The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-08-14

CHArru HUI, N O., Aus, Sd 1882. 3
Mr.. Onreading the sat1i@ the
other day, you see do sometimes read some
thing besides Mi. Holden's paper, I came
across pretty well dressed piece, where
certain poor fellow named Jones was literally
used upl / know the piece was written by
gentleman, because mot becase) it Is gen
tlemanly piece. know the gentleman reads
the Scriptures because he practices charity:
that charity which suffereth long and is
kind I thought would just write and
thank you for your polite notice of such an
obscure individual as am. When left the
Hill that morning. / had no idea of the dis
tinction that was intended for me, an" Hit
crate freedman and yet, not freed by the
Yankees as you suppose; my father was freed
by his master for his faithfulness to his fam
lily, and this was long before the war. am
not generally considered q very small "nig-
ger,n but oh ] did feel awfully /" smalp' on
that occasion got up to speak at the
request of my friends and tried to speak as
modestly as possible; did not aspire to being
put in the papers; but Oh the delight, the
rapture Ifelt when saw my poor effort"
figuring in the paper, so well dressed / didn't
know It |! It put me in mind OF q friend of
mine, who dressed every day in very bad
looking clothes passed my friend Sunday
and didn't know him. Thought he was q
:" very fine gentleman got off the side
walk, took off my hat and bowed to him as
would have done to the Prince Of Wales"
" Hello, Jones !" looked again and recog-
Missed Sam. r. Excuse me, SAM said /,
" You are so dressed up to-day don't know
you"
Now this is the case with my poor little
speech, it is SO dressed up I don't know it!
I admire the gentleman's colors, always
liked high colors.
The next time I take the stump I'll Just
enclose a copy of my speech to the kind
hearted gentleman and ask him to dress it
up in " fine style" and put it in the papers;
modesty won't allow me to put my speeches
in print, but when somebody else does it for
me, it makes this poor niger" feel SO big.
Thank you'll Thank you, Mr.. Zone of the
Crowd" for your handsome remarks about
me, but don't want to take the credit from
any body, when Imakea speech am willing
to see it printed with my name to it, but
when any ba,lys else makes speech let them
put their own name and not borrow poor
niggers" That is your speech, sir, and not
mine don't claim it.
am respectfully, sir, nobody but poor
68s JONES.
REeIsTRATIoN-THE CONVENTION THE
DUTY.-We have reason to believe that but
few days now will intervene, before General
Sickles will issue his instruction to Regis
trars and direct them to commence their la
bors. Previous to opening the books of reg
lstration, however, ten days notice thereof
must be given, according to the law, for the
information of the people. After registra-
ton is commenced, it must be completed by
the first day of October.
We. beg, therefore, to repeat and urge the
suggestion, which we presented on yesterday
that duly qualified candidates for the Con-
vention shall announce themselves, or be
brought out, forthwith. OF course, all other
things beng at all equal, we should greatly
prefer, in every instance, to have Conserva-
tives in the field but when such cannot be
induced to come out, we trust that our
friends, who may be allowed to vote, will
unite in support of some moderate Republic
can, who is known to be opposed to the vio-
lent and malignant purposes of ultra Radi-
calism. We have several such in the State,
whom we would be perfectly willing to trust
with the solution of our difficulties and the
rehabilitation of the State Government. We
could designate some, by name, who are as
inimical to the vile and iendish designs of
the Holden wing of the party, as we can
possibly be. They are, as an invariable rule,
to be found in the ranks of the bona tide con-
sstent Unionists, who have never faltered or
wavered while, quite as invariably. the
prosecuting, malevolent and oppressive men
in the State are new converts, 'latter-day
saints" old negro abusers and blatant Yam
kee haters and secessionists.
Weshould deplore it, as great calamity,
that any considerable number of our white
citizens should fail to register and to vote.
We need feel no apprehension on the score
of the colored vote. Under the active and
secret agencies that are at work, it will be
fully brought out. We should regret it, we
say, as terrible evil, that Indifference, dis
gust, despair, or any other reason, should
produce the same failure to register, here,
which has irretrieyably surrendered Virgin
la, probably, and Alabama and Louisiana,
almost certainly, into the hands of the Radi-
calls and the negroes. In the first place, the
injury thus done ourselves may be irremedia-
BILE; it may result in our permanent disfran-
chisement,-for no one can doubt that if the
Brownlowites in North Carolina obtain an
ascendancy in the Convention, they will in
augurate just such q system of prescription
as that which has been fastened upon Ten
nessee by their patron saint and great exem-
par. In the second place, we want no slip,
this time, if it can be with honor avoided
We are for reconstruction, on the basis of
the military acts, in the hope, however faint
that hope may be, that a literal compliance
with the terms will bring us freedom from
turmoil, agitation, perplexing doubts and
harrassing fears We want, Therefore, all the
qualified white voters of the State to be in a
position to vote in favor Of the ratification
of the State Constitution, that may be adop-
ted by the Convention, and thus command
the necessary majority therefor, if the ex-
IRENE Radical managers, dissatisfied with
that Constitution. shall seek to defeat it, as,
in that event, they certainly would And
we will go farther and say, that if it is such
a Constitution as would degrade and ruin us
forever BY its acceptance, we want to have
enough registered voters to ILL 1t.
In the present state of the public temper,
or rather in the existing possicity of the pop
ular mind, there is every reason to fear that
our people, like those Of the other Southern
States in which registration has been pro-
crossing, will fail to appreciate the impor-
lance ofregistration, unless urgent, strenuous
and practical appeals to the discharge of
that duty are Constantly made to them. Let
us; at once, then, and throughout the State,
have Intelligent, honest, patriotic men in the