The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-16
tber olive nor hold Arbitrary power is not

to be had by conqest. Nor can any sover
: eign have it by succession for no man cal
succeed to fraud. rapine and violence.
Those who give and those who receive arblt
trary power are alike criminal; and there
no man but is bound to resist 1t to the pes
of his power whenever 1t shall show lis 1ac
to the world. Law and arbitrary power ar
in eternal enmity" I" 1t is a contradiction
in terms, it is bIasphemy in religion, it Il
wickedness in politics to say that any maj
can have arbitrary power" We may bit
our chains if we WILL but we shall be mad'
to know ourselves, and be taught that maj
is born to be governed by law, and he tina
will substitute will in the place OF 1T, Is al
enemy to God"
Resolced, That to make people love thei
country. their country should he lovely, ano
governed by its constitution, and not ny Tx
ecutive Congressional or Judicial will.
Resoz0e,I, That we have hopes that it is in
the ordinary course of Gods providence te
mend our condition. and finally to relieve III
from the dominion of Thad. Stevens and his
faction, in his own good time and way; and
we shall patiently await the looked tol
event.
Col. William GIcCauley offered the fol
lowing resolution
Resoloed, That we protest against VIM. w
Holden's leading loyal men in any political
work or act, because he brOught>u up and
educated the Democratic people Of North
Carolina in the doctrine of peaceable seces-
sion, telling them for twenty years they owed
their primary allegiance to North Carolina,
and not to the United States. and that Sc
cession was an original, preexisting Sovereign
right Because he signed the ordinance of
secession, and publicly pledged the lAt man
and the last dollar to make it good Because
he said the ''war was Gods holy cause"
and then deserted the cause; Because in
1861, he said every union man among us de-
served to die traitors death Because he
wanted every man from sixteen to sixty put
into the Confederate army; beat the drum,
blow the fife,' drill them until their legs are
timber; if they will not volunteer, drive
them in the army" said Holden; Because
he wanted the helpless woman and children
of those men who fled from CONSUMPTION
turned out of their houses and homes in dead
winter and driven from our midst half naked
half starved, and broken hearted, to seek
their husbands and fathers in the Federal
| lines Because, in June 1860, he vowed he
would never "bow his head to the degrading
woke of black Republican rule" and then,
in the first resolution in his white and black
PLATFORM he says: eve this day with prour!
| Tue glorious DallIfeT Ol Tue
Republican Party" Because he said in 1856,
using the language ofanother: The leaders
among our enemies, the Black Republicans,
are to my certain knowledge the meanest
and most contemplate creatures on earth,
excepting only those in the South that are
willing to be governed by Them" Because
lie once said God never intended the black
race for freedmen, and now SAYS. in the 4th
resolution of his white and black platform,
1--WE eXult in the fact that we are Il nation
OF treemen. and that the sun no longer shines
upon the brow of a slave" Because in the
white and black platform he talks mourn
fully over the fate of the late President Lin
coin, while the vile sheets of the secession
Standard smell ofassassination and the blood
of the murdered President, for he called him
g Abraham the fool, tyrant usurpcr," and
even inquiringly advertised in his paper
(bctore Booth thought of his foul deed) ask
ing who would plot for the head of Abe
Lincoln" He ,spoused and BETRAYED the
cause OF the Wings; lie espoused and betray-
ed the cause of the Democrats: he espoused
and betrayed the cause of Secession; he es-
poused and betrayed the cause of the Union
he cspoused and betrayed the cause of the |
Confederacy: he espoused and betrayed the |
cause nt States Sovereignty; he espousea
uIlNl tut FAUST vi ICSlltGlll JOHllSUI
As Provisional Governor he espoused the |
caase of the people of North Carolina truth |
fully and truly representing them as loyal;
when they refused to dehase themselves by |
voting for him. true to his instincts he be-
trayed, maligucd and sought to have them
punished In fine he should not lead, for |
his life was one continued series of dupli-
city. treachery, political crime and iniquity.
Mr. Turner requested Mr.. McCauley to
withdraw his resolution, or he should move
to lay it on the table. 1t was not his pur-
pose to dignity the late Provisional Cover
ncr by the introduction of his name into the
meeting in manner so formal. Peter Par
lev's history was not more familiar to the
people of Orange than the history and po-
iitical adventures of w. W. Holden.
The resolution was laid on the table.
MI Turner spoke at length on the dis
turbed and distressed condition of the coun-
try. and said it was the work of party and
faction. He had said so in the Senate in
January 1861, after South Carolina and the
Gulph States had seeded. He would re-
peat now what he said to the Senate: Mr..
Speaker the people of North Carolina can
not now declare for disunion and march off
with South Carolina. without a sacrifice of
their dignity and surrender of their own
opinions. In November last they declared
the election of Lincoln would be no cause
for disunion. Lincoln has done nothing,
Lincoln has said nothing to cause them to
change that opinion. Ifthey go they 60 not
upon their own judgment and conviction,
but they 60 as captives tied to the chariot
wheels of South Carolina, to attend and
grace her unconstitutional triumphs. 1shall
feel Inundated if 1 see them tied to the
chariot wheels; and fear, if see them seated
in the chariot, to use the language of another,
shall think of Phaeton, the son of Apollo,
who said he had discovered new track
ecross the heavens for the sun:
Tins Phaeton once amid the ETHEREAL plains,
ean'd on his fathers car and seized the reins
Far from his course impell'd the glowing sun,
It'll natures Laws in wild disorder run.
saw. with such political charletans as
Yancey. Rhett and Keith, let the people of
North Carolina beware how they ride 1
had as soon trust myself to Mons. Blonden*
to take me out of the Union upon his back
ON the stran of wire which he has suspended
over the rushing cataract of Niagara, as to
trust myself to he taken out by those con-
spirators against the government, who fired
the Southern heart and precipitated the
cotton States into revolution"
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