The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-09-16
Lo. the Depth!

junction, in his childhood at stealing pen
ny than in his manhood at highway rob-
berry or murder. The minister of the Cos
pei, whose soul has been STEPPED in treason,
and whose skirts are red with human blood,
cannot recall the purer emotions of his bet
ter days.
/ An old man, full of years and honors, has
grown feeble and decrepit with age. He
has served his generation well and long,
been elevated to high positions and greatly
favored by oil parties, and received and en-
joyed the full earthly reward Of all his Ia
bors. Having become disqualified by age
and infirmity for the position he has so long
filed, he tenders his resignation. No sane
man doubts that it will be accepted, and his
personal and political friends speak of Gen.
Johnston, Vance and Others, as proper to
succeed him. Meantime the authority
passes unexpectedly into the hands of the
Republican Party, who very naturally, prop
erly and almost necessarily accept his resig-
nation. A few weeks, and he is discovered
by friends, bathed in blood and severely
wounded by a fall from an open wagon.
His shattered Constitution and feeble system
render it impossible for him, under the best
medical treatment, to recover from the fatal
bruises or rally from the shock. Scarcely is
he in his grave, when an act Of postum
nous courtesy, participated In by his es-
teemed personal friend and distant relation,
is made q pretext by the rebel press, and
even the Sentinel, edited by q gospel minis
ter, joins in the hue and cry of murder"
Their foul partnership neither spares the
feelings of bereaved family, nor regards
the sacred memory of the honored dead.
And these are true believers, faithful
christians, while Others are in6dels and Ger.
man transcendentalists
His only son is understood to be q Repub-
lican. His only surviving daughter, the
wife of gallant Federal officer, and prom
inent leader of the Radical party in his State,
and the daughter who had but recently died,
| had displayed her courage and magnanim-
ity, her kindness and genuine Republican
ism, by teaching school of colored chill
dren in her fathers Office. The father was
known to have been an original Union man,
and the great misfortune of his life was, that
in the kindness of his nature and pliability
of age, he allowed himself to be drawn into
the meshes Of the net set by his traitorous
friends. Any blot upon the fair escutcheon
of his fame, is due to his having followed
too far the evil counsels of his most intimate
and trusted associates, and his worst enc
mics proved to be they who were next to his
own household. And these traitors, with the
knowledge that they would have advised
an acceptance of his resignation, just as it
was done by the present authorities; and
with the further knowledge that the intelli-
gent public arc aware of the fact after
having wrought upon his better nature, and
lured him from the path of patriotism in
which his children were treading, in order to
crafty their nalignent feelings and serve
their foul party purposes, lay unholy hands
upon his remains and hold them up to the
public gaze from the basest of motives; and
this by minister of the gospel-a theOreti-
cal believer, but practical infdel- dares
charge his moral superiors with faint of
German Decentralization!
There is man in North Carolina who has
filed more of the public eye during the last
quarter Of century, than any other within
its borders-whose name to-day stands as
fair for patriotism and craftsmanship as any
among US, and whose history will shine
brightly when his traducers have sunk into
merited obloquy or oblivion. He is self.
made man from among the poor-who has
arisen to eminence by his own indomitable
energy and perseverance, his unfinching OPP
position to dishonesty and error, and his
tenacious adherence to principles of right
and justice. Against his private character,
no word can be uttered by even his most
bitter enemies, but to whose kind and gen.
erous nature all who know him must bear
testimony. To crafty their political malig
nifty and commend themselves to public pat
ronage by display of unmistakable disloy-
atty to the government under which they
hold their charter, little fourth class secta-
rian Colleges, that scarcely deserve the name,
must make themselves ridiculous, and dis.
gust all sensible men, by erasing the name
of such man from the register of their Lit
erary C) Societies. Are they so short-sighted
as not to see what might be the result of
such course7 The names of traitors now
appear upon the records, and their portraits
hang in the walls of loyal colleges. Having
stricken the first blow, they cannot COM
plain, should it be resented.
It has been charged that Gov. Holden
has been tickle as u politician. What must
be said of Governors Graham and Vance
Once original Union men, but when it be.
came apparent that restoration of. the
Union would result in the emancipation of
their slaves, and that the position held by
President Davis might ut some time be va
cant, they joined the secessionists. The once
fond leader of the old wing party in North
Carolina, is now the recognized leader of
the copperhead Democracy in the same
| State. It were better that a man, being con-
| vinced of his error, should renounce it, and
yielding to the promptings of patriotism,
spouse the right, than that being right, lie