The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-16

inaugurated without delay; but no person
1 Prohiolted from holtling office under anv
state oy section three of the proposed amend.
ment to the Constitution of the United Statse
known as article fourteen, shall be deemed
i eHgioie 10 any office in either of said States
unless renewed from disability as provided ~
said amendment. And it Is hereby made
sue uuty OF the President, within ten DAYS
after receiving official information of the
ratihcatIon of said amendment by the I,esr-
isiaturc OF said States, to issue proclalna-
ton announcing that fact.
ihe only possible chance for Radicalism
TO maintain itself in this State. is by the ex.
ercise OF prudence and forbearance to their
| opponents, and by showing, if possible
ability and disposition to promote the peace
and the prosperity of all classes and condi-
TONS of the people. An opposite course will
only unite, more detcrminedly and persist
entity, all the elements of opposition to Rad
lcailsm in the State.-Sentiael.
The advice of a disintcrested friend should
always be weighed before 1t is rejected-the
advice of an old man, he he friend or foe.
should never be cast away, while the advice
OF an enemy, whether it is true or false
should not be despised. No body knows
the reasons of the defeat of the rebels better
than the rebels themselves and. than defeat
ed rebels, nobody can more justly understand
the need of the two virtues, which they
never exercised towards a fallen foe-pru-
dence and forbearance On the other hand
success has uniformly led them to iptoler
ance. Defeat has not altered them, where
they still have the power to inf1ct injury
The laboring classes can tell how much for
bearance rebels exercise, and the present
suffering in all classes of the people shows
how little disposition they have to promote
harmony while in power. The effect of
their misgovernment will remain for years.
Prudence belongs to experience. 1t is
virtue of the ok soldier and politician
That the Republican party is more prudent
than rash, the history of the rebellion suffi-
GENTLY proves: and the action of the late
Constitutional Convention in North Carolina
is not the least Indication of its marvellous
| prudence. We are satisfied there is no par
ticular danger on this score.
! Forhearance towards opponents may be an
clement of political prudence. But, there has
| been a change in the word. g. 1t used to be
magnanimity." However, old birds are
not caught with chaff and forbearance'
must go upon the same shelf with "mag-
nanimity," and other phrases for turning the
left cheek, when the right has been slapped.
| We are no advocates of revenge. We mere
| ly favor letting the rebels alone severely
Let us legislGte, govern, direct and control
for LoynI, honest men, and for all II en-, and
in the interest Of no clique, class or condi-
ton of men. The exercise of prudence in
everything of mercy towards the I'M
! fortunate, and justice towards the hardened,
are cardinal principles. The rebels, when
they say. " look out, don't tread ON u.s." for
get that we do not regard them, as they
wish to be regarded, as separate and distinct
class, above the colored man, or the foreign
er, or the loyal native. They are merely in
the same bag, and will have to shake when
other men shake, and bear an equal share
in every burden save that of politics, of
which they have been relieved.
Without rebel advice, the Republicans in
tend to promote peace and prosperity.
They will open the doors to immigration,
they will protect the laborer, punish crime
and hang murderers. They will make the
lowliest hut an impregnable castle, and the
humblest life sacred and inviolable. They
will make North Carolina great State, in
agriculture, mechanical arts, and in learning.
| This is their mission. AS they advance,
tearing down the Chinese wall erected by
| ignorance, the number of the rebels will d.
A. tl,a loo
will unite more determinedly in the bonds
of Conservatism and dO-nothingness. We
do not fear such a Union of the elements
opposed to radicalism. All that we fear in
the question of losing political power, is
that the rebels will seize our own thunder,
but that would be a matter of congratu-
lation, after all. Yet there is little dan
ger. The Bourbons neither learn nor forget.
In the meanwhile, let US teach them how
we'll government can be conducted, in
which their SONS or fathers are not office
holders, although they will hold their breath
and hourly await the sound of Gabriel's
trump.
That is the kind of forbearance and mag
nanimity which will be exercised hereafter.
1t will be sufficient for the hour. If a stronger
pill be necessary to the health of the body |
polite, it can he administered. But let us
be prudent, as we have heretofore been, and
all that the Republicans wish, or need, or
would have, is in their reach, both for them
selves, their friends, their posterity and the |
good Old North State.
The Hon. Calvin ]. Cowles, President OF
the Constitutional Convention, has returned
to this City from his trip North. Gen. LAT