The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-12-18
The Alabama .con,,;,,,;.

AAo AiuDdma Constitution
we publish to-day the substance of a,
Constitution Of Alabama, lust adan,sd sae
the Convention of that State, and soon :, ~
be submitted to the people.
We have examined this instruments
fully, and consider it an excellent one M,
opposition presses and speakers are almo..
exhausting language ON the "m,no,I
black and tan Conventions called to -eco,
struct these States, and pretending that thev
VIII radicalize and ruin the people. Is thp,a
anything like ruin in this Alabama ;r.,r,
ment2 We think not. If this be rad;o,I
ism, let us have more of it.
We predict that all the OUTLYING st,...
50 to speak, will make good republ;c,n
Constitutions; that these Constitutions will
be ratified by the people; and that ,.a
States will all be represented in Congress bv
the 4th day of July next Alabama lead.
the column handsomely.
RInk
mond, Va.
senator Wilson was recently in Richmond
and addressed the Republican members oe
the Convention and Others. One Of III.
Richmond papers says:
Senator Wilson felt some anxiety no >.
the course to be taken by the Soptb.rU
States. He hoped they would all adont trna
Republican constitutions. If they did thev
would be allowed representation before ,Ss
4th OF July next He was sure that sora no
of the Southern States would be in INV th".
time. He advised the Convention to adou.
constitution that would be- approved r..
the people. As to disfranchisement be r. Wy
not only opposed to it, but he was in t,vor
OF extending the present limits. The Con-.
sentative party had spoken great deal
against the DISTINGUISHING clause of the IA.
construction acts as thriving sutticient
number OF voters out to secure negro suprem.
acy. A good deal of capital had been made
OF this report, but it was not true. There
were not $4,000 persons DISTINGUISHED Inv
this clause in the whole South.
| He counselled the Convention not To 10.
more IN the old Constitution, in the framino
q new one, anything that could be maintain
ed in the establishment of true Republican
principles throughout the State OF Virginia
He compared the attacks made in Viryinia
on the Republican party to those made in
Massachusetts, thirty years ago. The party
had been abused. yet it had produced such
men as Everett, Dana, LongfeIiow & Co., and
Governor Andrew, who had been acknowl.
edged by the people of Massachusetts to be
the greatest Governor the State ever had
Finally, he declared the determination of
Congress to stand by the reconstruction acts.
Unless they were accepted by the people of
the South, severer measures would be adon.
ted, and the coming generation would grow
gray before they would be modified
Senator Pomeroy said:
He hoped that the Convention would
settle the question for Virginia without SUBJ
hitting to dictation from any party in Wash.
ington. He felt assured that the principles
of the Republican party would be the basis
of the constitution to be framed. He favor
ed equal and impartial rights before the law,
a complete free school system of education,
and an equalization of taxation according
to the amount ofproperty owned. The pro-
perty of the State should pay for the educa-
ton of the State. Yet he was in favor OF
poll tax, which should be added to the edu-
cational fund. He himself paid four hun
dred dollars tax per annum for education
alone" 80. a a.. ..-s,., 81 f.r..,.