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. -1 - - . . . , -, ; ' - ' - ' : - V W. W. HOLDEN. . J. W. HOLDEN. VT,Wi HOLDEN & SON,? Y ' EDITORS OF THE STANDARD, " ;.' And authorized publisher cf the Lam qf the United Slate. , ..--,,,' '.: BALEIGII,,N.'C.! WEDNESDAY, V. MAY; 16. 1866. v The President's Policy. - The representatives of the States shouid be loyal men, willing to abide by and be DBVOTKD TO THE UNION AND THB CoifSTrnJ' TION OF THE STATES.4 . V' All responsible positions and places ought to be confined distinctly and clearly to men who are unmistakably and. unquestiona bly uoyxu President? Beply to the Virginia Committee. ""' ' '.'..,' I hold it my duty to recommend the ad mission of every State to its share' in public legislation when it presents itself in the per sons of representatives whose loyalty can not be questioned Tinder any existing coh stitutional or legal t&si. President t ' Veto Message:' ..' i-.- r ;Y:Y' , '..--... .--;.';. The Constitution declares that no State shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate of the United States without its conj sent Then, where do y stand? AM that is needed to finish this great work, of resto ration is for the two Houses respectively to. determine the question. .," Oh f but some one will say, " A traitor might come in 1"- The answer to that is that each House.'must be the judge, and if a traitor presents himself, canuot either House know thatheis a traitor? And if he is a traitor, can they not kick him out of the door; and send him back, saying to the people who sent him, " You must send us A loyal man ?". Is there any diffi: culty. in that ? " If a traitor presents himself to either House, cannot that House say to hiin, " No, you cannot be admitted into this body. ' Go back. We will not deny your people the right of representation, but they MUST send a loyal bepkesentative." President1 Address to the Soldier and Sailor. I will put an end to the Freedmen's Bu reau just as soon as the South, by proper action for the pbotection of the fbeed men, make it unnecessary. President' In terview with Governor Cox. Death of Hon. George E. Badger. This distinguished man expired at his' residence in this City, Friday, of paralysis, at an advanced age. He was suddenly stricken down in the early part of 1864. and has since lingered, deprived to a great ex tent of those extraordinary powers of mind which have rendered him so illustrious in the history of our State. Mr. Badger never evinced solicitude for office, but confined himself to the walks of his profession ; yet he had been a member of the Legislature from the town of Newbern, a Judge of the Superior Courts, Secretary of the Navy, Senator in the Congress of the United States, and a member of the State Convention of North-Carolina in 1861. In W vhauimahran he- acamtten himsett-witn marked ability. He was a great lawyer, a disinterested, patriotic statesman a. ripe scholar, a most accomplished orator, and a high-toned, honorable, good man. .More we could not say, and less could not be said in justice to the deceased. . Though his death has long been expected, owing to his enfeebled condition, yet the announcement of the solemn fact has occa sioned profound sorrow in this community, as it will throughout the State. '"'".'. The Sentinel sneers at the " best govern ment in the world," and says it has " strip ped11 our people, and made them the poorest of any people on earth." This is not so. Our people have been stripped, impoverish ed, and ruined by the secessionists and their . latter-day war allies like the Editors of the Sentinel. We tried to prevent this. We called on the State to resist Mr. , Davis and force a peace, which would have prevented a vast deal of the suffering, loss, and calamity which have overtaken us ; but we were not regarded, save as a traitor to the Confeder ate cause. The counsel of others was taken, and the result is known. The Sentinel yeill not be permitted to falsify history by charg ing that the federal government is the prime cause of our ruin. . Up to the moment when the cotton States made the fatal plunge, the South had known the government onlr in benefits and blessings, and so far as the gov eminent was concerned, it had ade no threat even against the Suui.ii.. It. was seces sion that ruined us. " :" . We know it is unpopular at this time, in this quarter, to write these things and pub lish them, but we intend to maintain the truth without regard to consequences. "' WepUblisb-to.-da'y'the communication qt Anti-Bepudiator, without agreeing with him in what he says in regard to, jhe Stay .Law. We will, however, add this t; A Jcgal friend being asked what construction he; placed .on the Stay Law, replied "that ifthe Court should construct according to the establish ed rules of English grammar, that two neg atives destroyed each other, there would be nothing "left of the lawand it could never come before the Court to be construed." Our neighbors of the Sentinel appear to be distressed at the idea that something may be done, somehow or other, to prohibit them from roting. If " the Confederacy tad succeeded Union men would have been pro-; cril)cd, their property confiscated, and unless they had begged pardon on their knees'or fled the country, they would have been mur dered. Our amiable neighbors would have said amen, especially to the latter.' Do our aeighbors really think they ought to be allowed to rate,' in the Union, under the stars and stripes,"'' side by side with loyal Union men? , Let 'thent catch their breath and say really, before "they answer. "-' No swearing allowed ia school. '.' , , , Attention is invited to the advertisement of boarding house, foj Mrs..Frank, L Wilson, in to-day's Standard. Mrs. W. is sure to ex el in eery thing she iindertatkes. t Disloyal Sentiments ( We make the following extracts from the last number of the Fayetteville Hem: .."We know not what others think-We 1 care little what may be the result of our' ex-: pression of opinion but we "would rather see the United States tbeconquered province of Russia or Austria, and have the taskmas ter set over her citizens, than to see the South accept a partnership in the government on such humiliating terms. The terms pro posed by the committee- on reconstruction. We would rather than see this behold the smoke, of desolation ascending from, every hamlet in the land, surrounded by a million , of drunken bummers, under a Sherman, whose hellish deeds.of atrocity ; (Certainly could not be excelled even by the devil in carnate, aided by all his imps, and assisted by the enlightened suggestions of Beast But- ' let and Hunter. We woul-i rather see every man in the South a shackled inmate of Fort Lafayette, or Pulaski, or Warren and would feel a sort of delight at the contemplation of a thousand headless trunks every morning,' and the dripping blades of a thousand threatening gulillotincs, in preference to the humiliating disgrace which will follow the ratification of these articles, by which, we divest ourselves of a' birthright, and in con-: sideration' thereof get ten years credit in -which to pay our taxes, and the right to send a set of H'ldenites to Congress.. God for--bidl Shall the South; ask for a representa tion when forced to send as her delegates those who fought against her throughout her most trying struggle, and who did all in their power to ruin her prosperity, and were' foremost in lcdaubingher with the mud and filth of disgrace ? .': ' ,. 11 XLii ' ' lSbslt we make mrire accessions tTiJn those made already ? Shall we trust the promises of this Congress which proposes the price tor our dishonor, as we trusted, the promises: of Holden, that if we would repudiate our debt and aholish slavery, we would get back into the Union, only to be cheated ? No I rather suffer every woe to. which flesh is heir ' than bx intainy and eternal disgrace on our , selves. If they wish to make these things J the law, let the responsibility rest on them : ! not on us, to our everlasting shame and dishonor. '; -.'; . ,. . ,i ; i ' - ' Now, we purpose to .define what our peo ple mean, and all they mean, when they say they are loyal $. ..,; . t .;i -ii., They mean that circumstances, over which they could exert no control, and against which they struggled long and. well, have rendered it necessary either, to seek some, other clime, or to give their allegiance to the United States, that it was most convenient to give it to the United States, that to receive the pre dion of that government it was ne-, cessary io take an oath of fealty, and that oath taken, it became a matter of honor to give iip all intent of resistance to the author ity of that government, and a matter of du--ty to be true and faithful to that Constitu tion which was sworn to be supported. - ;- -. The men who took these- oaths and who became citizens of the United States, and who have been obedient and faithful and loyal to the laws, are not at heart friends of the government of which they are subjects. They were defeated by the United States in an attempt to ; perfect a long Cherished scheme which must have resulted in the greatest benefit and advantage to themselves. They were human, and they could feel noth-. ing else than bitterness for those whose tri-: umph was in the ruin of. their hopes and the blasting and crushing out of their aspira tions.: They do not love the government of the United States-rthe" Stars and Stripes"; excite no emotions of pride in their bosoms, for they have seen it trailed in defeat too of ten as their starry crossed battle flag waved victorious in the summer sunlight. ' '.The glory and strength of the nation and its reputation abroad is a matter ; of small concern to the Southern captives. No hope of future narlbnal'gramleur'rRzzTesrf Rem, no" dream of the American Eagle with one foot on the North and the other on the South pole, with the tip of his tail in the Pacific,' and the beak of his bill in the; t Atlantic ocean, ever awakens the proud reflection that they are American citizens, but on the other hand they sneer at this proud bird of .free dom, and actually refer to him sometimes as a Ixuzard! They predict that the time will come wlien " one and indivisible" shall mean a hundred little principalities preying on one another. - They have no veneration for the govern ment, no love for the flag, no feeling ot se curity for their interests, no very great de sire to continue under the government any longer than necessarily compelled by coer cion. If they had the power to establish a Confederacy before they were whipped they would have established it, and it is reasona ble to believe that if they could establish it now they would do so, hut for their oath of allegiance These oaths were to the effect that they would support the Constitution ; should they ever be required to do more, or should the Constitution be subverted, these oaths are worth nothing. It strikes us that to the Government of the United States eleven conquered provinces, for such at present the Southern States are, of a population one-half as great as that of the government which holds them in sub jection, burning with the memories of wrongs -and with hearts rankling with the most bit ter hatred and longing for vengeance, only restrained by their pledges of honor which they desire faithfully to fulfill it strikes us that such provinces would lie an element of weakness rather than strength, and that the closer the Constitution which they hal sworn to obey and support was observed, the great er would e the chance of preventing out break, for if their fidelity to promises be the only safeguard, the bargain be not performed on both sides literally, then there is no bar- gain, npromise, and no safeguard against passions being inflamed into violence." The Editor of the Nine is Capt Benjamin Robinson, who was arrested and brought to this City some months since, on a' charge of sedition, for expressions not half so violent and seditious as the foregoing. , Gen. Ruger .kindly released him on his' parole ;' and it was understood at the time that Gov. Wort h," then Provisional Treasurer.interceded forhim,: arid agreed to be his surety that he would dp. belter in future. We make the following extract from the North-Carolinian, printed at Wilson, in this State:' " ' - - ' ' T, .'VT"' - ' u Returning reason may restore that gov ernment to its pristine, glory, but we, who venerate wisdom and love honor, must ever detest the vile puppets who have usurped in the councils of the nation the places once filled by honorable men, and we laugh to scorn their futile attempts to impose on us terms which no people, not 'entirely devoid of common sense, could accept. - We have asked -for restoration, but We cannot' accept it on the basis of New Eng land's " blue laws," nor will we have it with a portion of our . fellow-citizens disfranchis ed, for having done what they deemed their -duty, and what, before Almighty God, we could not hesitate to do again," .. r;, .; f1, The following is from a paper called The State, published at Weldon,1n this State : ; - " A strong man armed, comes into your house, despoils yon of your goods, robs, burns, ravishes, destroys and lays waste. You rise in arms against him. . But he says, ? Hands off; I have on . your dear father's garments, and as you love and regard hint,' and are 'loyal? to his memory,, respect and reverence my person I" Now, what is it to you that the ruffian has on your father's old clothes ? Does it excuse his crimes and enormities, or does it not rather exagerate them and make them more hateful? He is, to yon, as one who has stolen, the garments of heaven to serve the devil with. What is it, to the citizen that in the name of the Union, and under the flag,' like enormities are committed? -Is his outburst of indigna tion to be hushed? his revolting sense of in-i justice and wrong to be, smothered ; and re- pressed wn tue shallow and meaningless cry of ' loyalty.J. -Men crowd, languish, die in prison, thrust there to rot, without charge,1 without crime, r Men and. ; ave. women- are hung, without indictment and without , inai iy, jury, or- any other mode known to i the Constitution and the law. Citizens are j executed, under the sentence of court-mar- j tials or military commissions, organized; in i the main, to convict men, not to try them. The American, the Anglo-Saxon' respect for hberty and law is daily outraged and violat ed; Freedmen's Bureau, Civil Rights bills, crowd our statute books, in high-handed scorn and defiance of the Constitution, the rights of the States and the citizen. But you must stand dumb, like sheep before the shearers, for fear some patriot, ignorant as arrogant,wiir cry 4 loyalty or? disloyalty ' as the case may be." ; . 1. i u The following is fromf the Petersburg Index . -.. :r-i'r s "There is no guaranty, arid can be none, for the future maintenance by this people,' North or South, of our form of government, except a conviction that it is a blessing. .To the South -it is now nothing but a curse, known to her people solely through the tax gatherers," the confiscation asrents. and the present and past plunderers, revijers, ; and ujw-urocra oi ineseace oi ner.jteopip. ... " Can y&ffar4 to make this condition of things perpetual? 'Brute force may enforce this relation for a 'tune; hut it cannot for all time.? -ryll-S: ; .. ; ::ny The followipg is' from the Richmond Ex aminer: .. r, .;. ,; --''. -!.; .-..'-. J.Vf: " The South (God help us 0 lies prostrate Muueuui a majority inat lias prostituted t He freest form of government under heaven to the worst purposes "of tyranny. .'Caligula or Nero would be a Iwtter ruler than the infuri ate mob that seems to have no reason, no mercy, no justice, no law, no fear and no re morse. If we are knaves, it is high time for us to cringe and fawn.' If we are cowards, let ns tremble. Thank God 1 we are neither. We are men who know our rights, and among those rights are some inestimable ones that we will maintain to the last gasp. We have no arms. ' We have surrendered the vocation of soldier. We no longer confront violence with violence, force with force.-' But we are strong in honor nnd endurance', and we will suffer any extremity of ill before we will sink into that meek servility which re nounces manhood and makes life despicable." . There can be no hope for the restoration of the Union as long as such sentiments-are approved by any considerable portion of our people. But it is a sad reflection that just such newspapers as the above are most popular, and have a good circulation, while Union papers in our midst are languishing for want of support, Either these Editors and those who approve their course are crazy, or they do not desire the restoration of, the Union. The papers referred to pro fess to be the particular friends of President Johnson. We have no confidence in their sincerity. ; They are really among the worst enemies the President has. - . . We turn with pleasure from such language as we have quoted alwve. to the following manly and patriotic remarks delivered by Senator Cull, of Florida, at the recent Brooks Banquet in New York City. If every South ern man would talk and act as Mr. Call does, sectional feeling would at once cease, harmo ny and friendship would be restored, and the doors of Congress would soon fly open to welcome the members from the recently insurgent States. Mr. Call said : -. s '.-" "Under the influence of the speeches I have heard, and especially the sentiments which have fallen from General Slocum, I feci, that it is indeed to a restored Union that yon propose to return the people of the South to the United States, in which they shall be in the full communion of political rights and sympathy with the North, Un der the genial influence of such declarations and of such a policy, the Southern hearts warm into earnest affection, and they seize eagerly the hand of fellowsldp extended to them. We, too, gentlemen,. can say, "We have buried our dead." We remember them sadly and tenderly as thosj who bravely died for what they thought was right. The prst, with its political memories, is gone; the bloody struggle, with its horrors, has passed away. If we of the South sometimes recall it, it is because (as General Slocum will bear me witness.) we so bore ourselves in that great contest that at least no reproach was cast on the name'of American manhood, and no taint on our honor. If, as some think, there was error in our opinions, few will deny that there was also profound earnestness and sincerity. The Southern States have accept ed the invitation of the Government to return to the Union, to renew the obligations of their people as American citizens. We come with our hearts open -with all hostile recol . lections buried ready and anxious for a re newal of American fraternity. As we were . honorable and sincere in our struggle, so now we come with untarnished faith to pledge ourselves to the Union and the Con stitution. 'We have no' reservations; the battle-fields of the future will find our peo pleas those of the past have found them manly and brave, but henceforth, and for all time, she will shed her blood as freely for the United States as she has poured it out against them. . In this rivalry I venture to answer for them they will not allow them selves to be distanced. Jt is not, gentlemen, for us of : the South to say what shall be the policy; of fhe; government toward. Our part is that of silence and of hope. The re stored Union is yet without practical recog nition, unless indeed it has it, as I believe it has, in the sympathies of the American peo ple, and more especially. in the hearts of the brave men against whom we fought,' of whom General Slocum is the representative and the type. I may venture, however,, gentlemen; ; to assure you that in some way, cither with or without law, I -believe the people of the South are in the Urion, and that they intend .to remain in it, and to be eqnal to any por tion of the country in a proper submission to law, and the honest maintenance of con stitutional right" .: ,v ;,.. -J -- Under a Pressure. .;::",. r';-! , ' Our neighbor of the Sentinel opens on the " Banks of the State " as follows i Tf ' ; "There aretinies in the history of com munities and nations, when the sober second thought or achnri-re of circumstances entirely neutralize the prej udices of the public, which have been created- under the pressure of po litical or other excitements, . to- tha gnt damage of the thing, person or persons."' ' v The above is from the pen of Mn- PelL , It is luminous. .' Mr. Gales never Wrote in that; style. ' What does it mean ? We have copied the entire sentence.; TLe immortal J. N.,1 whose fame is the common property of man kind, should be sent for to "remove the pressure." ' ' ' ': , i v-?' ' '... ' ... .T - ; .v.; - The Attention" of members of the .Con vention and others is invited to the adver- fiBiimont nf flm hn. ivlinrr IlIUQA np I FA T)u- pre, ia Jhe SlandarC to-day. ' HeeUng 9t tht- Bar ask Citizens "of i S8' sk lB fcono of "Hte ere '" Badger. : ,-. V : .'. r . ( K Fursuantjo previous notice aVeeting; cf ; the Barof this City, attended by manTof ou - best citizens, assembled in the Court House at i o'clock Saturday evening last, to do "honor to the memory of out distinguished fellow-citizen, the late George E. Badger. : We noticed' among the memberi! of the Bar' present, the Don. Qkarles Manly, wbo was called, to, the Chair, the UoiL .B. F. Moore Ex-Gpv. Bragg, Hoo! S. H. Rogers, Hon. K. P. Battle, L.P.i)lds,Esq.,and many others. Among the citizens present we noticed His Honor, the Mayor, E.B, Freeman, Esn Chas. i Dewey, A. Miller, C. Harrison,. J. A. McKimmon, DK Mason, Capt Lawrence, Dr. Wm. .G.'Hill, Jesse Brown, Dr. Lacy C. B; Root,; Gen. .Cox' .iind the 'members of ; the Press. ;v;.-; , ;t-,:;;. ' On taking the Chair, Got. Manly address ed th meeting as follows: 1 ; . ' T FeUow-citken an4 PellavHnemler of the Bar : If I had the intellectual or physical ability ft tlhiftt.ilTlA tft AfVlVnr AD ftUlftllianf snfnmnm upon the death of ohr friend, this is not the f occasion nor tins tue audience tor which I i,l--.-:v;.y-'r'.--v'-:.--.;-ir-f'-'. ! , should deem it necessary to do so. From a 11 WM tue liaPPy fortune of taj eorjy life very long and intimate acquaintance with I t become acquainted , with Mr, Badger, at the deceased, commencing with our bov- the hou8e of my legal prweptot, where he hood, and Teaching to the termination of his ! - 8Pcn S ortwo.w .He was then a Judge life after a period of fifty years or more of s' on circuit, and l a student at law. More intimate political, social and personal friend- than forty 5 hov? passed away, but the shir without having clod faterveninir be i' mteresting occasion is stillfresh in my mem liween us--I thhrtc h:emtJi(n.ro- J rf- - Du.nn ttejp&ter parof this bygona priate to give to many Tiere, :who did riot 4 know the early history of Mr. Badger anil 1' his career, a few facts that may, perhaps, in- j terest ihem. . ; '.-;; .: -X; : He was born on the. 18th of April, 1795, ana was seventy-one years ot age last month He was a poor young man. 1 Having receiv- ' ed irom nis uncle, Jieia JJadser, of Philadel phia, a portion of his education, he came to" Newbern and studied law in fhe office of his v kn01n Wm as perfectly as one man may know kinsman, the late John Stnnlv . Hb M-ii another. Vw.-i ' ' .;.,. . , here in the summer of 1816 to obtain a li cense (he then only twenty-one years of age,) J to. go into Court. It was thn that I first became acquainted with him.A He obtained his license and returned to Nef bern. and, in the course of that summer; icwas elected a member of the Legislature from the town of Newbcm.- He came here a boy, the youngest man in the Assembly, though "of rare promise and attainments, extraordinary colloquial ability and fine debating power, and instant ly took a position that no other man bad known or thought like a liieteor that :had shot down among them, no one knowing from whence it came. I remember it well. The late Chief Justice Ruffin, who was at that time a member of the Legislature from the town of Hillsborough', was elected, dur ing that session, a Judge of the. Superior Court." Being attracted by the brilliant talent developed at so early a period in Mr. Badger, he invited him to go tn Hillsboro,' take his bundle' of papers with him, and stay there. He did so. He took his prac tice in the Courts and very early -became dis tinguished as one of the leading members of the bar, as he was. While on this circuit, (I forget how long,) he married tie daughter of Gov; Turner in the town of Lnuisburg, where he lived but a short time before he was elected a judge of the Superior Court. I remember being there at the time when William. Moore, a member of the Legisla ture from that County, who was -a friend of Mr. Badger's, came home with past haste to let us know be was elected.. I remember the joy we all had in having a civic proces sion at night men, women and children rejoicing about the news. After a while bis wife died and he married Again the daugh ter of the late Col. Polk, by whom he had two ohildreB... Aftar. womg fr ynarw she died and be married -the Accomplished lady who is now his wife. Wherever he. went he made his riiark on account of his in dependence and his great skill in the man agement of a cause ; he took a case up and pursued it without reference to pa-ty. ? He continued but a short times judge, the at tractions of a lucrative practice were too great lor him and he resigned his position -on the bench and returned to the bur. - . , . Of his career as a lawyer it is unnecessary to speak to this audience, for you nil know it. In social intercourse as s friend, as a politician, no man ever held a more fair or open hand than he. Every one will remem ber in the memorable campaign when Har rison was elected President if the United States, he was a Whig in principle, and th i, course he took in advocating the claims , the State; the campaign papers that b I wrote and the speeches that he published.- -The labor of writing was very great to hir : the mere corporeal business was very irt some to him and when it was urged npc him to do nnythtng for the cause he woul say, "I will do anything towards making v speech, but I cannot write." The great cam ' paign or State paper whichever you nia;. call it which was circulated "all over tl; ; United States he drew up. We used t furnish him with an amanuensis while h would speak. I remember being in his office on that or . casion seeing him walking across the floe making a speechrwhen Henry W. Miller wr ; the amanuensis, sitting at the table writin down in short, as he could, when it was a terwards revised. , That paper wos.jiublisl ' ed by a committee and circulated over th; i State, and re-published and; re-printed ovt the United States, and was, confessedly, tl j. strongest partisan paper for the life, charat ter and history of William Henry Harrfsorv Harrison was elected, as you know, Pres;k dent, and he invited Mr. Badger to take f seat in the Cabinet, and he did so. He w: ; Secretary of the Navy and continued so, 1 believe, until nearly the. close , of the foiirT years when he returnee! home.' - He was a:. terwards elected Senator in Congress, an f. you know how he stood up, with such me as Clay and Webster, .Calhoun arid Bento'. .and in the Supreme Cnrt.rth .Rever(i '; Johnson, Webster and others inferior t f none of them.' And when the ar separate tfiis country he had then business in the Si ' preme Court of the United States' to a vei : large amount, which promised to be of eii -traorclinary benefit and profit. : ' I believe. follow:itizens, this is all' I hav" to say, ' You know his chiracter. Y know how kind and benevolent a man 1 was, and, I suppose, he had no enemies, i the world; how "he lived, publicly and pri vately, the friend of everybody, and everj body, I ljelieve, his friend. These are fe ?. instances in his history which every citize in the State will cherish, and which may n ;. be inappropriate to those who arc here, .j :ivl , ' At the conclusion of Gov. Manly's address on motion of Q. Busbee, Esq.VEd. G. Hay wood, Esq., was chosen Secretary. . : .; On motion 6f B. F. Moore, Esq., a corr. niittee of five was appointed to draft resolr tions expressive of the sen timen ts .of tL riieeting., '.. ' T. ; ''.a- -:. j-' The chairman; appointed : the ' followir. 7 gentleman a committee, Messrs. B. F.Moor ' : , Thomas Brairg,X P.. Battle, W. 8. Maso a t, ur t-. i .,j . L.. i and R.W. Lassiter, who; retired and retun , ing reported the following, through, the' chairman, Mr. Moore :-.'.' S: --' T ' ; !' ' 1 ' Whebbas, It hath pleased Divine Prov": dence to take from among uanr much hoi -ored fellow-citizen and friend, the Hon Ge E, Badger, it, is due alike to bis distinguisl ed position in soaiefy, sqd our deep sense ' the loss we have sustained, to give a publ ., expression to our feelings. Therefore,'' Vf; Betolved, That by th.e death of Mr. Badger, we are profoundly sensible the feommunity, State and country has been deprived of one who, most loved nd respected in liferwill llso mourned and ; revere J by his friends and an admiring public. ;, Jteaohed, -Tht in the native strength and enlightened culture of his mind, in his pro found and extensive knowledge of law, in his upright and faithful public service, and in bis just and generous sentiment and tried virtues, we ha ve ever' found the gentleman, jurist, statesman and christian, whose exam ple will be valued so long as his fame, and his character shall be remembered. v. . .. . -v, ! ;- Hetoked, -That- ;the" members. of the bar now present be requested, in respectful and affectionate acknowledgment of his kind and. considerate treatment of his juniors, and his courtesy to an, to wear ine usual oauge. oi ' mournins for thirty, days.' ' ' Eesohed, That we tender to his afflicted ' family our most sincere and heartfelt sympa thy in this bereavement, and that the Chair man transmit a copy of these resolutions to them, and have the proceedings of this meet- ing inserted in the newspapers ot tue city.' -'. . i- : After reading the resolutions Mr, Moore I shall make no extended remarks on the :distingnMhed subject of the resolutjons re- time we have met at the bar and in the walks of private life.!'; It . was indeed my happy fortune to make Ins acquaintance, but it was my still happier fortune to enjoy, at all times : and almost eve.' since,1 bis warm, intimate, unvaried and unreserved friendship.' No oc currence has ever drawn the shade of a line ; between us. ;: -'. '"' ';:i,r' ? . : I may justly claim, therefore, to have For his very' distinguished reputation at , the bar, it is enough to say of him or .any other man, that he was an Ajax among such members of the bar, as Sea well, Hogg, Nash ; and Gaston. ..,;v .;.!,. . '..;.; ... '. ..' ! ; Besides being, jn iny judgment, the most . accomplished legal logician I ever heard, he was one of the -most eloquent of orators, v In , conversation the brilliancy and charms of his colloquial , powers were dazzling . aud unri valled. , i.-:,,.;, . t,'. : ;i;j!;';t-; . ' ,. In truth, Mr. Chairman, the very highest tribute which cari be paid to the numerous distinguished imerits of our departed brother and fellow-citizen requires no sketch from the pencil of fancy. Without the aid of flatte ry, all may . be said of him that can lie rea sonably said of the most gifted and excellent of men. ,; ,. , ... , .su. The resolutions express, truly, my appre ciation of the qualities and character of my lamented friend ; and, without another word, I might drop them, as. my offering, on his tomb. ' But, as this assemblage is called to gether at the instance of the bar, I will use it to illustrate one trait of his character, for which he was pro eminently, distinguished. The illustration exhibits a degree of stern up rightness, which might serve as a chief orna ment to the memory of any man, whatever might be his fame in all other greatness. . We all know that notwithstanding every check and restraint, which education, habit and position Can place around : the ' heart amidst an interesting and exciting trial at law. the feelings of the advocate will lean and powerfully lean towards, his client's cause; and it .is seldom,' indeed, that one. thus moved, can impartially present the full : case for revision in a higher court, without addition to or - subtraction; from the true merits of both side?. Yet nothing was more common, where Mr. Badger was concerned as counsel, than to commit to his discretion, - the task of presenting the case for its final review. - " ''-".-' ' ' '.' :': '.. ' This confidence was a proud tribute to his integrity ; let it be our imbition to deserve it likewise! p '' ;';": ''';;,;' . ' ' .; At the conclusion of Mr. Moore's remarks, , R. W. Lassiter, Esq., said: - ' : -- - : I desire to liear some humble part in offer ing the last testimonial of respect and affec tion to one. who has for many years com manded so much of my admiration for his great talents, and for all those qualities that constitute excellence in human character. In many respects we never shall look upon his like again. ' This generation will pass away and no counterpart of him will arise to. chal- lengc comparison. This century wilfpass. awav, and tue historian, who can adorn Ins pages with another, in all things the equal of this great man, may well be proud of his task, and well deserve the congratulations of ins countrymen. -". , North-Carolina may well mourn the de parture of one on whom she had delighted to bestow so much honor, and who so nobly filled every position to which she had as signed him. ' ."'. The profession to which he belonged, and which regarded hiin as the standard of pro priety, will unite in mourning the loss, of such a man and such a mind. To the rarest powers of logic, he joined a discrimination that was never at fault; and so varied and rich were the stores of his mind, that one scarcely knew which to admire most, the compactness and force of his argument, or the rhetorical grace and beauty .with which he invested it. : V . ; . ; , -. r : , t 1 v - This melancholy occurrence would, at any time, have, produced the profoundest sensa tion in our midst, but, coming as it does, at a time when there is so much to burden and sicken the heart, it is peculiarly distressing. I trust that the influence of his life and character will grow stronger and brij-hter with the flight of yeare ; and, though dead, he may still survive by the beneficient influ ence he exerted whilst living. ,';. i -' ' His sun is set 1 '. A great luminary has been struck from the sky I liere is void which cannot be filled ; and no where is this so deeply felt as in the family of which he was the head and ornament. .. ..' -r i ' But there is a Power that can console in the greatest bereavements and troubles. ' Let us hope that the loving Father of all' may succor, sustain and console them, in this their sore affliction. ' ' r These" resolutions were then 'unanimously adopted, and the meeting adjourned after the announcement by the chair that the funeral would take place the next afternoon, Sunday, from, the Episcopal Church, and that the fol lowing gentlemen would act as pall-bearers : G. W. Mordecai, B. F. Moore, Thos. Bragg, J. H. Bryan, R. W, Lassiter,- George Little,' Gov. Worth and H. W. Husted; On Sunday afternoori the Episcopal Church was densely crowded by a large concourse of sympathizing citizens, who ..after the-services at the Church were ended, followed the honored remains to the place of their last repose. No higher testimonial of the uni versal respect- entertained for the many vir tues of Mr. Badger could have been given by the citizens of this, community, among ? he had ,5ved m j and tffi was so well known. 1 Episcopal Cojtvehtiok. Having seen it . stated in our exchanges that the Episcopal Convention of North-Carolina,, is to meet in Newbern on the 16th - inst, we write to cor- rect the mistake. This body will assemble hereon the last Wednesday of the month, the 80th day of &Aj.Necbtrjk Tim. i Pardons for Ifortk-CaroliaJaas. ' The Sentinel at last adiniU tlat the Presi dent has not ordered the pardolof oQ North Carolinians whose application are on file. Th Sentinel thinks the report Jthat aB have been " pardoned is a mere seisation report, i gotten up for effect It certainly created a sensation with the Sentinel. That paper was delighted for a little while, ttut it now says: "We learn, from a trieni fin Washington, cognizant of the facta, thai ' this announoe- ment is premature. What that quite a nmnber of thl pas been done is. , whose crime was simply holding pet late Confederate Govern m ' office under the , hve been parr doncd, most of them nponjthe rccommenda tion of Gov, Worth, ami tat their pardons Will be forwarded in a short time. The ar rangements made by Gov. Wwrth,! n refer ence to this' matter, are such as will insure the most prompt and the easiest action pos sible in the premises.. ThePresident, how ever, 'most select his own time, and way to dispose of them. v,i i;; ' :?:v How can any " arrangements V which Got. Worth may make "insert the most prompt and the earliest action possible ?" ' The mat ter of pardons is with thrf President.' "' Gov. Worth can insure nothing in this respect By the way, the Sentinel ha done gross injustice to the Provisional Governor in re lation to pardons., It would do no good to correct this injnstice, Let it be. We may observe, however, that the Sentind has been among the State archives, and itjwys. they " shall be made to re'reaf ofner facts of not less ominous import than the foregoing." Let us have these' "ominous! . facts, Mr. Sentinel What are they? ' .' . 1 :' !: ' .-The Sentinel has recently been engaged in' trying to prove that Gov. Worth has influ ence at, Washington. ; We have' nothing against Gov. Worth personally, and we re gret we cannot agree with him politically. For the good of the State and the benefit of our people we should be gratified if Gov. Worth, had not only some influence, but much influence at Washington, provided he would not use it to the injury of the true Union men. Up to a certain . period his record as a Union man was good. But Lu cifer fell, and so did our worthy Governor. He -was "elected Governor by the secession vote over a true and tried Unionist and elected because he pandered to secessionists and they expected to use him. We have the testimony of the President hknself that his election under the circumstances, tea a blow well nigh fatal to the State. He is less' a Union man now than when he was elected. Wo regret this, but it is so. He is further than ever from his old friends. He is at length fully in the embraces of the seces sionistsof those who sought to destroy the government, and who would rather see it blasted forever than restored on terms that would exclude them from power. ,- . ; Of the North-Carolina press, the Standard, and its echo, the Progre, of this City, are the only two journals that have not repudi ated it the report of the reconstruction committee, with scorn and.indignation. Sentinel. . ;'-; - ' '' r ' '' Of ;the twenty or thirty newspapers in North-Carolina the Progre and the Standard, with one ,or two exceptions, are the only ones that are heartily an unconditionally for the Union. The ,&nttjfd: and )ts ssoci atesof the press are as bitter and malignant and as hostile to the Union as the secession presses were in 1860-'01 This is under the administration of Gov! . Worth, with his sanction and approval. ' s i':: : The Progre is no echo of thi Standard. It is an independent paper. , ;." - " It is well known that we are in favor of the President's plan of restoration, which the Sentinel, Gov. Worth and others, have deliberately refused to carry out :4 They are the worst enemies the President's plan has in this' State. They appear to be friends of the President only because he differs with and denounces " the radicals." . They . are awaiting some convulsion at Washington. They hope the President and the Congress may be involved in conflict for the mastery that the President will declare against the Congress, and call for troops to put down what they denounce as the f rump concern." Vain hope! President Johnson is "an in tensely loyal man. He has no idea of doing any such thing; but if, by possibility he should, he might then de-pend on these 'mal contents and traitors, for they would rush at once into a conflict With . " the radicals." How long is the patience ol the country to be abused by these people? The guilty authors of all .our woes, they are ready now, if the ' people - would . only follow them, to plunge them into still deeper hor--rors. - There is no hope for this country bat in loyal-rule. We tell the people of this State they need, not expect to prosper they need not expect to be restored to the Union, while they tolerate secessionists and latter day war-meri at the head of their .'affairs; and we tell the President and the Congress that if the true Unionists of this State were how in power, with an assurance that they would contiriuo ia powef,the Freedman's Bureau and aft the troops might at once be removed, and the State would be as quiet, a8 contented, and as well-governed for both ra: ces as could be desired. :'; , .', ' , Vi ";..' Wei. are the fast friends of the President and his plan, but we shall not abuse the Congress."., These secessionists and latter day war saints think, because President John son denounces some of the u radical " lend ersthat it is tecoming in them to' do the same thing." ! He has -a right to speak and denounce, for he is loyaL ' Be is an uncondi tional Union man. He not only - accepts the situation," but' he maintains it ' with a true heart and unflinching nerve.; The mas tiff of the .White House growls, and every little secession fice on the plantation barks and, snaps! .- President Johnson wants no such aid from such a quarter.; It embarrasses and' weakens him.. ; Ha wants deed, not word. ' He wants his pjan carried out He has no respect for those who "draw nigh to him' with their lips while their hearts are far from him' ' ry -.:i--':J';rIew',Cili DfeiBis. Jfj ?:'.-Y Bah Farncibco. May? 8. New cold die- srinss, paving $9 per pan,' have been 'struck 1 ort Clemens Creek, near Big Bend . mines. , Hundrels of boats are "going' up Columbia 1 river, laden, with miners and provisions. It i is rumored that the United States soldiers ; at Fort Colville have deserted .and gone ta the mines, taking their arms with them, . Twelve months ago last Friday, we the -Senior Editor were summoned to Washing ton by President Johnson to consult on" tlie- stale of affairs in 'North-Carolina,- Almost at the same moment the dispstcu 5 from President Johnson was received,' w received a letter from Hon. E.lward Stanly .. urging us . to repair to .. Washington" to , see what could, be done tor the good of , .North-Carolina. We went We saw the President frequently, had full and free con . versa tions with him, artel returned with our ' .' coramission as ProvWooal Governor. Wa ; " did not seek the place; It songht nsi ?' -. But behold the change L Then the State . was submiseire, and ready for any terms the government might impose. Now, a majority . of the" people seem to be defiant, and oil' willing to return to the Union save on their , own terms. .Then the test, oath, hanl m it . is on even the great body of (he Union men, . was respected as the law of the land; now it ; ' is regarded as disreputable ta be able to take it. Then the prime othors'of all our woes, the secessionists and .latter-day jpar men " were, to all appearances, nncoad)dontl Uni- ODists;now they are impudent and arrogant, , and the true Unionists are dejected, cowedV, i proscribed, trader the ban socially, pecunis- rily,. aoxf politically. ; fbm secessionists of - - and by themselves werfr coraparatWrfy prrw- ericas; but a soon as Gov. Worth aad the latter-day .warnsen joined. tbeta, gwerned ; as the latter were by vaofty tai flie lost for '. ' office, they became (be ruling power ia the .. State. What is to be the end of all this we : are unable to ibnseev We only know tbst those public men wb nweuisrel affairs in . this State are among thr worst enemies the President has; arid that they sw sagaMnU ',:' ing the general distress ncT ruiri' by keeping ' ' the State out of the Umoa. Our hope is in ; . ; the President, in' the Congress, anus k the ' . approaching State Convcntida. '.';' ' ; '.''.' " We referred just now ton letter receiver! ' from that pure patriot and distirtgiffohed . statesman, Edward Stanly. v The oeeasiow i , - a suitable one for saying,, that soo alter Gov, Vance went into offi,o in 1803, be v ceived a letter from Mr, Stanly, then Military- - ; Governor of this State, urging him to meet . him at Einston, under a flag of truce, to 1 talk about the best means of relieving North Carolina from her then unfortunate situation. : . In other words, it was a peat letter from a ; -devoted son of the State, who would freely . , have given his life to save his old friends and fellow-citizens from the calamities that were in reserve for them. 1 Gov. Vance did us the honor to consult ns on the subject. We have the gratification of remembering that we advised him to meet Gov. Stanly,' ' ' and see what could be done to relieve and save our people.. But other counsels pre1 , . vailed, as they prevailed afterwards. The Y influence which asserted its control at that . -period continued to the last and the result is before the world. . Ruin I mini mini ; We drop the curtain on the scciie. ; '.'r 1 "Shake not thy gory locks at met . ' ' ' Thou can'st not say did Uf, . ; .. ."-;' Y. '.- -: Some of thk Odtraoes or thk Ectce.vu ; w Nobth-Carolina.- Opposite Newlern, ; on the other side of the river, some twenty .... ' five hundred freedmen have been settled ir Lfive years past. They .were in vited there by . tne military, and located on nttie ptuts or ' ground, which they were allowed to cultivate. Eight months ago, Edward S. Fitz, a Mason- 1 , chusetts preacher, was placed in- charge of ; 'the. Trent River settremcnt by Captuin James, , another New. England preacher, who was then conducting the Bureau here. A system .. ' of extortion and cruelty was immediately in augurated. Fifty cents a month ground rent ; was demanded 6 every plat on which tho . miserable little cajbfes were -erected.-' Every i negro who owned a boat had to pay two ' ? dollars and a half a month, or his, taat was . forcited. Every darkey who kept a store was taxed five dollars a avmftK. Ivery one . who owned a horse was. tiwedt a similar amount Failure to pay aay of these exac tions was punished by the imprisonment of ; . the man or his wife prcfuicncc being given -to the wife tho eort&eatioo of tilt bis little property, and in many cases the tearing . . down of his hoosei A negro who qnarrelleil with his wife was fined one hundred dollars, , " and sent to prison until he-paki it All these , , .'extortions were practised upon a population ; ; steeped in the deepest poverty, scourged by . , ' disease, and many of them wanting the com mon necessaries of life ; and in this manner, an income of at least eight hundred dollars a month was derived by the Bureau. Corna- ' jnJenee ofth Tftw Tork Herald. . -...-' ' ; We do not know how much troth there i . ; in the ' al)ove ' We should be glad to know ' ' that it is unfounded. It Is the peculiar duty ' of the Bureau while it is just to the whites, to treat the colored people kindly, and to re alize nothing in the way of profits from the : poverty of this uaforluaate race. Y , Y The Northern papers, are publishing full accounts of the late-unfixtunate riot in Mem- ' phis, j The account frees, the Memphis ZW, , a Union paper, seems to be devoted mainly '. to the wrongs inflicted on the colored peo i pie. The Post says the feeling was equally . strong against the' blacks and. white Union-'. ista. The teachers of the colored schools, 1 fearing for their safety, left for Cairo. " It is '' . impossible to estimate the injury which this riot has done to the recently insurgent States. . It makes no difference which race is to blame ; in the matter, the effect on the Northern ., ; mind is the same. Such oocurreooes as these, with the defiant disloyal tone of nearly all . the Southern presses, re laying op for us all . .'additional humiliation, 1 deprivation .and sorrow. . . . .- '":''";,.': .' . Ttas Dionitt of the SbratBsAsskioebi ... ' Ttio. Senate, yesterday sustained its; trs ' ditionary reputation as tho. eonseiuativ kine from the postal aDnropriation bill a mis- ,.-Y. chieyous amendment avowedly placed theMi, - v 'with the intention of hampering rhtto(li;ial :', 'l Well did that able jurist, Sea&tor Polftw, ' of Vermont, in introducing tW prooeeltntfs -1 which brought about the recoawleratlrta and ' ' '' '. ' the rejection of this smeoHa'lt style it ,',- wtinlltr inrlaAuiaaliln aDsniuattt 1 wl II wis i 111 At1 . a position upon which no phticsl party could stand. Unterriped by the shuse hesp- , ' ed upon him by some of: hV-IUdicsJ associ- : atcs, Senator Poland demanded the rejection, , of a doctrine that was really revolutionary; ';nnH tha CnnaervativM'nt thn MUinffr will b gratified to learn that he has been snetained . by a majority of those Senators, permitted to. .v: occupy seats in the Upper Uoawo, nho ta .: ; -" nse his words have txk'Mi hioher and nobler . -Y. stand upon the great doctrines if liberty and .'; : justice. : To those Senators .irho hsvo thus 5 disdained political quackery, and risen above : the action of political adventurers. ! he thanks " ..r .11 . l . i- j ' ,i. r,-: I oi au .iruc-4iuabrmiA tvsa mn uucmiiwifMt i ..
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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