The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-05

result and by subsequent facts. No propo-
sition can be more clearly established than
that the defeat of Mr.. Holden was fortu-
nate circumstance, as every man of discern
ment must have seen at tile time. Perhaps
the testimony of Senator Wilson will salts
ty the Democrat. When Gov. Worth was
in Washington city last, he met Senator
Wilson, in the presence of number of gen.
tlemen, who expressed much pleasure at
meeting Gov. Worth. Mr. Wilson remark
ed substantially, addressing himself to the
Governor, some folks made an ado because
you beat Mr.. Holden for Governor, but, for
my own part, was glad enough of it,
Raleigh Sentinel.
If Senator Wilson "was glad enough of
it," it was because it afforded him an oppor-
tunity to impose more degrading terms on
the people of the State.
But what did President johnson say about
Mr. Holden's defeat2 Will the Sentinel dare
say that President johnson is not a compe-
tent witness, that he is not "luan of dis
cernment"-will it say that he is a radical
and an enemy to the South Here is what
the President said about the result of the
election for Governor in 1865:
.s WASHINGTON, Nov 81, 1865.
W. ". Holden, Provisional Gooernor:
Accept my thanks for the noble and eff
cient manner in which you have discharged
your duty as Provisional Governor. You
will be sustained by the Government. The
results OF the recent elections in North-Car-
olina have greatly damaged the prospects
of the State in the restoration OF its govern
mental relations. Should the action and
spirit of the Legislature be in the same direc-
ton, it will greatly increase the mischief al
ready done, and might be fatal. 1t is hop
ed the action and spirit manifested by the
Legislature will be so directed as rather tc
repair than to increase the difficulties under
which the State has already placed itself.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States.
We consider that the above refutes the
statement of the Sentinel and affords abun-
dant justification for the support we gave
Mr. Holden in 1865. and for the efforts we
then made to prevent strife and party ex-
citement. Let the Sentinel answer President
Johnson if it can, and show that he is man
of no discernment.- Charlotte Dem.
We do not believe that Mr.. Wilson utter
ed any such language to Gov. Worth. The
latter is, of course, responsible for the state
ment, for he must have made it to the Edi-
tors of the Sentinel When Gov. Worth was
last in Washington his special business was
to continue, if possible, the use of the cow
hide on the backs of persons convicted OF
stealing. Mr.. Wilson does not approve of
such punishments, and he no doubt knew
the object of Gov. Worths visit. 1t was
not natural, therefore, that Mr.. Wilson
should meet him as cordially as stated
Again, Mr.. Wilson knew that Gov. Worth
had been elected for the most part by per-
sons disaffected to the government, and his
opponent beaten because he was and is 8
more loyal man than Gov. Worth.
For these reasons we do not believe that
Mr.. Wilson met Gov. Worth in the manner
stated. But if it be true that Mr.. Wilson
| was pleased, but few months since, at Gov.
Worth's election, how did it happen that,
when MIR. Wilson visited Raleigh recently,
Gov. Worth did not turn out to meet him,
and show him the respect to which he was
entitled? 1t was stated at the time that
Gov. Worth dined with Mr.. Wilson. This
is not true. In company with the Senior
Editor of the Sentinel, he simply dined at
Mr.. Wilson.
But this is mere byplay, and amounts to
nothing We became convinced in 1865,
when Gov. Worth was deliberating as to
whether he would become candidate for
Governor, that he had no special or particu-
lar regard for truth.
The Sentinel says those who brought out
Gov. Worth did right" They certainly did,
| in rebel sense. Yet the Sentinel, but a few
weeks before he was brought out, gave seven
or eight reasons, as the files of that paper
will show, why there should be no opposi-
ton to the then Provisional Governor. He
was brought out" for two reasons; first,
because the Provisional Governor thought
proper to recommend to the President that
the application of Gov Graham for pardon
should be suspended; and secondly, because
certain public men and certain families felt
and saw that if the then Provisional Gov
ernor should be elected, they would lose the
corporations This is the whole secret
Gov. Graham fretted like spoilt child be-
cause he was not promptly pardoned, and he
stepped forward out of spite to mar and de-
stroy the Presidents plan of reconstruction.
| He found convenient tools, and he did the
work. These people, under the lead of Gov.
Graham, do not wish, in the first place, to re-
store the Union. 1t is repugnant to their
feelings to go back under the old flag. In
the second place, it is against their interests,
for they know that restoration must cast
them out of Office and deprive them of " the
spoils" Hence their opposition to the
Howard amendment, and their present
purpose to defeat restoration under the
Sherman act, if at all possible. The
only remedy is to abolish them by act Of
Congress. Let them drop through as Office
holders-let the existing rebel organization
be abolished, and let the State, with its trea-
sure and its corporations, pass into the hands
OF the military, ard there will then be no
room to doubt that the State will be recon
structed and restored on loyal basis. As it
Is, the disloyal are governing the loyal, and
the Congress, without intending it, is offer
ing premium to treason
Mass Meeting IN Stokes County.