The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-16

TO be restored to her Constitutional relations /
70 the general government and to begin |
writing out new history The old oligar-
chy was unwilling to undertake the work
NOT only were they unwilling, but they were !
totally unable. They were disqualified by
education, habit. prejudice and hostility to
'he government. The workll had to be DONE |
and 1t must be done by competent men,
what, then, was more natural than that the !
lo7ai people of the State should entrust this |
work to the hands of those who were in full
sympathy with the government, and w no were
thoroughly imbued with the Republican
principles of progress and the equality of
cltlzenship2 Old things had passed away
The ideas of forty years ago had become
obsolete. In short, slavery was gone, and all
the results of slavery were to be eradicatcd
as natural consequence. 1t was not ex-
pected that those who still looked back to
the flesh pots of the past would he the proper
men to cast the ground work for the beauti-
full edifce of freedom and civilization to be
constructed upon the ruins of the old ignor-
ance and barbarism.
1t need not he feared that the Republicans
Will make use of their power for any other
purpose than to advance all the interests of
State Louis the Fourteenth said-"I am
the State" The old slave aristocrats said,
1--WE are the State" The Republicans say
" The People are the State;" and 20 pro-
mote their welfare will be the object and aim
of the party. Those who are nearest the
IF tba TJp;tal St,+o, ,.o a. H..
friends of the people, and are able to do
more for the people, as matter of course,
than those who are opposed to the govern
ment. An experience for the last eight years
confirms this. Those who have tried to get
farthest away from the old Union have been
the worst enemies of the people On the
other hand, those who attempted to get near
est the government have been the best friends
of the people. Had the warnings of our
Union men been needed in 1860 and 1861
or had the voice of peace and mercy been
allowed to he heard in 1868, what horrors
might have been avoided ?-how many fire
sides where desQlation and anguish are now
settling. would be joyous to- day? So it will
be in the future. The best friends Of the
gorernment Of the United States aciU alpays6e
found to be the best friends of the State.
Spirit of the Rebel Press.
We clip the following extracts from the
is headed "W. W. Holden" and the first
paragraph reads as follows:
Il do not wonder that you cringe in your
utter degradation and feel vindictive, for YOU
know, for the sake of power, you have sold
yourself for less than thirty pieces of silver.
You have betrayed the good people of the
State, and sold them into Il worse bondage
than ever a slave in the known world was
held. You deserve to he tabooed Your
name will pass into history as being trail
| tor, coward and thief"
And this is said of the man who has been
endorsed by a majority of the registered
voters of North Carolina, of whom thirty five
thousand were white loyal Union Republi-
cans
The next paragraph, when translated into
| plain English, means IF Governor Holden
would cast off his mean white friends and
the - niggcrs" and fill all the offices at his
disposal with gentlemanly rebels" Holden
would be very proper man and would merit
consideration from the old aristocracy." The
next paragraph is an impotent wall at the
prospect of the present public plunderers be-
ing compelled to disgorge and yield their
| places to better qualified and more honest
men. 1t reads thus:
1.-THE advice which I proposed to tender
YOU, is this. The first day You take your
| place rs Governor of North Carolina (Which
| God grant in his mercy may never beg com
mence to steal, and put every carpet-baggcr
and every mean white man in the State, (ot
course l mean every white man so-called,
that voted for you) into some position,
where they can together with you. steal all
the money which your infamous hand can
grind out of the poor, and oppressed peo-
pie of the State"
We omitted to mention that the prayer
that Gov. Holden may never take his seat,
is addressed to the Ku Klux Khan.
After a spirited allusion to doctor
Vance our sapient scribe proceeds thus:
eyes, you are pledged by solemn VOW,
| but to his satanic majesty: and he has got
your heart, soul and body Every doubtful
! about heart and soul however) My advice
| is to work quick and fast. for your career is
illegal, and as sure as the sun rises and sets,
YOU will be compelled to yield to the power
of the government and he hurled, every
mothers son of you, from your stolen and IL
LEGAL positions Yet a little while" Is all
the time that you will be allowed to disgrace
this State, or the United states, by holding
any office in the gift of the people; unless
you emf crate with the army of Yankee car
pet baggers, Tor Egyptian lice, who like
them, come in night to some unknown
country and there erect your
"STANDARD."
ANY person of ordinary intelligence can
see at a glance what this means. The "po-
sitions are g illegal and stolen" If so,
their occupants deserve to be hurled from
them by revolution and violence, for it is
right to disposess usurper and a tyrant by
any means. The d" undiscovered country
to which the Republican officers are to be
consigned, could doubtless be pointed out
by some of the midnight towards and PROV