The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-24
They IS Stoop to COnquer.'


The following extract from late number
of the Weldon State, one OF the organs of
the rebel oligarchs, will furnish an idea of
the feeling with which these oligarchs con-
descend to court the colored vote. The
State says:
ave know that it is very hard for the
tastidious Southerners to acknowledge to
themselves that il is right and necessary they
should acknowledge, by their acts, even the
! political equality of their former serfs. We
are we'll aware of the shudder of disgust
4 which thrills through Southern gentleman's
4 frame when he contemplates the contingency
: of sitting in convention, and arguing and
i debating with those whom his education,
/ his associations and the prom ptings of his
nature have always taught him were his
interiors by the infallible decree of Almighty
. God"
Just think of it" the shudder of disgust
which thrills through Southern gentleman's
frame when he contemplates the contingency
of sitting in convention and arguing and
! debating with thpse whom his education,
his associations and the promptings of his
nature have always taught him were his in
ferirrs by the infallible decree of Almighty
God" And the Lynchburg Nens of recent
date says:
"LittIe effort will be required to convince
the sensible and intelligent amongst them
that the destinies of the two races are most
intimately connected; that the prosperity
and well-being of one class is directly oe-
pendent on the other that if the employer
prosper he is able to increase the wages and
the number of his employees, and that the
well-being of both blacks and whites de-
pends more ON cultivatiiIg feeling of mu-
tual respect and confidence than in the in
dulgence of vain feelingsof prejudice and in
dignation on the one hand, or of vindictive
animosity and fancied antagonism on the
other. The influence which can be exerted
on this race by the well-directed and earnest
efforts of high-tened gentlemen can never he
counteracted by the insidious teachings of
the low-fung and despicable. The negro, as
has long been understood and admitted, is,
in his nature, his tastes, and his feelings, ar
istocratic to degree never dreamed of by
those with whom he has not been brought
into direct contact and this attribute of
their character will prompt them to look
with partiality on a party composed OF the
gentlemen of the State, when contrasted
with one composed of such men as Hunni-
cutt, and Wardwell and Lipscomb."
Well, the men who attempted on account
of Office to destroy the Union, and who on
account of the same love of office, refuse to
stand aside and permit the true men of the
Southern States to restore the Union, are
now STOPPING, as they say, to their former
"serfs," and going through the shudder of
4 disgust" in order to obtain the colore,l vote.
The Virginia gentlemen" as they style
themselves, are hard at work in this bust
ness. They are so much in love with
the colored vote that they can not bear to
see ''low-fung and despicable" white
Unienists take any part in consulting with of
or addressing the colored people. The
Virginia gentlemen" called a meeting
of the colered people in Richmond a
few days since, to test their strength. We
have the proceedings before us in the Rich.
mond papers The meeting was sigma
failure. But few eolored people concurred
with them, though large crowd attended
from curiosity. The speakers were constant
iy interrupted by the eolored people, and
many replies were made by persons in
the audience, which, though brief and in the
way of setorts, we're capital answers to. the
speeches. The meeting resulted benefcialIy
to the Republican cause, as it thoroughly
exposed The hypocrisy of the Virginia oil
garehs, and showed that they had no hold
On the confidence of the eolored people.
Nearly all the speeches made by these
virginia gentlemen" were ill-natured to-
wards the government and Northern people,
ana more or Less rebellious. Ameag other
thngs, one r. T. Daniel, CommOnxealth's
Attorney, said.
You were emancipated, not because they
nVed you, but because they hated u.s. and
thought by setting you free we could not
raise supplies for our armies and for our
people at home. They dealt us foul blow.
5hey said they wanted you in their army to
uo camp duty at first; after while they
put guns IN your hands, and pushed you
INTO the "imminen. deadly breaeh.s "a
voice they didn't drive" us) Were any