The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-02
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The meeting having been organized by elect
lDg General l.. G. Estes as President, resolu-
tions were adopted thanking Congress for the
Military Reconstruction bill, promising to re-
construct North Carolina with loyal men, to
and TO extend rights and privileges to the poor
white men by the establishment of q Republi-
can party in the state.
Senator Wilson then addressed the meeting
for nearly two hours He dec ared that the Re-
publican party was not responsible for one life
lost in the war; but before God and history the
supporters of slavery were responsible for every
life sacrificed and every dollar spent in 1t. He
invited the colored people TO vote with the Re-
publican party, knowing that they were voting
with the unconqueIed and unconquerable
power of the country. He declared IL vitality
Important that there should be no black party
or white party formed.
Benjamin Robinson, editor of the Whining
ION De$pd,tcn tnen th sP9Rhe h t9r ne6fiy an nour
the slavery agitators. and charging on them the
design to make the South dependent on the
North financially and industrially. 1t was
the old argument, but was not strongly pre-
sented. He read an extract from speech OF
Mr.. Wilson's, in 1856, sustaining the doctrine
that slavery was an Institution of the states,
and could not be int erfered with; also the letter
of December, 1850, from Abraham Lincoln to
Alexander Fl. Stephens TO the same effect. This
was to show the falsity of the Republican party,
and 10 prove that the negroes had no great
cause for gratitude to that party. He declared
himself in favor of their education, but not by
Northern schoolmasters or mistresses, and he
told them that with all the Republican preten-
sions of placing them on terms OF equality with
the whites, there were no colored officers In the
army. (ShOutS OF denlal.) Mr. h0DlnSOn spoke
by previous arrangement and received fair
hearing.
When Senator Wilson rose to reply he was
greeted with thI ee cheers, and three more were
given for the Republican party. Mr.. Wilson
Justified his own speech in 1855 and Abraham
Ihncoln's letter, and showed that non-interfe-
renee with slavery in the States was then the
avowed doctrine of the Republican party, and
that the abolition of slavery by the general
Government was the result of the Rebellion.
He congratulated Mr.. Robinson on the change
already effected in his views as shown by his
willingness to have the colored people educated,
and thought that in few months more Mr..
Robinson would be fully affiliated with the Re.
publican party. AS to colored men not holding
any commissions, ne declared that his own son,
recently dead had served as Lieutenant Cap
tain, and Lieutenant. Colonel in regiment
whose Major was as black as any man in the
audience.
Robinson who got ten minutes more to re-
spond, and by Mr.. Harris, the coored man
mentioned in my Raleigh despatch yesterday.
Afterwards the procession marched back TO
the town. Everything passed off quietly and
harmOniously,
senator Wilson was waited on yesterday at
Raleigh by Governor Worth and other promi-
nent citizens, and was also the recipient of like
atten lions mere to-day. He leaves Ior Charles
ton tonight.