The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-12

honest labor, not by legisation-equal bur
dens, equal benefits, not by partial legisla-
ton. They would not, l believe, rob the few
for the benefit of the many, nor plumber the
many for the benefit of the few.
Labor is the employment of our forces. :
1t constitutes our only treasures and our only
power Liberty is the power of executing
our WILL it is our first good, and includes all
Others. Rights arise from wants, and duties
from means, weakness in all its kinds is the
source of all duties. What do we need
then to make us prosperous and indepen-
dent, happy, free peoples We need encour-
agement to labor. We need immigration to
fill up our waste lands We need protection
to labor against the encroachments of capt.
tai and its influence to divide, instead of pro-
perly combining the two for the advance
ment of the interests of our whole people
We need school houses within proper dis
lance of every mans door all over the coun-
try. supported by taxation, with teachers
competent to teach the highest as well as
lowest branches. Our farmers, mechanics,
tradesmen and manufacturers, all need to be
educated. They should be. The want of it
has been the cause of the enslavement of the
laboring masses in the South in the past.
The spirit of freedom, energy and perse,
verance of our laboring whites, South, has
been buried because of ignorance. 1t has
not been the case in the North. Are we not
of the same race2 Are we not as hardy a
Have we not brains as full and of good Or
der9 What has caused their advancement
and our decline9 They have educated
and protected labor, whilst we have neg
lected to educate or protect labor. Again,
we have favored the plan of buying where we
could buy cheapest, and of selling where we
could get most for our products. This pol
icy has ruined US. It will continue to do so.
if we keep it up. We must labor to bring
about an equilibrium in the several branches
of industry. We must make ourselves a
self-existent. self-sustaining people. If we
do not that, our already limited resources
will continue to weaken. By the policy of
encouraging laboring beyond our own dis
trict, the balance of trade is left against us,
which draws all our surplus funds and we
have no means of independence If we wish
to become an Independent selfexistent, self
sustaining people. if we would be this,
and more, acealthy people, we must abandon
such policy and encourage industry and
protect it. We must not only do that, but
we must seek to equalize the several indus
trial branches in our State. This course will
bring to every mans door market for his
products, and whether he be raiser or con-
sumner all will be benefited and equally
prosperous. Then our money will be in our
midst and turned to the improvement and
benefit of our interests. These changes the
Republican party proposes to accomplish
1t may not do it in month or a year.
We do not expect it so soon, but we ex-
pect to effect it, and more, we expect
opposition. 1t is already with u.s. op-
position to the reconstruction measures is
found in every locality. Those that oppose
them are urging the people to register and
vote no Convention. They are laboring
night and day to influence the colored men
to vote with them. But I believe the col
ored men know well the party that gave
them freedom, and intends to give them all
their rights of manhood suffrages, and that
they will not desert their best friends now
The Republican door is open. If any wish
to come in, let them repent of their sins, be
baptized in the faith of" Union, Liberty and
Equality" and forever after support and
maintain Republican principles. Soon
the issue of 1868 will begin to loom up. 1t
will be for veal or woe, for freedom or slave
ry. If we can get in in time, let us come
up to the help of the mighty. The struggle
will be important will determine the
destiny of the American States. We should
have Gov. Morton, of Indiana, to head the
column. Now about confscation. think it
irresistible. 1t ought to be. For traitors to
attempt to overthrow the government. to be
taken back whole, and made equal in the
burdens only of the government, is a stretch
of mercy unexampled in the history of re-
belions. believe in the right of justice.
l believe in the power of the conqueror to
require of the vanquished to pay the forfeit
ure in something, and give sufficient guaran-
tees in the future. How can this be done
unless their power and influence is broken2
Now Thad Stevens is right on that subject.
The Confederate Hoke said that was his
policy, had he succeeded. fit was Just to
rebel, the government should not have raised
a sword against single rebel. If it was not
just, then it is the duty of the government
to etfectually crush it, now and in future. If
it does not, the rebels will be in power in
five years, and will tax the loyal people to
pay the rebel debt, and repudiate the ma
tional loyal debt. and force absolute servi-
tude from their former slaves They are as
defiant as before the passage of the military
bill. Read Perry's and Sharkey's letters
read the rebel press, and you find anything
but loyalty and submission. tell you nv
friends of 'Guilford and Randolph, they will
not do to trust. The ballot is our only hope;
let us use it wisely and effectively.