The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-03


federate States were at one time in the po-
sition. of an independent, belligerent power;
or if they were not, international law was a
dead letter. And that these States were now
! conquered territories, and could re-enter the
Union only as new States.
In relation to taxing the Southern people
he deemed it only necessary to lay tax OF
ten cents per pound on exported cotton
: This he said was all that the South could
] now pay.
| Congress, said he, however, is bound to
| provide for the negroes They must not he
| turned loose without one cent, to be legislat-
| ed for by their former masters He denOunc-
ed the legislatures that assembled in the
/ Southern States as white-washed rebels"
| and said it was time fors Congress to assert
its sovereignty and assume something of the
dignity of Roman Senate
! He was peculiarly severe upon those who
/ hold that this is a white mans Govern
mentn He said that slavery stood in the
way of the perfection of the Union in the
beginning, and in conflict with the principle
enunciated in the declaration OF indepen-
dence that all men are born free and equal
Had we not suffered enough because of this
national sin? If we were not now disposed
to do justice to the negro and mankind in
general, without distinction of color, the
severest punishments of Heaven would be
called down upon us. His principle was
this was mans government-the govern
ment of all men alike" In conclusion he
| said: "Sir, this doctrine of a white mans
| government is as atrocious as the infamous
| sentiment that damned the late Chief Justice
to everlasting fame, and fear to everlasting
fire !"
MR. RAYMoND's SPEECH.
On the 21st, Mr.. Raymond replied to Mr..
! Stevens speech. He took up Mr.. Stevens
! declarations that the Southern States are
"dead States g having forfeited all their
/ rights and terminated their existence" and
| as having been four years out of the Union
| for all legal purposes" ga separate power
and separate nation" If they ever went out
of the Union, said he, it was at some specific
time and by some specific act Did the Or
dinance of secession carry them out? We
commended from the first that that ordinance
, was null and void because it contlicted with
/ the Constitution. Did any other action on
their part accomplish this result? No, sir.
They tried to get out, but failed They have
| never been out. They interrupted for the
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| during all this time Congress has neverthe-
| less been enacting laws for their government,
I which are now in force in those States. WHY
| was this done, if they were not then as they
always have been a part of us?
On the contrary, if they have been out of
the Union and are conquered as foreign
people, we are liable for the war debts jeff.
Davis has committed no treason, and we give
up the whole idea of the war.
A State said he, exists as State of the
Union not by its own Constitution but by
the Constitution of the United States. 1t can
therefore never be dead State. The rebels
havealtered their STATED Constitutions and laws,
but have never injured our Constitution. By
/ it, their States are made parts of perpetual
Union.
But suppose Mr.. Stevens doctrine is true
that the so-called Confederate States were
once an independent power. Can we then
claim any Southern citizens as being loyal
men, Loyal to what? The United States
Why it was foreign power to them, and
they were only disloyal to their own govern
nent. What gross injustice to our loyal
Southern citizens this would be!
Mr.. Raymond tnen went on to speak Of
the surrender on the part of The Southern
I States. He said, in conclusion, "now there
! must be at the end of the war similar surren-
der on the peliticalfield of controversy. That
surrender is due as an act of justice from the
defeated party to the victorious party, 1t is
| due, also, and we have right to exact it. as
| a guaranty for the future. Why do we de-
mand surrender of their arms by the van
| euished in every battle? We do it that they
may not renew the contest. Why do we
! seek in their fall surrender of the principles
! on which they fought? It is that they may
never again be made the basis of controversy
! and rebellion against the government Of the
| United States. Now what are the principles
| which should thus be surrendered? The
! principle of State sovereignty is one of them.
| It was the cornerstone of the rebellion, at
once its animating spirit and its fundamental
basis. Deeply ingrained as it was in the
| Southern heart, it must be surrendered"
SPEECH OF SENATOR LANE, OF INDIANA.
| At a dinner of the New England Society,
in New York, on the 22d inst, Senator H. S.
| Lane, of Indiana, made speech, of which
| the following is an extract:
i "The nation must insist upon having all
| the guarantees necessary to prevent any flu
| ture recurrence of rebellion, as well constitu-
tionai as legislative. The great cause of the
rebellion is happily and forever extinguished,
but peace, to be either desirable, honorable,
or permanent, must be based on principles
of truth, justice, liberty, and right. APP
plause. Such peace is, in my opinion,
easily attainable. The President Applause, |
desires that the States lately in rebellion
shall be permitted to resume their normal
relations to the General Government as soon
as it can be done with safety to the Repub-
lie. The Congress of the United States de-
sires the same thing; the loyal people desire
it. In fact, no one desires that the rebel
States shall be represented in Congress until
their loyalty is known beyond all question !;
Applause and until the rights, and all the
rights, of all the loyal people in those States
shall be fully recognized and amply protect
| ed. Applause. have full faith in Presi-
dent johnson, full faith in Congress- full
faith in the people, and, above all, full faith
in God, who is above us all. There is no
serious conflict between the President and
Congress, as / think, no cause for any, 1
look forward to period, not distant, when
equal and exact justice to all men, of every
race and color, shall be the universal condi-
ton all over our reunited and happy coun-
try. [Applause,T