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

The following is an extract from one OF
tho many lono-winded editorials which APP
near weekly. in the columns OF the Green's
bOro' Patriot:
eft is a noticeable fact, that none of the
leaders of the party of vengeance, that we
have vet seen or known, have any regard,
reverence. or respect for the sacred Scriptures
of truth, the sanctity OF an oath, or any
thing else that has heretofore been regarded
by the best of men as stable or sacred IN its
character"
The above is in the issue of the Patriot of
Nav goth 1868, and has reference to the
Renublican party. Who would have thought
IN 1864 that he who now edits the Patriot,
would so soon have changed his base q
Then. he was the prosecuted Union man,
was set upon by some OF the lmps OF Sc
cession in his native town OF Greensboro,
and had his head broken on account of
his bold and manly opposition to the jeff
Davis despotism. Then he was one of the
most popular of our Union men. But how
changed How are the mighty fallen ]!
He is now cheek by jowl with the very men
who then encouraged the mob to attack
him. 1t seems. strange that he, who now
seems so bitter against the Republicans and
Congress, should turn anu lick the hanos
that smote him.
Why call the Republican party one of
yengeance2 Does the new Constitution
show the spirit of revenge? Is any body
DISTINGUISHED by it2 Does it create any
thing like distinctions among men? Not
at all And it seems to us that 1T i'll be-
comes one who had time and again taken an
oath to support and maintain the Constitu-
ton of the Unitc,t States, and afterwards
took an oath to support that OF the bogus
Confederacy, thus renouncing the first to
,rl 80 ~,
even admitting that they do The editor
of the Patriot, we believe, is disfranchised.
Why is it so? He knows wlly-his neigh
bors know why. Let him be quiet. Let
"patience have her perfect work" The
"pressure" will be \" lifted" from him
after while.
He speaks of the leaders of the Republi-
can party, besides having TO regard for
the sanctity of an oath, as having none for
"anything else that has been heretofore re-
garded by the best of men as stable or
sacred in its character"
Some of the editors former supporters and
friends think that the bell of the church
when he was wont to worship ought to have
had stability enough to remain in the place
where it was, when the church was dedi-
Gated Instead of this. however, it went off
early in the war to Richmond, that Mecca
or treason, I'D lISt1l W lilc Cause.
Why did not the editor then raise his voice
if he was really what he was thought to be,
a Union man!
Again, most men acknowledged that the
institution of marriage is of Divine origin,
that its vows are binding, and that to VIC
late them is = high offen;e against both
God and man. Yet the men with whom he
is now acting ATTEMPTED to found govern
ment whose cornerstone should be slavery.
They avowed this. Slavery, which every
intelligent man anc woman knows was Il
system of promicuous concubinage-
system which allowed men to sell even their
own children into perpetual bondage.-
Docs the man reflect before he speaks p
Whatever may be his notions of slavery in
the abstract, where is he now, and with
whom is inc acting2 He, en- old line Wing,
is acting i'll concert, or trying to, with such
men as Vallandinsham, Morrissey, Brick
Pomeroy, ct III omn, genus. Would it not
be well for persons 20 first cast the beam,
&c p 1t seems tint the very men, who
have heretofore beer the supporters of the
editor of the Patrat, because they act as
their conscences dictate, and as the best
interests of the country seem to require, are
now the special objects Of his hate.
CALAMUS.