The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-25
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MEssRs. EprroRs VIII the General AS
semby of North-Carolina ratlfy the pro-
,,osed Constitutional amendment at the COM
ing session? Or, will the State be re-adnilt-
ted into the federal Union at the next session
of Congress These questions are Decom-
ino TO be considered by many Union men
with more and more seriousness ana anxious
solicitude If the amendment pc reIectedb by
the Assembly, it assumed that the State
will not be re-admittcd, or. II 1t fail to act
,,Don the amendment, 1T is believed that
Cnnor,-ss will not re-admlt without reor-
oanization of the State government, and
fhroucb Senators and Representatives to he
newly elected. Since the recent expression
of the popular will at the North, and in view
of the certainty of controlling two-thlrdS
majority in the next Congress to carry out
that will in regard to the reconstruction OF
the government, can Union citizens whose
g. lives and fortunes and sacred honor are
pledged to the destiny OF their country lon
ger hesitate or remain SILENT as to the I'M
Derative duty of their representatives In the
next General Assembly to ratify the propos-
ed amendments, and thus give peace to the
Deople: some assurance of protection by
the national government to the rights Of
person and property, and some promise of
future living for themselves and their fam
lilies?
any Union man to fold his arms and say now,
or when worse calamities shall have betallen
us than have already befallen US, Very
well. We have done our duty. Our skirts
are clear" I know you do not mean to
cease your efforts to effect reconciliation and
permanent peace for our people. What then
is to be done
Let us first of all preserve organization for
any and every emergency. Let us peaceably
lie ta n /
must be, to demand that the present state of
insecurity to property and life and all that
we hold dear, shall no longer continue, nor
we remain in suspense on account of spirit
of contumacy and rancor against the govern
ment, or the people Of the North, who now,
as they believe, may justly and properly
claim to manage and direct the operations of
their government.
The masses of the people of North Caro-
lima are beginning to be informed as to the
situation of their affairs, and they will act
when necessary, and put down every body
and every thing that stands in the way of
their Immediate return to the government
of their first choice, and the Union of their
first love- They will make the comparative
ly few men who would be disabled by the
Constitutional amendment from holding
office until two thirds of Congress might re-
move their disability, stand aside out OF their
path back to their old homestead.
You and 1. and numbers of others who
would be disabled by the amendment from
holding Office, are willing to trust Congress-
or to forego the emoluments or honor of all !
office-for life it need be. And why should
a number of heretofore " ielciitg men," poll !
ticians in North Carolina stand upon nice !
punctiIio to keep the State ont Of the Union |
now, as they did. by standing upon mere !
punctilio, keep it from reconstruction du- !
ring the war.
Organization is what is wanted in the State
to restore it to relations of harmony with the
national government. Weneed more presses
and more outspeaking and determined CO.
workers for restoration upon the best terms
attainable- We are for the proposed COnsti-
tutionai amendment, fist. and if that fails,
then for the next best-anything for restora-
ton and peace and justice.
The Union must be restored with or with
out the Constitutional amendment. without
Or with negro suffrage-with without dis
franchisement upon any terms or conditions
that the American people who haze preserved
it from utter dismemherment. may see fit to
require And the Union viii be restored
whomsoeyer and whatsoever may oppose, pro-
vided the people who gave themselves, their
means and the lives of their friends and kin
dred and blood. to maintain it, 1rIL
Have the gods made any North Carroll
mans mad that they must needs be blind
to that will -? If SO, and destruction inpend,
shall we Union mem again fold our arms
and acquicscc in what destruction may come
Now, that the elections are over, is the
time TO discuss the subject which Union men
have al heart RESTORATION