Year: 1866

good work was progressing = that the
cause" was on the high road to success
You talk about wisdom, and charity, and
loyalty!


Now, Sirs, we tell you that we intend to
remain here and defy you. This is oar
country. The flag is oar flag, not yours.
The time was when mere crook of your
finger would have been fatal to us, but that
day has passed. The horrible despotism
which you sought to perpetuate, has per-
ished. All good men thanked God when it
fell. We do not regard either your tongues,
or your pens, or your opinions, or any thing
you may attempt against us; but We give
you notice that you shall not assail us with
impunity. Wewill put you in the pillory of
public contempt and scorn. We will hold
you up to the gaze of the people till they
say they have seen enough of you. We will
do this, and you will not be able to help
yourselves, except by changing your conduct
and treating us with that justice to which
we are entitled.


We entertain the utmost respect and rev.
erence for the Christian religion We respect
and honor the sincere Christian minister
But we have no respect for the pretender,
the hypocrite, the wolf in sleeps clothing.
We know no one who is more thorough or
a more unscrupulous party hack than the
Senior Editor of the Sentinel. We have never
known more malicious person than he is
We know him we'll. We want neither his
friendship nor his prayers. God help him,
and save him at last from the moral quag-
mire lii which he is rapidly sinking


The Sentinel charges MS with the slow
and grovelling" disposition to g blacken
the lifelong and more than Roman integrity
of Jonathan Worth" The foundation for
this charge is, staten ent recently made by
us that Gov. Worth was anxious that the
Convention now in session should adjourn
without transacting any business. The
StdlclncIlI Is tIue. IL Is true dS W UoNcfHoI
Worth-it is true as to the Sentinel-it is
true as to Gov. Worth's particular friends.
The Editors of the Sentinel know it to be
true


We have made no attack on Gov. Worth's
integrity. We have no unkind feelings to-
wards him personally. We do not believe,
however, that his political integrity is at all
comparable to the Roman standard, or even
to the old-fashioned North-Carolina stand
ard. We have no confidence at present in his
political integrity. The honest, high-minded
people of the State have no confidence in it,
and they can have no confidence in it after
his conduct in October last. He betrayed the
Union party, he deserted his Union friends,
and he made terms with the secessionists for
their votes He did this for office. Judging
him by his acts, this was the sole motive
that actuated him. OF the thirty-one thou
sand votes he received, not more than five
thousand were cast by loyal Union men,
He was solemnly warned, before he did this.
what construction would be placed upon his
conduct. He was told by his old friends
that he would disorganize the Union party,
retard the work of restoration, occasion dis
union and strife among the people of the
State, and at last come to be regarded as a
tool in the hands of secessionists He made
the plunge with his eyes wide open. He
aeas Union man, as Judas aoas one of the
twelve, but he is so no longer He may yet
repent, do his first works, and be saved; but
he will not do this as long as he has our
reverend and pious friend of the Sentinel for
his priest and confessOr. "More than Ro-
man integrity" indeed!


We challenge comparison of records
with Gov. Worth or any of his friends. The
old Wing party ceased to exist in 1852. 1t
was patriotic and useful party, as the Dem
,'cratic party was. Wise and good men be-
longed to both these parties The Democratic
party preserved the Union for the space of
eight years after the Wing party had ceased to
exist; bat bad men at length obtained COM
plete control of its organization, and so used
it as to involve the country in civil war;
When the issue was joined of Union or Dis
uniqn, like Andrew johnson we broke away
from the Democratic party and took our
stand for the Union. During the rebellion
we belonged to the Conservative party, and
now we belong to the Union party. That
we were Union man during the rebellion
is proved by our enemies, for they called US
traitor to the Confederacy and mobbed us
and that we are Union man now is proved
by our enemies, for they denounce us as
submissionist, as friend to Summer and
Stevens, and say we would eat any quantity
of dirt to get back to the Union. We have
never betrayed either the Democratic party,
or the Conservative party, or the Union par
ty- Gov Worth betrayed the Union party
last October, and turned against his friend
the Provisional Governor, who had honored
him with one of the first offices within his
gift. What fine model of more than Ro-
man integrityw


We repeat we have no unkind feelings to-
wards Gov. Worth. Nothing would gratifv