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dom [[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 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. They know that the cry of the widow and the orphan has gone up to Heaven against them. It was to gratify their lust for power that this broad land was ridged with graves. It was to sate their unhallowed ambition that the poor wool hat boys were conscripted and forced to the front. It was to guarantee them in the possession of their slaves that the families of the poor soldiers were fed by County charity on half a peck of meal and three pounds of beef a week, and even this begrudged them. 
     
A more reckless or desperate set of conspirators never met together than those who meet to day. Their glory is the glory of the past. Their fame is the infamy of the rebellion. The success of the Union arms has utterly destroyed them. They are ruined in hope and ruined in fortune. Their visions of glory have vanished into thin air. They no longer hope for favor at the hands of the people whom they have so cruelly misled and deceived. 
     
There are men here plotting for themselves to the ruin of the State, who have shot and hung conscripts - who have whipped women and put their thumbs under the fence, or justified or ordered it - who have run down panting deserters with blood hounds - who have opened smokehouses and corncribs and impressed the last dust of meal and last pound of bacon - who have preached Liberty and Independence with their lying tongues, and illustrated it with bucking, gagging, the torture, handcuffs, starvation and murder! Are these men still to rule this people? Forbid it, Humanity! - forbid it, Almighty God!
     
There are those absent who should be here. Foremost among them should be Col. Keith, the murderer of Laurel valley. The gibbering ghosts of the forty men and boys whom he slew should curdle the blood of his associates as they announced his presence. He is now in Castle Pinckney, to be tried for his crimes. May God save him, for man many not!
     
Mr. Jefferson Davis should be present in person, as he is in spirit.
     
Judah P. Benjamin, who is rolling in wealth plundered from our people, is also absent. The hypocrites expected God to bless them when this man, as Secretary of State of the Confederate States, was issuing proclamations ignoring the existence of Jesus Christ!
     
Gen. R. F. Hoke, who ordered the murder of colored Union soldiers at Plymouth, and who was the terror of the Union men of the West, is also absent. 
     
Gen. Lee, and extra-Billy Smith, who wanted to make two hundred thousand male slaves fight for the liberty of the Confederate States, could not attend. Surely these Christian warriors should have been here. 
     
And Hindeman, of Arkansas, the brute and the murderer - the demon of the rebellion through every drama of the awful tragedy - where is he? 
     
But if these are absent the ghosts of Winder and Wirz will hover over this assembly, giving to it the sanction of natures that never pitied, and never relented in their work of death. 
     
May God save the Commonwealth of North-Carolina from the grasp of such men!

struction 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 Convention would have any effect as to the elections to be held under the reconstruction acts. 
     
But, it is answered, that oaths are inexpedient or useless. Congress does not so think. An oath may be mild, or severe, or vindictive, or retrospective, or prospective, but it is nevertheless an oath. Every one concedes that there must be an oath, and the only question is us to what it shall be. It is not necessary to make it vindictive or retrospective. Let it bind now and hereafter. He who is not reconstructed after all that has taken place - he who is not ready to submit n good faith to the will of the nation and the laws of the land, is no more fit to take part in governing this people than Mr. Davis or Gen. Lee would be. Let the oath represent the sunshine of loyalty. Let those who will, get into that sunshine. Those who will not, must remain in the shade. They can not blame the loyal for this; they must blame themselves.  
   
"Universal amnesty" does not mean the right to govern loyal men. It simply means pardon, and consequent protection to life and property. The right to vote is the highest of all rights. To hold office is a privilege. If the right to vote be conceded, how can the privilege to hold office be withheld? 
     
The colored man has the right to vote because he is a free MAN. He does not say to any man, I will swap you "universal amnesty" for my right to vote. It is his right, whether amnesty be granted or not. There is no connection, it seems to us, between the two propositions. 
     
Was Mr. Johnson "liberal" in 1805? He not only dictated suffrage to these Southern States by saying who should vote, but he declared that three hundred thousand white men should not vote. He went further and said, that not one of these, thus banned, should practice a profession, or make or receive title to land, or transact any business legally until he should be pleased to pardon. Has Congress done any thing like that? Does the Convention propose to do any thing like 
that? Certainly not. And yet Congress and the Convention are pronounced illiberal, harsh, wicked in their conduct, while Mr. Johnson is held up as a paragon of magnanimity and kindness towards our people. The secret is, Mr. Johnson is against manhood suffrage. This, after all, is the issue. The Republicans are determined to establish it; and the Rebels are determined, if possible, to defeat it. If they accept the political and civil equality of all men, they surrender every thing. They will not do this if they can possibly avoid it. This is the point on which to press them. Tie them up just here, so as to cut off all hope that in the future they may be able to undo what is being done now.- This is necessary for their good, for the good of the people of this State of all parties, for the good of the country. Our people must have rest - rest from agitation and strife, so as to be able to devote themselves to the building up of their ruined fortunes; and they can not expect this rest as long as manhood suffrage is left an open question. 
     
We would go further than this. We would provide that the Constitution should be amended only through and by a Convention, and that no Convention should be called but by a vote of two-thirds of all the

to take a back seat in the public square. I was always under the impression that anything good loved light rather than darkness, but this august body seem to be so much afraid of its own shadow that they prefer darkness rather than light, and very politely invited into the street several gentlemen who came to listen respectfully and attentively to the words of wisdom that might fall from the august lips. 
ONE OF THE VICTIMS.
Raleigh, January 5, 1868.
     
We learn, in addition to the above, that Stephen, the only colored Conservative in Raleigh, was also turned out. Stephen is on of Gov. Worth's employees. "This was the most unkindest cut of all." 
     
"Oh Stephen! where you gwine, Stephen?"

ATTENTION CONSCRIPTS!

General Orders No. 10,553
HEADQUARTERS CAMP HOLMES.

All Conscripts will Report at Once, on pain of death.

DESERTERS WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT.

No time to Talk about Starvation 
among Women and Children, with the Goths, Vandals and Gorillas in front of us.

WE MUST BE TRUE TO "THE SOUTH."

THE WOOL-HAT BOYS, WHO HAVE NO NEGROES, TO THE FRONT;

The sons of the Rich in the shade offices at home.

OR WITH GOOD DODGING PLACES

As Commissaries and Quartermasters,

VIDE ENGELHARD.
 
Col. Peter Mallett will see to this. Not less than four good bacon hams, or the loan of a milk cow, will procure favors. One hundred dollars in gold may save a conscript with Provost Marshal. Try him.
     
Col. Russ will furnish the bloodhounds to run down conscripts. A plentiful supply of ropes and handcuffs on hand. the man who will not remain the army while his family is starving, or who has any love for the "Yankee" flag, or who can not live and do good fighting on a pint of meal and a spoonful of molasses per day, is a Lincolnite--a "Holdenite," and an enemy to "the South." The peerless Davis and the sainted Lee have called for more troops.--They must be forwarded. Let every true "Southern" man and woman pray to God to blast our enemies. He is going to do it, but it is important to urge the work. We know he will do it.  It is only a matter of time. England and France will not much longer disgrace themselves by refusing to take our part. Our enemies are nearly away from their gunboats, and then we shall have them. Send on the conscripts! Gov. Vance says so. Governor Graham regrets harsh measures, but he goes with his friends. When we triumph, as we certainly shall, we shall rid the State of all traitors, and establish a strong government based on property and intelligence. No rail splitter or tailor shall be our President. We intend to put gentlemen in office. We shall make slavery eternal. It shall rule the continent. Forward the conscripts! Shoot a few of


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bolting from the Democratic Convention in Tucker Hall. If he loses his hat, may he save his bacon!

The "Little Blower"

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seems dilapidated by the touch of Time. - He is not the "Blower" he was twenty-five years ago. He is now a sad "spectacle." He carries his hat lower than formerly, nearer his heart. His umbrella is the same old green 'un that Daniel carried into the Lion's den. 
     
"Pity the sorrows of a poor old man. 
Whose trembling limbs have led him to your door,
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span,"
Oh give him office and he asks no more.

Some of the Rebel papers make a great to-do over a misprint in the Standard of a line in the Report of the Committee on Suffrage. The part referred to should have been, "every male person, born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years of age, and upwards," &c. 
    
The Sentinel makes an illiberal and unjust attack on C.C. Pool, Esq., though that gentlemen has signed a very liberal and generous Report on Suffrage. Mr. Pool is neither arrogant nor oracular, the Sentinel would have the public believe. He is an amiable, modest, talented young gentleman who has simply expressed his opinion as a member of the Convention on the subject of suffrage and amnesty. As generous as he is in his Report, the Sentinel does not appreciate it. Mr. Pool is a Republican, and as such maintains manhood suffrage, and that of itself is sufficient to draw upon him the illiberal attacks of that paper.  

A paper of this City contains a low attack on Col. I.A. Peck, Sergeant-at-arms of the Convention, the object of which is to show that he is not a citizen of the State. Col. Peck removed to Wilmington in the latter part of 1865. It does not follow that he is not a citizen of that city, because, when absent on business in Brooklyn, some legal process for debt was sworn out against him; said process not being, as we are informed, justly or fairly sued out. We deprecate all such personal attacks. They promote ill feeling, perpetrate injustice as in the case, and do no good to any. 
     
Col. Peck was a Registrar in New Hanover, and is a registered voter in that County.

The Superior Courts--Spring Terms.
The Judges of the Superior Courts of the State will hold the Spring Terms as follows:
1st Circuit - Judge Warren.
2d Circuit -  Judge Barnes.
3d Circuit -  Judge Gilliam.
4th Circuit - Judge Vacancy
5th Circuit - Judge Mitchell.
6th Circuit - Judge Buxton.
7th Circuit - Judge Little.
8th Circuit - Judge Shipp.

But the loyal men intend so to cage and fasten them that they will be powerless hereafter to injure this people.

The H.O.A.'s
    
Read the eloquent appeal of Col. Henderson in the Standard today.
     
The H.O.A.'s are already aroused, and will stand shoulder to shoulder with all loyal men in the coming contest. 

AN ORDINANCE
REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF BONDS AUTHORIZED TO BE ISSUED BY THE WILMINGTON, CHARLOTTE AND RUTHERFORD RAIL ROAD COMPANY, PASS-BY THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, FEBRUARY, 3D. 1868.
     
WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, ratified the 26th day of December 1868, the Wilmington, Charlotte an Rutherford Rail Road Company was authorized to place upon its road-way property and Franchise a first Mortgage to secure an issue of Bonds not to exceed in amount Four Millions Dollars which Mortgage has been duly executed and recorded according to the provisions of said act; and Whereas, the State holds a second Mortgage upon said Road for Two Millions of Dollars, to protect which interest it is manifesting essential that the Bonds to be issued under said First Mortgage should be reduced in amount, and their value enhanced by the endorsement of the State so that the Company may be enabled to complete its Road: Therefore

Section 1. Be it ordained by the people of North Carolina in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same. That the President of the Convention, or the Governor, or the Public Treasurer of the State, or either of them, be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, in behalf of the State, to endorse the Bonds authorized as aforesaid to the amount of One Million of Dollars, which endorsement shall be in the words and figures, following to wit: "The principal and interest of this Bond is guaranteed by the State of North-Carolina, by ordinance of the Convention ratified the 3d day of Feb., 1868. Provided, That the amount of the Bonds issued by authority of the said act of the General Assembly, shall not exceed in the aggregate Two Millions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, and the remainder authorized to be issued to-wit, One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, shall be delivered to the President of this Convention, or to the Governor, or to the State Treasurer, and by him or them cancelled and destroyed. Or that said One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Bonds shall be cancelled and destroyed by the Trustee of said First Mortgage, and a certificate shall be presented upon each of the remaining Bonds, certifying that Two Millions Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Bonds, are all that are issued, or are authorized to be issued under the deed of Trust or Mortgage delivered to them, and that the additional One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Bonds have been cancelled and destroyed, and that said certificate shall be signed by each of the Trustees. Provided further, That Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of the remaining Two Millions, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Bonds, be deposited with the Treasurer of the above named endorsement, and if the said Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail Road Company shall fail to pay either interest or principal of said endorsed Bonds, so that the State shall become liable for the same by reason of said endorsement, and shall pay the same, then the State shall become the owner of said Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Bonds, but if the said Rail Road Company shall pay both interest and principal of said endorsed Bonds, so that the State shall not become liable for the same, by reason of its endorsement, then the said Five Hundred Thousand Dollars of Bonds shall be the property of the said Rail Road Company.

Sec. 2. Be if further ordained, That this ordinance shall take effect from and after its ratification.

AN ORDINANCE MAKING IT THE DUTY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO PROVIDE A LAND AGENCY IN EACH COUNTY IN THE STATE.

INTRODUCED BY J.W. PETERSON.

Be it ordained by the people of North-Carolina, in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That the General Assembly, at its first session, after the ratification of the Constitution of the State of North-Carolina, shall provide for establishing an agency in each County in the State, to be vested in the wardens of said Counties, for the purpose of procuring such lands as may be forced upon the market, exclusively for the benefit of actual settlers under such regulations as the General Assembly may direct, provided that no agency for any one County shall have on hand at one time more than ten thousand acres, and shall not dispose of the same in lots greater than eighty acres each. 

which will be held in Raleigh on the 26th 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 that every loyal man is present at his proper precinct, and that his vote is polled.

There are no fears as to success if we do our duty. But we should remember that eternal vigilance is the price of our safety. Our enemies are active, vigilant and crafty. We must be constantly on the alert to defeat their treasonable schemes. This we can do, and will do. Let us make one long pull, a strong pull, and a last pull, and roll back the old North State into the harbor of the Union, with loyal men to man the ship.— When this is done, we can afford to rest [[from]] our labors, for then justice and equal rights will have been secured to all; the old State will once more be on the high road of peace and prosperity; happiness will once more return to our suffering people, and loyalty and loyal men become honorable and respectable. These glorious objects are worthy of our most arduous efforts, and may He who guides the high destinies of this great nation, stand by us in this our grand effort to restore the Union, and secure the triumph of right and justice.

"Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto, in God is our trust;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the land of the free and home of the brave."

I have the honor to be,
Your obedient servant,
W. F. HENDERSON,
Grand Sec. H. O. A.

FINANCIAL.—During the week ending today there has been received from the Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department $550,000 in [[fractional]] currency. The shipments for the same period have been as follows: To United States assistant treasurer at New York, $150,000; to U.S. depository at Cincinnati, $200,000; and to the national banks and others, $152,186.37. Total, $502,186,37.

The Treasurer of the United States holds in trust at this date, in Government securities for circulating notes of national banks, $341.219.400; as securities for deposits of public moneys with banks, $37,827,950.—

National bank currency issued during the week. $66.040; total issued to date, $305,978.751. From this to be deducted for mutilated bills returned, $6,045,975, and for notes of insolvent banks redeemed and burned by the United States Treasurer, $389,860; leaving in actual circulation at this date, $299.542,986. The amount of fractional currency redeemed and destroyed during the week was $330,100.

THE SALMON OVA FOR NEW ZEALAND.— The gentlemen entrusted with the responsible duty of procuring salmon ova from the rivers of this country for transmission to New Zealand, as mentioned in the Times of Monday, have now procured their required stock of impregnated spawn. The operations in the river Severn were completed at Worcester this week, and about 40,900 ova obtained from that river, under the sanction and personal superintendence of the Board of Conservators of the Severn Fishery District and its officers. Among the fish captured with nets for this purpose were some remarkably fine ones, 38 salmon taken in one draught averaging 29 lbs. apiece, and some weighing of from 30 lbs. to 35 lbs. Not a single clean fish was captured. Mr. Ramsbottom, of Clitheroe, in Lancashire, was the operator, assisted by Mr. Vowben, who will have charge of the ova on the voyage to New Zeland. The operations were watched at Worcester by the policeman with some jealousy. All the fish when operated upon were returned to the river, and the fisherman believed that some of them would not recover their rough treatment. The vessel with this remarkable freight, 200,000 salmon ova packed on ice, leaves St. Katharine Docks to-morrow for [[Dunledin]], New Zeland.— London Times, 10th.

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 past or the present. Virginia is the sole cradle of wisdom and statesmanship; within her borders is the true modern Gamaliel, at whose feet all must submissively learn, if they would teach others in their day and generation.

It is desirable, too, that they should be patient listeners to the genealogy of the first[[.]] families, and recognize outsiders as Barbarians, deserving, if not of scorn, at most of pity. These and a thousand and one things more must not only be "done and suffered," but they must be active agents in furthering the interests, propagating the views of the original stock, and in accepting, without demur, the place assigned them in social or political existence; they must implicitly submit to the rulers of tens and of fifties, of hundreds and of thousands, ignore the ideas taught by a fond mother in other lands or the principles of government taught in other schools[[.]] and then, and then, perhaps they may be tolerated whithin the sacred precincts of the Old Dominion. They may then be permitted to manufacture hats or shoes, if they like; they may then pass hither and thither without the damning appellation of "negro-worshippers, social vermin," "monsters," "white trash." and so on, ad infinitum; they may then not see their names and business published in the newspapers, in order that all might know them to shun them.

This is the tolerance that will be meted out to the hated Yankee or republican, whoever he may be, and yet, forsooth, because he will strive to maintain his ground, and dares to avow his principles in this land of supposed liberty, and seeks to guard himself against the perpetration of still grosser wrongs upon his rights, he is looked upon as a disturber of the public peace, as a contemner of indefeasible rights and in general terms—
"A monster of such hideous mein,
That to be hated needs but to be seen,"
Richmond New Nation.

LEGISLATIVE GARRULITY NEATLY REBURKED.— The Providence Press tells that following good story, which should convey its own moral;

"A member of the General Assembly from a 'rural district,' who is something of a wag, approached one of the officers of the House, and with a very serious looking countenance and subdued voice stated that he was, both as a representative and a man, in a serious difficulty. The officer gravely inquired the cause. The troubled member replied that he was under the necessity of being absent for three days. 'Oh, well,' replied the official, 'that is nothing; it's a common occurrence.' 'But,' said the disconsolate one, 'that aint exactly what's the matter. Ye see, I've heard that member speak every day, and a great many times a day, and I've kinder got used to it. It's as natural as hash for breakfast. I shall miss it if I go; and see here, (taking the official by the button-hole,) d'ye think he'll have wind enough to hold out till I come back, for I do want to hear him once more.'"

THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS.—The people of England and France are beginning to give the girls as high an order of education as the boys. In the former country, a Cambridge examination system has been established, under which classes of, girls under the age of eighteen have been formed in various towns of England, and also in the city of London. In these classes the girls are examined in various branches of study, including some of the severest, such as geometry and algebra, and the most distinguished obtain certificates which, like the college degrees, may be servicable to them in their future lives. The Empress Eugenie patronizes a similar movement in France, which was somewhat appropriately inaugurated in Sorbonne, in December. Great numbers of young ladies attended the lectures there, among whom were too young relatives of Eugenie herself. This system of superior instruction for girls has been adopted in thirty or forty other towns of the departments.