The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-19

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4 The execution OF your fanatical measures
! will precipate your doom.
1 These remarks preface what we wantto
1 say in regard to the attitude of the blacks
concerning the Convention. The caldron for
some time has been seething and foaming
and threatening an oEerboil. This same
catastrophe Tor blessing, from our present
stand point we can't say which, is aboutsto
occur. Fresh fuel has been added to the
political flames. The mongrel scum has
risen to the top of the pot. The air is laden
with an horrible effiuvia of the Compound
extract" of lank Ezekiels and thick-hpped
Ebo-shins. The great, the eventful day,
big with the fate" (not of "Cato and
Rome, butt of the mOngrel schemers Is
nigh at hand. But seriously, it is a matter
of no small concern to know that the policy
of the negroes is, to 0ote5doson Convention n,
order to bring about c0ntiscation of the lands
Of the schites They know that, if the Con-
gressional reconstruction measures are de-
feated, NO matter how nor by whom, Con-
gress is only too anxious to avail itself of
the pretext to eliminate the doom of free
institutions in this country, by making of
the South Poland, of the North and West
J a Russian despotism under the sacritegious
style of Grand Centralized Republic -Hen-
derso1, Indee.
The tone and bearing of some of our col
ored population have been very different
since the Radical Convention here in March
last, from what they were before that affair,
and they certainly are not improved, but
made worse by the late Convention held in
Tucker Hall. When he is desi gnedly made to
feel, that he is an equal, in order to get his
vote, by set of white skins, (who, by
placing themselves On an equality, are no
better, if as good,) it is not surprising that
the negro should feel his keeping. When
white men can sit cheek by jowl in politi-
cal Convention, with colored men of that
class who do not hesitate vauntingly to
claim to be equal, and to handy the lie with
each other in their presence and show signs
of fight and riot, they, of course, can no
longer claim superiority in any respect
Such exhibitions as were made in Tucker
Hall, at the late Convention, would have as
tonished and outraged the liberty shriekers
Of Fanueil Hall.-Raleigh Sentinel
The Raleigh Radical Convention was the
most disgraceful and disorderly political as
sembiy ever eengregated together before. and
the atrocious sentiments enuneiated by many
OF the speakers, both white and black, would
better suit a pandemonium of lost spirits,
than Convention called for the apparent
purpose of discussing the political issues of
the day. The presence of a few hitherto
respectable white men but made the con-
trast more vivid, and the eomplete ever
throw of their faint eXertions in favor of
moderate sentiments but displayed in more
odious colors the devilish feelings actuating
the great body of mean whites and negroes
there assembled.
Not redeenling act marked the whole
course Of the proceedings, and at the same
time blow has been struck at speedy re-
construction which will require long time
to heal.
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Much as we dislike to bring the issue be-
fore our people, we can no longer disregard
the signs OF the approaching storm, and the
insolent everhearing disposition displayed
by the negroes at Raleigh and elsewhere
clearly foreshadows an absolute determine
ton on their part to bring about as speedily
as possible war of races, and to meet this
will call for the undivided exertions of the
whites. Our moderation and forhearance
has met with just such return as might have
been expected from the base born minds of
the negroes, and any further concession to
their insolent demands would he doing gross
injustice to every Southern white man. We
have not yet made up our minds to surren-
der the control Of our local and State affairs
to ignorant prejHdiced negroes, and believ-
ing this to be white mans government, We
think it absolutely necessary to form II white
mans party, with the issue distinctly drawn
between the two, and while willing to ae-
cord all Just rights and privileges to the
colored race, We yet avow our determination
to never willingly see them usurp the reins
of government, for which they are SO utterly
unfit in every spect.-Iar6oro' tSoutherner..