The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-02

| ait is now manifest that the Reconstruction
acts will become failure, as it regards North
Carolina, if the late 4th of September Convention
is to be held up as the representative of the Re-
publican party. The moderate Republicans
would be iaithlcss to the cause of restoring the
! State to the Union, well to republican
| principles, if they should for moment relax in
! their opposition to that spurious organization.-
The immediate effect would be the formation of
| formidable party on the basis of Governor Ora
hams letter; and with majority of thirty
thousand white men in the State, there can be
no doubt OF its success. But SO long as the Re-
| publicans adhere to the course they have taken,
the masses of the people have hope that the
State may be restored OH a basis of freedom and
equality, and so far from Offering opposition,
they will cooperate In the work. 1t is not suf-
ficient that the men who organized and managed
the September Convention, have professed to
disclaim sympathy with the wicked spirit which
was uppermost in it; they cannot be trusted;
they must be cast aside, and upright men, who
wish well to the State, and to all classes of the
people, must take the lead. This necessity has
begun to be appreciated in Washington, and
further North the falsehoods which were in
dustriously circulated in regard to the motives
of those who denounced and opposed the Con-
vention, are beginning to be understood; and
there is now prevalent tendency to listen to the
counsels OF moderate men, since the Jolly of the
opposite course has been demonstrated by the
late Northern elections"
The above is an extract from letter
written by Mr.. Goodloe to his paper, the
Register, dated Washington City, October
GATH
1t will be seen that Mr.. Goodloe is still
assailing the September Republican Con-
vention. No Republican in the State was
more anxious to have that Convention called
than Mr. Goodloe He was not pleased
with the 9th of March Convention,-he
did not like the "organizers " and "man-
ayers " of that body, and insisted on another
Convention. Well, it was called 1t was a
peoples Conventions delegate Convention,
the very body Mr.. Goodloe wanted. AS a
member of the State Committee he joined
in the call for it. He attended as delegate
from Warren. He acted ON an important
Committee, and when the Convention adj
iourned he allowed his name to be ANNOUNCE
ed, and it was published for weeks with his
consent, as a member of the State Committee
But as soon as the Convention adjourned, to
the surprise of every one except small
circle who happened to know his peculiar
views, he pronounced the Convention a
failure, assailed its plan of organization, and
declared that he would not serve the Repub-
lican party as thus organized and constituted.
He thus cut himself off by his own act from
the Republican party of the State. We de-
plored his course, but could not question his
right to do as he did. It would have been
more candid and upright in the gentle
man if he had done all this in open Conven-
ton, in the presence of all the delegates, be-
fore they left Raleigh for their homes. But
he waited until the Convention adjourned
before be assailed it; and he now goes so
far as to declare that if the existing Repub-
lican organization shall continue and not
be changed to suit his peculiar views, the
reconstruction acts themselves will become
failure in North Carolina. Mr. Goodloe
looks to the formation of Graham white
party, and has no doubt of its success The
fact that he despairs of reconstruction under
the auspices of the Republican party of the
State, and looks to the success of Graham
party as certain, furnishes conclusive proof
that the Republican of a few months ago has
become the Conservative of to day; and We
may expect soon to find the gentleman in
full political communion with those L up
right" public men who handcuffed con-
scripts and tortured women to make them
tell where their sons, brothers and husbands
were.