The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1867-05-08
NO. 49,.
Registers of Voters.

Registers of Voters. "A
The New York Tribune asks if T" rebels are
10 appoint Registers" of voters in the South
ern Statesl 1t apprehends that such may
be the case. from the fact that Gov. Orr has
addressed certain public officers in his State,
asking for suitable names for Registers.
We are receiving letters from loyal men
in all parts of this State, complaining that
Gov. Worth is consulting rebels as to the
proper persons to be appointed Registers.-
No reflection is intended by them or by US
on Gen. Sickles, but they feel that he may
be deceived in this business by Gov. Worth.
For example, friend writes us from Ruth
erford County that Gov. Worth has selected
Joseph L. Carson, a defiant rebel, to re-
port names to him for that County,
This person Carson, as the Others selected by
Gov. Worth are no doubt doing, is said tobe
using every effort to obtain the names Of
fence men, or secessionists who can take the
test-oath. When names of unconditional
Union men are offered, they are rejected a.
partisans. -
Now, in the first place, Gov. Worth has
pronounced the Congress that passed the
Sherman act an unconstitutional body;
in the second place, he has declared publicly
that he does not approve the Sherman act,
but submits to it only at the point of the
bayonet; in the third place, there are fifty
thousand colored voters to be enrolled in this
State, and Gov Worth, in one of his messa-
ges, insulted them by proposing to " dis
tribute" them throughout the country. tits
also known that no citizen, native or adop-
ted, who fought under the federal flag, can
get thepost even of switch-tender or messen-
ger in any of the corporations under the con-
troll of Gov. Worth. Being thus hostile to the
Congress, to the colored people, and to all
true Union men, we respectfully submit that
Gov. Worth is not the man to take any part
whatever in the work of reconstruction.
We are more and more convinced by every
days observation, that if the Congress would
render it certain that the States will be re-
constructed under the Sherman act, it must
scipe ont the eristing rebel State organizations.
1t will not be too late to do this when that
body re-assembles in July.
We know of no disloyalty south of Ma
sons and Dixon's line 1t is all on the other
side, where it exists at all.-ISentiasl
The Sentinel here charges that all the dis
loyalty is in the Northern States--that in,
that the Republicans, who saved the gov
ernment by suppressing the rebellion, are
disloyal! What wicked nonsensel
The Sentinel and its friends are known to
be disloyal. They have no cheerful word
for the Union-no feeling of kindness to-
wards those who control the government
no love for the flag of the United States
They hate the government They hate those
who control it. They hate the glorious flag
of the Union, and would rejoice to see It
torn down and trampled under foot. We
tell the Northern people that there is mora
disloyalty south of Mason's and Dixon's llne
than there has ever been before These
States may get back under the Sherman act,
but it is doubtful. The Generals who have
command may ensure the return of the
States under the act, if they will act with q
| due degree of sternness. Rebel leaders and
rebel newspapers can neither be won by love
nor conciliated by indulgence They can be
controlled only by fear; and unless they
are controlled, and prevented from inAaming
the minds of the people against the govern
| ment the work of reconstruction under the
| Sherman act will fail. Mark the prediction.
| But what if it should fail9 Why, the States
would be territorialized, the titles to all
lands would die with the State, and no one
could renew title except on clear proof of
loyalty. Those persons, therefore, who are
following Pell, Graham, Gales, Worth, Bat
tie and the like, are given over to hard
ness of heart and reprobacy Of mind, to be-
lieve lie and be damned" That is our
judgment. 4rs