The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-05-27
RESTORATION.

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The faith of the nation is pledged to adj
q init the late insurrectionary States SO soon as
the conditions proposed by the Congress
shall have been complied with The people
of the South SO understand it; the people,of
the North SO understand. it; the Congress 50
understands it, and Congress will stand to its,
pledges. 1t is now more than a year
since the reconstruction measures were adop-
ted. During this, entire period the action
of Congress has been steadily directed to the
completion of its work The consummation
is now at hand, and it is not reasonableto
suppose that Congress will pause now after
the battle has been fought and the victory
won. When impeachment is finally disposed
OF, if not before, the Senate will act There
need be no apprehension as to what that ac-
tion will be- 1t will be consistent with the
action of that body for the past twoyears.
The fact that seven Republican Senators
voted mot guilty" on the trial of, the Pres
ident is not sufficient ground for the high
hopes in the rebel camp that the reoonstruc-
tion policy of Congress will prove a failure.
Trumbull and Fessenden may have thought
the evidence insufficient to sustain the
charges, without necessarily shifting ground
upon the reconstruction question. Impeach-
ment is a matter of law and evidence as well
as of eXpediency; reconstruction is a matter
of expediency alone. Senators, therefore,
will, with the utmost prnpriety and consis-
tency, vote for the removal of disabilities
from officers elect and for the admission of
these States, who voted" not guilty. on i'm
pcachment. 1t is not to be presumed that
Senators will be guilty Of such treachery
and cruelty to the Republicans of the South,
who have gone through aIlthe fires which
deadly personal hatred and hatred to the
re- construction acts and to the government
itself have kindled around them, Nor is il
to be expected that Senators would be NOV
ed by any petty spite, because prominent
Southern Republicans have thoushtand still
think that the welfare, if not the safety OF the
nation, depends upon the conviction and re
moval of the President iiaiaa -a
This rebel joy will be of short duration.-
The Senate will be true 10 itself upon recon
struction Senators can not recede.r Thei
own record for the past two years forbids it
the demands of the people of the Nortl
forbid it; the situation of the faithful mei
of the South forbids it; the peace of th
nation forbids it !; the security,,of the ma
tional debt forbids it; every consideration
of honor and justice and Christianity ant
civilization would protest against so base
treason. When to this it is added, tina
such action would utterly destroy the grea
party of freedom and progress in the Unite'
States and place the government agai
in the hands of the reactionary and repudi
ating Democracy of the North and the rebel
conservatives of the South, we may well con
ceive that Republican Senators will paus
long and weigh we'll the consequences of I'LL
doing their own work, before the fatal ste
is taken But there is no danger. Til
Senate Will do Justice, and in few week
North Carolina will be admitted to represen
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