The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-15

for want of support. Either these Editors
and those who approve their. course are
crazy, orsthey do not desire the restoration
of the Union. The papers referred to pro.
fess to be the particular friends of President
johnson. We have no confidence in their
sincerity. They are really among the worst
enemies the President has.
We turn with pleasure from such language
as we have quoted above. to the following
, manly and patriotic remarks delivered by
Senator Call, of Florida, at therecent Brooks
Banquet in New York City. IF every South
ern man would talk and act as Mr.. Call does,
sectional feeling would at once cease harmo-
ny and friendship would be restored,s and
the doors of Congress would soon fly open
to welcome the members from the recently
insurgent States Mr. Call said:
ssUnder the influence of the speeches I
have heard, and especially the sentiments
which have fallen from General Slocum, /
feel that it is indeed to a restored Union
that you propose to return the people of the
South to the United States, in which they
shall be in the full communion of political
rights and sympathy with the North. I'm,
der the genial influence of such declarations
y,
warm into earnest affection, and they seize
. eagerly the hand of fellowship extended to
them. We, too, gentlemen, can say, " We
have buried our dead" We remember them
sadly and tenderly as those who bravely
died for what they thought was right The
prst, with its political memories, is gone !;
! the bloody struggle, with its horrors, has
passed away. If wesofth the South sometimes
recall it, itois because las General Slocum
will T-fl,f,F M
! in that great contest that at least no reprOach
was cast on the name of American manhood,
and no faint on our honor. If, as some think,
there was error in our opinions, few will deny
that there was also profound earnestness and
sincerity. The Southern States have accept
ed the invitation of the Government to return
to the Union, to renew the obligations of
their people as American citizens. We come
with our hearts open-with all hostile recol
lections buried-ready and anxious for a re
newal of American fraternity. AS were
honorable and sincere in our struggle,
now we come with untarnished faith to
pledge ourselves to the Union and the Con-
. stitution. We have no reservations; the
. battle-fields Of the future will find our peo-
pleas those of the past have found them
manly and brave, but henceforth, and for all
time, she will shed her blood as freely for
the United States as she has poured it out
against them. In this rivalry l venture to
answer for them-they will not allow them
selves to be distanced. 1t is not, gentlemen,
for us of the South to say what shall be the
policy of the government toward us. Our
part is that of silence and of hope. The re-
stored Union is yet without practical recog-
nition, unless indeed it has it, as I believe it
!as, in the sympathies of the American peo-
de, and more especially in the hearts of the
{ brave men against whom we fought, of whom
General Slocum is the representative and the
.ype. 1 may venture, however, gentlemen,
70 assure you that in some way, either with
i, or without law. believe the people of the
South are in the Union. and that they intend
TO remain in it, and to be equal to any por-
ton of the country in proper submission
to law, and the honest maintenance of con-
stitutional right