Year: 1866

600. That was wanting and the Standard
refused to accede to your demands.


But observe again, the Sentinel was oppos-
ed to party, nor sought nor desired division
or discord, but only an early adjustment in
good faith. The pains-taking policy of Gov.
Holden was especially pleasant Still the
Sentinel desired the war-debt paid. And
when parties formed in the Convention on
that basis, it fell into ranks against the pains
taking policy of the Governor. Fifteen
millions was wonderful sum in the eyes of
the Sentinel


In its issue on the 25th, the Sentinel gave
some capital advice. But the trouble with
the Sentinel is that it does not practice what
it breaches or has preached The extract
reads as if the Standard might have written
it. Read and be satisfied:


"There is danger however, that the Chase and
Sumner faction have such influence over the
present Congress, as to present a very stout ops
position to the recognition of the Southern States
next winter. How shall this be prevented by the
Southern States? We take it for granted that
every Southern State ard every Southern citizen
desires an early recognition. If there are those
who do not, they are purblind. They doubtless
prefer recognition under President Johnson's
programme to that of the Chase and Sumner fac
ton. What course, then, shall we pursue to
effect this? Let the Southern press and Southern
people counsel quiet submission and a ready ac-
quiescencc in all that is done by the proper au-
thority. If evils are inflicted, and they cannot be
corrected by q recourse to prudent measures, bear
them for the present, for the sake of obtaining a
greater good in future. Above all, let all hasty,
imprudent words and acts be avoided. Give o
hearty support to the President and his subordi-
mates in carrying out those plans and measurs
which he endorses. Give no room for your enc
mics to charge you with intidelity to the Union,
with dsatfection to the government, or with hyp-
0erltical demeanor or cOncealment of your real
designs, to break out afresh after the danger is
passed Let us act in good faith to the govern
ment and its authority, if we expect to receive
from it favor and forbearance for the past"


Did we not counsel the same thing then,
and do we not counsel it now2 But the
Sentinel-" Oh! how have the mighty fall
len"-charges us, for giving just such advice
as the above, with being radical. By pursu-
ing thevery course which it denounced above,
it has brought about the condition of affairs,
which it predicted would arise is such a
juncture Need proof be palmer to show,
even by the Sentinel ITSELF how suicidal and
damaging the course of that paper has been
to the prospects of early restoration.


But amidst all this the Sentinel did not
forget the great demand of the times-the
payment of the war debt. On the Goth of
August, in the fervor of its feelings, it spoke
out again:


"Shall North Carolina repudiate- ignore q Just
debt contracted by her people or her constituted
authorities The very thought is humiliatiAR
was Illegal, that the authorities had no right to
contract it. The question is was the debt con-
tracted under her assumed authority? Did her
creditors furnish the qnid pro quo, believing she
was sane and capable of acting for herself! The
same question is equally forcible in regard to
County or individual debts"


Could language be palmer or more poin-
ted2 In advance the Sentinel was denounc-
ing the reputation of the war debt as a
humiliation" Its anger was being aroused.
Fifteen millions, good gracious, what big
SUM Of course Gov. Holden, his pains-ta-
king policy, an early restoration-all-all
must step aside for that In other words the
fiat had gone forth. The war-debt must be
paid Neither Gov Holden and the STAN
dard acceded, and the consequence is plain.
Does the most skeptical doubt


About this time the Sentinel also proposed
| to pray for us. What commentary upon
its present tone Then the war-debt was to
be paid. Then the Sentinel was in praying
mood Now the debt is repudiated, we are
daily blessed" as libellers, &C., sc. 1t is
all understood.


But this article is growing long. We
have now reached the point where the Sen
tinel began to hold Gov. Holden responsible
for the Standard, calling it the Court Jour
nal, and insinuating that certain articles
were written by him. We shall treat OF
these things next "The trail of the ser
pent is over it ALL" and there is no diff
fculty in pursuing the track.


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