The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-11-18
The Sentinel ON Grant and the Future
A Reply.

,.o,+,r1ov,s S,rtiD@ headed the duty be-
fore MS has attracted sufficient attention
10 merit a reply, because it proposes truce
in National politics, cessation of angry
elimination and attempts an apology for
Southern Democrats for their course towards
General Grant. At the first glance, this ar
ticle appears to bear the olive branch; at the
second, you see that it comes with the jim
nv and lantern OF Il burglar Instead of a
truce like the Roman holiday wherein the
youth tore the Sabian maidcns from their
parents, this article invites Gen. Grant and
the Republicans, mot the Radicals,) to per
nit the Southern Democratic party to steal
Grant and everything else of value won by
them in the late struggle. 1t is deliberate
proposition to iloney-fuggie Grant into john
sonism-to TyleriZe greater than Cesar or
Napoleon by a little submission, and few
wreaths of flowers, or if needs be, by utter
DISSEMINATION and abject fattery,-and this
too froma parcel of traitors, who are with
out influence among the loyal people any
where in the whole land, and who are even
without the respect of Grant himself.
If il were necessary to prove the degrade
tion OF the leaders of the second rebellion,
this article in the Sentinel is sufficient. Like
serpents, they crawl upon their bellies and
lick the dust Like doomed felons. they
turn their hands imploringly to Grant, and
beg pardon. Like traitors, they desert their
compeers in infamy, and say to him, 1--WE
did not aI5useyog, General, like the Northern
Democrats did, Thus they hope to profit
by living and treachery, and to prolong their
miserable existence in politics, for the pur-
pose as the Sentinel says, of driving the true
friends of Grant from power in this State,
whenever the occasion presents itself, and
putting the Republicans under the feet of
his enemies Though the Sentinel proposes
truce in National politics, it is not truce
to bury the Democratic dead, but to ar
range the terms of base surrender, in which
Grant is expected to permit himself to be
stolen, kidnapped and enslaved like john
son, by the Southern oligarchy. A truce
1t is war to the knife with such infamous
and degraded political men-robbers!
The SsHtineJ also announces that the true
men ofthe South meaning the unrepentant
rebels, viii give General Grants administra-
ton fair trial and an honest support, un-
til he proves himselfto be an extreme Re-
publican Tlhis is refreshing! It is like an
iceburg in August 1t is a piece of chalk
in a buskel of charcoal 1t is musk roses in
Bottoms eaTst Poor Sentinel, it is all a
whopper-an antruth-a fb-a prevarica-
tion-and you know that we all know it, to
be lie.
The Sentinel promised to support the adj
nlinistrati0n of Prov. Gov. Holden, and
broke that promise. 1t promised, and its
editors swore, to support the reconstruction
acts. Promise and oath were broken. Its
editors are doubtless sworn to support the
State Constitution, like all other voters, but
they still denounce it as illegal, despotic, and
all the officers Hereunder as usurpers.
What then, we ask, is the value of promise
from such menl What dependence will
Grant repose in the fair or honest support of
such infidcls and liars? He had better lean
on the ann of an honest negro soldier, than
on the bare promise of parcel of men, who
have violated parole, oath, the laws Of hu-
manity and every article in the State and
Federal Constitutions Still the Sentinel tells
him, General, we Southern Democrats did
not abuse you like the Northern Democrats.
You can trnst to our chivalry" The base
and unprincipled traitors Like towards
and mercenaries, they desert their allies
Trust thems Grant never will, while Forrest
leads the van, Semmes with his piratical flag
proclaims himself Democrat, and Hampton
Vance, and Others, marshal the hosts of the
Ku Klux, while Hays, of New Orleans, lets
slip the Iunocents' to murder loyalists, who
bore arms under him at Vickburg or fought
with him sGoot at Donelson!
No, We DO not ask Grant to be radical
All we ask is for him to enforce the laws
He will do it That is enough. He says he
has no will in opposition to the will of the
people--no policy to adhere to to, right or
wrong, fer four years. Here is the rock on
which he stands, and the powers of hell can
not prevail against it. Thank God, with
a Republican Congress, and Republican
government in North Carolina, we can make
the laws, just, humane, full of liberty and
terror to tyrants and traitors, without being
vindctive, because hereafter there will be no
traitor in the White House to thwart their
execution or encourage opposition to them.
What laid these penalties on you, Rebels, of
which you complain? It was the diabolical
obstinacy of johnson and your devilish in
depreciation Of his position and policy. But
With Grant, we need only enforce the law,
and you fall forever You know it. You
Know the retribution may be too heavy for
you as mortals, though it can never equal
your crimes. You will learn to beg, not
ufaHt, but Congress and the government of
North Carolina for mercy. We are not vim
"eliVe, but the future is with you. as the
past has been. Behold the work of your
"snoS' ye architects of ruin, and take lessons
VI WISDOM from the humiliation and dcgra-
ua'ion OF your present condition!
d. we taunt no one. But we desire to be
s laefs'00d, So long as the legality of our
''"'e government is questioned, and such