The Portland daily press., 1863-08-04
UNION NOMINATION.
FOR GOVERNOR.
SAMUEL CONY.
should Rebel States be encouraged to re-
,H turn TO their Allegiancel

COUIcGtIdtt Iuit, inhp NhiNh ohS 49, =
rather than volunteered, and in her surgings
and gyrations threatens TO break from the
desnotic rule of jeff. Davis and seek her old
position as one OF the states of the Union.
The following extract from the Fortress Mum
roe dispatches to the Associated Press, is our
authority for this statement:
The Raleigh n. c., Standard indicates that JEFF
Davis Il o repudiator in whom no confidence can be
placed and whose efforts TO establish southern
Confederacy will be failure.
The Richmond Enquirer calls upon JEFF. Davisto
susarcss the Raleigh standard and wipe out the
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The Standard says Coy. Vance VIII stand by the
Supreme Court and the Standard also II necessary,
and II JEFF Davis attempts to use physical force,
revolution in that State will be the result II says
John Mitchell, editor OF the Richmond Enquirer Is
an agent of Great Britain which has long sought to
divide the southern and northern people North
Carolina has furnished 5000 soldiers for the cause
less war 1000 of whom are killed or wounded.
The Standard SAYS North Carolina should send
delegation to Washington at once and see what
terms can be obtained and not wait for Jef DAVIS.
Allowing this to be true-as we most de-
voutly hope it may prove-what is the duty OF
the general Government? Should it encour-
age this tendency to restoration to former
relations with aud in the Union? And should
1t encourage similar tendencies in other rebel
states? We answer, yes, Unequiyocally, and
by all far and honert means, yes! Butt otc shall
1t do this This is the practical question. but to
our mind it involves no insuperable difficulty.
We suppose the only questions in relation TO
which there can be differences of opinion
among reasonable men, in this connection, are
those growingout of slavery and that of am
nesty to those who have been involved in the
rebellion. On this latter question we take it
there can be but little room for debate among
men who do not totally ignore the christian
rule of treating enemies. What the Govern
mcnt wants Is peace, with security that it shall
not again be broken. Vengeance Is no part
of the work before ms. Efusion of blood Is
means and when the great end for which
blood has been made TO flow has been secured
= permanent peace = then all will unite in
staunching the wounds, and in repairing, as
far forth as possible, the evils which have re-
suited from war forced upon us by the dis
unionists Of the South. We take it that the
number of those even now in active rebellion,
where amnesty would not be extended, is
very small There are those--the wicked in
stigators Of all our troubles-towards whom
policy should be observed different from that
with which the masses of the rebel states
should be treated. On this question we APP
pre- bend no great difficulty in bringing the
national feeling to remarkable degree OF
unanimity.
On the question of slavery there win be
more difference Of opinion, and yet to our
mind the line Of duty is neither intricate nor
obscure. The time has been when North Car
olina could have returned TO the Union with
all her institutions unimpaired; with her slave
property all untouched. So late as Dec. 31st,
1862, she could have done this. She had the
solemn pledge Of the Executive, Military and
Naval head of the nation that she might do
so, on the simple condition that she lay down
her arms, cease to rebel against the Govern
ment, and return TO her allegiance.
One day later this opportunity was.cut off.
The one hundred days Of grace had expired,
and the solemn pledge was given to one third
of her population-to 32s,377 men, women
and children, guilty of no crime against the
nation-that in consequence Of the States
be Joreuer free. This was an act of justice to
the innocent, based on the constitution, grow
ing ont of military necessity,-an act upon
which the considerate judgement of mankind
and the favor of Almighty God was invoked.
The time has therefore gone by when this
act of emancipation can be relaxed. The
pledge of the nation has been given, and that
pledge cannot be broken without a breach Of
the nations faith, and what is infinitely more, a
gross violation of the principles Of eternal Jus
tice. It is practical atheism to demand the
slightest step backward in this matter. JUS
tice TO 32S,377 human being will not allow the
least receding, while the State of North Caro-
liza has no claim in this regard. She had in
her social system an institution dangerous to
the general good, and yet she held it bya
tenor that, while she remained loyal, could not
be touched. BY her disloyalty she forfeited
her right under the constitution, ard if she is
restored the Government has Alright to dictate
theterins and in doing so no violence must
be done to the rights Of others, and no forfeit
ed privilege should be restored, the restoration
Of which shall renew the difficulties through
which we are now passing. North Carolina
should demand nothing of this kind; in being
received back again into favor she should be
willing to give all necessary security for her
good conduct in future, and in no way can
she do this so well as by reinquishing that
dangerous element in her social system which
has been ut the bottom OF the rebellion.
How then shall she be encouraged in her
efforts to throw off the rule Of rebels, and TO
take her place once more as loyal State of
the Union? On this wise: let the most be-
neflcent provisions OF the law Of Congress,
under which the loyal slave States can avail
themselves Of compensated emancipation, be
extended to her. Let the President pledge
himself, il she will return TO her allegiance,
that he win recommend TO Congress TO make
such extension of the provisions of that law
Then those of her citizens who have been
true to the Union in their hearts, or who have
been forced or deceived into rebellion, but
who have labored to bring the old State back
to her allegiance, will be spared the retribu-
ton sure to be visited upon the persistent reb-
els. True, they will not regain their slaves,
now free In the eye of the Constitution, and
held by them only in contraventon of nation
al law and authority, but they will receive
partial compensation for the personal losses
which emancipation has brought TO their doors