The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-05
Significant Language.

Significant Language.
In his recent address TO the people OF
Newbern, Gov. Vance is reported to have
said
"But he was glad to come here now, es-
pecially as he Was welcomed by all parties,
and it gave him pleasure to think that the peo-
pie of this great American nation were COM
ing together. They would all come togeth-
er when the Northern people had learned
the lesson we had been taught by the war.
Reconstruction would take place, he said,
when the North made US willing, and that
would be by doing us justice"
If reconstruction depends on the people of
the North doing what Gov. Vance desires,
it will never take place.
The expressions used of the "American
nation coming together" and of the North
ern people learning the lesson that aoe
have" are enigmatical. What does the Gov
Are we to "cone together" in that way9 And
are the Northern people thus to learn the
lesson that we have? The Governor is not
as explicit as he used to be, when he said he
would seek a glorious death in battle before
he would submit to the federal government,
and when he exhorted hisp conscripts to
eight the Yankees until hell froze over, and
then fight upon the ice" By the way, where
is our classical and dispassionate friend, Mr..
Crawford, of Rowan2 Is his help in pro-
gress2 We advise him to get Brother Pell
to dedicate it, when it is finished, as nothing
pleases Brother Pell, so-called. better than
such expressions as the above, in which Gov.
Vance and Mr.. Crawford so much delight.
The Sentinel speaking of recent rapes and
murders in the Eastern part of this State,
says:
"We venture the assertion that an investi7
CATION of the facts will show that the guilty
parties in these infamous acts, when found
out, will prove to be, in four out of five cases,
either colored vagabonds or Of that class of
white men who affect to be Southern Loyal
lists"
Our contemporary ventures" great deal
We presume there is no proof as yet as to
who committed these outrages. We trust
the guilty parties have no politics of any
kind. If traced out, tried, and convicted,
let them die the death.'
We learn that Gov. Worth boasts to the
colored people, by way of currying favor
with them, that the first person he pardon
cd was cslored man, in one of our West
ern Counties. We believe it was case of
rape, and that the guilty person was pardon
ed by the Governor. The Sentinel has the
means of learning all about it. Let US have
in this way. They are not so
week or so vicious as to wish to shield the
guilty of their own race from deserved pun
ishment.
There is no depth of degradation or mean
ness to which such as the Editors of the Sen
tineI will not descend to retain their hold on
power and patronage. Men who were con-
scious traitors" seeking the life of the nation
up to the last moment, who then professed
to repent, and took and failed to keep the
amnesty oath, and who are now engaged in
inculcating sentiments of hatred to the GOV
and to the Northern people, who
have kindly spared their property and lives
and who have even allowed them up to the
present time to vote, are capable of any
thing. They judge Others by the standard
hey have set up in their own corrupt hearts.
But the day of their doom approaches. The
Congress will deal with them and with all
other traitors and if they attempt to resist
The action of that body, no matter by whom
hey may be sustained or countenanced, they
will suddenly be destroyed, and that with
out remedy"
The truth is, civil government under Sc
,ession auspices has failed in this State
But for the presence of the military, restrict
I'd as they are by Executive orders, life, lib
srty and property would be exceedingly un-
certain in this State. The presence of the
military and the fear of future consequences,
S the main shield of the Union people of
both races against prosecutions and violence
If the most fragrant and intolerable charac-
er.