The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-08-07

Goop.-A white man named Bowen was
recently arrested in South Carolina by order
ofGen. 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 statesl
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 Major 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 a 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. II, 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 domineering in
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 of his liberty, Ito be tried by militia
ry court and punished, what should be done
with sthisn Pell and g this" Gales, who are
the Editors of the Sentinel, of this City, the
organ of Gov. Wortha We respectfully in
vite the attention of the commanding Cen
eral t., the following extracts from that pa
per- OF date July 30. Speaking of Tennessee
the Sentinel says:
1T is the precise condition in which the
Red String Radicals would place North Car
olna 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
~, x,.l los af
dom and of both races ?"
Is this true2 Is it true that the Repubii-
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 4this Bowen has been. But if
not true-if false, as every one knows it to
be, will Gen. Sickles allow such language to
be used9 Does it not tend to strife and
bloodshed2
The Sentinel of the same date also says:
sand yet it must be plain to every one,
that in matters of government and of So
cial life, in country heretofore ruled by
white people, the ineffaceable mark and its
accompaniments 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 which
ne ought to enjoy, but in claiming for the
white race that preference which virtue, re-
hnement and its accompaniments 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 infame the latter against the
former. And not only this, but the colored
race are denied all interestor control in the
government. This is directly in the face of
tne 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
tnat such language on the part Of the organ
ol Gov. Worth, is quite as Objectionable and
qaite as dangerous as any thing g-thathas been
Said by this Bowen"
again, the Sentinel says:
In the South, whatever may be the at