The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-10
APRIL 10. 1867.


does the following language meant That
paper copied as follows from the Louisburg
Eagle, and then comments. To the comments,
we invite especial attention:
"To the Union of our fathers zoe hare al
,cays been loyal Not shadow has ever fall |
en- upon our devotion to the principles of the |
Federal Constitution as Interpreted by Story,
Kent, Tucker, Webster. and that embodi- |
ment of human greatness and political rec
titude, Henry Clay -touisbury Eagle.
To which the Sentinel replies as follows:
"We presume there are but few Southern
men, who cannot sincerely endorse at least
the first clause of the above sentence. If the
Union ofour fathers had been maintained
and fully carried out, it is doubtful whether
any Southern man would have desired any
change, whatever. 1t is the restoration of
the Union Of our fathers that all Southern
men desire"
OF course if there had been no doubt about
forever keeping the colored people in sla-
very, the the secessionists would not have
went to war to break up the government
The Union of our fathers was sayeholding
Union. This the Sentinel knew, when it
proclaimed in April, 1866, that it desired
the restoration of that kind of Union only.
Stick pin there, and read tine following
The Sentinel of the 9th April, 1866, said
that it would make no more concessions to
get back to the Union, under the Republi-
can party. 1t wanted to 60 back on the 23d
only on the basis of slavery. Read what it
said on the 9th inst
According to the latest programme,
which is said to embody the ultimatum of
the Radical majority, ability to take the
oath is one of the most Insignificant of the
exactions required. We are, first, to adopt
an amendment to the Constitution prevent
ing the State from making any discrlmins-
tion in its laws on account of color; second
ly, to accord to negroes the right of suffrage
from and after July 4th, 1866; thirdly, to
agree that, between this and that time, there
is, to be no representation for colOred persons
not allowed to vote; and then, all these
things being conceded, we may be admitted,
prooided our representatives can swallow the
test-nath!
We answer, then, finally, that we prefer
being excluded from representation, indef-
initcly, rather than voluntarily make these
oppressive, unjust and iniquitous conces-
sions."
Our colored friends can now see the reason
why these people who say the government
robbed them of their slaves" are opposed
and have always opposed equal rights to all
men-they were for the Union on the basis
of slavery, and therefore opposed the giving
of fair chance and even start to the black
man.
And the following is the issue stated by
the Sentinel of the 9th inst 1t makes the
issue as to who shall be odious in the eyes
of all men, and denounces all loyal men as
infamous. 1t said:
'' Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights
Bills are to crowd our statute books. in high
handed scorn and defiance of the Constitu-
tion, the rights of the States and of the citi-
zens. And we must stand dumb, like sheep
before the shearers, in the face Of these
things, for fear that some sensitive patriot,
far or near, will distrust our loyalty" and
call US "odious" and traitors!" And this
is to continue indefinitely!
So surely as that President johnson shall
live to wage to full and final issue his war
against these men, their injustice will recoil
upon their own heads. They will become
odious in the eye of history for ages to come.
Posterity will stand aghast at their blind
ness and their wlckedness."
Now what has been the verdict of the
x,oo.,lo of 4l,o IT,,;&ol Ct.to,e Wba o|l;o,,c
in their sigbta What kind of war did the
Sentinel mean, when it said the President
| would wage such an one to a full and final
issuea We can understand it now, why it
was so defant-that paper believed that Mr..
johnson would rally the rebel hosts once
more, and enter the field of battle against
the Republicans for the reestablishment of a
shareholders Union. That was its calcula-
tion.
On the 2nd of May, 1866, it spoke as fol-
lows:
"The programme of the Committee of Re-
construction is, what we were prepared to
expect, monstrous scheme of utter degra-
dation and ruin to the South, without any
mixture of charity or humanity. If this
monstrous scheme is adopted, it must be
without the support of any State of the South
or of the conservative people of the North. y
On the Sd day of May, 1866, it published
the following Herein we can see its venge-
full spirit plainly portrayed:
"The course which they the Republicans
in Congress,) are pursuing ifsuccessful, will
result in the extinguishment of all regard
and affection, on the part of our people, to-
wards the Government They can feel no
attachment for one which only holds them to
oppress The Union, thus patched up, will
be merely nominal while in reality it will be
discordant, discovered and antagonistic.
But we cannot believe that such diabolical
counsels can ultimately prevail. We choose
rather to believe that day of retribution
is at hand" and that the vengeance of the
people will speedily descend upon the su-
thors of this threatened ruin. We shall be
much deceived, if the result of the elections,
this Fall, in the Northern States, does not
teach them lesson that will not soon be
orgotten, and which will be the precursor
If their final exodus from the stage of action
which they have Aisgraced. They will leave
,ought behind but record stepped in infa-
NY" 81
On the 9th of May, 1866, it spoke as fol-
ows: 81 s ssar
There is no Sincerity in their schemes Of
construction. They know that the South
,ill not accept the abject and disgraceful
onditions imposed, and this refusa. they
will make, for the meanest partisan ends.
-, x,rot.vt fHr indofinitoi ovciyolon Their