The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-01

OOOD.-A WnlIG llldu udlllCu DOWeu was
recently arrested in South Carolina by order
of Gen. Sickles, for going about among the
freedmen and making speeches which caused
them to neglect their work. One of the Off
cial letters of Capt. J. w. Clous thus states
the case against Bowen:
at is represented that this Bowen issues
what the freedmen consider orders for them
to attend these meetings; threatening them
with fines if they do not attend telling them
that no charge can be made against them
for leaving the crop; that these meetings are
ordered by Brevet Maj or General Scott, and
promising them band of music. This has
all tended to produce disorder, and as this
is the time the crop must be saved or lost,
no time can be spared from it.
The Major-General Commanding orders
that you take Mr.. Bowen into custody, and
prefer such charges as the evidence in the
cases may warrant, in order that he may be
brought to trial before military tribunal"
We find the above in our exchanges. If
" this Bowen" has been acting as represented,
he has been acting very improperly and fool
ishly. 1t, as an officer of the Union League,
he has been telling the people that he has
a right to fine them for non attendance at
meetings, or to do any thing to deprive them
of their free will as citizens, he deserves ex-
pulsion from the Order. Members of this
Order are not thus bound. They act togeth
er as political equals from choice, and they
are cemented together by regard for each
other as patriots and love for the Union
There is nothing arbitrary or domineeringin
the Order, and so far from dlscouraging in
dustry and attention to business one of its
leading objects is to promote and elevate
labor and laboring men.
1t is true, the crops must be saved or lost,
but this applies equally to both races La
Dor in this country is now involuntary.
But if ''this Bowen" deserves to be de-
prived ofhis liberty,-to be tried by militia
ry court and punished, what should be done
with < this" Pell and "this" Gales, who are
the Editors of the Sentinel, of this City, the
organ of Gov. Worth? We respectfully in
vite the attention of the commanding Gen.
eral t., the following extracts from that pa
per, OF date July 80. Speaking of Tennessee
the Sentinel says:
1T is the precise condition in which the
Red String Radicals would place North Car
ollna 1t is this for which they are toiling
night and day, stirring up the blacks against
the whites, and endeavoring to excite hos
tility and create alienation between the poor
and the rich. Will the people of North
| Carolina listen to these vile enemies of free
dom and of both races -
Is this true? Is it true that the Republic
cans OF this State are stirring up the blacks
against the whites ?" If true, they are enc
mics to reconstruction, to the government,
to law and order, and the very existence of
society, and they ought to be dealt with as
promptly as this Bowen" has been Buff
not true-if false, as every one knows it to
be, will Gen. Sickles allow such language to
be used? Does it not tend to strife and
bloodshed?
The Sentinel of the same date also says:
"And yet it must be plain to every one,
that in matters of government and of So
cial life, in a country heretofore ruled by
white people, the ineffaceable mark and its
| accompaniment which God has put up-
on the negro race must always have their
influence, not against the negro race affect
ing any essential right of freeman -hch
he ought to enjoy, but in claiming 1or the
white race that preference which virtue, re-
tinement and its Accomplishments must al
ways assert"
Here it is falsely assumed that the colored
people are claiming social equality with the
whites, and an effort is made, on this unten
able ground, to inflame the latter against the
former. And not only this, but the colored
race are denied all interest or control in the
government. This is directly in the face of
the reconstruction acts, and is calculated.
and NO doubt intended by the Sentinel which
desires war of races, to infame the colored
people against the whites. 1t seem to us
that such language on the part Of the organ
of Gov. Worth, is quite as Objectionable and
quite as dangerous as any thing that has been
said by this Bowen"
Again, the Sentinel says
in the South, whatever NAV be the at-
tempts of the government, or rather the
Radical party, to uproot the very foundations
of society, and to Mexicanize our people, &c.
Here it is charged that " the government" is
attempting to "uproot the very foundations
of society, and to Mexicanize our people,
What must be the tendency of such Ian
guage but to excite the people against the
government? Has "this Bowen"-eIen if
all that is alleged against him be true-gone
as far in the path of sedition as " this' PeI
and " this' Gales2
1t should be borne in mind that the Senti-
mel newspaper is the official organ of Gov.
Worth, and that one of its Editors is printer
to the rebel Legislature soon to re-assemble
in Raleigh. The Editors of the Sentinel are,
therefore, paid ont Of the State Treasury to
ancuIcate the oieaos a6ooe quoted. One of the
Editors is a State officer, and the other is a
paroled ex-Confederate officer In the name
of eighty or ninety thousand loyal men in
this State, we protest against the continu-
ance of officials in our State government,
who uphold and support this paper in its
utterance of these atrocious sentiments. The
Sentinel lies and says that the colored people
of this State are claiming social equality
with the whites. 1t is paid for this out of
the taxes wrung from the Impoverished peo-