The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-18
the institutions and civilization of the South.


now subsist between the States of the North
When that moment arrives, as it will soon
arrive, if the purposes of Congress are met
in proper spirit by the people of the South,
the nation will at once employ its immense
resources and power for the development of
that region of the country, and in short
period of time not only will the evidences of
war have disappeared, but the reorganized
States will be in the enjoyment of a degree
Of prosperity not before experienced.
There can be restoration, Cancellation,
friendship, and prosperity for all, if the
States lately in rebellion rebuild their insti-
buttons upon the principles of justice; but
if they dwell upon the past, revive and
strengthen the hatreds that were engendered
by the contests about slavery, if they deny
land, education, or equality of rights in any
particular to any class of their citizens, then,
in some degree, the malign influences of the
past and the present will be transmitted to
the future"
We endorse every word of the above We
stand just there, and no where else. But if,
from indifference on the part of the people,
or from the perversity, ambition and wicked
ness of certain so-called Southern leaders,
the Sherman act should fail, we shall then
go again with the Congress, and shall adj
vocate just such measures as may be necessa-
ry to suppress the rebellion" and restore
the State on loyal basis. But not now.
We are in good faith with the Congress, and
we shall go with it even unto the end If
that body should find it necessary, in the
last resort, to confscate property in order to
do justice as between classes, and in order
to restore the Union on a loyal basis, we shall
go cheerfully with the Congress. This is
our position. We trust we are understood.
But it is said we are a Radical. Terrible
word We are hardly worthy to be Re-
publican, but we are one. We believe in
tearing up the last vestige of secessionism
and treason, and then planting in its place
the tEse of liberty. If this makes US radical
then we suppose we are Radical. But we
call ourselves Republicans, and we are with
Congress which is called Republican. The
party is known, not as the Radical, but as
the Republican party 1t is called Union
Republican to distinguish it from pretend
ed Republicans sailing under false coors-
1t is easy to give names. Wings used to be
called Federal" or British" Wings, and
Democrats were called "Locofocos" But
this did not change the fact that they were
respectively only Wings and Democrats.
Powers of District Commanders under
the Reconstruction Acts.
The following important announcement is
made in the National LnteUgencer of yester-
day. 1t shows that the President, backed
by his Cabinet, looks upon the removal of
State officers as an act of usurpation on the
part of the District commanders We have
more than once expressed this opinion. We
defy any man to find one word in the recon
structiOn acts which authorizes them to in
terfere in any manner with these officers
The utmost that they can lawfully do is to,
assist the civil authorities in the administrle
ton of justice. We quote from the Iatelzi
gencer:
"We have authority for the statement |
that at very recent consultation of the Cab |
met it was decided that the military officers |
in command of the five districts into which |
the ten unrepresented Southern States are
divided have no power to remove civil cffi-
GERS deriving their authority from the State
governments as now organized. The Gpes-
ton, we understand, before the Cabinet had
more immediate reference to the removal |
of the Governor and other civil officers of |
the State of Louisiana by General Sheridan |
but of course will apply to the action of. the
other four commanders No doubt the |
Forthcoming opinion of the Attorney General |
in accordance with the reasoning of which
it is understood the decision referred to, was
arrived at, will fully justify the legality
and propriety of this deter mination."
=, III, s,,@,,, %hat how
will be instructed in his duties that; the
civil officers are to be restored to theirplaces;
and that Mr.. johnson can't be bullied! Does
the New York Tribune, the Latelligencer asks,
Clancy that the President of the, United
States is to be swerved from his sworn duty
by newspaper threats, after partisan COM
mittee has been bounding his track. for
months in the vain effort to make case
against him that would support a desperate
majority in the opinion of the civilized world
in their project to depose him from. his high
office 81
The course of the President in this matter
will most probably render eertain,the' re-as-
sembling of Congress. 1t is fortunate for the
country that the President is clearly showing
his hand. Nothing will be left to. the Con-
gress but to abolish tn c existing. rebel State
organizations. Will that body prove itself
equal to the emergencya If it should hest
tate, all the victories won by, the Union
troops during four years conflict, will have
been achieved in vain. If such men as Phil
Sheridan are to go down, and Northern cop
perheadism and Southern treason are to go
up, Congress might as well furi the "old
flag" and surrender at discretion
Ex-Governor Wells came to the conclu-
sion the other day, that the sword in the
hands of General Sheridan, is mightier than
the pen in the hands of Wells, and so surren-
dered. His paper protests and appeals to
the 'dear people" had no more effect ON the
gallant trooper of the Shenandoah Valley,
than did the thuuders of Early's artillery
Sheridan cannot be frightened, and Rebels
on the battlefield or in high civil authority
ought to have made this discovery long
since. Wells has been slow in perceiving this,