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ham, Ellia, Eppes. Etheridge, Fisher, French, of Bladen. French, of Chowan, Fullings, Galloway, Graham, of Montgomery, Graham, of Orange Gunter, Harris, of Wake, Hayes, of Robeson, Highsmith, Hollowell, Holt, Hood, King, of Lincon, Laflin, Lee, Legg, Lennon, Logan, Long. May, Mayo, Murler, McCubbins, Merritt. McDonald, of Chutham, McDonald, of Moore, Murphy, Nance, Newsom, Patrick, Petree, Ragland, Rich, Rodman. Stilwell, Tourgee, Tucker, Watts, Williamson. 

AGAINST- Messrs. Burns. Bryan, Chandler, Congleton, Duckworth, Forkner, Franklin, Gahagan, Garland, George, Glover, Gully, Hare, Hay, Hayes, of Halifax, Heaton, Hobbs, Hodnett, Hoffler, Hyman, Ing, Jones, of Caldwell, Jones, of Washington, Kinney, Morton, Mullican, Nicholson, Parker, Parks, Peterson, Pierson, Pool, Ray, Read, Renfrow, Rhodes, Rose, Sanderlin, Smith, Stilly, Sweet, Taylor, Teague, Trogden, Turner, Welker, Williams. 

The Convention then adjourned. 

IMPEACHMENT. 

THE PRESIDENT'S CONSPIRACY TO RESIST AND DEFEAT THE LAWS. 

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5th. -- The Reconstruction Committee, to which body the correspondence was yesterday referred, was in session to-day, and was engaged in the consideration of this important topic. All the members were present, except Brooks and Beck. The matter was debated coolly and cautiously, and all the members present were unanimously of the opinion that the action of Mr. Johnson, in ordering General Grant verbally and in writing, to refuse obedience to the orders of the Secretary of War, was a direct violation of the laws of Congress, and betrayed a determination on his part to obstruct, so far as in him lay, the execution of the laws. After a long discussion on this point, it was resolved to appoint a sub-committee to investigate the matter, and if they find that the President has violated the law, to prefer articles of impeachment against him, and to report at the next meeting of the committee. 

It is believed, on good grounds, that a conspiracy exists to defeat the operations of the law, and the sub-committee are empowered to investigate the conduct of two or three suspected members of the Cabinet, and if necessary, to impeach them also. The sub-committee is composed of Mr. Bingham and Boutwell, and I may add that the members of the committee who were opposed to impeachment last year, are in favor of it now, and are the prime movers in these proceedings. Impeachment has been determined on, and Mr. Johnson will be no longer suffered to obstruct the law. Congressmen say that the best interests of the country demand his removal; and if not guilty of an overt act he is an instigator to a violation of the law, and must take the consequences the same as any other citizen. Other facts, too, in the possession of the committee to go show that Johnson obstructs the law in certain of the Southern States. The sub-committee is in session to night, and the report will be ready and presented to the House on Monday. General Grant will be examined by the sub-committee, and will give his verdict of the pretended misunderstanding with the President under oath. 

For the Standard. 
Republican Meeting in Surry. 

At a Republican meeting, held at Mount Pleasant, Surry county, N.C., January 31st, 1868, by a portion of the citizens of said county, on motion, T.B. Wall was called to the chair, and P.H. Cockerham appointed secretary. 

After the object of the meeting was explained, on motion of Jerome Hendrix, W.W. Holden was unanimously recommended as the choice of this meeting for the next Governor of the State of North-Carolina.  

On motion of R.C. Poll, Col. W.F. HENDERSON, of Davidson county, was unanimously recommended as the choice of this meeting, to represent this Congressional District in the Congress of the United States.

On Motion, it was ordered that the proceedings of this meeting be sent to the Standard for publication. 

On motion, the meeting adjourned. 

T.B. WALL, Ch'n.

P.H. Cockerham, Sec.

every citizen to give information to the officers charged with the execution of the above. 

The third section declared any person willfully failing to give such information, or rendering an account of sequestered property, guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction should be fined $5,000 and imprisoned not longer than six months!

Under this law officers were appointed, who executed all its provisions promptly! - Debts due Northern merchants were paid to Confederate Receivers, under dear of fine and imprisonment, and they were then paid to the Treasurer of the Confederate States, and of course all lost. Our people were thus deliberately robbed by traitors: while citizens of the loyal States were likewise plundered of their real estate and other effects, which were sold and used for four years by rebels, and for which no compensation has been given or thus far demanded! We learn that in one instance even a hat, shirt and bridle belonged to a Northern man, were publicly sold by one of these Receivers! - What then can those, who justified such outrageous measures, say in opposition to the confiscation laws of the United States, which, with remarkable magnanimity, have not thus far been enforced? - They can only rely upon the clemency of Congress, which they villify and defame. 

On the 21st of Sept. 1864, Jno. D. Hyman retired from the editorial control of the Conservative. Wm. E. Pell, now Editor of the Sentinel, then of the Advocate, commenced writing for the Vance organ. He continued to do so until M.S. Robins took control, and perhaps afterwards, for there are many "godly comments" in the paper subsequent, to Robin's advent, which strongly savor of Brother Pell. The Conservative of Sept. 28th, 1864, said: 

"The Rubicon is passed, and we cannot retrace our steps without dishonor. The time was when many of us battled against the causes which brought on the war. The crime of bringing it on does not rest on our hands. What then, shall we, after having spilled so much blood, sacrificed so many lives and so much treasure in defence of the principles of right, shall we back down ! - Never ! Never !

"Our people do not mean to back. No such craven heart beats among us. We must be up and at the foe. The country needs every man that can be spared. Let the people at home, yea, the women, if needs be, go on with the work of enrolling and the duties of the commissary and quarter-master's departments, and let the men now employed in these duties, but versed in the duties of soldiers, go in the fight. We are strongly impressed with the ideas that the present is the crisis -- the pinch with us. let the South for the next two months bring her strength unto the contest, and let our battle-cry be 'God is our country,' and peradventure  we shall roll back the tide that threatens to overflow us." 

The above is from Brother Pell. It bears the earmarks; and shows also where he then stood -  advocating the conscription of every man, the most vigorous and bloody prosecution of the war, and the employment of our female population in the same work, thus endeavoring to involve all, even the most tender and innocent, in the terrible and an evitable disasters attendant upon the close of the rebellion. 

And the following horrible threat in the Confederate, under date of July 16th, 1864: 

"And to be slain by villainous tories and traitors as Waighstell Avery was, (Avery was killed in a skirmish with Kirk's men,) calls aloud to our countrymen and authorities to visit upon all this class, and their sympathizers, the direct vengeance of an outraged people and insulted law. And the day of retribution to all such will come." 

The Confederate of the same date contained the following additional appeal to the passions of the people. How horrible! What would have been the sufferings of thousands thus summarily dealt with - crushed out of existence! Read: 

"The people of this State have stood upon a volcano. They do so still, unless the loyal sentiment crushes out this vile treason. If we have not the nerve, strength or zeal to eradicate this evil, look to it, if disaster befal our arms it will eradicate us." 

What secessionist has been eradicated? Not one. And yet a great many deserved it, among them the writer of the above. 

"I feel quite ashamed also to add that a number of Home Guards in certain interior Counties, holding both civil and military offices, actuated either by treason or cowardice, or perhaps by both, have recently deserted and fled to the enemy. I earnestly recommend that you take such steps for the punishment of such a crime by confiscation or otherwise, as may deter others from such cowardly and degrading treason. There should be no more trifling in this matter. - Those who seek the aid of our enemies should share the fate of our enemies. The blood of our dead heroes as well as the living, who carry other lives in their hands every day, demands that punishment should be meted out to traitors. If there is to be no punishment for this kind of treason, loyal men are entitled to know it. Whenever we quietly suffer treason to attain a greater immunity from dangers and hardships than patriotism, we may expect the cause to perish."

Those Home Guard officers had taken office for protection from the conscription law, and their loyal sentiments becoming known, probably because they voted for Holden against Vance, when the issue was submission to the Union or resistance, as stated by the Conservative of June 22nd, 1866, - and being therefore threatened with arrest and impressment into the rebel armies, they left the State. But that was not enough; having escaped the clutches of Vance and Davis, the former appealed to the Legislature for vengeance upon their unoffending families. Let their property be confiscated, he said, "for those who seek the aid of our enemies should share the fate of our enemies!" Why does Congress hesitate to act? 

Echoing the sentiments of its master, the Conservative of Dec. 21st, 1864, said: 

"All bushwhackers and tories should be tried by court martial, and dealt with according to their rigors of military law!" 

About eighteen months previous to this publication, the people of North-Carolina were thrilled with the intelligence of the Laurel massacre, where "tories were dealt with according to the rigors of military law!" But other murders followed in quick succession, and at length the public car became callous to the appeals of humanity. - Thus, also, the rebel Governor and his organ had steeled their hearts against the cries of the people for peace; - they threatened to coerce them into the further vigorous prosecution of the war, and having succeeded, at length publicly advised and connived at the murder of Union men in cold blood, "under the rigors of military law!" 

Most certainly there is great and pressing necessity for a General Amnesty. Who can now escape that conclusion? However, if the President or any one else grants it which may a just God forbid, no words which the English language contains can wipe away the stains of blood upon the conscience of these men, or life the veil of dishonor from their past conduct.

At a public meeting in Goldsboro; just previous to its capture by Gens. Schofield and Sherman, Z. B. Vance delivered himself of the following complimentary language. - We extract from the report in the Goldsboro' papers; 

" At this point, Gov. V. drew a picture of that venerable, great man, Gen. Lee, 'the greatest captain of the age,' bowing at the footstool of a low, blackguard Illinois crossroads lawyer, to beg his life for the sake of his wife and children. Is there any man in North-Carolina willing to see this? (Sensation and cries of never!) If there be, exclaimed Gov. V., there are no words in the lexicon I use, capable of depicting the base brutality of his soul. No sirs, we mean to resist such demands. To submit is not better than the extremest resistance, and he who submits is a mean dog! This is not the language of passion but of fact. Gov. V. did not believe the people of North-Carolina would submit. When they understand the true issue, they will resist. What is your property and broad lands, he asked, if the master feels he is a slave and a dishonored dog!"

Not one word of the above has ever been retracted. There is no evidence of repentance for such treasonable and disgraceful harangues. It only remains to inquire who now is "the slave and dishonored dog?" 

We copy the following from the conservative of March 15th 1865:

armies dwindled gradually away, the leaders of the rebellion became desperate. Having forced every white man into the field whom they could reach, and still feeling weak, with Grant crowding Lee into his fortifications, and Sheridan advancing through the swamps of Georgia, they first proposed to conscript every man, but recoiled from that proposition so soon as it became evident that they too would have to go in, at the front "close under the flashing of the guns." What was left then? Only one and the last desperate resort - "arm the negroes," they said, "and set them free!" 

Thus they justified the emancipation and enlistment of colored troops by the wise and patriotic Lincoln. 

The Confederate of February 1st, 1865, said: 

"We are satisfied that if Congress and the States had taken steps early last Fall have give Gen. Lee two hundred thousand negroes, we should scarce to-day have had a yankee foot print on Southern soil." 

The same paper of March 1st, 1865, said:

"If Congress were to pass the boldest measures, take 200,000 negroes, add to these for a reserve 300,000 more, call upon the people to bring them up, and pile on the taxes, and let the people - all the people - were to say amen, there is no telling the wonderful effect such a spirit would have on the universal yankee nation." 

The same sheet, under date of Jan. 18th 1865, spoke as follows: 

"Since the attest of our military leaders from two points of observation has declared in favor of the employment of negro soldiers, the spirit of the press is very properly conforming to this standard authority. Of the right we never doubted; of the expediency we are now convinced. If the Southern negro be appealed to, with proper moral inducements to enlist his sympathies, we doubt not either his capacity or his willingness or his fidelity; and with this element of strength our independence is certain."  

The colored people should mark this fact in the history of the past. Let them remember, that those who sought to establish a government to perpetuate their bondage, finally proposed to make them fight for the same purpose, to force them to slaugter in the pens at Petersburg and Charleston, falsely promising them freedom at the price of their blood.

The following is the resolution referred to as being prepared by Gov. Vance, and adopted by a Convention of true Unionists at Hendersonville, N.C., Aug. 13th, 1863, which assembled to nominate a candidate for the Confederate Congress. That sterling Unionist, General George W. Logan, was nominated. The following were the more conspicuous Unionist present on the occasion, who will be recognized at once as open and avowed reconstructionists.

Hon. A.H. Jones, of Henderson, now member elect to the U.S. Congress; Col. C.L. Harris and J.B. Carpenter of Rutherford; Col. J.M. Hamilton, of Polk; and S.O. Deaver, of Madison. That was the company in which Z.B. Vance was then found.- The following is the resolution:

"Resolved. That we desire to hold ourselves guiltless of shedding one drop of blood beyond that which is necessary to securing an honorable peace with our enemies; and to that end, we desire to make known to the fair minded mind of the North, who have recently on various occasions expressed a willingness for amicable conference, that we, the people of Western North-Carolina, will cheerfully respond to their wishes and reciprocate their sentiments, believing it our duty as Christians and patriots, to neglect no means of negotiations which may effect a settlement of our difficulties and stay the shedding of blood."

Six months afterwards Gov. Vance said to the soldiers' boys, fight till hell freezes over, and then fight on the ice," - "fight until you fill hell so full of yankees, that their feet will stick out of the windows," &c.

Two months before that he wrote as follows to President Swain, at Chapel Hill:

"Raleigh, Jan. 2, 1864.

My Dear Sir: - The final plunge which I have been dreading and avoiding - that is to separate me from a large number of my political friends, is about to be made. It is now a fixed policy of Mr. Holden and others

thing more than a mere threat held over his head "in terrorism" He certainly will deserve to find it a stern reality, if he assumes the right to nullify a law constitutionally passed by Congress. We scarcely think, however, that his present threat means any more than those in who he has heretofore indulged on various occasions.- Washington Chronicle.

Mr. Rodman of Beaufort.- The course this gentleman, has seen fit to pursue since his entry into the radical troupe at Raleigh is such as to entirely separate him from the great mass of his friends who hitherto took a pride in his acknowledged abilities, and who now regret that the hope for personal and political aggrandizement could this induce him to forswear all his old principles and cast himself, body and soul, into the ranks of the most ultra radicals of the Convention.

That he has done so; that he is now regarded as an acknowledged leader of the republican party in this State, will not be denied. Upon the most trivial as well as the most important questions his vote has been most invariably cast with the republicans, and he stands to day before the people of North-Carolina as a political apostate of the deepest dye, unworthy the confidence and respect of any portion of a party he has so shamelessly deserted.

The hope of a seat upon the Supreme Court Court Bench, as reorganized by the party in power, has proved too powerful for the political integrity of Mr. Rodman, and to this motive can be easily traced his present apostacy.

This fact is apparent to all, and its knowledge sounds the death knell to whatever influence and power Mr. R. may have hitherto possessed in this section of the State.

It is to be expected that he will soon take the stump, in advocacy of the adoption of a Constitution, which a Convention, evoked by Military rule and upheld by bayonets, is ordered to present to the people of North-Carolina for ratification or rejection

This Convention we tell the people of North-Carolina is unconstitutional, illegal and without a shadow of authority, and consequently all its acts partake of the same character. No true Southern man can endorse it, without forever forfeiting all claim for consistency, and its defence by Mr. Rodman can neither further its adoption, or as instate that gentleman in the confidence of his fellow citizens.- Tarborough Southerner

THE ACTIVE FORCE OF THE ARMY- The passage pf the military reconstruction bill leads to the natural inquiry as to the present disposition and number of troops comprising the active army of the united State. The following statement shows this by departments and in a concise form:
In the unreconstructed State: First military districts, General J. M. Schofield, twelve posts and thirty-two companies; 2nd district, General E. R. S. Canby, twenty-three posts, thirty-five companies; 3d district, General George G. Meade, twenty two posts, forty-eight companies; 4th district, General Alvin C. Gillem, (temporarily), twenty five posts, forty-four companies; and the 5th district, General W.S Hancock, fifty three posts and on hundred and four companies; making a total of on hundred and thirty-five posts and two hundred and sixty-three companies. Averaging each company at seventy men, gives a force of over eighteen thousand.

In the other departments the following list compromises the force of the East: General W. P. Sherman, seventeen posts and thirty companies; Washington, General W. H Emory, four posts, twenty-seven companies; California, General E.O.C. Ord, assigned thirty-one posts, and fifty-two companies; Dakota, General A.H. Terry, fifteen posts, forty companies; the Cumberland, General George H. Thomas, seventeen posts, thirty companies; the lakes, General John Pope, five posts, eight companies; the Platte, General C.C. Augur, fifteen posts, sixty-three companies; Missouri, General P.H Sheridan, twenty-seven posts, seventy-eight companies; and the Columbia, General L.H. Rosseau, sixteen posts and twenty-two companies. Total- one hundred and forty-seven posts and three hundred and fifty companies-about twenty-five thousand troops- making a grand total of forty-three thousand - Wash. Chronicle.

M. Cloud, Esq., in an able and appropriate manner.

Then on motion the meeting adjourned
H. HAYS, Ch'm
W.B. Siegrist, Sec'y

NOTICES

Notice-First Congressional District
Notice is hereby given that a Convention of the Republican party, to nominate a candidate for the 1st district, will be held in Raleigh, on Wednesday, the 26th of February.
BYRON LAFLIN,
S.W WATTS,
T.A. SYKES
Committee
February 10, 1868. 90-td

Pitt County Convention.
The Republican voters of Pitt County, are requested to meet at the Court House in Greenville, on Tuesday, the 18th day of February next, at 10 oclock, A.M., for the purpose of electing delegates to attend the State Republican Convention, to be holden in Raleigh on the 26th inst., also to adopt such other measures as shall be for the interests of the Republican party.
By order of 
COUNTY Committee
Greenville, February 11, 1868 90-td

Notice.

There will be a meeting of the Union League and the Republican party at OAK Grove, Wake County, on Saturday, the 15th inst., for the purpose of transacting business of great importance to the Union League and Republican party.

There will be some speeches delivered in reference to the signs of the times.

Everybody is invited to attend by order and request of the officers of the League and the republican party.
FEB. 10, 1868   89-td

Notice---Republicans of Johnston.
There will be a Convention of the Republican Party of Johnston county, held at the Court House in Smithfield, on the 15th day of February, 1868, to select delegates to attend District and State Conventions, to be held in Raleigh, on the 26th day of February, 1868, and to consider such other business as may be deemed proper. Precinct committees are earnestly requested to see to it that their Precincts are represented.
Per order
EXECUTIVE COMITTEE
February 8. 1868. 88-td

Notice -- Fourth Congressional District.
Notice is hereby given that a Convention of the Republicans of the 4th District will be held at Raleigh, on Wednesday the 26th of February, to nominate a candidate for Congress.
W.W. HOLDEN.}
EUGENE GRISSOM.} Committee
JAMES H. HARRIS.}

Notice -- Fifth Congressional District.
In the absence of Mr. Settle in Mississippi, and as he may not return in time to be consulted as one the Committee, we hereby give notice that a Convention to nominate a Republican candidate for Congress in the 5th District, will be held at High Point on the 4th of March next.  A full attendance is requested.
W.F. HENDERSON,}
J.W. WOODWARD,} Committee.
February 7, 1868.  87-td.

Republican Meeting in Wake County.
A meeting of the Republicans of Wake County will be held in the Court House, in Raleigh, on Saturday, the 22d of February, to appoint delegates to the Republican State Convention and the Congressional District Convention, to be held in Raleigh on the 26th.  A full attendance is requested.
JOS. W HOLDEN,
T.L. BANKS,
MOSES PATTERSON,
Committee
February 4, 1868.  84-td.

Notice -- Wayne County.
The Republicans of Wayne County are requested to meet at Goldsboro' on Saturday, February 8th, for the purpose of electing delegates to the Republican State Nominating Convention, to be held in the city of Raleigh, on the 26th day of February, 1868.
By order of the
COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

struction acts, decided adversely last term - reasons for that opinion was to day given as follows:  The question involved and the right sought to be protected were exclusively political in their character, relating to sovereignty and the Government, and not to rights of persons or property, and that the Court has no jurisdiction thereof of the subject matter of the bill.  They cite the cases of the State of Rhode Island versus the State of Massachusetts, of the Cherokee Nation versus the State of Georgia, and other cases, to show that the Court has no jurisdiction to decide a political question.  The Chief Justice concurred in the result, but not in the reasons assigned.  The Chief-Justice announced that the present term would be adjourned on the first Monday in April.

There is intense anxiety to see the President's letter to Gen. Grant.

The ways and means committee is about reporting a bill regulating export of spirits.  The details have not transpired.

Charles K. Tuckerman, of New York, has been nominated minister to Greece.

Revenue to-day one and a half millions.

In the Supreme Court The State of Texas vs. White et. al. on motion to dissolve injunction restraining White et. al. from selling certain bonds on ground, among others, that Texas being no State, had no rights in court.

From Ohio.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 8. - The Legislature has adopted a resolution requesting the repeal of the reconstruction acts, and denunciatory of the pending supplementary and Supreme Court bills

From Richmond.
RICHMOND, Feb. 8th - In the Convention the section authorizing the Legislature to create a Bureau of Agriculture and Immigration, was adopted.

A long debate occurred on the immigration part of the section, which was both opposed and urged on the Republican side.

Richmond, Feb. 10. - In the Convention the judiciary committee reported adversely to two resolutions, one for sealing debts contracted prior to April, 1865, at twenty-five cents in the dollar, and another declaring all debts prior to that date null and void.

The committee's report also take the ground that all debs contracted for the purchase of slaves cannot be set aside.  The report was adopted by a vote of 72 to 6.

The section of a report giving the Legislature power to sell the State's interest in Internal Improvement, and to apply the proceeds to the liquidation of the public debt, was adopted.

From Charleston.
CHARLESTON, Feb 8th - The Convention is still engaged on the Bill of Rights.

CHARLESTON, Feb. 8. - Cotton active and advanced ½ to ¾.  Sales 2,000 bales at 19.

From Montgomery.
Montgomery, Feb. 10. - Out of seventeen South Alabama counties, embracing the large colored counties of the State, the Constitution is behind 3700 votes.  The hill country and the Florida line of counties, will place it at least 10,000 votes behind - the election last fall on the Convention was held only at the Court Houses, and continued three days - the Convention was carried by about 10,000 over one half the registered vote - three ties more voting places were opened at the election on the Constitution than on the Convention, and this election continued five days. - The managers of the election were generally Republicans.

From Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Feb. 10. - John B. Budd, one of the oldest merchants, engaged in the New Orleans trade is dead - aged 71 years.

From Mobile.
Mobile, Feb. 10 - The election concluded. - Yesterday passed off in the most quiet and orderly manner.  The vote stands, whites 89, colored 4916.

Foreign.
LONDON, Feb. 8 - Minister Adams' resignation has been announced - the press regrets. 

Admiral Farragutt was received at Florence with special honors.

Bismark has announced the commercial treaty with the United States was progressing favorably.

CORK, Ireland, Feb. 8. - A desperate attempt is being made to rescue Fenians.  Captain Mackay was captured to-day.  The police beat off the mob.