The tri-weekly standard., 1867-09-03
For the Standard.
RUPUBLICANG NIEETIN In DAVIDSON.

Agreeably to appointment, the Union-loV-
ing, and law-abiding citizens of the Flat
Swamp region of Davidson county assem-
bled at the we'll know Healing Springs, on
Saturday the gath inst, to recount their
many sufferings and grievances during, and
since the late and nefarious rebellion, and to
devise means of redress and safety for the
future, by concentrating and bringing
every effort to bear upon so great an under
taking.
Richard Carrick was called to preside,
J. R. Floyd and D. Smith, chosen Secre-
taries
The Chairman then proceeded toappoint a
committee to draft resolutions, which done,
the following were presented, read and unan-
imously adopted:
WHEREAS We were politically and re-
ligiously opposed to going to war with our
Northern brethren and desecrating the flag
of our glorious old Union, hating treason in
any and every shape, and esteeming it as
among the most corrupt and infamous of all
crimes in the catalogue of Satan's arts, and
holding the government of the United States
was and is the BEST purest, safest and sur
est government on the known earth, the gov
ernment of our fathers, made sacred by the
name of Washington and Others of the best
and purest blood of our race, and while re-
bells and traitors have for several years ira
duced, slandered and oppressed those of us
who clung to the Union, and are still doing
the same thing with seeming vindictiveness !;
therefore be it,
l. Resolced, That we can never consent to
be governed and ruled any longer by bad
men who advocated the doctrine of secession
and still revile and stigmatize the best and
most loyal citizens of our country because of
their devotion to the United States govern
ment, nor are we willing to trust them in
rebuilding what they have so ignobly torn
down, that we have lost all hope of having
Justice at their hands, and Judging from the
past, feel that to trust them further would
be to augment our misery and final ex-
tinction.
g. That we endorse the acts of the 40th
Congress and submit to that honorable body
with all becoming Difference, and shall ever
look to her as to our guardian angel.
8. That the sooner we can be extricated
from rebel rule, the better, and that none
but Enthusiastically Union-loving, and self-de-
nying, noble-hearted anti -blood-and- -thun-
der men shall rule over us and our children
for the future, either in the State, or the Uni
ted States.
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star, and will be defended by US to the last
extremity.
That we congratulate the Raleigh Stand
ard for its bold determined and wise course,
and regard it as one of the safest and best
vehicles through which to transmit our
thoughts and intentions, with its request to
all papers friendly to the cause for publica-
tion, and that we heartily concur in the SEN
timent expressed in the resolutions as adop-
ted by the Republican Convention held in
Raleigh on the 27th March last.
During the absence of the committee, Fl.
Adams, Esq, was called on, to which he re-
sponded in speech of three hours length
He dealt some heavy blows. He gave a
complete analysis of the past of secession in
its incipient stages, its cause, progress and
direful consequence, he demonstrated the
present coalition of affairs with unerring
skill and with seeming prophetic power
portrayed the future
There was feast of reason, and flow of
soul.
On motion the meeting adjourned.
RICHARD CARRICK, Pres't.
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