The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-12
Platform and Principles of the Social
ed Conservatives or Rebels of North
Carolina.

Platform and Principles of the SO-call-
ed Conservatives or Rebels of North
- Carolina.
Resolutions adopted by the so-called Convention
or Rebel Meeting, held in Raleigh 9th Sep
tender, 1867. II ..t. =
Resozced, That the Conservative men of
Wake County, claiming to be truly loyal to
the Government of the United States, feel
called upon to declare our unwaverlnS devo-
ton to the fundamental principles of Amer
lean liberty, as embodied in the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence of May goth,
1775. the Declaration of American Indcpen-
dence of July 4th, 1776, and in the Constl-
tuition of the United States.
r. Resozped, That the will of the people, as
expressed in the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States and tile laws" we hold to be 1.-THE
supreme law of the land"
Resolced, That we deem it unwisc, wicked
and unjust for the State of North Carolina
to pass any law organic or statutory, dis
franchising, prescribing or contiscating the
property of any of her citizens for past polit-
ical offences. .-
Resozced, That the unmistakable develop
ments of vindictive and prosecuting spirit
in the speeches and doings of a majority of
the delegates to the Radical Convention in
this City, towards the body of the white
people of this State, call tor the unanimous
efforts of all truly Conservative men of all
classes, whether white or black, to endeaver
to check the progress of that spirit, and to
defeat the aims OF bad men among US. who
seek to destroy the peace of our people, to
stir up strife between the whites and blacks,
and to lnaugurate state of things in North
Carolina which must effectually prevent i'm
migration, check the Investment OF capital,
destroy confidence in all business enterprise,
and diminish largely the sources of employ
ment to our large laboring population.
Resolred, That our movement is not par
tisan in its character-that it has no connec-
ton with National politics or either of the
great National parties, nor is it designed
to form "a White mans party, but originates
in the spontaneous uprising OF the Conser-
yative men of the State, of all shades of po-
litical opinion, for the one object of ward
ing off the dangers which threaten us from
the success of the ultra Republican or Radi-
cal party in this State; and we hail, as a
hopeful indication, the manly and more
moderate stand taken in the aforesaid Radi-
cal Convention 10y the calm and moderate
Republicans of that body, as we'll as the dig
nifed and manly positions since taken by
Daniel r. Goodloe, Esq, of the Register, and |
his coadjutors.
RSsOl0ed, That we will support no man |
for the approaching State Convention, to |
draw up new Constitution, who is not |
pledged to oppose and defeat, by all legiti-
mate means, any attempt to incorporate into
the Constitution the proscriptive and vindic-
tive measures of the ultra Radicals of this
State. ..
Resotoed, That we urge upon all Conserya-
tive men, of all classes and all shades of
opinion in the State, to hold precinct and
County meetings, for the purpose of concen-
trating their influence in effecting this OBJ
ject; and we call upon our fellow citizens of
this County to hold precinct meetings in
their several registration precincts, for the
purpose of expressing their views and unit
ing with us in Mass Meeting in this City,
to be held on Saturday, the 18th of October
next.
Extracts. from the Inaugural address Of Co..
Worth to the General assembly, 22d De-
Gender, 1866
''The orders of Gen. Sickles, forbidding
our Courts to exercise laws which have ex-
listed with us and our ancestors for many
proclamation of the President, declaring that
civil law existed in all the States which had
engaged in the late rebellion, astounded the
State.
My mission to Washington touching this
on the right of the State to adj
minister her laws, not pretended to be incon-
sistent with the Constitution of the United
State", and other imperative administrative
duties since my return, have engrossed my
attention and left me no time to prepare an
address suitable for the occasion. -~s
This order of military officer, asserting,
in effect, his right to annul such of our laws
Is he may deem unwise, is suspended by Or
Ter of the President This arbitrary step is
scarcely arrested, when measure is propos-
ID by Congress, looking to the sanction of
his military supremacy over our laws.
In the midst of the progress of these
events we are astounded by u proposition,
by North Carolinians, and
brought before Congress under auspices cal
;ulated to alarm us, that North Carolina,
me Of the original thirteen, is no longer
State, but territory of the United States.
The scheme proposes that a new Con-
'entlon be called, the members of which are
o be elected by voters with qualifications
prescribed by Congress, including negroes,
xcluded from voting by our Constitution
AAAo OoAfOIIiOlI, tuuo ClcCCeSl, lS " llqulC d
ew Constitution for the District formerly
nown as the State of North Carolina. The
constitution, when formed, is to be approx
d, not 10y the people, who are to live under
:, but by Congress of the United States,
nth the power in the Congress to.approve,
lodity, or reject the same; and with test =
ath framed with apparent intent to reverse
he principle, that the majority of the people
ught to rule.
1t is remarkable that the avowed and
rominent projectors of this scheme were :
actors in the originat1on of
he present State government, and have
'ught, or hold Office under it,. ]
Under these circumstances, assume. by
he choice of my countrymen, the painfully
sponslble duties of Governor of the State.
lthout time, in carefully considered com.
entary, to review these revolutionary move
ents. / q,
!! ardently desire, Independent of nv of. +
,lal oath, to maintain and defend the Con-
tuition Of the United States and the Con-
tuition of North Carolina, and cannot. / /,
erefore, assent to any scheme of compro- |,
Use based on the idea that North Carolina q
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