The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-07-04

~ 1ur ]Qdgu their admissions is called for by
Se ccs expediency. Those States in
yuae area of $50, 900 square miles,
% af1 niger Than that Olive Of the leading
ns0qHs Q< Europc They have a coast line
oL thre9 t1ousand miles, with an internal
water me. Including the Mississippi, ofabout
tnlrzy95lx thousand miles. Their arricul-
zqraI products in 1850 were about $500. O0O.-
wv lhvalue, and their population 1854 ,656.
ihelr staple productions are of immense and
growing Importance and are almost peculiar
10 that region. That the North is deeply
interested in having such country and
Veople restored to all the rights and privi-
eyes the constitution affords, no sane man,
Hot blinded by mere party considerations, OF
eot a victim OF disor(lering prejudice can for a
moment doubt. Such a restoration is also
necessary to the peace of the country. tbs
not only Important but vital to the potential
Wealth which that portion of our country is
capable OF. 1t cannot otherwise be fully de-
xeioped. Every hour of illegal political re-
a{rank, every hour the possession of the rights
the constitution gave is denied, is not only
IN political but a material sense, Of great
INJURY to the North as well as to the South.
Inc Southern planter works for his Northern
brethren as well as for himself. His labors
heretofore Injured as much, If not more, to
their advantage as to his. While harmony
IN the past between the sections gave to the
*noie prosperity, a power and renown
oL winch every citizen had reason to be proud I'd,
me restoration of such harmony will inn
measurably increase them all. Can it, will
It, De restored as long as the South is kept
IN political and dishonoring bondage2 And
can 1t not, will it not be restored by an. OPP
Posne poiicy4 By admitting her to all the
rights OF the constitution and by. dealing
WIN her citizens as equals and as brothers,
not as interiors and enemies. Such course
as this will, We are certain, be seen to bind
them heart and soul to the Union, and inspire
them with confidence in its government by
making them feel that all enmity is forgotten.
and That justice is being done to them. The
result OF such policy, we believe, will at
once make vs. In very truth one people, as
.sppy, as|properous and IS powerful as ever
existed at any period of time, while its OPP
poslte will keep us divided, injuriously affect
tine particular and general welfare of citizen
ana government, and if long persisted in can
lpaLfesatt IN danger to the nation. In the
of an eminent British statesman, now
no more, "a free constitution and large ex-
cluslon from its benefits canont subsist to-
gether; the constitution will destroy them,
or they will destroy the constitution" 1t is
hoped that, needing the warning, we shall
guard against the peril by removing its
cause.
The undersigned have not thought it neces
- saryy to examine into the legality of the
measures adopted, either by the late or the
present President, for the restoration of the
Southern States 1t is sufficient for theil
purpose to say that if those of President
johnson are not justified by the constitution
the same may at least be said of those of his
predecessor. We deem such an examination
to be unnecessary, however it might result
the people of the several States who posses
sed, as we have before said, the exclusive
right to decide for themselves what constitu
ton they should adopt, have adopted those
constitutions under which they respectively
live. The motives of neither, however, whe
ther the measures are legal or not legal, ar
liable to censure. The sole object of eacf
was to effect complete and early union O.
all the States; to make the general government
as it did at first embrace all the States; tt
extend its authority and secure its privilege
and blessings to all alike. The purity of mo
tive of President johnson in this particular
as was to have been expected, is admitted b.
fnG7majority of the committee to be beyont
Doubt, so that, whatever may have been til
uncoI Rstitutionality Of his course, and its ten
uencS 70 ss.furse the executive power, they d
| 81 not for a moment impute to him any sue
n design, but cheefully concede to him til
most patriotic motives" And we cannot fol
bear to say, in conclusion, that he sins agains
light and closes his eyes to the course of til
President during the rebellion who venture
to impeach his patriotism. Surrounded b
insurrectionists he stood firm. His life wa
almost constantly in peril, and he chung t
II Union, and discharged all the obligations
imposed upon him even the closer because Q
N the peril and now that he has escaped III
N harmed and by the confidence of the peopl
has had devolved upon him the executiv
functions of the government, to charge hin
with disloyalty is either folly or crime
folly in the fool who believes it, crime in tn
man of sense Gfany such there beg who as
serts it.
SENATE JOHNSON, of Nc
(HENRY ORDER, of Ky.
HOUSE ANDREW J ROGERS, N. J.
For the Standard.
Mass Meeting at Brassfelds, N. c.
On motion of j. N Cheek, J. p Chandle
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