The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-24

Wherever 1t is boldly proclaimed to them,
they will embraceitii They are preparing to
come Open the doors and let them
in. .1 If they have erred, they have suffered.
They are not banned or disabled !; they did
not belong to the office holding aristocraey
of the South They arc humble men. Let
us receive and instruct them, and kill for
them the fatted calf. isf' IL 500 t,e
But we tell all those rebelious leaders
again, that the decree of the Medes is not
more unalterable than that law which says
"repent, and do your first works with
humility. olip service, no cringing of
the knee, no fiattery or adulation, can an
swer in the place of bona 1ide repentance and
good soorks. You must make yourself useful
to the grand army of Republicans before
they will have any use for you, and you
must become indispensable as good privates
before your disabilities will be removed by
the Generals, Colonels and Captains. You
say you will not do this Then stay where
you are. If you can do without the Repub-
lican party, that party can do without you.
That is about the "home" to which we
are going With a divested sovereignty,
crippled powers, impaired rights. MANNED
and mutilated, we go to what is called, by
way of satire, we suppose, home,--where
we shall be received as interiors and treated
as interiors where we shall find uncouth
households gods set up, and strange faces
around the board But, with the help of
Providence and the assistance of friends, we
must expel the intruders, re build, II possi-
bic, the waste places, and restore the spirit
| of the Constitution to our national "home."
Sentinel. r .tl-.t M .f. ...A
The bitterest words uttered by man are
those of disappointed ambition, breathed in
the hour of remorse, and dropping from the
tongue like fire: I" 1t might hare been" Yes,
crn confederacy could be established; it
might have been that they could rule again
after their first defeat; it might have been
that they could have been honored guests at
the table of their brothers; but all that has
passed away, and only the recollection of
faded hopes remains to embitter their future.
They tell us now that SOME portions of
Johnson's plan were offensive and unwar-
ranted. But they had nothing to do with
that, only to submit in good faith, and say
nothing against what they could not alter
Time would have smoothed the asperities
of their position but they refused to be
comforted, and grasping for all power they
lost all save the recollection of their loss. y
They now speak of divested sovereignty
crippled powers and impaired rights. True,
the old theory of State sovereignty has heen
abolished. But that the States have rights,
which the general government guarantees and
| protects, no one can deny or ought to deny
The general government is paramount, but
every State is an equal in regard to rights
and protection; and no State can be ad-
mitted to representation save upon that
footing of equality which the Constitution
guarantees. For the safety of the Union,
every State, and not the Southern States
alone, are confined within narrower limits,
are debarred the exercise of unlawful SOW
ereignty, and thus kept in harmony by
controlling power; but politically, North
Carolina is stronger than she was in 1860,
for there are seventy thousand more voters
| in her borders than ever before. as.....
Loyal North, Carolnians are not treated as
interiors by the government, or the North
ern people. Rebels are not treated as infe-
riors, hut certain of them are set aside and
not allowed to participate in political affairs,
becauseit would be dangerous to allow them
such privileges. The great mass of unre-
pentant rebels are allowed to vote, and are
put on an equality with some of the most
loyal men in the South But because they
are put, and required TO stand, on an equality
with loyal men, and not placed above them
as they wish to be, they complain and
exaggeratc their condition, thus rendering
themselves not only ridiculous but disgust
ing. .s-.5...,.. ,-
They expect to meet uncouth household
gods and strange faces, when they are liter
ally carried into the Union upon our shoul.
ders. So far as strangeness i'm the gods and
faces goes, we should be astonishcd if
they are not somewhat startled, for justice,
humanity, equality and republican govern
ment are new and strange gods to them, while
the faces ofNorthern philanthropists and alb
olitionists will be novel as those of angels
But is this cause of complaint2 How
puerile are their repinings, and how childish
their unbearable sorrows nH ..
Yet they intend to expel these intruders
What folly! That was tried in 1861 and
failed in 1865; it was repeated and failed in
1868. The in,ruders, like innovations upon
antlquated customs, arc here and will
remain. They must be accepted with the
situation. Rebels will be expelled instead
of the intruders, if they attempt that game
We are ready for them. ia..a .-F'
But after the expulsion. which they intend
to consummate at some indefinite period,
the spirit of the Constitution" will be re-
stored. This is the end and climax of their
aspirations. The spirit of State sovereign
ty, secession and slavery will be again infus-
ed intot that instrument, whence it was pufg-
ed by the blood of loyal thousands Are not
these the visions of fanatical dreamers with
schemes as wild as their fortunes are desper-