The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-12
MIR. Pool-The Sentinel.


regard Mr. Pool as having changed since he
was elected Senator by the aid of some of
MIR. Graham's friends, and with its own APP
prevail and that of Gov. Worth, when the
truth is, as every intelligent person knows,
Mr.. Pool holds precisely the same views he
held then. He was an unconditional Union
man then, and he is so now. He regarded
the Union then as he did during the whole
rebellion, as the paramount good, and he so
regards it now. The difference between Mr..
Pool on the one hand, and Mr.. Graham, Gov.
Worth, and the Sentinel on the other, is, that
Mr. Pool has never abandoned his Union
principles, while the latter have. 1t will
avail these gentlemen nothing to say that they
were once good Unionists. They are not so
mow Benedict Arnold was a true Wing up
to the time he clutched the British geld
The American service contained no drawer
or more useful man up to the hour when he
was tempted and fell. Mr.. Pool has fought
a good fight and kept the faith" Hence the
coarse Vituperation heeped upon him.
Does any one doubt that he is thus assail-
ed on account of his sound Unionism Why,
the burden of the charge against him is, that
he entered the Legislature of this State in
1854 for the purpose of " embarrassing the
rebellion and stopping the war" This is the
charge. He pleads guilty to it. Are those
who make it Union men9 Will any person
possessed of grain of sense say they are 2
SS INT Of hair
ned"
They say Mr.. Pool is unworthy because he
embarrassed the Confederacy." The Senior
of the Sentinel did the same thing up to the
middle of the year 1868. Gov. Worth never
desired the success of the Confederacy. In
the latter part of 1862, or early in 1868, Gov.
Vance seriously entertained proposition
from Gov. Stanly to meet him at Kinston, to
treat for peace. The Senior Editor of this pa
per earnestly advised Gov. V. to do this, and
we believe he would have done it but for
counter advice from Gov. Graham. In Oc-
tober, 1868, Gov. Graham wrote letter to
the Fayetteville Observer, taking ground for
negotiations and peace. The Editors de-
clined to publish the letter, but it was Ger
tainly written and sent to them for publica-
ton. What was all this but " embarrassing
the Confederacy9" Were these gentlemen
mean," or g. treacherous," or unworthy"
because they did these things?
But we go further and state, on the author
ity of "The Last Ninety Days of the War;"
substantially from the pen of Gov. Swain,)
hot Hnr- bnr {bo Of
was = Thoroughly convinced -" that "the Con-
federacy" was gone, and that it was the
duty of the State Government immediately to
move for the purpose of effecting an adjust
ment of the quarrel with the United States"
Gov. Graham then went to work with much
energy to "embarrass the Coufederacy and
stop the war" According to the Sentinel,
he broke his faith to " the Confederacy" by
State action to stop the war"
The time had at length arrived when, in his
judgment, it was the duty of the State im-
to stop the war" Pity that he
postponed this movement so long. Pity that
he was wanting in that sagacity and fore
sight which led Mr.. Pool, Mr.. Dick, and
others to exert themselves to "stop the war"
in 1864. Pity that so many brave men were
slain, such wide regions of country ravaged
and desolated, and so many calamities pour
ed upon our heads, because Gov. Graham
and Gov Vance could not see as far ahead
as Mr. Pool saw; or, if seeing as he did, that
they did not have the nerve to go with him
in his efforts to stop the war" We drop
the curtain over what must be their feelings
when they reflect on their awful mistake, to
give it no harsher name. They "embarrras-
sed the Confederacy," as Mr.. Pool did, but
heir treason to it came too late to save one
life or to turn back even one wave of desola-
ion and ruin. The best evidence of Mr..
Pools craftsmanship, and of his fitness to
serve the people is, that he saw and labored
% avert the ruin which his present oppo-
tents, from want of craftsmanship or from
wicked pride, literally pulled down upon
heir unhappy country.