The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-05-29
From the Great Republic, Washington City.I
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Ettaucts from our 0o,respondence.

y MOBILE, MAY 4, loVt.
The papers, like the people here are in
tensely bitter They are joined to theiridols,
and it seems to me that nothing but radical
civil government can ever save them. Ger
tainly nothing but that can save the loyal
people.
IF we should have governments in the
southern States welded by any but staunch
Republicans am certain that our fire-tried
loyalists, black and white, would be able
with but little trouble to count their days in
the South, and too many of them might say,
"our days on earth are easily numbered"
No pains must be spared to embrace the
entire loyal vote by organization, and to
have as many more added by conversions
prior to election as possible. The necessary
means is all that is wanted, and with suita-
BILE representations of the necessities OF the
case we may safely say that victory can be
ours
cable men are ready to GU into the coun-
try as soon as means wherewith to meet ex-
penses can be secured. / go to New Orleans
tomorrow"
MOBILE, May 2, 1867.
clad we the necessary means with which
to work to advantage ninety-nine one hun
dredths Of the colored people would be IN
our ranks in six months. This l could
guarantee with the assurance from you OF
adequate means to secure organization. The
white people also, and some who fought
against us, are opening their eyes and ex-
pressing desire to Join US. They could
not, or dare not, join an open organization,
and herein is our strength.
al am sure that before tomorrow night I
will have insured the organization of at least
twenty more counties in this State will
then proceed to New Orleans, and there
commence my next work for the Gulf coun-
try. ..-.s
e You told me to secure some colored men
and send them out to work in the country.
1 know it ought to be done. 1t must be
done; but they are toopoor to pay expenses.
Let me know that aid can be had for this
and will procure you the right men in
an hour. The North must help them, or
they are lost. The loyal men here, both
white and black, are poor. gave man
ten dollars to-day to 60 into the country
where three hundred men are employed and
organize them. He should have had fifty
dollars, but he, poor man as he is, will make
up the balance out of his twenty dollars per
month wages. The devotion of these poor
loyal people puts our northern loyalty to
shame I spoke to five thousand again to-
night in the Stone street church. The house
and yard were packed with people. Let me
hear from you early at New Orleans, and re-
member can get no further without means"
s. "NEw ORLEANS, May Z, 1867.
g The leading military, and the Republi-
cans in civil life, say that we must push our
work over the Gulf States at once Nothing
else can save the cause. Can employ three
or four men and send them to the country
and promise to pay expenses9 With such
permission can secure organization and
success. Without organization other work
is nearly useless. 1t will only serve to make
defeat more apparent and notifying"
RICHMOND, May Z, 1867.
"Be assured we will work with all the IA
cilities we have or shall have. All reports
from the country confirm the impression
that the colored vote throughout the State
must be organized thoroughly and imme-
diately." 81 ~
The foregoing extracts are given as brief
samples of scores of letters from all of the
non reconstructed States. These letters are
written by well-informed and earnest men,
who, to the extent of their ability, are enga-
ged in the work of organization with the
view of securing return to the Union upon
republican basis. We place the earnest
words of the writers before the loyal people
of the North, that they may appreciate the
task imposed upon the loyal men of the
South in the present emergency.
Our attention has been for two years
turned to this field of labor, during which
time we have become acquainted with many
hundreds of loyal Southern men, and have
maintained, and are maintaining, volumi-
nous correspondence with them in each
State. We have all the time expressed the
opinion that only actual, thorough, and
general political organization would reforiu
the South, and have been working, and are
still working, to that end. And that is why
those letters have been received
We know that without such organization
reconstruction will be effected in the inter-
est Of sectional hostility instead of national
unity. and that to secure such organization
assistance must be furnished the loyal men.
Such assistance can be, and ought to be,
furnished, and we call upon the Union
Leagues throughout the North to institute a
system of contributions, the proceeds to be
AViWdluCu W tuc NdtlOudl OOuuCll Ill IHlS
city, to be expended in the work of organic
ing and educating to the duties of citizen
ship the enfranchised masses OF the South.
One earnest man in each town, city and
village at the North can promptly and with
ease raise and remit a few dollars This
would accomplish the work. Do not think
this is addressed to some other person 1t
is to you who now read it. You are the one
to take the initiative in your locality. Do
it at once and report result. s .4..i )
Reinittances may be made to the Repub-
lican Congressional Committee, the Presi-
dent of the National Council of the Union
League, Washington, d. c., or to the per-
sons named in the following list, from any
of whom any further information may be OBJ
tained: l saG. Us.
aa - Tiryinia.
Andrew Washburn, Richmond.
Charles Spencer, do.
George Rye, Woodstock.
T. L. R. Baker, Norfolk. 70 'A'
VIM. B. Downey, Leesburg. s-t-
]. W. Jenkins, Winchester. -'s'
G. L. Watrous. do rS5is ft
Franklin Il. wissler, Columbia Furnace.
North Carolina. ..s...e
Gov: WV. Holden, Raleigh.
]. II. Harris, IN do.
D.A- Wicker, do.
w. r. Richardson, do. M
Hon. A. H. Jones, Hendersonyille.
8. Fountain, High Point.
South Carolina
Gen. R. K. Scott, Charleston.
M. French, do. 14a
8. W. Bennett, do.
Timothy Hurry, do.
=. W. M Mickey, do.
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