The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-14

B. F. MooRE, Eso.-We were surprised
to learn, from q correspondence between D.
IR. Goodloe and B. f. Moore, Esqs., which
appeared in yesterdays Register, that Mr..
Moore had been charged with not being g in
favor of reconstruction under the Acts of
| Congress-" This charge Mr.. Moore. of
course, emphatically denies, and says -
| Were clear that was competent to reg
lister. should do SO and vote for a Conven-
ton We have never heard otherwise of
| Mr. Moore's position. But while we have
always understood Mr.. Moore to occupy this
ground explicitly, we have understood that
he still maintained, with US, that he did not
do so because he believed in the constitution
atty, or utility, or wisdom of the plans of
reconstruction adopted by Congress, but be-
cause Congress hal so ordained. We know
no one who has been a more consistent
Union man than Mr. Moore, in the State,
and yet no one has commended more strenu-
ously than he that "the Constitution, and
laws of the United STATES made in contormi-
ty thereto" were the supreme lao of the
land, and that they should be maintained
iaOiOla6le, whether in effecting reconstruction
or any other measure. No man in the State
holds more firmly to the Constitution, as the
great charter of American liberty and of the
rights OF the people and of the States. than
Mr.. Moore. He stands firmly upon the Con-
stitution and the laws, but, if we understand
him, he abhors the theory and the practice
of the " higher law" doctrine, now a chief
plank in the Republican platform. We un-
derstand Judge Fowle to occupy the same
ground, and hence we were surprised, the
other day, when the Register claimed Mr..
Moore and Judge Fowle as Republicans
They may be willing to cooperate with
mo- fa h.
Reconstruction Acts of Congress- but to claim
them as members or endorsers of the plat
form, and principles and practice of the Re-
publican or Radical party, we presume is
wholly unauthorized. We understand them
to be friends of the Union, of peace and
restoration, but members of no party or
ganization.-Sentinel.
We copy the above to show the view
taken by the Sentinel of the position occu-
pied by Messrs. Moore and Fowle. AS we
understand it, from the above and from other
sources, these gentlemen do not profess to be
Republicans.
The Republican party is not so poor, either
tor cooperation or for new members, as
to abate one jot of its principles or lower its
standard of organization to the slightest
extent, to obtain the " cooperation of out
siders or to make proselytes. 1t stands up
in its integrity, on the broad platform of its
principles. 1t is going to reconstruct the
State and take it back to the Union. 1t
would be glad to have the sympathy and
the aid of all, but Mohammed must go to
the mountain, not the mountain to Mo-
Will the Sentinel be good enough to point
out that "chief plank" of the "higher law
doctrine " which it says is in the Republi-
can platform? We have not yet seen or
even heard OF this g chief plank mentioned
by the Sentinel. Perhaps Messrs Moore
Fowle and the Sentinel together might fish |
up this ''chief plank " and hold it up to
public view. Do, Mr.. Sentinel, do.