The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-04

| children of YOURS. now in the humble FREED
mans Schools of North Carolina, will ON
dav sit in the Legislative halls OF North
| Carolina. and the nation. When that come
! TO pass Republicanism will be success; tn
black man will be success: ;.
To the citizens at large, of North Carolina
desire to say, that secession and treason IL
this nation is dead; dead forever; dead he
vond the hope and shadow of resurrection
Loyalty to the Republic, and loyalty tt
the Union, must henceforth be the glory O.
American citizenship.
1t is useless to kick against the goads.
Civilization wills it. The sublime principles
of the equal rights of all men are becoming
throughout the civilized world, the control
ling influence in human governments. Ihese
principles do not pertain more to the North
than to the South. They are creeping alike
over the frozen plains of Russia and down
the sunny slopes of Italy. They do not be,
long to any country, race or order OF men
They belong to the world and all men,
They are as universal as the desire for light
and freedom.
In Germany and France three millions are
demanding these rights. Long ago, amid
the seething terrors of that revolution Tor
French liberty; that revolution which sprung
backward upon the ages of tyranny, which
proposed in the Convention of the people
that all men being equal before the law, titles
of nobility should be abolished. A COnser-
yative arose and asked what then must be
said of man of whom it has been said " he
was created Count for serving the State 2"
The great Lafayette arose and replied: "
would omit the words he was created a
Count, and say only that he had served the
State"
This is becoming the doctrine of honorable
citizenship for the world-that 1t does not
consist OF wealth and titles, and should there
fore exist by manhood, by worth, and work,
and service to the country. There is play
put upon the stage in which there is repre-
sented, in the person and history of single
man, the successive stages of crime. You
follow him from one scene to another as he
descends all the winding steps OF intamy
on the last you see him ragged and torn,
emaciated with dissipation, his eyes starting
from their sockets from some horror that
pursues him. Far away in the distance you
hear the hum and awful clamor of thousand
voices. They come nearer and nearer. The
voice grows louder, hoarser and more terri
BILE, until there leaps upon the stage the out
ragged populace pursuing their VICTIM the
murderer. They are headed and led by the
public executioner who does his work of
DEATH
Such is The clamor that England hears to-
day, down in midst of the nation. 1t is the
cry of the oppressed and unrepresented mill
ions, who for thousand years have yielded
vainly their rights and have been ruined.
They will wait no longer. To avoid disso-
luton at the hands of the people, the English
nation must confer upon them the rights of
men.
Such was the awful clamor which, seven
years ago, sprung up under the feet OF this
nation, driving US into irrepressible conflict,
into the blood and horrors of revolution.
That revolution was from an aristocrisy to q
democracy.
Here in the South, your system of educa-
ton, society and government has been arts
tocratic and not democratic-has been for
the few, and not for the many. A system
which has made the poor man poorer,
and the rich man richer-the poor man
ignorant, and the rich man educated. Here
you have hid the notion that learning was
not only for one color, but for one class. The
rich man owned land, despised labor and
carried pistols to defend what he called his
honor The black men were slaves, the poor
white men were serfs, more degraded than
slaves, because they were under the deusion
that they were free. What was the result of
all this injustice Simply, that in a country
three times as large as the North, as rich in
SOIL more beautiful in climate. with unlim-
tied resources of wealth, you had only one
third the population, and one twentieth the
wealth.
Why, fellow citizens, coming among you
from the North, your country appears to Inc
a Wilderness your cities villages, your towns
ba MOI han b,-o CT
You called our laborers mudsills, but their
mudsills were better than your houses.
In single Northern State we have third
of your population, and almost half of your
wealth, and more schools than in the whole
South For we have notion there that it
is not wealth, but brains and character that
make the gentleman. We have notion
there that that which you have called blood
and high tone down here, can be manufac-
tured, SO we have put every boy and girl in
school and manufactured men and women
who need no Inheritance of slaves and real
estate to make them heightened Compare
and see what must be the prosperity of every
kind in country like that, contrasted with
one like this. There cities, towns, villages,
farm houses and public improvements cover
every part of the country. There almost
illdll SlfCo lis LlIlC W SlCdity ttuIl iOu-
orable employment which enables him to
have a comfortable home and respectable
dress. Here you have in the richest country
under Heaven, woods and wildernesses, huts
and insignificant by-places, and men with
ragged dress and torn hats sitting upon the
fences with shot guns, looking like assassins.
Fellow-citizens, do not draw this COM
parison between the two sections invidiously,
not because as a Northern man l desire to
boast of the North and disparage the South.
Being an American, trust that my heart is
large enough for my whole country. l have
already said that this country is as rich and
beautiful as the North. The people descend
ing from one common stock are the same by
with the circumstances of the two
sections reversed, there is not a doubt that
each would be in the others position
Whence comes, then, this difference in the
habits, manners, education and general pros
perity of the two sections There is but
one answer to the question. Here you have
lived under an aristocrisy, there we live I'M
der democracy. Here you have allowed
rights to few men-there we to all men,
Here you have educated the gentleman
there we have educated the people Here
labor has been despised-there it has been
elevated. Here in North Carolina for more
than century you have had savery-there
in New York we have had for nearly half
century, freudom-as wide apart these
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