The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-12

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Governor Wells will promptly remove all |
authorized gentlemen who do not in good
faith cause the elections to be held.
We publish to-day, from the New York
Tribune. an account of "Great Union
Prayer Meeting" held in Philadelphia, by
portion of the delegates to the loyal Con-
Yention.
The Hon. Ira Harris, one of the Senators
from New York, who opened the exercises,
is an humble and pious member of the Bap-
tist Church. He is greatly respected in New
York and Washington for his piety and ex-
alted moral character
Yes, these radicals" pray! 1t is an awful
reflection, in the estimation of such fanatics
as brother Pell, that radicals" should ven
ture to PROSTATE themselves in prayerto the
GOO and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
The President and Secretary Seward Mt
Niagara.
The President and his party of friends
were welcomed at Niagara, on their way to
Chicago, in distinguished manner. The
President spoke at considerable length in
vindication of his course, and was warmly
applauded. During his remarks be made
the significant declaration that if party
stood in the way of the country, "party
might go to the devil" Mr.. Seward was
also called out, and made the following
speech. Weprint it in full, as it is serious and
pointed in its character, and will give our
readers some definite idea of the relations of
this distinguished man towards the Repub-
ican party, which he was mainly instrument
al in establishing and building up
Mr.. Seward said: Fellow-citizens. al
though we are on the verge of the State of
New York, am sure that even here l can
call you neighbors. You do not want a
speech from me. Yes, yes.1 If you do, it
is only to get up quarrel between the Presi-
dent of the United States and myself, for I
shall have to tell you that after the clear and
lucid exposition of the policy of the Govern
ment, which may be called his policy" or
"our policy" since Abraham Lincoln COM
menced it, and it has been carried out since
the Inauguration of Andrew johnson. AT
ter the exposition be himself has given of it.
I want to know in Gods name what use he
has for Secretary at all9 A voice. DO
you indorse it9"l will say very frankly
that always indorse what is right, and
when you find my signature to paper will
not disavow it. When I put my pen to pa
per stand ready to pay all the cost. Eel
low citizens, you have heard the President
of the United States traduced. I heard
Abraham Lincoln denounced within three
months of his death by the bullet of an as
sassin, worse and through larger portion of
the United States than Andrew johnson is
now denounced for treason to the Constitu-
tion and the Government; and let me ask
you this, if, instead of bringing him here in
safety to-day to stand before you and to vim
dicate, in the presence of the whole Ameri-
can people, his life, his character, and his
policy, past, present, and future, he had fall
en- on the way as Abraham Lincoln; do you
think there is one of you who has reviled
him who would not join in his praise and be
as ready to immortalize his fame and glory
as you have been to celebrate the virtues of
Abraham Lincoln2 Cheers. This is it
The only trouble with living President is
that he lives. The virtue of dead one is
that he is gone, and he can be praised with
safety by those who were incapable of
praising his virtues while he lived. The
President has spoken to you upon topic
have never opened, and did think that
would never refer to it, and that is, he is
charged, and the members of his Cabinet
and political supporters are charged, with
deserving their party. The charge is that we
have deserted our party, and he has told you
and very properly told you, that it is better
in every case to let parties go down the Falls
than to let the country go to destruction; so
it would not be a very serious ofense if it
had been committed. But he also told you
the truth when he said that it is not possible
to find word in the record upon which he
was nominated that has been falsified by the
record of his executive acts. Did they not de-
clare at Baltimore that the war must be con-
tlnued until its cause was removed and the
government triumphed in the restoration of
the States, and is not the war ended? Have
not the States been restored ? and where on
earth is the cause of the war 1t has
gone into the sepulchre of the record of the
past ages. [Cheers But have deserted
my party9 Let me call your attention to
my record on that subject. If you will look
back to the month of October, 1865, you
will find there speech made you, for when
I speak at Auburn mean to speak to the
people of the whole State of New FORK, and
in that speech | told our whole people that
the President Of the United States, Andrew
Jonson, and 1 with him, proposed to accept
certain conditions and restore the States to
their rights as equals in the Union, if they
would do three things, first, abolish the Reb-
eli debt second, repeal their ordinances
of secession; and third, accept. the
amendment to the Constitution of the Uni
ted States abolishing Slavery henceforth and
forever When that was done, the Union
was to be restored, and every man of you
who voted last year to sustain its part which
charges me with having deserted it, voted
upon every platform, and approved every
pledge gave and every word uttered
[Cheers.] What did / tell you in the month
ofMay at Auburn, when saw the party
was getting into contest, and in the month
Of FEBRUARY in New-Yo City, at the Cooper
Institute Z 1 told you precisely the same
that these were our conditions, and though
heaven and earth shall pass away, yet the
word Of Andrew johnson that the States
! should be restored upon these conditions
having been pledged, should be fulfilled. =
[Cheers.] Your members of Congress wen
asked to vote for it. I tried to save that par
ty from destruction. I showed them th'
way it was plain and direct. / was going Il
use the illsutration- perhaps I Iought not t.
of the traveller who got bewildered on hi