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I People of North Can DINA, ought you not
i to accept, goiuatsnfty, the proposed Consti-
Il tutional Amendment, and instruct your rep
/ senta ives to the next General Assembly to
ratify it on your behalf q This is the sim
plest plan, the surest policy the best condi-
| ton on which our State may be restored to
relations of harmony in the Union. 1t is
needless to discuss whether the State is in or
out of the Union whether upon the Procla-
nation of the President, as Commander-in-
Chief of the Army and Navy, the lnsurrec-
ton is at an end, and therefore the Constitu-
ton is over all again, and the right of repre-
sentation and all other rights intended to be
secured therein are restored, or no longer
suspended, OF, in what relation, according to
the theories of the Constitution, or practice
of the government, the State may be- We
attempted to dissolve our relations to the
| Union and maintain new relations to anoth-
er and separate de tdct0 government, during
| the civil war. As party protesting to be in
dependent of, and acknowledging no allegi-
ance to- the party or government against
which you were arrayed, you have been con-
quered. 1t might be discussed, what indem-
nifty for the past and security for the future,
the victorious party have the right, accord
ing to the principles of international law,
witch they may construe against you, to re-
quire. But, it is proposed by the victorious
party themselves, to you conquered, to have
but this treaty, these stipulations, this condi-
ton as final settlement of all questions
raised heretofore, the ratification of the pro-
posed Constitutional amendment. This shall
be the end of all hostilities out of the Union,
and the beginning of peace within the
Union.
Citizens of North Carolina Consider
this amendment and we g invoke you to
member always and everywhere" that ii the
war be ended as to actual hostilities, the
nation is not again at peace. Hearken not
to those who proclaim peace while you are not
restored to the Union. Already predictions
are made OF another civil war, which, If it
comes at all, must come upon all more dread
full than before come scourging, devastating,
desolating, exterminating, in part, us as a
people.
Soldiers of North Carolina You who
have surrendered to victorious power in
good faith, and renewed your allegiance to
the country, keep that faith and determine
to maintain that allegiance to the country
for the sake of the honor and welfare of
North Carolina Hearken not to those false
political teachers who would deceive you, in
that, any portion of your fellow-citizens, or
tellow-soldiers, or any any party of your
fellow country mcm, would now seek to hu-
initiate or degrade you. All who love the
Union would greet you at the prospect of
blessed peace, point you to the restoration of
the Union, and welcome you to enjoy, as
equals and friends and felow-citiZens, that
equality of right to share the blessings of
peace and the fruits of civilization, under the
Constitution as amended in the manner pro-
posed, which equality of right it was ordain-
ed and established to secure.
Spurn the odious doctrine of j}nSsice ODE
to be inculcatcd by advising that you should
accept and submit to the law amendment
when it shall have been ratified against your
will and consent.
Accept, now, voluntarily, as free men, the
proposed amendment, and your fellow-citi-
zens, shall commend and follow your exam
pie, and all North Caroinans will march
with you back into the Union under the flag
of the Union, to achieve the great victories
of peace and to follow the high destiny of
the great army of the whole country to per-
form the great actions of the peace, whose
results shall be the increased happiness, pros
perity, freedom and renown of the American
people.
Citizens and Citizen Soldiers:
Who now shall lead the great army of the
country to these victories of peace, and their
great results? By your ballots you may de-
cile And by the dangers which threaten
quarters, you are charged to put none but
Americans on guard and to follow those
only who will keep step to the music of
the Union"
The farewell command of our first great
leader-of him who was first in war, first
in peace. and first in the hearts of his coun-
trymen," still fingers, and should always be
obeyed. "that you CHERISH u crrdi0t, hobitudt
and iD1naoceaGie attachment to that unity of
government which constitutes one peo-
pler The voices of other dead are heard
over the fatal experience of the past, to pro-
claim-the national sentiment of the millions
of to-day is proclaiming, and millions on
millions OF posterity, could they advance to
greet you, would re-proclaim, = The Federal
Union. it must and shall be preserved" Let
us ali have full confidence in that the virtue
and intelligence of the people, which has
hitherto proven equal to the administration
and preservation of our free representative
form OF government, will be found equal, i'll
all coming time, to the achievement of the
victories and to the performance of the great
actions upon which depend those grand re
suits of progress. that millions of eager eyes
are now straining to behold on the march of
American civilization.
UNION CITIZEN.