Year: 1866

modified at all, it is only to the extent men
toned in our last article, that these loyal
men should constitute a nucleus around
whom Others should rally; that in this way,
and in this way only, can the whole lump
be leavened, and the States be placed in
condition, when presented to Congress for
admission, to make their claims on that
body irresistible" The loyal men are to
lead-are to be the deacons, the elders, and


the preachers, while those who repent OF Sc
cession, or of having urged war and opposed
peace to the last extremity, and candidly
acknowledge their error, and pledge them
selves, and make good the pledge by acts,
to submit in good faith to the national au.
thority, are to be inducted into the church
and to be entitled to all its privileges as
until the States are restored, for the plain
reason that it is indispensable to. the resto-


ration of the States. There is no hope, in
any event, that Congress will admit the


States if this rule be not adhered to. Those


who are opposed to this rule, or who have
violated it, are therefore, practically opposed
to restoration, and are disunionists.


We trust our contemporary now perceives
what We mean by loyal men. We have no
authority to speak for the President, nor
have we assumed to do 50. He speaks for
himself in his messages, and whenever he
chooses to address the people. But we state
our convictions, the result of what we heard
in Washington. The President is no doubt
anxious that there should be eharmony among
our people, and he is not as well informed
as our own public men are as to our peculiar
party divisions; but we will say this to our
cotemporary, that judging by his whole
course since 1860, and especially by his in
structons to the Provisional Governor, and
his emphatic endorsement in more ways than
one of the official action of that functionary,
that he has warm place in his bosom for
the ''straitest sect" Union men of this State,
and reposes in them a special confidence
He regards them as the nucleus around whom
all should rally in the work of restoration


The Provisional Governor, when relieved
in December last, left this State in the hands
of thousands of loyal officers, whom he had
appointed in accordance with the instruc-
tions of the President Gov. Worth has
made it rule to turn nearly every one of
these officers out whom he can reach, and to
fill their places for the most part with per
son of doubtful loyalty, some of whom are
unpardoned rebels. If he were really and
truly friend of the President he would let
his work stand, or would touch it only to
improve it in accordance with the Presidents
known wishes on the subject If it was i'm
portant in August, 1865, that the State
should present herself in loyal garb, it is
much more important now, when the Con-
gress and the Northern people are so exact
ing in this respect.


But Gov. Worth not only turns out the
Presidents appointees because they are loyal,
and puts his own partizans in their places,
but through his organ, the Sentinel. lie defes
the President That paper, in its issue of
July II, speaking for Gov. Worth in relation
to the corporations in which he has made so
many changes, says the President has no
right to interfere in civil matters in this
State, and that, " 50 .tar as the authority of
the President ertends in the at7sirs Of this
State, Gov. Worth would consult his wishes
with as much alacrity as Gov Holden 6ut
Coo. Worth mast not be erpectedto yield to any
one claims Of authority not sanctioned By the
Constitution and the laaos Of tile land." What
next? The President is detied by the Gov
ernors organ; he will next be denounced.
y " Now, in the name of all the gods at once,
On what strange meat hath this, our Cesar, fed
That he hath grown so great!''