The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-14
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Saturday, Dec. 18th. 1867.
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More Rebel FaIsehoods---Politi
Rights and Social Equality.


at matters not how many white men
around them are poor like themselves, so
long as they see their former owners in pos
session of any thing which, perhaps, their
labor may have had the smallest part in pro-
curing they think they cannot be equ1t, I'M
til they possess it too-that they must be
equal in position, in office, ride in the same
coach, eat at the same table, drink from the
same glass, with white men, and that the
government is bound to confer these things
upon them, matter of right and justice"
1t is not true that the colored people are
enemies to the white people, whether rich or
poor; or that they covet the possessions or
property of Others The poor whites of this
State have been made still more poor, and
involved in ruin by secession rule. The col
ored people are also poor, and their interests
as citizens of Il common State are identified
especially with the poor white men. Hence
it is they are voting together, and are intent
on such measures as will justly and rightful-
ly build up the State and improve the con-
dtion of the common people. To effect this
result it is not necessary to in ure Others or
to invade the vested rights of any. The
Sentinel has frequently charged that these
same colored people, with many whites, are
in favor of confiscation. The Alabama
Convention has met, deliberated, and adj
journcd. Has there been any confscation-
any injustice of any kind perpctrated by
that Convention No. The Republicans of
North. Carolina have just obtained power by
an immense majority. Does the Sentinel
hear of any proposition to seize and confs-
cate the property of any portion of the peo-
pie? No.
The Sentinel assals the colored people in
the same article from which the above ex-
tract is made, because they evince a natural
and laudabe disposition to acquire pro-
perty. 1t says they think they can not be
the equals of the white man until they
possess property too; and that they reason
thus " Ii 1 am the equal of the white man,
l ought of course to own houses and lands,
and horses and cattle, like the white man."
Well, do they not own such things2 Did
not the colored people before the rebellion
own such things 1t is not true that coiored
people reason" as the Sentinel says they do.
They insist upon the right to own property
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red man, or the tawny man, but they expect
to get this property honestly. That is all
Would the Sentinel deny them this right2-
! The whole tenor of its article shows it
would, if it had the power. No two men
can be exactly alike in the amount of pro-
perty they own, but they can be alike in the
right to own property. If colored man
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horses and CATTLE" does the Sentinel covet
these things Wouldit deprive him of them z
| If it would, then the Sentinel not only COM
mts the sin of covetousness, but it is the advO-
cate of confiscat1on without the shadow of
cause.
| The Sentiners talk about "position'-
g Office" riding in the same COACH eat
ing at the same table," &C., is intended to
infame and mislead. Every one takes t. o-
sition" in the world according t" his merits.
| The right to hold office follows the right to
vote and if majority of the people think
proper to vote on principle for colored
man for office, who will dare question the
! action of that majoritys We could prove,
if necessary, that the Editors of the Sentinel
have attempted to detach Mr.. James H. Har-
ris from the Republican party, by promises
of high offices of various kinds; and that
they have recently urged a colored man to
run for Congress in this District. We state
this to show their inconsistency on this sub
ject, and they can not truthfuly deny what
we have said. So far the 6 same coach"
is concerned, public coach is like public
of Of
States, foreign Ministers, and members of
Congress ride in the same public coach in
Washington City with colored people, and
with all kinds of people; and we have yet
to learn that the Sentinel and its followers are
better than the distinguished persons refer
red to. AS to eating at the same table,"
people have a right to choose their own
company. But it is not true that the color
ed people claim social equality with the
whites, or that social equality exists among
people of the same race any where. There
is no more social or domestic intercourse
among the two races here than there is in
Canada or the West India islands, where the
subjects of England of all races and colors
enjoy the same political and civil rights
God has ordained that the white and black
races shall not intermix by marriage, and
this law is seldom if ever violated Social
and domestic equality or intercourse has its
origin around the hearth-stone, and where
there are no intermarriages among the races
there can be no social equality. 1t does not
follow, because any man is free, and entitled
to all the civil and political rights that 9th
ers enjoy, that he is thereby made the equal
of any other man socially; and no portion
of our people understand this better, or OBJ
serve it with more propriety than our color
ed friends We are sustained in this view
by numerous public speeches on the subject
| by James H. Harris and other leading color
| ed men, who certainly have more right TO