he approved by it--and if a Legislature
ected under said Constitution shall ratify
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