Year: 1866

To the Editor Of the Standard:


am sorry to see, my dear sir, that while
you have said nothing in favor of North
Carolina being represented in the Copper
head and secession gathering, to assemble at
Philadelphia, next month, under the name
-ef y Uuien Andrew johnson National Con-
ventiou," you have not deemed it your duty
to denounce the movement as an attempt to
revive treason and to restore traitors to pow
er. care not under whose call or by whose
authority this so-called National Convention
is called. the object is to wrest the govern
meat from the hands of the loyal millions
that furnished the men and means to save it
from destruction by the violence of armed
traitors, and restore it to the control of
those who moved heaven and earth for its
destruction. The Philadelphia Convention
is called to revive the Breckinridge party of
1860, or to create a new party in which the
old secession leaders shall rule and hold the
offices, and we are glad to see TINT the Re
publican members of Congress and the loyal
North denounce this attempt to betray the
masses and inaugurate another revolution.
The vote by which the bureau bill was
passed over the veto, shows that the loyal
majority in Congress was never more COM
pact or better organized than now, and be
assured that the twenty-five millions people
of the loyal States are Just as united as their
representatives.


These things being so, the insurgent States
must go back on the conditions that Con-
gress may prescribe, and not in accordance
with the plan of one man, however high his
position. While 1 do not desire to make
war upon the President, no well-informed
person will deny but his whole proceeding
in the matter of restoration, without author
ity from, and the cooperation of Congress,
was usurpation not warranted by the Con-
stitution and his war upon and defiance of
the Legislative branch of the government
has lost him the confidence and respect of
the loyal masses who fought the battles of
the Union, and, in fact, of loyal men every
where


Now, Mr.. Editor, mark my prediction ::
the g Philadelphia National Union Andrew
johnson Convention" will be controlled by
secession and copper head leaders and those
who sympathized with them. 1t is last des-
paratecard, played byspoilsmen for the erec-
tion of a new party, by the free use of
government patronage, to secure the
Presidency in 1868 for the present in
cumbent, but they will all go the wall
the Republican party will be triumph
ant in the Presidential contest and the Union
will be restored ky the legislation of those
whose valor and sacrifices saved it from the
hands of treason. Had Andrew johnson
adhered to the principles of the party that
elected him, and not exhibited such zeal in
behalf of those who had labored for four
years to destroy the government, he would
have been the idol of loyal millions, and
might have been their choice for the, Chief
Magistracy of the nation; but he; has SO
completely Tylorized himself that either Gen.
Lee or JEFF Davis would get about as large a
vote in the Northern States as he could.


know, Governor, that majority of the
people of North Carolina are Just now laud-
ing the President, believing that by his pol
icy some great good is to come to them, bat
you know that his plan is already failure,
and that the only earthly power that can res
| tore the Southern States to their normal re-
lations to the Union and bring peace and
prosperity to their people, is the Congress of
the United States, the Legislative department
of the government, which is so violently de-
nounced by all the disahected in the land.
! say you. know these things, and such being
the fact, cannot see why it is you do not


defy the mob, as you haveso often done, and
/ plead with the people Of the State to accept
the constitutional amendment proposed by


Congress, and thus secure representation in
the National Councils and relief for an op-
! pressed, suffering people. Mark my word


for it, you may go. further and fare worse