The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-09-27

simply to give Loyalty fair start in the
reconstructed States Under tue johnson
policy, the rebels inonopolize power and place
/ even in. communities where they are decitled-
| ly outnuinI,ered Their Generals and Gov
i errors are members elect to Congress; their
/ Colonies and Majors fill the Legislatures, and
officiate as SIleriifs. Not only, are the stead
lastly loyal prescribed, but even stay-at home
rebels have little chance in competition with
l those W no fought to subVert the Union
When this rebel monopoly of office shall
| have been broken up and loyalty to the
Union shall have become general and hearty,
! Congress may remove the disability, and VIII
doubtless make haste to do so.
We do not perceive that the justice or hit
ness of the fourth section-prescrihIng that
the Union public debt shall be promptly met,
but that of the rebel Confederacy never
is seriously contested.
There remains, then, but the second sec
ton, which prescribes i'll substance that po-
litical power in the Union shall hencetorth
he based only on that portion OF the people
of each State who are deemed by its Consti-
ton fit despositories of such power. In 9th
er words A State which chooses to hold
part of its population in ignorance and vassa-
lagc-poweress, uneducated unenfrancllised
shall not count that portion to balance the
educated intelligent, entranchised citizens OF
We do not propose to argue the justice of
this proposition. AS well argue the shape of
Il cube or the correctness OF the multipllca-
ton table. He who does not feel that this
is simple and mildly just, would not be per-
suadcd through one rose from the dead to
convince him. That there are those among
us who would not have it ratified, sadly de-
monstratcs that the good work of enamel pa
ton is not yet complete.
But" say some, = this section is designed
to coerce the South into according suffrage
to her blacks" Not 50, we reply; but only
to notify her ruling caste that we will no
longer bride them to keep their blacks in
seEfdom. An aristocracy rarely surrenders
its privileges, no matter how oppressive from
abstract devotion to justice and right 1t
must have cogent, palpable reasons for so do
ing. We say, therefore, to South Carolina,
g If you persitently restricts all power to your
100000 Whites, we must insist that these no
longer balance, in Congress and the choice
of President, 100000 Northern White free
men. but only 100000; 1fyou keep your
Blacks evermore in serfdom, it must not be
because we tempted you so to do and reward
ed you for so doing"
Fellow citizens of every State, but espe-
clally of those soon to hold elections we ell
treat your earnest, constant heed to the grave
questions now at issue Ifthose who SO wan
tonly plunged the Union into civil war shall
reconstruction, you will have heedleesly sown
the bitter seeds of future rebellions and
bloody strife. Already, you are Threatened
with a recognition by the President ola
sham Congress made up of the factions
which recently coalesced at Philadelphia on
4 platform OF Iohnsonism-a Congress con-
stituted lay multiplying and overriding plain
| law of the land-a Congress wholly inspired
from the White House, and appealing to the
sword alone for support. So glaring an at
tempt at usurpation would be even more
criminal than absurd. Happily, the people.
by electing an overwhelming majority of
thoroughly loyal representatives, are render
in" its initiation impossible.
| We cannot close without most deserved
tribute to the general fidelity wherewith, in
view of the Presidents detection. the great
| body of the people, and even of the Federal
| office-hoiders, stand fast by their convictions
and their principles The boundlcss patron
| age of the Executive though most unscrup-
ulously welded against those to whose votes
he owes it, has corrupted very few, either of
| those who shared or of those who would have
gladly shared in its enjoyment. Not one of
/ the twenty-five States which voted to
| elect Abraham Lincoln has given in its adhe
| sion to the Presidents policy while New
JeTsey-the only free State that voted against
him-has added herself to their number.
Our great war. has taught us impressively
|
sunk deep into millions of hearts. The
American people, chastened by suffering, are
wiser and nobIer than they were, with
quicker and more open car for every gener-
| Gus suggestion. The fearful lessons of Mem
phis and New Orleans have not been lost on
! them, as is proved by the recent elections in
| Vermont anClMaine. We cherish no shadow of
| doubt that Pa. 90. Ind. and La. first, then
N Y. n ]. Ill. Mich. Wis. Ks. and MINES
ota will do likewise, and that true restora-
ton, genuine, abiding Peace, will thus be
| secured to c,untry-a Peace that will
endure, because based on the everlasting
| foundation of Humanity, Justice and Free
| dom.
| Marcus L. Ward, N j.. Chairman John
| D. Detrees, Indiana, Secretary.
| Horace Greeley, New York.
| S. a. Purviance, Pennsylvania.
William Clahin, Massachusetts,
| n B. Smthers, Delaware.
| H. w Hoffman, Maryland.
! H H. Starkwcather, Connecticut.
R. E. Cowen, Ohio.
| John B. Clarke, New Hampshire.
| Samuel F. Hussey, Maine.
| Abraham B. Gardner, Vermont.
| j. S. Fowler, Tennessee.
| Burton G. Cook, Illinois.
| Marsh Giddings, Michigan.
| D. P. Stubs, Iowa.
! A W. Campbell, West Virginia.
| S. Judd, Wisconsin.
| D. r. Goodloe, North Carolina.
| S. H. Boyd, Missouri.
| w. j. Corning, Virginia.
| Thomas Simpson, Minnesota.
| G. L. Robinson, Florida.
| Newton Edmunds, Dakota