Year: 1866

The Standard denies, in behalf OF Gov
! Holden, that he has ever said President
i Johnsons policy, per Sc, was failure He


only thinks that the people have failed .to
come up to it's requirements and meet Its
spirit. 1t is still the people, our people


the people of the South and of North Caro-


lina,--who are responsible for non-restora-


ton. Not word about the malignants in


Congress i-Sentanel


We believe the people of North-C Carolina,


if left to themselves, would carry out the
plan of the President as well in spirit as In
letter There was not ripple OH the surface
last year until politicians began to thrash
about for Office. 1t is not the people, but
certain politicians who are to blame for the
present condition of things. If politicians
of the rule or ruin school could only have
been induced to remain quiet, North Carroll
ma would have presented clean bill of
health at Washington; and in that event it
is more than probable the report of the COM
mittee on reconstruction would not have
been as hard as it is on II portion of our
people.


This talk about malignants" " North and
South led to all our calamities. We say, for
example, that there are malignants " i'm
Congress, and the North says there are "ma-
lignants in the South. What good does
that do2 Who is benefited If there be
malignants" " in Congress, zoe are IN their
power. Will it improve our condition and
benefit our State if we abuse them9 We
have tried that long enough. Let us rule
our passions and resentments, and look at
things in the light of truth and reason.


To the Union people of the State we say,
stand firm. Do not be carried away by pas
sion or resentment Keep cool, and bide
your time.


THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET ON RE-
CONSTITUTIONAL telegraphic dispatch in
the papers from Washington contains the
following statement:


1t is understood that at the meeting of
the Cabinet to-day, the President invited an
expression of opinion from the heads of the
departments respecting the recent report of
the Reconstruction Committee, and it is re-
ported that in an animated discussion which
ensued thereupon, Secretaries Seward, Nc
Culloch, Welles and Stanton were decided
in their opposition to the plan of the Com
mittee, and earnest in their support of the
Presidents policy for restoration. The Post
master General was in favor of carrying out
the Presidents policy, but expressed some
doubts as to the precise time at which loyal
representatives from Southern States should
be admitted The Attorney General was
not present.


The President was emphatic in his opposi-
tion to the Committees report, and declared
himself against all conditions precedent to
the admission of loyal representatives, from
the Southern States, in the shape of amend
ments to the Constitution and the passage of
laws. He insisted that under the Constitu-
tion no State could be deprived of its equal
suffrage in the Senate, and that Senators and
ought at once to be admit
ted into their respective houses, prescribed
by law and the Constitution He was for
strict adherence to the Constitution as it is,
and remarked that having sustained our
selves under it during a terrible rebellion, he
thought the government could be restored
without resort to amendments, and remarked
in general terms that if the organic law is to
be changed at all, it should be at n time
when all the States and all the people can
in the alteration"


CIRCUIT COURT OF TIE UNITED STATES
We had the pleasure of seeing Judge Brooks,