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

the colored people,
For the benefit of our Republican friends,
and especially for the edifcation of the col
ored people, we reprint the following ex-
tracts from the Sentinel for 1865 and 1867, !
grossly rejecting upon the Congress, the Re-
publican party and the Union men of this
State without regard to race or color.
In doing SO, we call upon every intelligent
gentleman to bear witness that the Standard
does not desire to stir up further strife, or
revive anything said or written in the past,
calculated to increase political excitement in
the public mind at the present time. But the
Sentinel will not allow us to remain SILENT
1t has voluntarily chosen these weapons of
offence and defence, and it is patural, there
fore, that we should resort to the use Of them.
And We further esteem it duty which we
.owe to God and our country, to expose the
reverend hypocrite, who is continually feed
ing the fires of disloyalty and treason
through the columns of the Sentinel. with
pertinacity worthy of the devil himself
What is lie now engaged in doing Every
article in his paper aimed against the Repub-
lican party of North Carolina, is step to-
wards confscatiOn! Who urges him on =
Gov. Worth and bis friends9 Do secession
lists, who are large land owners endorse his
courses Hitherto they have supported him
and voted with him, against the Union, the
Republican party and the colored people of
North Carolina With few exceptions, We
state that this has been their position. Do
they not now perceive whittier he has led
them? The Republican party Of the nation
hold them responsible for the past, and are
not in humor to suffer them, through the
Sentinel and other papers, to reinfame the
popular mind against the government, with
out utinflcting stern and summarypunishment.
Let them come out squarely. If the Senti-
mel will not listen to sheir remoastmnces, let
them crush it by withdrawing their support,
for ace tell them today that eoey line Of his
paper containing reasonable sentiments as equal
to an acre Of their land sa
We present these extracts to our Republi-
can friends, with the following advice: pro-
claim them upon every stump in North Car
olina, until the Union men Of this State,
without regard to race or color, shall mark
the Sentinel down as his worst enemy. Read,
circulate and preserve. They are arguments
unanswerable by any man Or before any au
dience. @
The following is a sample of its abuse of
Radicals and universal suffrage, which it
styled degrading concession, insulting
and huniliating" The Sentinel of June
25th, 1866, said:
"When the war terminated the South un-
murmuringly submitted to every demand
| imposed upon her. All the State Legisla-
lures unhesitatingly responded to every ex-
action that had been made upon them. The
| spirit of submission, and almost of servility,
which our people exhibited, instead of in
spring the Radicals with magnanimity,
made them more cruel and vindictive. Grant
the degrading concessions which the Radl-
calls now demand, and they will soon invent
new expedients for insult and humiliation" :"
The following is specimen of its language
towards the Standard, May 7th, 1856:
"The whole tone and temper of the last
issue of the Standard is unmistakably" Rad
ical. 1t objects to the term " malignants, !"
as applied to the Congressional Jacobins; it
virtually apologies for their course of op-
preston and ruin, and declares that things
are "getting worse and wOrsen in North
Carolina. 1t publishes, without comment,
an article from the Nashville Press justifying
the disfrancisement of large class of the
people of the State of Tennessee, which fact,
coupled with its quasi-endorsement of the
report of the star-chamber Committee, is
conclusive that it favors a similar programme
OF prescription and oppression in North
Carolina. i
If we could be astonished at anything in
these degenerate days, we should be surpris-
ed at the fatuity and blindness of the Stan
dard. In its persistent perversion of the
feelings of our people, it undertakes a task
more desperate than that of Sisyphus. His
stone rolled back whenever he had carried it
to the top of tine hill The Standards stone
will not only roll back, but crush it to the
earth. newspaper which deliberately
misrepresents the sentiments of the people
of North Carolina, in spite of every declar-
alton and protestation they can make, must
be considered as signing the death-warrant
of its own position and usefulness
" The Standard, of Saturday, not only pub
fishes, without comment, the article from the
Nashville Press to which we have elsewhere
alluded. but also communication over the
signature of " Yankee" which is an insult to
this community, and the source of which
would have been sufficiently manifest, with
| out being disclosed by the signature tits
an il! bird, truly, that befouls its own nest. ,"
The following is aimed at Gov. Brownlow
and the Tennessee Republicans, April, 23d,
1866:
More than this: Gov. Holden has en-
dorsed Gov. Brownlow, Of Tennessee, and
his policy, calling him that !" glorious old
| patriot" whom every true hearted American
must despise and denounce as the most un-
mitigated tyrant in the Union far worse
| than Summer or Stevens Nay, in the last
Standard, it speaks of the late action of
Brownlow and his copartners in tyranny,
approvingly. except that some good Union
men have been treated ur Justly by the action.
islature, of Tennessee has disfranchised every
Tennesseean who took up arms in the late
Confederate service, and has adopted the
most odious measures for the degradation
and ruin of three fourths of the people of the
State ;-and yet the Standard, though it treats
some Union men improperly, thinks it all
right. as it will not be likely to injure the
prospects of Tennessee for admission to her
full privileges in the Union"