The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-09-19
RALEIGH, N. c., WEDNESDAY,.

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q Christian people, he forgot that the pro-
tectien extended to the 14th OF Augustcon-
vention in Philadelphia has not only denied
to the free people Of New Orleans. on the
30th of July, when they assembled to dis
cuss how best to protect themselves, but de-
MED amidst the slaughter OF hundreds of in
nocent men.
No page in the record of his recent out
RACES upon human justice and constitutional
law is more revolving than that which con-
/ victs him of refusing to arrest the prepare
tions for that savage carnival, and not only
of refusing to punish its authors but oftoil-
ing to throw the guilty responsibility upon
the unofending and innocent freedmen.
The infatuated tyrant that stood ready to
crush his own peoplei in Tennessee when they
were struggling to maintain government
erected by himself against his and their trai-
tor prosecutors, was even more eager to Illus
trate his savage policy by clothing with the
more despotic power the impenitent and re-
vengeful rebels of New Orleans
Notwithstanding this heartless desertion
and cruel persecution by Andrew johnson in
the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee,
West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, de-
mocratic republican principles-principles
which the fathers of the Republic designed
for all America-are now making deternin-
ed battle with the oligarchical enemies of
constitutional government; and by the bless
ing of God these States will soon range
themselves in with the former free States,
and illustrate the wisdom and benefcence of
the great charter of American liberty by their
increasing population, wealth, and pros
perity.
In the remaining ten States the seeds of
oligarchy planted in the Constitution by its
slavery features have grown to be monster
power Recognition thus wrung from the
reluctant trainers of that great instrument,
enabled these States to entrench themselves
behind the perverted doctrine of States
rights. and sheltered by a claim of constitu-
tional obligation to maintain slavery in the
States, to present to the American govern
ment the alternatives of oligarchy with slave
ry, or democratic republican government
without slavery.
A forbearing government, bowling to a
supposed constitutional behest, acquiesced in
the former alternative.
The hand of the government was stayed
for eighty years. The principles OF consti-
tutional liberty languished for want of gov
ernmental support. Oligarchy matured its
power with subtle design. Its history, for
eighty years, is replete with unparalleled
injuries and usurpations." 1t developed
only the agricultural localities geographic
cally distinct from the free-labor lncalities,
and less than one third of The whole-with
African slaves. 1t held four millions of hu-
man beings as chattels yet made them the
basis of unjust representative power for them
selves in Federal and State Governments to
maintain their enslavement.
1t excluded millions of free white laborers
from the richest agricultural lands OF the
world: forced them to remain inactive and
unproductive on the mineral, manufacturing
and lumber localities, comprising two-thirds
of the whole South, in square miles, andreal
undeveloped wealth-simply because these
localities were agriculturally too poor for
slave labor; condemned them to agriculture
on this unagricultural territory, and con-
signed them to unwilling Ignorance and
poverty, by denying capital and strangling
enterprise.
1t repelled the capital, energy. will and
skill of the free States from the free labor
localities by unmitigated intolerance and
prescription. thus guarding the approaches
W tutii SlttNC oShioSihOy.
Statute-books groaned under despotic
laws against unlawful and insurrectionary
assemblies, aimed at the constitutional guar
antees of the right to peaceably assemble and
petition for redress of grievances.
1t prescribed true democratic literature as
incendiary.
1t nullifed the constitutional guarantees
of freedom of speech and of the press.
1t deprived the citizens of the other States
of the privileges and immunities in these
States, an injury and usurpatlon alike unjust
to Northern citizens and destructive of the
best interests of the States themselves.
Alarmed at the progress of democracy, in
the face of every discouragement, at last it
sought immunity by secession and war.
The heart sickens with the contemplation
of the four years that followed-fnrced loans,
impressments, conscription, with blood
hounds and bayonet, murder of aged Union
men, who had laid aside the implements of
labor, but had been summoned anew to the
field by the conscription of their sons, to sup
port children and grand children, reduced
from the comfort to the verge of starvation
the slaughter of noble youths, types of physi-
cal manhood forced into an unholy war
against those with whom they were identi-
fed by every interest long months of incar-
ceration in rebel bastiles, banishment from
homes and hearthstones, are but a partial re-
cital of the long catalogue of horrors.
But the Democracy, North and South COM
bined, defeated them. They lost. What did
they lose? The cause of oligarchy2 They
lost African slavery By name only. As soon
as the tocsin of war ceased-as soon as the
clang of arms was hushed-they raise the cry
of immediate admission" and with that
watchword seek to organize, under new
forms, contest to perpetuate their unbri-
died sway They rehabilitate their sweep
ing control of all local and State organiza-
tions. The Federal Executive, easily seduced
yields willing obedience to his old mas
tiers. Aided by his Inscriptions disregard
of Constitution and laws, by his merciless
prescription of true democratic opinion, and
by all his appliances of despotic power, they
now defiantly enter the lists in the loyal
North. and seek to wiring from freemen an
endorsement of their wicked designs.
Every foul agency is at work to accom-
plish this result Falsely protesting to as
sent to the abolition IF slavery, they are con-
triving to continue its detestable power by
legislative acts against pretended yagrants
They know that any form of servitude will
answer their unholy purpose. They pro-
nounce the four years war brilliant side
scene in great revolutionary drama. Pro-
scriptive public sentiment holds high carni-
val, and, pro6ting by the example of the
Presidential pilgrim, breathes out threaten
ings and slaughter against loyalty, ignores
and denounces Illegal restraints, and assails
with the tongue of malignant slander the
constitutionally chosen representatives, of the
people.
To still the voice of libcrty-dangerous