The Portland daily press., 1867-12-03


The last Raleigh Standard, edited by The pa
trotic Holden, contains the following encour-
aging statements concerning the situation in
that State. The triumph OF Union principles
has nowhere been more complete and satlsfae-
tory than in the Old North State:
The people OF MOI ith Carolina voted on Tues
day aud Wednesday last for and against the
cniyanfiou and for one hundred and twenty
delegates to q convention, under the recon-
struc,ion acts of Congress. The enemies of re-
construction, led by their ablest men, and hav-
ing control of ihe State, the county, and the
town governments, and OF three iourtts OF the
press OF the State, fought with the utmost des-
peraiton, and pandered to every passion and
prejudice, and persuaded and denounced III cy-
cry conceivable way to defeat the Republicans;
but the latter, relying on tIuth ard justice
and stimulated by ashoble love of liberty, have
achieved glorious and overwhelming vic
tory.
We have no time to-day to review the CAM
paigD, OF enter into the details of the struggle.
1t is sufficient to state that it is considered GER
tain that the Republicans have carried eighty
OF the one hundred and twenty members of
the convention, and that the people have voted
Jfty thousand majority for a convention. The
convention will have in it ten to fifteen colored
men. All OF them are intelligent and well
qualified, and several OF them are men of de-
cided ability and will take position among the
leading members of the convention.
Every tried white Republican in the state
feels grateful to the colored people tor the firm
ness and unanimity with which they have
stood by the Republican cause. Our colored
friends have shown themselves worthy, not on
ly by the remarkable propriety of their behav-
Jour in the campaign and at the election, but
| they have demonstrated to the world that they
| are possessed in a high degree of that chief
| requisite to manhood and citizenship, to wit
| firmness and determination OF character. No
| people, in any civil contest have ever met and
| overcome greater temptations than they have.
| They have been equally unmoved by artifce,
trickery, falsehood, persuasion, offered bribes,
| and threats. They are poor and landlesS, but
| the rich oligarchs could not succeed in buying
more than one of them in ten thousand They
have preferred the jewel of liberty to every
| thing else.
The leaven of the Heroes of America, which
| was formed i'll this State i'll 1868, laid the
foundation for the Leagues; and the Leagues,
| with the Heroes, have been mainly instrn-
mental in securing to the Republicans their
| glorious victory. Without the Leagues on.
success wond have been doubtful. No Won
| der our opponents were SO bitter against
| these loyal organizations. Let us continue tc
cherish and extend them. We will need them
| in future elections. Let no true Republican
| abate one jot or title Of interest in public af
| fairs. The State is not yet reconstructed
| Much work is yet to be done. Our uew Cou
| stitution is still to be ratified; and we mus
| elect a loyal Governor, a loyal Lieutenant
| Governor, loyal Legislature, and loyal mem
| bers of Congress. To do this we must "keet
| our lamps trimed and burning" =