The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-02-06

order these two officers Zone OF them state
Printer and the other Clerk of the House,
before it, to be censured for their arrogant
and impudent violation of its rules.
The Sentinel repeats its stereotyped charge
that Mr.. Pool acted inconsistently and dis
honorably in taking seat in the Legislature
of 1s64'65, with the view of " embarrassing
the Confederacy." 1t thussets up 8 the Con-
federacy" as something too sacred to be even
questioned; but above and beyond this, we
assert and can prove that Mr.. Lewis Hanes,
one of the pets of the Sentinel and of Gov.
Worth, Jonathan Worth himself, and Gov.
Vance, Gov. Graham, and others of the lat
ter-day war saints, all embarrassed the Con-
federacy" in 1868 and 1864, to as great an
extent as Mr. Pool did. Mr.. Hanes occupied
seat in the same Legislature in 1864. He
came to Raleigh with an elaborately pre-
pared speech, which he submitted before it
was delivered to Mr.. Pool and Others, in
which he boldly and openly took ground, as
the printed speech will show, for immediate
reconciliation on thebasis Of the Union. What
was that but embarrassing the Confedera-
cy" in its most vital point9 That speech
was approved by at least fifty members of
the Commons, and twenty members of the
Senate. 1t was approved among Others by
Mr. Pool and the writer of this article. We
think it more than probable that Mr. Russ
also approved it. Itais known also that
Jonathan Worth, though he was Treasurer
under Gov. Vance, was anxious for peace on
the basis of the Union, and that he embar-
rassed the Confederacy" as far as he could,
in all his private conversations. Can he de-
ny this now In the latter part of 1868 Gov.
Graham wrote letter for the Fayetteville
Observer, in which he took ground for nego-
tiations and peace. The letter was not pub
lished, but the fact that it was written showed
that Gov. Graham also was disposed to Gem
barrass the Confederacy" And it is notori-
Gus that Gov Vance was elected in 1862 as
peace or Union man; that he "embarras-
sed the Confederacy in every possible way
up to August, 1868, when he went to Rich
mond to see..Mr. Davis, and, under certain
appliances not yet made public, he changed
his course and identified himself with the
secessionists. Il, therefore Mr. Pool has ac-
ted inconsistency and dishonorably," so
have Mr. Hanes, Jonathan Worth, Gov.
Vance and Gov. Graham. The only differ
ence Is that Mr. Pool has been consistent and
has maintained his integrity as Union man,
while the other gentlemen named have de-
serted their Union principles and allied
themselves with the secessienists.
But Mr. Russ, with that combined strength
and elegance of phrase for which he is dis
tinguished, says he has been "wofully de-
ceived" by Mr.. Pool. We have shown that
this statement of Mr. Russ is unfounded. l.
But "people who live in glass houses should
not throw stones" We know of no public
man who is more vulnerable in this respect
than Mr.. Russ. He is the most arrant, boast
full, "woful deceiver who has ever misrep-
resented the people of Wake. He says, for
example, =" there is nothing comparable in
earth or hell to rampant Radiealism, North
or South" Now, we affirm that when We
gave Fictitious importance to Mr. Russ by
inviting him to accompany us to Washing
ton in May, 1865, he was one of the most
rampant of radicals. He had just presided
In Raleigh over an unconditional Union
meeting, uttering as the presiding officer of
the meeting the most thorough Union senti-
ments While in Washington he was cram
pant" for the direst punishment for rebels
lie was more radical in this respect than any
OF the delegation. He returned satisfied and
happy, for ne was clothed upon with lu-
cratlve office, received at the then radical
hands of President johnson. Not being able.
to qualify himself for this office, he was
forced to decline it, but as soon as he could
take running start, he sprang into another
office equally lucrative, to wit, the Sheriff
atty of Wake County under the proyisiona.
government and thus became, for pay, the.
servant of government which he now de-
nounces as common thief And then. with
his usual effrontery, before he was warm in
his Sherifalty, he announced himself as the.
radical candidate for Congress against Mr.
Turner, stumped the District making speech
es In which he rejoiced over the success of
the Federal arms, and was ignominiously
beaten, falling hundreds of votes behind the.
radical or Union vote of the District. He.
was so rampant radical that it is repor--
ted ne said at Clayton that his heart swelled
whenever he heard of federal victory over
Confederate troops; and it is reported that.
Mr. Turner dared him to deny this at Oxford,
ana told him in no measured phrase that he.
was "a white man with black he .rt. ,,
MOI oeing able to qualify as Postmast sr in.
halelgh, having lost his Sherifalty and been.
beaten Tor Congres, he began to conclude that
radlcallsm would not pay. Therefore gr. .du-
ally but cautiously he changed his coat
Watching an opportunity for dofiing his
radical garments and donaing his new sa ,es-
sion coat, he thought he saw it when the
Howard amendment was proposed. Lia e a
copperhead in dog-days shedding its skin :, he
slipped out of one coat into the other so nat.
-urally and so adroitly that many did noet yer.
ceiye the change, until the tongue spoke tn ca.
son and the secession fire was seen to fia sl
from his eyes. Even the writer of this as
deceived. We voted for him under the be-