The weekly standard., 1870-08-03
RALEIGH n g. WEDNESDAY, MORNING. AUGUST g. 1870.

at all extraordinary, and this talk and bun
connie about the illegally of calling the
troops into the iieid, or usurDstion of power
70 reasonable man., is simply ridiculous.
Inc only thing that the Chief Executive of
tiis State cannot do is to suspend the writ
OF ho0eds corpus. Otherwise he is vested
with full power to use the whnle force of
inc State to suppress crime and criminals.
Inc duty OF the citizen to the State, legal
and moral, is to obey the call OF civil aud
constituted authority, aud to aid in ali ways
possible to bring to justice violators Of law
ana the alders and abetors thereof The
armlng md organizing of q, body or bodies
OF men. is simply and purely question of
expedicncy and not of right. The right
|Sto do SO is clear and incontroverta,le If
this be not so, then the Governor of each
fnd every State is nonentity instime OF
insurrectiun or extraordinary commotion,
tnd is simply apuppet put in place TO be de
led by law breakers and laughed at by their
abettors We would instance the action of
| The Governor of New York in the time of
the draft riots in New York city, during the
var, to illustrate the inefliciency OF, and the
Sputempt felt, fer a man in power who
wonld fail to do his duty in a time of peril
I'd the citizens Of Stale. The whole Uni-
tasl States frowned ulpn him, and he, peer
tool of secession III 'lsass did nQtLcyells I;
III his defense, ske filc .cx qssIS f 21s<k
not TIA aaa1ror. OF fhes x peditncy OF this
movement, by the Governor Of this State,
we have but few words to say. II the
constant outrages committed by consider
able body of lawless devils in human form.
extending over period of three years, dur
ing which hundreds of men have been muir
dered, and outragcs too numerous to men
tion, have been committed without one
single devil being punished, is not sufficient
warrant an attempt to restore order and law,
then there is nothing to warrant the Cover
nor in attempting to restore law or indeed,
sitting in his guberya oral chair, and We.
might as we'll give up the State to anarchy
and criminals. There seems 10 BE- hut lew
people aware that just prior to this move OF
the Governor, that the people in several sec
tions of this State were Iipe ior war, and
that vigilance commi tees were about TO be
formed. The United States government
will be ready, and should The power of the
State fail then will the whole power nf the
executive arm be felt, and woe betide the
SCOuQuFGlS WHO arc 10 nay DsiOiC
the boys in blue. We are nut writing for
popularity, nor in the interest of any plriy,
but in the interest Of the people of the State,
and we say frankly that Governor Holden
should have taken the steph is now taking
long since. in our opinion; bu: we do not
seek to criticise the action % man who
has, perhaps, had more 10 contend with
| than any other man who has ever occu
| pied the chair before. His If, has been
| threatened, and nearly every action criti-
cised by bitter, hostile press. He has
been maligned, abused, betrayed and deser-
ted by avowed friends, but throughout he
has acted as became a servant OF the people,
and come what may we shall support him
as long as he does his duty, and shall not
condemn him for mistakes that are not
clearly errors OF the heart. Tie vindictiye
feeling expressed by the Conservative press
against him personally, is shameful aUd un
christian, and will yet stamp tie authors a:
the real enemies OF law ana order. The
Kuklux KIan are clearly the tools of other:
who may well tremble and grew pale i
their misguided instruments are brought be
\ fore courts of justice, with witnesses un
trammelled by fear of vengeance from thos
who seek TO rule or ruin. The "damreC
spot will not out" ana we predict that soa
of those now loudcst mnuthed in the:r &c
nuncia,ian Of Gov. Holden. will yet mos
humbly Sue for pardon at his hands-1ine'