The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1867-05-08

have as good right to live in North Carolina
as anybody. (Cheers.) / tell you to labor,
and tell the white man to labor-for In every
country labor will have possession of lands.
See to it too that the children are educated and
school houses huilt-teachers sustained and
respected. Next to liberty the most sacred
thing is the culture of the brain. We have
faith that you will do this thing. Freemen
must have education to fit them for the du-
ties of the life; and have always held that
to fit men for freedom they must have free
dom conferred upon them.
Senator Wilson now appealed to the poor
white laboring men-he told them that their
hour had come-for more than two genera
tions they had been oppressed and degraded
and dishonored AS Webster said, now
look up and be proud amidst your toll -
But what has been the result of past op-
pressiona Why over ten thousand of your
best mechanics have emigrated to the West
your bone and sinew has gone from you to
States where it commanded money, honor
and respect. Your State is seven times
larger than ours Yet how wonderful are
our Improvements. We take your timber,
and cotton and hides. manufacture them and
send them to you. Our rivers work for us as
they roll along to the sea. We educated our
black children, and every man who labors
lives honored and respected by all. Now ele-
vate yourselves, toiling white men and black
men. Tear the shackles of Ignorance from
your limbs; be Industrious, honest and
patriotic, and do not try to elevate yourselves
by kicking Others down. Lift up all men
with you. Now put the control of your
State affairs in the hands of those, who will
build up mechanic arts, encourage manu-
factures, foster commerce. who celebrate
the 4th day of July and love God, and
who will tax property to support schools.
l say here that such taxes are necessary
They will fertilize your soil more than any
manures in the world. 1t will give you
skilled labor and teach you how to work
your lands, without exhausting them. lap
peal to you, establish school houses and ed
ucate your little children without delay.
Now let US run the line politically. All
those who are Republicans stand here-on
this platform because it right htand just. Those
who believe in secession, and in the lost
cause, who are against civil rights and
schools, who are opposed to universal suf-
frage and say it is dirty weapon, which,
however, they intend to use, stand off there.
What are yOu9 Conservatives. Well my
friends that is meaner word than Demo-
crat. Uaughter) But like to see you
massed together We intend to vote you
down-to prevail hereafter as we have here
tofore over those who are still animated by
the spirit of slavery. Yes, my friends, the
Republican party will canter over the track
at the next Presidential election. (Cheers.)
But don't send any of these men who believe
in the lost cause to Congress, my friends
(No, no.) Ibelieve you will control North
Carolina-and that they will never be in au
thority again CNo, never) Whenever
hear man say he is Conservative, al
ways think he is going to do some mean
thing. Naughter.)
The old Wing party of North Carolina
was dragged into rebellion. 1t was always
too timid. That has ever been the fault
of Southern men-they lacked moral cour-
age. Brave enough physically, heroes on the
battlefield, morally they were towards. So
Badger was driven to vote for the Lecompton
Constitution against his Judgment and
your Grahams, Gilmers and Barringers all
paid homage to false public sentiment,
fostered and encouraged by bold. reckless
men of the Calhoun school of politics. But
slavery perverted the reason of old Wings in
these States-it sapped their moral courage.
Unlike their illnstrous leader, they gave their
voice, hand and influence against the Ma
tional government. Now, let them return
to the standard of freedom. The Republi-
can party is never defeated. 1t goes back a
step to bound forward with irresistible
force. 1t ever wins, and the treason of An
drew johnson has only enabled it to win
other and more glorious victories. Great
applause.] Iappeal to Henry Clay Wings,
Douglas Democrats, rebels who came out of
the war early, satisfied and willing to sur
render, step up on the Republican platform,
nal truth. Ours is liberal spirit-we are
friends of humanity. Even to those who are
disfranchised we say, "your influence is not
gone, use it for good, deal with emancipated
bondsmen justly, esteem loyal men as patri-
OTIS, and treat the officers of the Federal army
as gentlemen" The magnanimity of the
nation will not prove false to you. Although
tonight there are hundreds and thousands
of vacant chairs in our Northern homes, and
mothers and sisters shed scalding tears of
agony for the early lost and loved, who sleep
beneath the green turf of your sunny land,
vet the government has ever been forbearing
and kind. There is none other so humane
in all Gods world And when proof is fur
nished that the disfranchised have acted
properly and mean to do right hereafter,
then the disability will be once more re-
moved by the hand of love itself. Yet towards
those who favor the lost cause, who await
reactionary measures, the government
breathes stern defiance When those men
left Congress in 1861, they thought they
left no government behind them. Laugh
teri One of them could whip five Yankees.
Laughter. They had all the statesman
ship in the country in their ranks But oh,
how wofully deceived they were-let every
event of the war. and its disastrous close,
speak trumpet-tongued. They say they are
conquered now. We know it. They say
they are humiliated, and complain because
federal officers dared take possession ftheir
homes, when they ran off from them.
Laughter. But let them remember that
loyal men are at least as good as they are,
and that Abraham Lincoln was the fore
most man, save Geo. Washington, in all this
land; that over his grave more tears were
shed than over any other mans OF the 18th
century, and that his name stands peerless
among those statesmen who steered the old
ship of State through the breakers OF the
rebellion. Applause
In conclusion, my fellow-citizens, let
me enjoin upon you the necessity OF
thorough organization. The establish
ment of schools for the culture and ele-
vation of your race; and the necessity for
united and determined effort for the ad-
yancement of the material interests of your
country. 1t fills my heart with JOY to be
lieve that the United States of America will
yet become in all the arts of peace and good