The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-28
"Our Federal Relations.o

dation in the probabilities of the future
"Our Federal Relations.''
The Committee ON " Our Federal Rels
tons " in the Legislature of this State, la
at last reported through its Chairman, f. L
Hall. We do not propose to review thi
document, but make one extract to show it
drift and temper, rs follows
Your Committee think there is point
beyond which our sclfrespcct and honor for
bid us to go. If suffer we must, let Us tr,
to conduct ourselves in this hour of our un
parrallcled misfortunes and woe, in such
manner as not to bring shame upon the re
cord of the past"
The " sct-respect and honor" of these gen
tlemen will not permit them to accept thu
terms prescribed by Congress. Very well, WI
have no objection. If they will only b,
quiet, counting themselves out in good faith
the loyal people will be satisfied. The work
Of reconstruction can go on without them.
They speak of unparalleled misfortune.
and Woe" They are reaping the fruits o.
their own dOings. They ,couM have it so
! They promised, in 1865, to submit in good
! faith and to return to the Union on such
terms rs should be prescribed by the con
queror Let them suffer until they make
good this promise. Our only regret is that
the innocent arc still doomed to suffer with
the guilty.
They can not "bling shame upon the re-
cord of the past" Who has asked them to
do that? But they made the issue, foolishIy
and vauntingly, as to whether the shame -
should rest upon themselves or on those who
were true to the Union. The Unionists de-
sired no such issue. 1t was forced upon them.
and now let history decide. There is no
" shame upon those Southern soldiers VINO
fought bravely, and, when conquered, sub
mittcd cheerfully, and have labored in good
faith to restore the Union. They were simp
ly misguided in what they did. If they have
seen and confessed their error, and if they
are now really and sincerely for the Union.
they are entitled to and will enjoy the re-
spect and sympathy of all true Unionists in
all portions of the country. But there is
"shame" for all "conscious traitors and .
fearful looking for of contempt and wrath
for all such % are still the enemies of that
bcnignant national authority which they
sought vainly to destroy. This Report on
"Our Federal Relations speaks for just
such malcOntcnts and traitors as we have de-
scribed; and their "shame" will grow black
er, and become more and more indelible with
the flight of time
We are authorized by Gen. Logan, mem
Der of the Committee, to state that he did
not see this Report until it was printed, and
that he does not endorse it,
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VIRGINIA NOT A STATE.-If the mother
Of States be not a State, then where shall
we find one !-.Sentine{
Tennessee, the daughter of North Carolina,
is a State. She made herself SO by estab-
fishing loyal government, by adopting the
Howard amendment, and sending members
to Congress who could comply with one of
the laws of the land by taking the tcst-oath.
North Carolina would also have been Il State
to-day, if she had pursued the same course.
She was prevented from doing so by the
still malcontcnt, unsubducd leaders of the
rebellion.
Virginia is known as military district No.
1. She will remain so until her loyal people,
white and black shall have taken the neces-
sary steps, under the protection of the GOV
eminent, to make State of her. North
Carolina and South Carolina are known as
military district No. 3 1t is written, {" the
OK and the ass shall not be yoked together"
But it is so in this case. Our good old State
is the patient OK. We do not say what our
sister cotton State is.
We publish to-day an admirable address
by Mr.. James H. Harris to the colored people |
of this State The advice he gives is season
able and appropriate, and will no doubt be
received in the spirit in which it is offered. |
The colored people will soon be called to the
exercise of the high privilege of voting and
we are satisfied, from our knowledge of their
character, that this privilege will be so used |
as to promote the best interests of the State |
and nation.
Mr.. Rogers, of New Jersey, advises people
to fight. The Washington Chronicle says
that in recent speech delivered by him
in Georgetown, he said:
eff the people of the South have the
backbone that have, before they will SUBJ
nit to military despotism they will raise |
regiments again, and march for freedom"
We beg Mr.. Rogers not to terrify the Con-
gress and the Northern people by such Ian
guage.
Those secessionists who are so much exer-
cised about negro suffrage, which follows as
the result of the rejection of the Howard |
should bear in mind that Pres
ident johnson has just appointed a colored
man to first class Clerkship in the Treas
ury Department. 1t is now stated that the |
President is being petitioned to appoint Fred
erick Douglas Bureau Commissioner. The
is he will do it.