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The Weekly North-Carolina Standard.

"Liberty and Union, now and forever, on and inseparable." -Daniel Webster

VOL. XXXIV.  RALEIGH, N.C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1868.   NO. 6.

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More Blood:
     For more than four years the people of North Carolina were ground to the earth beneath the Davis despotism. Sherman marched down to the sea, and Grant marched into Richmond, and the yoke was broken and the people were once more free. Treason was prostrate, and the flag of freedom floated from the standards where the dark colors of rebellion had waved in triumph. 
     Too dearly do the people prize this freedom to surrender it without a struggle. Too well do they remember their cruel wrongs to permit their old oppressors once more to gain the upper hand and to wreak their vengeance.
     The Rebel Conclave, which assembled in Raleigh Wednesday last, knows this well. They know that the execrations of the people are upon them. 

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     The Republican party can gain nothing by concession to its enemies. Concessions were tried in 1868, but they did more harm than good. The appeal is constantly made that the Republican party should be "liberal." When was it illiberal? When were its enemies even just?
     The secessionists who now now prate for liberality, as they prated for, got it, and abused it in 1865, were anxious during the rebellion to make every citizen of this State renounce his allegiance to the United States and take an oath to the Confederate States, or in default thereof to be driven from the State and have his property sold to bear his expenses out of the State. What party was illiberal then? Have these men repented of their evil deeds? It they have, where are the fruits meet for it?
     Let us reconstruct the State on the basis of the reconstruction acts. It may not be necessary to put the Howard amendment in the State Constitution, for it is to be ratified by the Legislature and to be a part of the federal Constitution; but equal political and civil rights should be a leading feature in the State Constitution, and no man should be allowed to vote or hold office who will not solemnly swear to maintain those rights. This is simply in accordance with the acts of Congress. We would not go beyond these acts, but it may not be safe to fall short of them. A citizen says he submits to the will of the nation. Very well, let him so swear. It can not hurt him to do it. If he says he does not submit, he may claim and get protection to his person and property, but surely he can not justly expect to wield political power. Yet he may submit hereafter in good faith. This would be well. We would be glad to see him do it. Having seen the practical workings of the government under the new Constitution he may come forward and say, "Gentlemen, I am now satisfied. I had doubts and fears, but they have vanished. I can now swear that I accept the political and civil equality of all men; that I will faithfully obey the laws of the United States, and encourage others so to do.' A registry law for voters would be necessary. It would be two years after the next election to be held under the reconstruction acts, before this law would be enforced, and this would give ample time for reflection and for testing manhood suffrage and the political and civil equality of the two races. It must be borne in mind that no test established by the by the Convention would have any effect as to the elections to be held

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members of the General Assembly. Demagogues and enemies of political and civil equality should be cut off from all chance to disturb the public mind, by moving to submit the question of Convention to the people by a bare majority in the Legislature.
     Thirty thousand fire-tried white Republicans, and seventy thousand colored Republicans, are vitally interested in these questions. They are looking with profound anxiety to see Liberty and Loyalty not merely asserted, but so protected in the organic law that every effort of the enemies of the government to again obtain control may prove abortive.
     The temper of the opposition in this State is well illustrated by the following resolution, recently passed by a so-called Couservative meeting, held in Lenoir, Caldwell County, over which Gen. Samuel F. Patterson presided:
     "Resolved, that we are in favor of the Union, but it must be a Constitutional Union of free and equal States."
     No other Union is proposed. These gentlemen are for the Union, but they want it all their own way. They forget that they promised in 1865 to submit unconditionally to the national authority. 
     These gentlemen also charge in one of their resolutions that the "aim" of the republican party is to "destroy the Union, blot out the States, subvert the foundations of social order, and establish a despotism." There is not one word of truth in this charge.
     These gentlemen will most probably never change. Like the great body of the Democrats. North and South, they will go to their graves twaddling about "negro supremacy' and hating the government of the United State. They must have protection to their persons and property, but it seems to us it would be a great mistake to clothe them with political power. 

                         For the Standard.
THE STAR CHAMER, alias the so-called Conservatice Convention met at the Commons Hall, (supposed to be open alike to all shades of political opinions)-but the learned sons of chivalry possibly imagined that some of their Solonlike ideas might be communicated to the poor "Mudsills of Society." they therefore introduced a resolution to order all such poor plebians to take a back seats in the public square. I was always under the impression that anything good loved light rather than darkness, but this angust body seem to be so much afraid of its own shadow, that they prefer darkness rather than light, and very politely invited into the strict several gentlemen who came to listen respectfully and attentively to the words of wisdom that might fall from their angust lips.
                    ONE OF THE VICTIMS

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them, and the balance will appear all the more rapidly. Kill the deserters, and that will deter others from deserting. 
     In the name of Davis, Secession, and Slavery, let this be done.
     Walker said the Confederate flag should yet fly from the dome of the Capitol in Washington. Let it be done. A copperhead flag will do as well.
     Beauregard promised the ladies of Baltimore that his flag should foat in a few days on the Washington Monument, Baltimore.
          "Few days, few days."
     Toombs said he would call the roll of his slaves in the shadow of [     ] Monument. Let it be done. If we can not do it by arms we will do it with the ballot. We will not submit to the Goths, Vandals, and Gorillas.
     Beating the Drum for Conscripts!
     The Rebel Convention in Tucker Hall makes one more effort for "the South"
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     The Rebellion continued! We will not submit!
          An "Old Line Whig,"
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     Not only is our State Treasury to be depleted, our prosperity blighted and our people ruined by the set of poulitical black-legs now sitting on and devouring the prostrate body of the State, but our time-honored manners and customs are to be innovated, ridiculed, destroyed and forgotten.-North Carolinian. 
     The traitors with whom the Carolinian is associated have already caused the people of this State to lose not less than three hundred millions of dollars worth of property, and forty thousand valuable lives. They have brought mourning and woe to thousands of households formerly blessed with abundance and with every thing to render life happy.-They have smitten scores with insanity-others they have killed by the slow torture of debt, want, and mortified pride. Hundreds of women delicately reared, have been driven to the wash-tub by these same traitors. Thousands of ingenuous youths have been consigned to ignorance and poverty by these traitors=the very men who will today assemble in this City to plot new treason against the country and to take new steps to augment the ruin they have caused. Poor old men and women at one time comfortable and happy have had their gray hairs brought down to the grave in sorrow by these same traitors. And yet the Carolinian talks about our "State Treasury being depleted' and about "political blacklegs"-and about our "time-honored manners and customs!" One of these customs was power for the rich, and contempt for the poor, no matter how virtuous or worthy the latter might be. This "time-honored custom' was the conscription, with handcuffs for the poor white man to make him fight for slavery, and twenty negro exemption laws and shade offices for slaveholders. That custom is also "innovated and destroyed," but those who established it will not soon be "forgotten." Our future customs will be drawn from the well of Truth. They will be measured by the rule of Right. Traitors who may not like these customs will have to lump them. They may complain, and fret, and threaten, but this can injure no one. The country is free, and they can make themselves as ridiculous as they please.-But the loyal men intend so to cage and fasten them that they will be powerless here after to injure this people.

          The H. O. A's.
     Read the cloquent appeal of Col. Henderson

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     TO THE H. O. A. IN NORTH-CAROLINA.
     BROTHERS:-Again you are called upon for a final rally to secure the object for which we have so long labored. This object is the restoration of North Carolina to the Union on the basis of loyalty and justice. Loyal men must rule, and equality before the law must be made the right of every citizen irrespective of color or former conditions. Upon no other terms can reconstruction be effected. Upon no other conditions can future peace and security be guaranteed. Upon no other conditions will prosperity and plenty take the place of the suffering and want which now press so heavily upon our people.
     In carrying out this patriotic work, the Union League of America will be with you. Thousands of good and true Republicans, who have not attached themselves to any organization, will second you in your efforts.-Good men every where, who love their country more than their own personal agrandizement, will bid you God speed in the noble cause.
     Heroes! Your past action has placed your names high on the rolls of patriotism. You have been tried by the fires of the rebellion. Defying the threats of wicked and unlawful power you have stood up for the Union of our fathers. When you have seen a lover of our flag in want, you have relieved his distress. You have fed the hungry and clothed the naked. You have cheered the despondent and spoken words of encouragement to those who were fighting the battles of liberty and Union. And your doors were always open to those who were escaping from the blood hounds of an infamous despotism.
     In the coming contest you will stand together as you have stood in the past. The elections are close at hand, and we must put forth every energy to secure the result. The new Constitution must be ratified. Loyal members of Congress must be elected. The State government must be put in the hands of men who are the friends of the Union, and of the Union-loving men amongst us.
     The first step in this direction will be to hold your meetings, in conjunction with all true Republicans, and send up your delegates to the State nominating Convention, which will be held in Raleigh on the 25th day of this present month. After the candidates shall have been nominated, let every Hero put his shoulder to the wheel. Let it be seen to that every loyal man is present at his proper precinct, and that his vote is polled.

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                          For the Standard.
     ME8SRS. EDITORS:-Will you please to allow me, through your columns, to state that I am receiving by every mail, letters upon the subject of relief to our people from all parts of the State, but my duties are such, that I have not the time to reply to them by mail. Hence I take this method to say to the numerous friends of the measure now before the Convention upon this subject, that all suggestions have been carefully considered, and I shall do every thing in my power to aid the people, and in such a manner as to bring about a unity of interest and sentiment among them, and to give permanent prosperity to the whole State. 
          JOHN A. McDONALD
                 of Chatham.

          PERSECUTION.
     No more fruitful theme presents itself to the observer of the times and the manners of the present day in our immediate section that that mentioned above. And the anomaly is presented that those who are most addicted to its exercise are the most bitter complainers of its hardships. They can never perceive that "what is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander." They are like the lawyer, who, when he found that it was his own bull that had gored to death the ox, said: "Oh! that alters the case."
     It is all right, just, brave and generous with some to pour down gall and wormwood their neighbor's throat, provided the chalice is not presented to their own lips. 
     Our neighbors, the obstructionists, are incessantly railing at Congress, at the Convention, and at every thing that in the least checks their dominance over people who happened to differ with them politically in the past, and still do so. They look upon it as a most sacrilegious, ungodly course of conduct to dare to assert that difference in a practical manner. If they would only choose to reflect on this matter ever so briefly they would soon perceive that their own game is one that admits of two to play at it, and that sooner or later people will find it out, if they have not already done so.
     Of course the lenders and subordinates in tae late invasion of "the sacred soil" must consent to let by gones be by-gones; they must hands off and say naught; they must take no part in the programme of the future. They must be "lookers on in Venice;" they must see how Virginians rule Virginia and the people thereof. If they do otherwise, "let them be anathema maranatha."
     They must "hats off," "clothed in sackcloth and ashes," and with unsandaled feet approach mother earth in Virginia, for it sacred to the descendants of superior race, the noblest type of man, par excellence.
     The photographs of the Lees, the Jacksons, the Hoods, the Braggs, et cetera, must adorn the mantel of the household, and such and such alone must receive the peans of victory.
     But this is not all that is expected from intruders from 'the outer world.' They must never undertake to find fault with the   
        
      

          
     
       
  

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