The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-06
RALEIGH. N. &.
SATURDAY, APRIL 9th, 1867.
The Sent1nel--.New York Times, and
Tribune on the Situation.

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colored people were temporarily deluded''
by the whites who took part with them in
the late Convention. The Sentinel also as
sumes to advise the colored peopleas to what
they should do. That paper may as well
reserve both its concern and its advice. The
colored people have not asked for either, and
they are too intelligent and too loyal to be
deceived or misled by rebel journal.
The Sentinel charges such gentlemen as A.
H. Jones, Thos. Settle, David Ieaton, Alfred
Dockery, c. r. Thomas, r. P. Dick, Calvin
J. Cowles, John NorAeet, D. NJ. Carter, JAS
Sinclair, and others, who participated in
the Convention, with Hypocrisy is
the word-because they acted in Convention,
with the colored people. We say to the rev.
elcnd brother, so-called, of the Sentinel,
Judge not, lest ye be judged" Who made
the Sentinel a searcher of hearts Brother
Pell, so-called, we'll knows that
Hypocrisy is the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone"
He must not judge others by the standard
he has set up for himself
The Sentinel says it expected a portion of
the Northern press would be deceived by the
movement. In other words, it knew that
every sound Republican press in the country
would be gratitied by the movement, and
would do justice to those who took part in
it-and this it calls deception. The Repub-
lican press, like the coiored people, can take
care of itself without the advice of the rebel
Sentinel
But the Sentinel copies the following from
the New York Times, a pretended Republi-
| can paper, and lays much stress upon it:
Information has been received here from
North Carolina that the recent socalled
Union meeting held ut Raleigh was sold out
to the rebels Of the ten white men selec-
ted as Committee on Resolutions nine could
| not take the oath required by law.-It was
| not Delegate Convention, and only fifty
three of the eighty nine counties in the State
were represented. The members were seec.
ted by Governor Holden, and few of his
friends, without regard to political qualiti-
cations, other than that they were wiling 10
endorse the policy Of the Holdenites A
Convention of the unconditional white and
black Unionists will soon he called, and
there will be two tickets for delegates to the
Constitutional Convention to be organized
under the Reconstruction Bill, one of the
HOldenites and the other of the UniOnists'
There is no truth in the above extract
There were no rebels in the Convention
There was no selling out, and no thought of
it. The members were not selected by Gov.
Holden, but were invited by the Union
members of the Legislature Gov. Holden.
being called upon for suggestions, suggested
that such gentlemen as B. S. Hedrick, d. r.
Goodloe, r. ]. Powell, A. W. Tourgec A. B.
Chaplin, David Heaton, and other iron
clads' be invited. We know of no :. Hol-
denites" The writer of this has no poG.
Cyl but unconditional Unionsm If there
is to be any discord in the Republican ranks
in this State, it will not be our fault. We
shall not quarrel with friends in any event.
If strife should spring up, we shall be GER
tain to keep out of it. We are not author
lied to speak for the colored people of the
State, but we have no doubt they will cor
daily and unanimously endorse the action
of the late Republican Convention in Ra-
leigh
1t is not true that of " the ten white men
selected as committee on resolutions. nine
could not take the oath required by law
Five OF these ten are unexcluded by the How
ard amendment, and can both vote and hold
office under the Sherman act. The other
five have been, and are as loyal as any in the
South. If the ten colored men who served
on the committee had no objection to urge,
We do not see what the Times and Sentinel
have to do with it.
All the permanent officers of the Conven-
ton were " ron-clads"
In striking contest with this extract from
the Times is the following admirable article
from the last N. Y. 1ri6une-a paper whose
fidelity to the Republican cause has never
been questioned:
" IHE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE SOUTH
The freedmen, at every meeting they
have held since the Military bill became
law, have shown that they know what citi-
zenship means, and that in accepting its
privileges they are ready to discharge its du-
ties In taking the ballot they have proved
that they understand how to use it, The
power they suddenly gained they show no
disposition to abuse, and there is not a soil
tary instance in which colored speakers have
appealed to their people to revenge at the
polls the wrongs of the slave mart. the whip
ping-post or the brand-iron They do not
speak of the laws which deprived them of
education, of marriage, of property, nor of
the fugitive slave law, nor of the New Or
leans massacre. Their theme is the freed
ON they have, not the slavery from which
hey have been redeemed. But, while they
are ready to forgive, they have not forgot
EN- while they are willing and anxious to
DIN with their old masters in rebuilding the
of the South, they are resolved
not to become in liberty what they were in
oondage-the unresisting instruments of
Southern landholders. With the power to
,ote they exercise the right to think, and
hose who do not already see the beginning
If new political era in the South are blind
o the moral of the great meetings at
Raleigh, Savannah, Montgomery, Macon,
md the many county meetings held in
Utmost every Southern State. Of equal
Importance is the readiness of the 10y
Il white men to unite with the
'olored men on terms of absolute equality.
At Raleigh this was especially evident. In