The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-26

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or 800 acres of land in fee, and age Of "a.
Referred to same committee.
Mr.. Settle arose to enquire when the COM
mittee raised at last session to digest the
8 Constitution and laws of the State would
report, when
Mr.. Moore, for the committee, stated that
it was ready to report at any time, and was
only detained for the disposal of pending
amendments.
Mr.. Moore ofWake. q resolution concern
ing public appropriations to Chatham Rail-
road Company.
Mr.. Buxton, an ordinance providing that
hereafter no person in this State shall be i'm
prisoned for debt.
Mr.. Furches introduced the following
amendment to section 3, clause 3, of amen
ded Constitution
SECTION 3.-NO free negro, free mulatto,
or free person of mixed blood, descended
from negro ancestors to the fourth genera
ton inclusive, though one ancestor of each
generation may have been white person,
shall either vote for or be members of the
Senate or House OF Commons of North Car
olina. Referred to the Con nittee on Con-
stitutional Amendments.
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
The following message from Gov. Worth
was then read:
Gentlemen of tile Convention:
Since your adjournment last October moth
ing has come to my knowledge touching our
position in reference to the Federal Govern
ment, which is not matter of public history
At your previous session you made the
amendments to the Constitution and passed
the ordinances believed to be necessary to COM
plete reconciliation with the United States,
and our restoration to national fraternity
Although our people, with remarkable I'M
animity, yielded their assent to your action,
Il
in my knowledge, to acknowledge their al
legiance to the United States, and to obey
the laws and Constitution thereof, we have
been grievously disappointed by the reec-
ton of our members from the Congress of
the nation. This rejection has not been
placed on the ground of any irregularity in
their election or qualification. While the
| Congress recognizes the eXistance of the
State Government to the extent of incorpOr-
rating into the Constitution of the United
States our amendments made thereto, they
continue to govern and to tax us, without
allowing us any participation in making the
laws or imposing the national taxes. The
Congress has been sitting some five months,
without prescribing any terms on which it is
proposed to recognize our admission. We
| have elected men whom we belive to be as
| loyal any men in the United States =
every one of whom laborcd to preserve the
Union till hostilities had actually COM
menced, and every one of whom has renewed
or is ready to renew his oath of fidelity to
the Government of the United States
! Whether any one of them could conscien-
tionly swear that he never aided or sympath-
| lied with the rebellion I do not know If
no member can be received from the States
lately in rebellion. without taking the Con-
gressional test oath. it will amount to prac
tical disfranchisemcnt.
1t was presumed when YOU adjourned in
October last. that by this time the Union
would have been fully restored and Congress
would have defined its policy of restoration.
Neither event has occurred. Neither the
President nor Congress has made known any
further requirements. l have no information
which warrants me in making any sugges-
lions to you as to any further action which
yOu may properly take. tending to produce
the desired harmony. Let us so act as to
retain our self respect-and to give to our
late enemies no just grounds for continued
| i'll will against us. National prosperity can
not be restored until real reconciliation and
concord shall be re-establishet. If bitterness
is to he continued, let all of us strive to CO.
operate with the President in his patriotic
plans. and refrain from giving any just ex-
cuse for the continuance of such feeling, and
hope that the day is not distant when the
| Northern people shall become satisfied that
their distrust of us is i'll founded, and that
the religion profess, well as public
policy, demand mutual forgiveness and re-
Cancellation.
[ herewith enclose a communication from
the Public Treasurer, suggesting certain
amendments to the Revenue Act of the last
General Assembly. l commend his recon-
mendations to your favorable consideration.
In consequence of the order of the Presi-
dent Of the United States relieving the Pro-
| visional Governor, l entered upon the dis
charge of my duties as Civil Governor, in
conformity with your Ordinance, on the 2Sth
day of December last. l had to encounter
some irregularities growing out of the transit
ton. But with the universal desire of the
people to restore order, no serious difficulties
have presented themselves in putting into
action the machinery of civil government in
| the State
In my official correspondence and inter
course with the Executive officers of the
United States, and with Brevet Major Gene
raj Kruger, the Military Commandant of this
State, all have eXhib ited uniform DISPOSE
ton to avoid unnecessary Earrings in the dis
charge of our respective Duties and readi-
ness to cooperate with ME in everything
tending to restore cordial reconciliation be-
tween the lately belGgerent sections of our
country
learn from General Kruger, to whom the
President of the United States has lately
signed the chief supervision of the Freed
mems Bureau in this State, that he would
gladly transfer to the civil courts of the
State full jurisdiction in all matters relating
to freedmen, but that he feels embarrassed in
doing so, consistently with his Instructions
on account of certain provisions and con-
ficting constructions of the act of the Gen
eral Assembly, passed at its late session, en-
titled 1" An act concerning negroes, persons
OF color or of mixed blood"
His difficulties are understood to grow out
of the 9th and 18th sections of the act. AS
it is very desirable that the civil courts shall
mete out uniform justice to all, white and
black, according to law, and that all cause of
dissatisfaction to conflict of jurisdiction
should be avoided, [ recommend the subject
to your consideration.
My relations to your body, as I conceive,
do not warrant me in submitting any recon-
mendation whatever in reference to the scope
of your action. Hence, l had not intended,
until your call of yesterday, to submit any
message whatever. Having the fullest con-
fdence in your wisdom, would not obtrude
my views wishes upon you.