The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-10-02

wind, should lie resist that party, or throw
himself in its way. He is Nth that patty,
both in principle and conscience His ac-
ton is not constrained. but voluntary. He
believes that the only hope of restoring the
State to the Union, and putting it once
more on the high road to peace and prosper
ity, is in and through the Republican party;
and he would, therefore, be untrue both to
his State and to the Union, if he did not
dedicate all his energies to the service of
that party, and resist every effort, no matter
from what quarter, to distract, divide, orem,
barrass it. Ii Holden were to consult his
own ease, or pride of section, or the passions
and prejudices of the hour, his course would
be different; but as a public man he scars
above all such considerations, and addresses
himself solely to the best means of saving
and building up his impoverished and ruin
ed country. But while he exposes the in
justice and unfairness of these attacks, by
which he is singled out as a special object
of rebel aversion, lie does not deprecate or
regret them. On the contrary, he expects
them, and treasures them up as the best
proof that he Is doing something to in
crease the value and prolong the duration
of American liberty" iifi e'1l a:sl
We now call upon these signers to prooe
their statement that the Senior Editor of
this journal is aiming at any $ Radical pro-
gramme" not contained in the platform of
the Republican party. Prone it, gentlemen.
Prore it, or bear yourselves the just imputa-
tion of having wilfully misrepresented your
fellow-citizen and neighbor. i'ea
These signers saythey are supporters of
the Constitution of the United States"-
They want their constitutional rights. They
will not get them until the State is recon-
structed and restored, and this can be done
only by the Republican party of the State.
President johnson declared in his first pro-
clamation. dated May 29th, 1865, that this
State, by rebellion, had lost its constitutions
al relations to the federal government. If
the State has no Constitutional relations"
to the government, it has no Constitution
The State is just where it was in 1865. Pre-
sident johnson has not restored these lost
relations. He has no power to restore them.
This can be done only by the law-making
power 1t follows, therefore, that these sign
ers have NO constitutional rights. They can
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not support the Constitution Of the United
States, save in the abstract. They are still,
as they were in 1855, under military govern
ment. They will have no federal Constitu-
ton, and no State Constitution until the
State is admitted to the Union. Nor is it
true that the /" Congress of the United States
has cut us off from all participation at pres
ent in national politics" The very reverse
is the case. Every thing is at present ma
tional. Nothing of local or State charac-
ter can stand, or is worthy of consideration.
We are immersed IN national politics. Our
whole and sole business is so to act, under
national laws, as to get the State back to the
Union. We participate here in these poll
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tics for brief and necessary season, so asto
be able to take part in them permanently at
the national capital Nor has Congress
"cut us Off from representation. We cut
ourselves off in 1860, and we have been SO
rebellious since that Congress has not deem
ed it safe or expedient to restore US to rep
resentation. 1t will never restore us, if such
men as the Rev. William E. Pell are to lead
In the work OF reconstruction. ~
But mark the spirit of the getter-up Of
this call. The Sentinel, in the very issue that
contains the call says:
We sag that no sound Conservative Con-
stitutional Union man can endorse the Recon-
struction Acts, or Hopard amendment. as
aoise. or safe, or best, or Constitutional sl=
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1t true that they profess TO be for recon-
struction, and at the same time pronounce
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