The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-05-30

moved to suspend the rules, which was done,
and the ordinance was read second time,
and
Amended, by providing that nothing in
said ordinance should be construed to affect |
any provision in any charter respecting
residence.
An ordinance to change the time of hold
ing the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions
OF Alexander County was read first time.
Lies over
MIR. Furches, an ordinance amending the |
Constitution in regard to qualifications of I
members of House of Commons. Requires |
residence of at least one year in the County,
prior to day of election, and prcscribes age |
of 81. Referred to committee on Constitu-
tional amendments.
Mr. Furches, an ordinance prescribing |
qualifications for Senators proposing quail
itication of 81 900 worth oftaxable property !
or 300 acres of land in fee, and age of a.
Referred to same committee
Mr.. Settle arose to enquire when the COM
mittee raised at last session to digest the
Constitution and laws of the State would
report, when
| Mr. Moore, for the committee, stated that
| it was ready to report at any time, and was
only detained for the disposal of pending
| amendments.
| Mr.. Moore of Wake. a resolution concern
ing public appropriations to Chatham Rail-
road Company.
Mr.. Buxton, an ordinance providing that
hereafter no person in this State shall be I'M
prisoned for debt.
Mr.. Furches introduced the following
amendment to section 8, clause 8, of amen
| ded Constitution
SECTION 3-NO free negro. free mulatto,
or free person of mixed blood, descended
| from negro ancestors to the fourth genera
| tion inclusive, though one ancestor of each
| generation may have been a white person,
shall either vote for or be members of the
Senate or House of Commons of North-Car-
olina. Referred to the Committee on Con-
stitutional Amendments.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
The following message from Gov Worth
was then read:
Gentlemen of the Coacention:
Since your adjournment last October, moth
ing has come to my knowledge touching our
position in reference to the Federal Govern
ment, which is not matter of public history.
At your previous session you made the
amendments to the Constitution and passed
the ordinances believed to be necessary to COM
! plete reconciliation with the United States,
and our restoration to national fraternity.
Although our people, with remarkable un-
animity, yielded their assent to your action,
and were ready, without any exception with
in my knowledge, to acknowledge their al
legiance to the United States, and to obey
the laws and Constitution thereof we have
been grievously disappointed by the rejec-
ton of our members from the Congress of
the nation. This rejection has not been
placed ON the ground of any iregularity in
their election or qualification. While the
Congress recognizes the existance of the
State Government to the extent of incorpor-
rating into the Constitution of the United
States our amendments made thereto, they
continue to govern and to tax us, without
allowing us any participation in making the
laws or imposing the national taxes The
Congress has been sitting some five months,
without prescribing any terms on which it is
proposed to recognize our admission. We
have elected men whom we belive to be as
loyal as any men in the United States
every one of whom labored to preserve the
Union till hostiities had actually COM
menced and every one of whom has renewed
or is ready to renew his oath of fidelity to
the Government of the United States
Whether any one of them could conscien-
tionly swear that he never aided or sympath-
lied with the rebellion. do not know If
no member can be received from the States
lately in rebellion, without taking the Con-
gressional test oath, it will amount to prac
tical disfranchisement.
1t was presumed when you adjourned in
October last, that by this time the Union
would have been fully restored and Congress
would have defined its policy of restoration.
Neither event has occurred. Neither the
President nor Congress has made known any
further requirements have no information
which warrants me in making any sugges-
tions to you as to any further action which
you may properly take, tending to produce
the desired harmony. Let US so act as to
retain our self respect-and to give to our
late enemies no just grounds for continued
| i'll will against us. National prosperity can
not be restored until real reconciliation and
concord shall be re-established., If bitterness
is to be continued let all of us strive to CO.
operate with the President in his patriotic
plans. and refrain from giving any just ex-
! cuse for the continuance of such feeling, and
hope that the day is not distant when the
Northern people shall become satisfied that
their distrust of us is ill founded and that
the religion we profess, as well as public
policy, demand mutual forgiveness and re-
conciliation. @s...f.1
l herewith enclose communication from
the Public Treasurer, suggesting certain
amendments to the Revenue Act of the last
General Assembly. / commend his recon-
mendations to your favorable consideration.
In consequence of the order of the Presi-
dent of the United States relieving the Pro-
visional Governor, entered upon the dis
charge of my duties as Civil Governor, in
conformity with your Ordinance, on the 28tl
day of December last. 1 had to encounter
some irregularities growing out of the transit
ton. But with the universal desire of the
| people to restore order, no serious difficulties
have presented themselves in putting into
action the machinery of civil government in
the State.
In my official correspondence and inter
course with the Executive officers of the
United States, and with Breyet Major Gene
raj Ruger, the Military Commandant of this
State, all have exhibited uniform disposi-
tion to avoid unnecessary Earrings in the dis
charge of our respective duties, and readi-
ness to cooperate with me in everything
tending to restore cordial reconciliation be-
tween the lately belligerent sections of our
country.
| learn from General Ruger to whom the
President of the United States has lately as
signed the chief supervision of the Freed
mems Bureau In this State, that he would
/ gladly transfer to the civil courts of the
State full jurisdiction in all matters relating
to freedmen, but that he feels embarrassed IN
doing so, consistently with his instructions,