The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-08

good chance to rise in honor and =: as
as any one else in the country. He dasity
a fair race for honor in this country 'Tl
all are citizens, whether they are EnoE %uere
American, Chinese or African. It's f fair nc OF
and fair fight and he would saw "t u race
Democratic friends that no DON'T 10 his
of them could beat some of these ner,o Some
Laughter. They can't all be Fred rs
lasses :; but if they Ahe Democrat0 lug,
read the Scriptures and join the Renuf h3uid
party they had q chance of beating monN9
the negroes. He sometimes thoupbt VI
his heart was glad at the prospect, that o shu
and human wrong is drawing to n clos eiI GI
was for man, everywhere, whether his m ne
was Drowned by an American, an Afr,coSSA ih
an Aslatic sun. The color of the sk;n u"
nothing to him. He was for all men was was
plause. zap
Hon. W. d. Kelly of PENNSYLVANIA COZ,
The majority alone of those who said mSn
done to Congress, is more than the en vel
white voting population of the ten lata ,' IN
surgent States and with this endorsamallu.
he took the question of the admission I of 81.
Southern States to himself. He would sue e
when he would admit them. He was riIy
ing, when Congress shall have disavo'na3
those bastard organizations which now rn1
over the territory of the ten late insurasn..
States when having disavowed the prod1o.s
of usurpation, it shall pass enabling acts ES
which the whole people of each State shall
elect convention to form new const:tut;ona
which shall be submitted to the who'll ma
of the State for their ratification and ;e
when that constitution is thus submitted =,
shall be discovered that any citizen of ann
township, though he be black as the the drc
il, is excluded from voting by reason of hio
color, it shall be the cause for the rejection
of such constitution. Applause When
the States come with constitutions republi.
can in form, ne (Mr. Kelley will agree to
their admission. But until then he never
Would agree to the admission of single one
of them.
AT night the banquet was held In replr
to toast, complimentary to Congress, Hon,
Thaddeus Stevens said:
1pray you, gentlemen, to strengthen on,
nerves to do all these things, and more. Aid
us to make 6 treason odious : to seize the
largest estates of traitors and sell them in
small plantations to industrious men, and
apply the proceeds to pay pensions to SOL
diers and the debt of the nation. Do not
permit us to allow these great criminals to
escape with but ample fines as warning to
future malefactors, as well as indemnity for in
juries inflicted" Can you not so brace our
nerves as to induce US to 81 We impartial suff-
rage to all men within the States now in our
power? Less than this with my consent
shall never suffice for reconstruction. Ihave
been mortified to see Republicans profess
that the new Amendment of the COnstitu-
ton already proposed would satisfy them
1t was never SO intended. 1t is one step,
very mincing step, in the line of REFORM
But it might be adopted and leave this Gov
a despotism. Teach US to do thor
l.
may disgrace follow those who are satisfied
with less. We give various excuses for our
shallow work. Some of US have too much
some have too much heart :; some
have friends who own Southern plantations
have no personal illusions. as I am not
speaking of what has happened but what
might
know not what there is in the PROPOSE
ion that captivates sensible men. There is
he music of ALTERATION, universal amnes-
y for universal suffrage" But that could
only crafty those who are pleased with
.attle," " tickled with a straw" Let us not
De content with such puerile work We are
aging the foundation of a new empire, US
or service. This empire is to embrace a
continent, and during the lives of some men
living it will contain one hundred millions
If people.
To be enduring, her institutions and laws
must be homogeneous; to be just, they must
De impartial. No man, or sect, or race must
,e singled out for special legislation. Let
he same laws apply with strict impartiality
o every human being in the Republic, wheth-
+ it be in Church or State, in civil or mill
airy life. Then we shall have realized the
lorious dream of liberty and equality
We shall have created an empire whose chro-
oil CT, an to oil,
lore perfect and more practical than we i'm
gined by Plato or More.
Speaker Colfax spoke in reply to toast
equesting speedy action by Congress, as fol-
1ws:
He knew right we'll that no indemnity for
he past could be secured; we could not go
own to those -furrowed battle fields
nd bring to life the Wondering bones of our
cad soldiers there; we could not restore
gain to the widow her dead husband, to
he father his dead son but, thank God, we
ould have security for the future. and, so
clip US God, we would have it. We inten-
ed to reconstruct this great nation saved by
he heroism of our brave men, upon such
of loyalty, liberty, justice, and
as shall stand, enduring as the
ternal ages, until, from ocean to ocean, from
he Lakes to the Gulf, every man, rich or
oor, learned or unlearned, black or white,
hall have that equal justice which was his
irthright, and until a government was es-
ablished to which every man, however hum
lie, might look for protection against tyran-
y at home. [Applause.] On that platform
his Congress stood and the FOrtieth Con-
ress would stand, and they would be sus-
ained by the people, and, sustained by JUS
&c and right, would go forward to glori-
US triumph.
In reply to toast, " The Loyal Press, " Col.
orney of the Chronicle said:
The few Union newspapers that bravely
efend the doctrines of the Radical Congress
nd still stand true to the original pledges
ow so basely broken by Andrew johnson,
re published in the midst of hostile COM
lunities, and, without exception, at the i'm
linent hazards of the lives of their proprie-
DIS and editors. There is, 1 believe, but one
UGH newspaper in Eastern Virginia, but one
4 North Carolina, Chat of the gallant Hol-
en- none in uth-Carolina, two in Geor-
lathe Savannah Republican, which is now
imply a newspaper without opinions, and the
oyaJ Georgian at Augusta, in the same State,
hiefy supported by colored men. In Ten
essee there are four-the Memphis Post, the
Press and Times, the Knoxville
Vhig, and the Colored Tennesseean. In Ala
anna one, and that conducted by a colored