The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-22
THE COMMITTEE,
The Elections in this State.


1t is now known that, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 10Th and Goth days of next
month, the registered voters of this State
will vote for delegates to Constitutional
Convention, and also for and against a Con-
vention. We are gratiied that Gen. Candy
has set apart two days for the election
This Will afford ample time to all to exercise
the great privilege of suffrage If the peo-
pie of the State are for a Convention, let the
: fact be known; if they are against it, let
them have fair opportunity to say so at the
ballot-box.
The Republicans already have some thirty
candidates in the field regularly nominated
The whole body will consist of one hundred
and twenty delegates. We have made
calculation with some care and we feel sure
that If the Republicans and the we'll dispos-
eel and patriotic who will act with them
will do their whole duty, they will carry a
large majority of the delegates. We appeal
in the most earnest terms to all the loyal
Leagues, and to all Republicans in the State
to devote all the time they can spare to this
important work. The seed has been plant
ed-the crop has grown and is maturing,
and now is the time to harvest it. See to it.
friends, that an abundant supply of tickets
Is on hand; that committees of vigilance are
appointed to urge every Republican to he
at the polls, and to be there themselves all
day, to instruct the uniformed, to encour-
age and protect the timid, and to poll every
vote that can be honestly obtained. And
where these committees do not exist, let
every Republican consider himself COM
mittee-man, and give every hour he can
spare to his cause and his country.
Remember, the election will take place ON
Tuesday and Wednesday,, the nineteenth and
t0'ent'eth OF November. Let every Republic
can be ready.
We told the people of this State in this :
paper, in May, 1865, that if the oligarchs
and old families that had formerly controll-
ed the State should again get control of
public affairs, it would be no easy matter to
unseat them and restore power to the people.
Our prediction has been verified. The same
--o-
who had lived up to that time on its bounty.
got control in 1865 by electing Gov. Worth:
and fiom that day to this, on some pretext
or another, they have kept the State out of
the Union solely because they knoo that sohen
the State isrestored they aoiU be dismissed from,
office They formerly lived on the wealth of
our people; they are now subsisting on such
plckings as they can get from their poverty.
The State will neuer go back to the Union if
THESE ollgarchs and these old families are to
have their way. They are as much disun-
ao''ssts as they were during the rebellion. for
there Is no difference between breaking up
and refusing to restore the Union.
Is there no life-no independence in the
great body of our peoplea 1t was once
written thus: "Gurth, the born thrall of
Cedric, the Saxon" Are the old Whies and
the former war men of this State the slaves
OF William A. Graham Twice has he oh
structed and prevented the reconstruction of
this State. Will he be allowed to do il a.
nara time? If he should, let us hear no
more about negro slavery, for portion of
the Caucasian race in this State will have
fallen below that level.
NV VINO viii be proud Edwards slayep
Who will be a traitor knaye,"
IN North-carolina, and show it by voting
with Gov. Graham for the disunion ticketa
Inc Republican party is the special friend
ol the mechanic and working man. tt has
SHOWN this in all the Northern and Western
states, where mechanics and working men
prosper, and are respected as they should be.
lhey have never been properly protected or
in the Southern States. The time
las come for them to assert their RIGHTS and