The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-12-25

of the season, with the earnest wish for
sbetter tines in the future We shah all
doubtless partake of our next Christmas
dinner inside the Union to all intents and
purposes. .z 8 {.
- Il as Are We Z NatieTs',
We are under obligations 70 Hon. CHARLES
Summer for pamphlet copy Of his Address.
delivered before che New York Young
Meme Republican Onion. on the subject
" A,s sOe d Mtaafn We have read this (
able and splendid Address witb great pleas 4
.urc We regret we have not room to lay
the whole of it before our readers, but we
give the concluding part Of II, as follows:
'Iconclule IS began. Thelate Rebellion
against the Nation was in the name of State
Rights; therefore State Rights in their de-
nntionalizing pretensions must be over
thrown. 1t proceeded from hostility to the
sacred principles Of the Declaration of hide
pendence; therefore, these sacred principles
must he vindicated in spirit and M letter, 60
that hereafter they shall be q supreme Law.
CO equal with the Constitution, in whose III
Elimination the Constitution must be read
and they shall supply the final definition oil
Republic for our guidance at home and for
an example to mankind
In this great change we follow. nature and
obey her mandate. By an irresistible law,
water everywhere seeks its level snd finds
it, and so, by . lAwa as Irresistible, man
seeks the level Of every other man in rights,
and will find it. Human passions and bu-
man institutions are unavailing to arrest it,
las nature is stronger than man, and thel
Creator is mightier than the creature. The
recognition OF this law is essential to the ma
tional cause. for SO you will work with ma
ture rather than against it, and at the same
| time in harmony with the Declaration of
| Indepence. Here borrow word from
Locke who in his essay ON the Human I'm
Identanding says that in dealing with prnp-
ositi0ns, we must always find on what they
"bottom." Now in dealing with the Rebel
lion, We find that though in the name of
State Rights, it ~bottometF On opposition
to the nature and an open denial of the self
evident truths declared by our FATHERS, es-
pecially of that central truth f all, which
Abraham Lincoln. at Gettysburg, in the most
touching speech of all history TINS nnnoun-
ces: !" Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent a
view Na.,on, conce.se'' ~ iaoSssy, ana oeo-
caleu 20 e1e pr0P'sl1l"n 'uas .iI men are sre
alea equal. slavery was eos.o0sea on 2,
tne dlrect opPosl!e anu 50 VAS sne heoei-
i'on, llo'n oeginn'ns = eI ne.ei0fe yon
must encounter TINS oeniai. log 10 not ex-
t,ngn'sh slavery; You 90 nos tramPse oas
,ne neoe,'.on, .n'n Tue VIM .Iusn aeclafed
py our M.uels y es.an'lslless and hasure IN
,ei 'o~ vyoycu ~ vyluP'S els Soou Work
,,als mus' pe uone. Liberty nas Deen won ;
Equaiity must oe won aiso- M England,
thcre Is Liceily without EqusMy IN France.
Eqs'aiity Withous Lioefty Inc Nv" sogeth-
er must ne ours. ms maj ricfosy will De
the greatest OF tne war " Wan be the Con
/ SUN 'nat'on .! MI etner Wctonea Here we
plane tne Natlohai Standard. foehas cham
pionsnip now summon yoa 90 forth,
victors ~ 90 many neias, ana Easher now
the hlgnest PAIN % all Inc vEaory OF ideas
y gnmder far than any victory Of blood
what battle ever dld 80 much for Humanity
as the sermon on Mars Hill Wtst battle
ever tn6 60 much Us the Declaratsoa Of INDIE
pendencef But sermon and Decsasstion are
one, anu II Is your glorious part 10 assure
the National Unity ON ltiis sdasAantine
base. ID
All hah 70 the hepuDlc, redeemed and re-
generated, one and lndlvlsible. Nunifca-
ton and secession are already like the ex-
tinct monsters ct . former geological period
Ito he seen onty IN the museum OF history.
With their extinction must disappear that
captious. Iitigioas and disturbing spirit en-
gendered by State Rights. The whole conn
try will be tFansSosDaed There will be cao-