The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-05-22

stitutional law-making power of henatIon,
has passed q law entitled an act to provide
for the more efficient government of the rebel
| States by which the power to organize le7
gal, loyal republican government is put into
the hands of loyal Union citizens without
distinction of race or color; therefore,
+ Resolced, That we will now under the
powers granted by the law of Congress, take
the administration of our own affairs into
our own hands, and remove from office and
power the disloyal and traitorous who dis
troyed our State government. and shed the
precious blood of our children and friends,
and caused heart-rending that men nor angels
can never express.
Resolued Thatwe accept in good faith the
law of Congress enabling us to organize a
loyal, republican government in North Car
DINA, and that we will heartily cooperate
with the Congress of the United States, with
loyal Union men of the nation, and especi-
ally with loyal Union people of North Caro-
lima, white and colored
| Resolced, That we will cooperate with
General Sickles in the execution of his or
ders in carrying out the laws of Congress in
the reconstruction of North Carolina, and
that we endorse his order of April the 10th,
1867, in relation to the collection of debts
in North Carolina, so far as they go. Where
as, the order covers debts made from 1860 to
the 18th of May, 1866, only; and whereas,
the surrender of the rebel army in May,
1865, left North Carolina destitute of any
circulating currency and almost all species of
property, and especially Union men who had
been the objects for rebels to strip of all
property and destroy theirlives. They, there
fore, had to take a fiat ground start again to
live, relying only on debts due them made
before and during the war upon the faith of
which they have made debts since the 10Th
of May 1865, and now barred out from any
collection, because they are old debts, and
now the last prop must be knocked out
| from under us, without some protection
Therefore, we. the people of Polk County,
do most earnestly and respectfully ask Gen.
Sickles to stay the collection of all debts in
Polk County, down to date, except on State
and County taxes, until the State is restored
to the Union We believe that an order of
this kind would meet the hearty approval of
all Union men in North-C Carolina.
Resoloed, That whereas, the late Conven-
ton assembled in Raleigh, N. c., by vote
of the people to reconstruct the Constitu-
ton of the State gave to Polk County a
member in the House of Commons, said
Constitution having been rejected by rebel
vote.
Resolred, That we most respectfully ask
Gen. Sickles to give us a member in our APP
preaching Convention.
After the reading of the resolutions the
meeting was again addressed by the Rev. s.
w. Hamilton with quite an interesting
speech, and followed by G. W. Pain, (colored)
with short but very appropriate address.
Resolced, That copy of these proceedings
be sent to the Raleigh Standard for publica-
ton, with a request that all Union papers of
the State copy the same.
On motion, the meeting adjourned
JESSE RHODES, Chm.
JAS. A. THORN, Sec'y.